dancinghorse | You know what I forgot?

Nobody ever accused me of being good at, you know, mentioning these things.

ALAMUT finally has a digital edition (all formats including Kindle and it's DRM-free) at Book View Cafe. And there are chapters going up for free on Mondays at Book View Cafe.

This is the historical fantasy with the teleporting female Assassin and the immortal knight, and a large cast of supporting characters including Saladin and King Baldwin the Leper of Jerusalem. Big, splashy, lots of derring-do, and lots of romance. It's one of my personal favorites.

Go. Read. Have fun. It started last week, on

idiomagic's birthday, she being the person whose indomitable scanner made it possible, so that's chapter two up today, and many more to come.

And then Wednesday (sshhhhhh), there's an amazing, big, spectacular anthology coming out for relief of wildlife and wildlands in the Gulf. It's called BREAKING WAVES, and includes work by Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, moi, and many others, and features as a centerpiece an essay by the great Rachel Carson. It's got stories, essays, cartoons, poems, photographs, everything. Some are sad, some angry, some tragic, but some are funny, too, and there's a lot of hope in it, and a lot of love for the region and the sea. I was on the copyediting team, and some of the stuff in there is just wow. Same Bookview-time, same Bookview-station. Ebook only for now, but a print option is coming, I'm told. (Shhhhh. Ebook on Wednesday. Pass it on.)