The Never-Ending Sacrifice excerpt

[altariel]

You can now read an excerpt from my soon-to-be-published novel The Never-Ending Sacrifice on the Simon and Schuster website, here.

Also, coming to a newsagent near you real soon now, Star Trek Magazine 20 contains an extract and review, along with other goodies related to some film or other that came out earlier this year. Available early August in the US, mid-August in the UK.

PS Still on my hols and writing this from one of the reception rooms here.

Comments

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the publishing deal and the PR! If I buy a copy, can I get it signed by the author and auction it off on Ebay for a truckload of money once you're famous?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

once you're famous?

LOL! There may be a long wait!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the link! I'm really looking forward to this.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Loving that icon! Looking forward to you reading it - and thanks for the plug on your LJ :-)

[scottpearson.livejournal.com]

Cool and congrats! Looking forward to the book.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm really starting to look forward to it hitting the shelves now, I'd started to forget it was happening!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! I hope you like the rest of it when it comes out. I did enjoy my holiday, thank you, although sorry to have to come back to work, inevitably!

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

I like the opening. And the last line of the extract was cheeky ;-)

PS Still on my hols and writing this from one of the reception rooms here.

It's such a hard life. Say hello to Mr. A!

(There's a chapter of P&C in your inbox for when you get back...)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

the last line of the extract was cheeky ;-)

;-) Glad you liked!

[fawatson]

Congratulations! Let's hope for many more.

I'll tell my sister - she's a DS9 fan so she'll be pleased to know another novel is out there.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I hope so too. Hope your sister likes it!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Hope you are having fab hols! Possibly with ginger beer.

I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of the book. The last line of the excerpt made me laugh.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The last line of the excerpt made me laugh.

*innocent face* Can't wait for you to see it in full.

Our hols were brilliant, although I don't much feel like going back to work. I did clean the house before going away, so at least I wasn't coming home to total chaos.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

*innocent face*

You are fooling no-one with that face. I want to see it in full too!

Sound plan to clean before you went away, and I'm glad the hols were brilliant. Can you ease gently into work?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Can you ease gently into work?

Sadly no: I have an essay on Doctor Who to finish by the weekend. But toft_froggy will be here next week (yay!) so I get to bunk off for a bit then.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Yay for toft_froggy! Good luck with the essay! (It will be superb. I Have Decreed.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I Have Decreed.

Huzzah for All-Powerful Friends!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! I love the opening to bits, Geleth is an interesting new character -- can't wait to find out more.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Very pleased that you like it :-)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Also, the cover makes a damn fine icon (is jealous).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased with how it came out in the end, although it took a lot of fiddling to find the tiny image: there's a lot going on in the picture.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Well done! Unfortunately DS9 has been a gap in my education, so I can't really comment on the extract.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

A definite gap in your education that should be rectified most promptly :)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I've tried to write it so that people unfamiliar with the show would be able to read (whilst not overloading it with expositional material to bore the fan of the show). So hopefully you'd be able to enjoy it - but I agree with espresso_addict, DS9 is awesome!

[trixieleitz]

Congratulations! It's getting real-er and real-er :)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I know! I'd almost forgotten it was coming out!

[sahiya.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Is this your first ST novel? I've long wondered how one makes that jump . . .

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

This is in fact my third ST novel (the others are Hollow Men and the Cardassian novel in this book). As to how I started doing it - I was approached by the editor of the range, who had had my fanfiction recommended to him, and asked to pitch some stories!

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I still find myself rereading Hollow Men from time to time. It took everything in progress with the Dominion War at that point, and made an entertaining, disturbing murk of it all. Yes, that IS a compliment!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Heh! My kind of compliment - thank you!

[jmswallow.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I just got my copy of STM #20. I really like that cover - bleak and hopeful all at once.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm really pleased with the cover, I'm a sucker for a post-apocalyptic cityscape.

[greylin.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeee! This is so exciting! Congratulations! I've never read any DS9 fic but I think I know just enough background to enjoy this when it appears.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm getting more and more excited as it approaches. I've tried to write it so that people coming to the book with only hazy memories or ideas about DS9 should be able to follow it, so I hope you won't have any trouble with the background.