Aspen Mountain Press: I Haz A Sad

Once again, I have a publisher who has imploded. Aspen Mountain Press, with my Del Fantasma titles: Tiger Juice and Demonade, and Her Accidental Angel has breached all contracts and hope of recovery is nil. The best hope would be for the company to be purchased by another e-publisher, but the owner is not considering viable offers. So my certified letter for reversal of rights is going out this week.

I so enjoyed AMP when I first contracted with them, but much has happened since then. I'm sure you will see the sad story smeared all over the net. I just don't have the heart to write out the whole thing.

Because the Del Fantasmas are a publisher generated series, I would have to do extensive rewriting to either self publish or republish and I have my writing plate full with my Urloon and Starlander series. I am currently doing content edits on Refugees on Urloon, and the cover art is in the works for Starlanders Frontier: Starlander's Myth
  

I doubt I will ever get another dime from the publisher, and am missing 90% of statements so have no idea what is owed me. So many AMP authors require an accounting of sales,  going back two years, I doubt the publisher will ever get this straightened out. I am still having a 3 copy give away on Oct 31st of my AMP titles.

So on to the next. I'll post the gorgeous cover of my Nov 1 steampunk release, 

  Starlanders Frontier Series:

Starlander's Myth 

this week.

STILL Editing

I did think I would have Urloon ready for submission by now but no! Seems like I've been on this project foreveah. And now I am re-editing Galacatic Game so both are in the same world. It is pleasant writing, because I love both stories and characters. And after the Cybot Awakened issue it is good to have a workable goal for future submissions, since it looks like that publisher is never going to release the book. 

(* Please look up your prospective epubs on *Preditors and Editors* and *Piers Anthony!* And email current authors for their recommendations!*)

The secondary male character in GG, Dooley, is in the batter's box because his romance starts in GG--but he loses her to a cyborg army. Oops.

Every once in a while though I have to take a break from editing and revising to write on a new story. Or pick up an old story out of my files that jumps into my brain. The story right now that is clamoring for attention is a light fantasy romance set in the same world as Faunication.  I know some of my ideas are waaaay out there and suspect this is one of them. Adler, a Griffin-taur(human torso face etc, griffin feet and wings), who is a wizard's apprentice is required to attend the Bridal Faire by his father and find a wife.  He needs to marry out of his 'kind' (long world building issue dealing with fertility) and really had not planned to marry until he reached Master Wizard status, since school keeps him so busy. Calling it Bridal Faire or Faire Reckoning.

I have new music for writing when I need to drown out the family and concentrate--but I can't do that in my quiet bedroom! Firefly soundtrack.

A Free Fantasy Romance

You can read it for free online or download it for .99!  This story's contract aged out so I decided to put it up on Smashwords.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/13575

Blurb:

A crash of lightning, the squeal of brakes, and Chloe and Max awake in a Magic Forest. They are no longer human. Max is a Faun and Chloe is some type of rabbit-faun. The Magic Forest seems welcoming, providing a cozy tree trunk home and stored food. Passion grows, but are their feelings real or part of this strange magical adventure?