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Book View Café Publishes Kimbriel’s Fires of Nuala

Hey, I made the press release this week!

Book View Café has published FIRES OF NUALA from Campbell Award-nominated Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. FIRES OF NUALA concerns the people of the planet Nuala, a world cursed by radiation...and riches. Mutant microbes and high ground radiation make it a deceptive paradise, but wealthy planets always attract predators. This time, one predator may be Nuala's salvation. Originally published by Warner Books in 1988, FIRES OF NUALA garnered much praise and recommendations for reading from such entities as Locus Magazine. BVC is releasing the ebook version of the book in epub, mobi, pdf, and prc formats.

Read chapter 1 of FIRES OF NUALA for free: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Katharine-Eliska-Kimbriel/Novels/

Buy the ebook for $4.99: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Kimbriel-Fires-of-Nuala
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-10-08 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
(should enough of the older ones sell that I think there would be a demand for another Nuala book.)

*raises hand*

After you hit Goodreads with it, if you have time, take it over to Amazon -- books as old as mine rarely have reviews.

I'll do that next. My GoodReads Review is up already.

Within the story little sex made total sense, also I read this more like a sf adventure than a romance and that's just fine.

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[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Glad you liked it!

Within the story little sex made total sense, also I read this more like a sf adventure than a romance and that's just fine.

I have this desire to make the relationships in my books sensual, not constantly sexual, if that makes sense. We'll see how that line of thought goes on....

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[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks so much for taking time to do the review, and posting it several places! I will keep at building the e-reads if only to keep you and [livejournal.com profile] 6_penny in new SF books!
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
Really, there aren't that many out there currently in this style, that's why my comparison was to series that started quite some years ago as well - although the Crystal Singer series probably was a contemporary of yours.
The sheer fun with the society and the science and the characters is missing in a lot of non-majorly romance sf these days for me - I like Linnea Sinclair but her books are ROMANCE first and then SF after.

And I really hope you sell enough of these to make it a valid idea to write more on Nuala.

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[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, the Nuala books came out around the same time as the Crystal books -- independently -- I think I'd read Crystal Singer before FoN, but have Killashandra on my shelf and still haven't read it! I've read the Liaden books, but didn't discover them until maybe 4-5 years ago.

Darame leapt into my head after I saw the hardcover for Forgotten Beasts of Eld -- something about that look translated to the type of thief I wanted for my story. I needed a "bad girl" with a strong moral compass. I just started writing, and there she was.

I loved big SF, but usually didn't like the characters (except for McCaffrey) so that was what I paid tribute to....
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-10-10 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I only discovered Liaden around the millenium myself ^^. When I had followed Pat Hodgell's journey to Meisha Merlin and saw that they released books by Diane Duane and then I thought why not try the Liaden collections - at the same time they were being reissued as paperbacks so I bought the rest in that way.

Some of the Anne McCaffrey books haven't aged so gracefully but the Crystal Singer trilogy, The Tower and the Hive series (mostly) and her first Petaybee trilogy with Elizabeth Moon (also her first Ship novel with Mercedes Lackey) still work for me like a charm. Some of the Pern books do it for me, too.

I have the Forgotten Beasts of Eld only in paperback. I discovered McKillip with the Riddlemaster of Hed and then looked around for her backlist.

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[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-10-10 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The first FORGOTTEN PBk was the cover I remember, I think -- since I was buying only PBks at that point. The character was also on the hardback I remember, but the pbk really made me look back at the character. And Pat told me that it felt too strong for the character, so the drawing became Darame to me. (Pat's a very shy, reserved woman, so I can see how the drawing was bold for her.)

I was worried that my books had aged too much, but they still read well for me. I was really worried about the first one (my Campbell nominee book) because it is a much older civilization, more mannered, more spiritual than the Darame books. But it's still a good book -- I hope you'll like it, too.
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-10-10 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, so do I ^^. I'm not too worried. I liked Allie and now I know that I like the first Nuala book, so now I have a positive preconception regarding your books.

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[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-10-10 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
What I hope is that people who liked one thing I wrote will try another, different thing. I'll try anything done by an author whose work I liked previously (except a strong horror novel -- I don't like gory horror, I like to be in control of the scare factor!) But I'll try most anything else. Everyone has favorites -- I have friends who like the SF best, and others who like the Alfreda books best. That's okay.

So that is good news!
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