It has been suggested to us that perhaps we should replace the chapter headings with a location and date, maybe like this: Deimos, Mars; 040842 GAT. The location is already shown in the subheading, so the only new info would be the date. Dates can be a bit problematic in a narrative like this and we are not sure how much they add to the reader’s experience.

The primary reason for the question is Part 3 for MWB, which is even more episodic than Part 1 and switches rapidily among locales and does not have a smooth timeline. The though was offered that changing the chapter heading for that section might aid the readers with the more episodic structure of the narrative.

Feel free to share your thoughts on this issue below.

I’d like to bring your attention my good friend’s awesome novel, The Floating World, now for sale on Amazon for Kindle. In addition to the fact my friend’s novel is deserving of much praise, I have a particular reason for urging our wonderful readers to check it out.

My friend has been disabled and unable to work for the last several years. Last fall, she was able to get back the rights to her out-of-print novel from the original publisher (Ballantine) so she could offer it herself on Kindle, and it went live just after Christmas. So please, give it a look and if you feel so inclined, for $3.99 you can read a fascinating book and support a worthy cause. $3.99 may not seem like much, but every little bit helps. And if you have friends who like to read, pointing her book out to them would be even more welcome.

Thank you and best wishes for an excellent 2014!

Excuse me for channeling Kris there for a moment, but it’s been one of those months. Now that I have that out of the way, allow us to apologize for not releasing ‘The Morning which Breaks’ as we planned.

Here’s what happened: we wanted to try to get the sequel done in July, because Jordan is gone most of this month (she’s returning early September), and use August to do the final editing on her novel so we could release that. But we got mugged by Life in July and we also concluded the last section of ‘Morning’ needs extensive revision.

So we’ve decided to move ahead with getting Jordan’s novel wrapped up and then get back to work on ‘Morning’ as soon as ‘The Erl King’s Children’ is released.

Our apologies for being too optimistic and keeping all our loyal readers waiting. We beg your forgiveness and forbearance, and we’ll announce a date here for ‘Morning’ once we have one we can adhere it. (‘Morning’ is already over 100,000 words long, which close to twice the length of ‘Alecto’, so you have a lot to look forward to.)

In the meantime, we will continue to post prerelease chapters here for your perusal.

Today, Glenn Reynolds [Instapundit] was so good as to check out The Alecto Initiative: IN THE MAIL: The Alecto (Loralynn Kennakris). Oodles and oodles of sincere thanks to Instapundit!

And WOW! The good professor’s link to our Amazon page put The Alecto Initiative at #31 on Amazon’s list of bestsellers in Military Science Fiction, and number #81 in Science Fiction Adventure! Whenever you are on the same page with John Scalzi’s bestseller Old Man’s War, Hugh Howey’s WOOL, and anything by Orson Scott Card, that’s something to be excited about!

Yeah, I know–there are a ton of things that go into that complicated Amazon ranking and they flucuate a lot, but it still makes a new author giddy. So thanks to everyone who followed the good professor’s link and bought or borrowed a copy. You made this one of the best days of our lives!

Since Alecto was released on Monday, sales have surpassed our expectations by a wide margin!
We also had a free promotion for one day and it was a success! Thanks to everyone who supported us and especially those who shared your reviews with us.

We’ll be having a another free-promotion day in the not to distant future. Keep an eye on this space, as we will announce it the day before. Also, if you are an Amazon Prime members (and useful thing to be) you can borrow Alecto for free at any time.

We will also be releasing some excerpts from the second Loralynn Kennakris novel, The Morning which Breaks, here shortly. (If you are impatient, there is a 10-page excerpt included with Alecto.)