MarsBlog.net » Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award http://marsblog.net/wp News and Commentary on Space Sun, 20 May 2012 02:21:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Name Change http://marsblog.net/wp/2010/12/name-change/ http://marsblog.net/wp/2010/12/name-change/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:54:51 +0000 Thomas L. James http://marsblog.net/wp/?p=2102 Small change in plans: in order to avoid confusion with the twenty-odd other science fiction books set on Mars which use the same name, the book previously known as Labyrinth of Night will now be titled In the Shadow of Ares.

And yes, I’m still struggling to get it ready for Kindle. Almost there…

UPDATE: formatted and uploaded now. Turned out to be a pretty painless process, much to my surprise. Just haggling over what price to set, and then we can publish it.

And before anyone asks, no, the title does not have anything to do with Constellation. Sad to say, we actually had the book half-written and most of the backstory laid out well before NASA applied the name Ares to Mike Griffin’s misbegotten launch vehicles. After I catch up on a few things, I intend this weekend to revamp the book’s website so that we can start giving out tidbits of the backstory and how we came to write the book.

Here’s the cover art:

Bonus points to anyone who guesses where the image is from…

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]]> http://marsblog.net/wp/2010/12/name-change/feed/ 0 ABNA: So Much for the Novel Contest http://marsblog.net/wp/2009/05/abna-so-much-for-the-novel-contest/ http://marsblog.net/wp/2009/05/abna-so-much-for-the-novel-contest/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 16:43:26 +0000 Thomas L. James http://marsblog.net/wp/?p=1668 For those of you who know about the book:  it made it into the top 100, but Labyrinth of Night didn’t make the cut to the final three.

Ah well. Back to looking for an agent the old-fashioned way.

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