Here’s Chapter 40 of The Magic Battery. It’s a little Christmas story by itself.
The Christmas guests at Thomas’s house were the mages Lucas Schneider, Jacob Kessler, and their families. The dinner, everyone agreed, was excellent. The fire made the room pleasantly warm. Everyone was in good spirits.
Kessler stood on a chair and raised his cup. “To Thomas Lorenz, for bringing in a new age of magic!” All joined in enthusiastically.
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Starting today, December 15, and until New Year’s Day, Smashwords is running a sitewide end-of-year sale on participating books. This includes all three of my books on Smashwords, which are available at 50% off. While you’re there, look for other titles that might interest you. Here are the links for my books:
Walter Donway has written an enthusiastic review of Spells of War. It’s always nice to see these. Give it a mention if you’d like to help my sales. If you haven’t gotten Spells of War yet, I hope this review will push you to buy and read it.
My short story, “Snares of Satan,” is now on this site in German.
“Reconstructing the original German” of the story was an interesting exercise, since my German is far from fluent. It’s a manual translation, but I made heavy use of these online tools:
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This week I’m participating in Smashwords’ Read an Ebook Week Sale, with 50% off the price of The Magic Battery. Many Smashwords authors are participating in this sale, so you’ll be able to stock up on other interesting books while you’re they’re. The sale runs from March 6 through 12, ending at 11:59 PM Pacific time. The discount applies only if you buy through Smashwords. While Smashwords isn’t as well-known as Kindle, it treats its authors and customers well, and it’s been my preferred publishing gateway for years.
You don’t need any coupons. You should be able to go there and get the $1.49 price. If you run into any problems, please let me know in the comments.