NOW It’s properly up

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Done With Mirrors: A Collection of Short Stories (Sarah A. Hoyt’s Short Story Collections)

From Prometheus Award winner Sarah A. Hoyt comes a dazzling collection that showcases why her work has appeared in Analog, Asimov’s, and Weird Tales—and why readers can’t get enough.

Magic-soaked noir in 1920s Denver. Mirror-hopping time lords fleeing across infinite universes. Survival in John Ringo’s zombie apocalypse. Murder and mystery in the world of Darkships and Rhodes. Each story in this collection pulls you into a different world—and refuses to let go.

Previously published in acclaimed anthologies from Baen and Chris Kennedy Publishing, these nine tales span Hoyt’s most beloved universes alongside standalone adventures. Whether she’s writing in Ringo’s Black Tide Rising series, exploring her own Darkships and Rhodes worlds, or crafting speculative noir that defies categorization, Hoyt delivers the vivid storytelling and emotional resonance that has earned her a devoted following.

From rain-slicked streets where magic and murder collide to the far reaches of space-time itself, Done With Mirrors demonstrates the genre-hopping brilliance of one of speculative fiction’s most versatile voices.

Nine stories. Nine worlds. One unforgettable collection.

With an introduction by Holly Chism.

This has a bunch of pre-published short-stories, but I figure even the most fanatic of you has missed one or two. And the one from Black Tide Rising — Do No Harm — for good and sufficient reason, because I either never got the guidelines OR forgot them and given THAT year it could be either, was only half-published. This has the other half.

Anyway, the stories are: Honeyfall, Scrubbing Clean, Last Chance, Great Reckoning in a Small Room, Horse’s Heart, Do No Harm, Dead End Rhodes, The Knights of Time and Done with Mirrors.

Oh, and Holly Chism was good enough to give me an introduction.

I’d also like to thank Toni Weisskopf for permission to use Do No Harm.

How this collection happened: Well, I got the Elephant Sat On Me and couldn’t finish Witch’s Daughter. Heck, writing for this blog was a stretch. BUT–

I intended to do Witch’s Daughter late Jan and Done With Mirrors Late February. instead I split the difference and this comes out on Valentine’s Day. It’s up for preorder.

I was markedly better today and signed two short story contracts, for Baen, one of them for Chaos and Consequences, edited by Jason Cordova and featuring Brundar and Skip. (It’s something from The Worlds of Men, but different POV. Um…. The Worlds Of Men — third book. Not written, but already in my head.) As well as clearing a ton of what Dan calls Administrivia.

I’d have written, except the cats sat on me and I napped. (Alternate garden of Eden story, where there is no serpent but there’s a cat.)

Tomorrow should be better. (And yes, there will be a post. This one is just because the link is finally working for Done With Mirrors.) Which is good because I was on the verge of going to war with Amazon.

I will say Amazon, even with new craptastic software “improvements” is about as bad as the other places to sell indie writing. BUT it is a much bigger gorilla, and one I can’t do business without, and that makes me a lot more volatile and angry at it.

Anyway, the link works now.

18 thoughts on “NOW It’s properly up”

      1. If I stay alive long enough there are six books, though the sixth is Sam and Lowell, really….. And the adventure is so weird that at the end of it Lowell becomes a priest. :-P

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        1. And here his grandparents were no doubt hoping for great-grandchildren. . . .

          Or is a clergy that allows marriage?

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  5. Do we HAVE to go through Amazon? When I get to choose between Amazon and Baen, you can guess where I go. Yes, delivery to Kindle devices STILL has to go THROUGH Amazon now. My old reader would probably allow me to avoid that, but alas has become effectively unusable for OTHER reasons. Will probably mash the Amazon button, but I still wanted to whine first. I am NOT going to Windows 12, may be bailing on Win11 soon. Aurgh, too much nasty in the world!

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    1. Win12, still leaves you with Kindle, not Nook. There is a “backdoor” someone posted on Redit to get past the Nook problem. Nook only supports iOS, Google, and online library reading. I have too many Nook books to let B&N win. (Yes, they have been de-jailed, but it is principle of it all.)

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      1. I’m not on Kindle Unlimited; hopefully you still get paid for regular purchase, too! I had heard that Baen ‘paid’ their authors better, but that may not apply to your situation? I do have Amazon Prime, but don’t use some of the features. I wouldn’t call it “love/hate”, but I do seem to have a ‘like/dislike’ relationship with Amazon!

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        1. I do get paid for purchases.
          …. Baen is a publisher. They buy books or don’t. Indie pays better, but more importantly, I can write what I want to.
          Baen and Amazon arent’ the same thing. Amazon is a market place. Baen is a publisher.

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          1. OK, got it. (Mostly; does Amazon publish ‘dead tree’ editions for Indie authors, as well?) I’ve bought a few physical books from Brad, which have the advantage of I can loan them to my brother more easily. ( And get them autographed.) He has a reading disability, so can’t read for pleasure the way I do. If he ever finishes those, I might have to get one of your collections for him. But as much as I love your stuff, I don’t know if it would pique HIS interest as much.

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            1. yes, of course. Amazon doesn’t publish the, but Goldport — my company — does, under print on demand. (Which is how much of the traditional publishing companies do it now anyway. I HAVEN’T typeset all my collections, but I’m trying to.

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