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I figured out how to fix a vexing format problem for Smashwords and qualified for the Premium Catalog, so the books will ship to the Apple iBookstore, Kobo, Sony, Diesel, and more!

I’ll tell you about it tomorrow.

Today, I’m having technical difficulties with AOL and Internet Explorer, so I’m nearly three hours behind in my work. (Sigh.)

The Internet is a lot like the little girl with a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. When she’s good, she’s very, very good. And when she’s bad, she’s horrid!

See you tomorrow!

From the author of The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle, Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle, and The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

Visit me at Lisa Mason’s Official Website for books, ebooks, stories, and screenplays, forthcoming projects and more, on my Facebook Author Page, on Amazon, on my Facebook Profile Page, on Goodreads, on LinkedIn, on Twitter at @lisaSmason, at Smashwords, and at Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

If you enjoy a work, please “Like” it, add a bunch of stars, write a review on the site where you acquired it, blog it, Tweet it, and spread the word to your friends. Your participation really matters.

Thank you for your readership!

Tuesday is ruled by Mars, the Roman god of war, passion, anger, and aggression. His color is fiery red. It’s no surprise that the expression for rage is “seeing red.”

To be in harmony with Tuesday, wear something red. For jewelry, wear a ruby, garnet, or carnelian.

To enhance the fiery energy of Mars in a positive way, eat something red: an apple, strawberries, tomatoes, any kind of tomato sauce.

I like to make “Mexican rice” on Tuesday. In a tablespoon of olive oil, sautee onion, green onions, fresh or canned tomato, red and green bell peppers. Season with chili powder, garlic, and lemon pepper. Add corn kernels and red kidney beans or black beans. Mix in about three cups of cooked organic brown rice and three veggie sausage patties, broken into pieces. (I like Morning Star.) Season to taste with chili pepper sauce to taste (Trader Joe’s is very good). Optional: top with grated low-fat cheese.

So there you have it, my friend.

Tap into the fiery passion of Mars to get you through the rest of the week, but beware of the three A’s: anger, aggression, and accidents.

Visit me on my Facebook Author Page, where you’ll find all the lovely book covers and links to Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Like the Page, leave a link to your Page, and I’ll like your Page in reciprocity. Please don’t fret if I don’t get to you right away. I’m active on five social networks, blogging, preparing tons of backlist material, and forging ahead with new work.

Have patience and I will get back to you.

If you’re linking in from Twitter: Please send me a Direct Message with your Facebook Page link so I can save it and follow you there when I get a chance. If you Tweet your FB link in your feed, often I can’t get to it right away because I’m in the middle of things. Only use DM for this purpose; I delete anything else. And only if you intend to reciprocate within two weeks or so.

If you’re linking in from WordPress: Please go to Facebook and send me a request to Like your Page. Alternatively, go to my Facebook Page, Like it, and leave a link to your Facebook Page.

If you’re connecting on Facebook: please don’t leave your WordPress link there. My computer freezes up when I leave WordPress and Facebook open at the same time. Send me a DM on Twitter as set out above or go to Lisa Mason’s Official Website and click on the link to send me an email.

Thank you!

While you’re there, take a look at my books and read a selection! I’m a traditionally published author going way back. Now that I’ve returned to the public eye with my backlist and new titles, my longtime fans and readers are starting to emerge. I’d sure like to connect with a new audience of fans and readers.

Maybe you?

Just remember: the first step to becoming a successful author yourself is to read!

Also visit me on my Facebook Profile Page, where I’ve got less than 400 spaces left for Friend Requests, at Lisa Mason’s Official Website for books, ebooks, stories, and screenplays, and forthcoming projects,. and on Amazon, on Goodreads, on LinkedIn, on Twitter at @lisaSmason, at Smashwords, and at Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

From the author of The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle, Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle, and The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

If you enjoy a work, please “Like” it, add some stars, write a review on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Smashwords and spread the word to your friends. Your participation really matters.

Thank you for your readership!

Sunday is, of course, the Day of the Sun!

Whatever your beliefs, this is a good day to rest and contemplate the miracle of our Sun that permits life on our precious blue Earth.

Wear something in shades of white or yellow. For jewelry, wear gold, diamonds, amber, or golden topaz.

We’ve now got twelve titles on Smashwords, with ten to go, which will include the seven Summer of Love Serials, and the three installments of The Garden of Abracadabra.

For anyone who reads on a device other than a Nook or a Kindle, now you can download Lisa Mason ebooks! iPhones, Apple devices, Sony, Kobo. Everything!

As for you, Nook and Kindle owners, we’ve got you covered!

My faith in Readers is renewed!

Here are our Smashwords links so far. All are included in the Smashwords Premier Catalog, which means they’ll ship to the Apple iBookstore, Kobo, Sony, Diesel, and other stores.

The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. From Goodreads: “I loved the writing style and am hungry for more!”

Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. “More than a great science-fiction, a great novel as well.”

The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. “A winning mixture of intelligence and passion.” The New York Times Book Review

Shaken, an ebook adaptation of Deus Ex Machina published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, republished in Transcendental Tales (Donning Press), and translated and republished worldwide on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords and UK Kindle. A List of Sources follows this short novel. “I loved it!”

Tomorrow’s Child, The Omni Story That Sold To The Movies on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. “What a beautiful story! I cried.”

Daughter of the Tao published in Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn (HarperPrism) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. “I would highly recommend this little book to anyone who enjoys a character-based story with a touch of magic and fantasy to it!”

Every Mystery Unexplained published in David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible (HarperPrism) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. “The Golden Age of stage magic meets Real Magic.”

New! Celestial Girl, Book 1: The Heartland (A Lily Modjeska Mystery) is on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle! After her husband is found dead in a notorious brothel, Lily flees Toledo on the Overland train. She must share a seat with the debonair Dr. Jackson Tremaine and befriends the Celestial Girl, the daughter of a Chinese dignitary. But appearances are not what they seem.

New! Celestial Girl, Book 2: Jewel of the Golden West (A Lily Modjeska Mystery) is on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle! Lily and Jackson arrive in San Francisco and discover the murder of an immigration official connected with the Celestial Girl. She and Jackson are compelled into a dangerous murder investigation. As they begin a passionate affair, a contract for murder is taken out on Lily’s life.

The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria, published in Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam), is now on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. Inspired by the Surrealist artists Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. A List of Sources follows the novella.

Hummers, published in Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 5th Annual Collection (St. Martin’sPress), is on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

Tesla, A Worthy of His Time, A Screenplay is on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. This was read by the producer of “Aliens,” “The Abyss,” and “The Hulk.” We’ve come close to a sale several times! A List of Sources follows the Screenplay.

If you enjoy a work, please “Like” it, add some stars, write a review, post a blog, post a Tweet, and spread the word to your friends. Your participation really matters!

Thank you for your readership!

Visit me at Lisa Mason’s Official Website for books, ebooks, stories, and screenplays, forthcoming projects and more, on my Facebook Author Page, on Amazon, on my Facebook Profile Page, on Goodreads, on LinkedIn, on Twitter at @lisaSmason, at Smashwords, and at Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Your participation really matters!

Thank you for your readership!

Tesla is now on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle!

Genius. Visionary. Madman.

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was the pioneering genius who invented the AC electrical system that powers our world to this day, as well as radio, remote control, the automobile speedometer, X-ray photography, the AND logic gate that drives all our computer systems, and countless other devices and precursors to devices such as cell phones, television, and the Internet that we so effortlessly use today.

Strikingly handsome and charismatic, fluent in half a dozen languages, mathematics savant and master machinist, a reed-thin perfectionist who quoted poetry like a Victorian rapper, Tesla became one of the most famous men of his day. Friend of tycoons like John Jacob Astor and Stanford White and celebrities like Mark Twain and Sarah Bernhardt.

Yet Tesla was an intensely driven and lonely man, beset by inner demons, and cursed with a protean inventive imagination a century ahead of his time. He died in obscurity and poverty and, to this day, his name is not widely known. How did that happen?

Blending historical fact with speculative imagination, Lisa Mason explores the secrets of the Inventor’s inner life and his obsession with Goethe’s Faust set against the backdrop of sweeping technological changes at the turn of the twentieth century that have forever changed the world.

Tesla, A Worthy of His Time was read by the producer of “Aliens,” “The Abyss,” and “The Hulk.” A List of Sources follows the Screenplay.

Tesla is on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

From the author of The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle, Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle, and The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

Visit me at Lisa Mason’s Official Website for books, ebooks, stories, and screenplays, forthcoming projects and more, on my Facebook Author Page, on Amazon, on my Facebook Profile Page, on Goodreads, on LinkedIn, on Twitter at @lisaSmason, at Smashwords, and at Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

If you enjoy a title, please “Like” it, add stars, write a review, blog it, and spread the word to your friends. Your participation really matters.

Thank you for your readership!

Saturday is Saturn’s day. Saturn is “Old Man Time,” typically described as the god of fate and limitation.

I like to think of Saturn in more positive terms, “destiny,” and “manifestation.”

When you decide to marry, for instance, you forsake all others (limitation), but you set out to make a new life together with your beloved (destiny). When you choose a career and train for it, you focus on that activity and everything else becomes a hobby or recreation (limitation), but you build a reputation and make a living (manifestation).

How do you spend your Saturdays? Working? Doing chores? Fulfilling social obligations? All should go well.

Or is your Saturday a time for relaxation and revelry? Be careful, lest fate show its hand.

Wear black but temper that saturnine sternness with gold and multicolored gems. Silver and onyx work, too, but add some turquoise and carnelian to lighten the mood.

HUMMERS, published in Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, is on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

HUMMERS was published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, chosen for Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 5th Annual Collection (St. Martin’s Press), and nominated for the Nebula Award.

Laurel, in the terminal stages of cancer, is obsessed with the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Jerry, her homecare nurse whose lover is dying of AIDS, gives her a surprising gift: a hummingbird feeder.

As Laurel comes to grips with her impending death, she learns powerful and redeeming lessons about Egyptian Magic from the hummingbirds that visit her.

Terri Windling received the World Fantasy Award for her contributions to the fantasy field and her editing of anthologies, including this one. Here’s her introduction to Hummers from Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 5th Annual Collection (St. Martin’s Press):

‘Ursula Le Guin has described fantasy as a different approach to reality, an alternate technique for apprehending and coping with existence.

Fantasy, like myth and legend, provides a means of storytelling that at its best goes beyond entertainment to travel the inner roads of the human soul. The following story does this beautifully, using the form of fantasy fiction and the symbols of Egyptian mythology to enter one of the most mysterious lands of all: the one that lies at the threshold of death. Readers who have experienced the loss of loved ones to cancer or AIDS will find this story cuts particularly close to the bone, but the fear of death is universal, and Mason’s exploration of this fear is both unsentimental and compassionate.’

HUMMERS, published in Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, is on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

From the author of The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle, Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle, and The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

If you enjoy a title, please “Like” it, add stars, write a review, blog it, and spread the word to your friends. Your participation really matters.

Thank you for your readership!

Visit me at Lisa Mason’s Official Website for books, ebooks, stories, and screenplays, forthcoming projects and more, on my Facebook Author Page, on Amazon, on my Facebook Profile Page, on Goodreads, on LinkedIn, on Twitter at @lisaSmason, at Smashwords, and at Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

If you enjoy a title, please “Like” it, add stars, write a review, blog it, and spread the word to your friends. Your participation really matters.

More affordable titles for your reading enjoyment:

Thriller! Don’t miss SHAKEN, my sexy thriller, an ebook adaptation of “Deus Ex Machina” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, republished in Transcendental Tales (Donning Press), and translated and republished worldwide. SHAKEN is on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords and UK Kindle.

Literary science fiction! And don’t miss TOMORROW’S CHILD, The Story That Sold To The Movies. This began as a medical documentary, got published in Omni Magazine as a lead story, and finally sold to Universal Pictures, where the project is now in development. My 30-day blog, The Story Behind the Story That Sold To The Movies, sets out the twists and turns the project took from inspiration to movie deal. On Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

Thank you for your readership!

The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria is now on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

The year is 1941, and Hitler’s armies have swept across Europe. Nora, a budding young Surrealist artist, has fled to Mexico with B.B., a much older and acclaimed Surrealist playwright down on his luck. Hundreds of European artists and writers have formed a colony in Mexico City, and Nora befriends Valencia, a fellow Surrealist artist and refugee. Together the friends explore Jungian psychology and the power of symbols in their Art.

But Nora is plagued by an abusive relationship with B.B. She embarks on a harrowing journey deep into her own troubled psyche.

Inspired by the lives and friendship of the brilliant visionary Surrealist artists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington.

A List of Sources follows the novella.

The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria was published in Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam), which also included stories by Michael Bishop, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, and Neal Stephenson.

From the author of The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle, Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle, and The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

If you enjoy a title, please “Like” it, add stars, write a review, blog it, and spread the word to your friends. Your participation really matters.

Thank you for your readership!

Visit me at Lisa Mason’s Official Website for books, ebooks, stories, and screenplays, forthcoming projects and more, on my Facebook Author Page, on Amazon, on my Facebook Profile Page, on Goodreads, on LinkedIn, on Twitter at @lisaSmason, at Smashwords, and at Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

If you enjoy a title, please “Like” it, add stars, write a review, blog it, and spread the word to your friends. Your participation really matters.

More affordable titles for your reading enjoyment:

Thriller! Don’t miss SHAKEN, my sexy thriller, an ebook adaptation of “Deus Ex Machina” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, republished in Transcendental Tales (Donning Press), and translated and republished worldwide. SHAKEN is on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords and UK Kindle.

Literary science fiction! And don’t miss TOMORROW’S CHILD, The Story That Sold To The Movies. This began as a medical documentary, got published in Omni Magazine as a lead story, and finally sold to Universal Pictures, where the project is now in development. My 30-day blog, The Story Behind the Story That Sold To The Movies, sets out the twists and turns the project took from inspiration to movie deal. On Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

Thank you for your readership!

We’ve now got eleven titles on Smashwords, with eleven to go, which will include Tesla, A Screenplay, the seven Summer of Love Serials, and the three installments of The Garden of Abracadabra.

For anyone who reads on a device other than a Nook or a Kindle, now you can download Lisa Mason ebooks! iPhones, Apple devices, Sony, Kobo. Everything!

As for you, Nook and Kindle owners, we’ve got you covered!

Here are our Smashwords links so far. All are included in the Smashwords Premier Catalog, which means they’ll ship to the Apple iBookstore, Kobo, Sony, Diesel, and other stores.

The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. From Goodreads: “I loved the writing style and am hungry for more!”

Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. “More than a great science-fiction, a great novel as well.”

The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. “A winning mixture of intelligence and passion.” The New York Times Book Review

Shaken, an ebook adaptation of Deus Ex Machina published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, republished in Transcendental Tales (Donning Press), and translated and republished worldwide on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords and UK Kindle. “I loved it!”

Tomorrow’s Child, The Omni Story That Sold To The Movies on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. “What a beautiful story! I cried.”

Daughter of the Tao published in Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn (HarperPrism) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. “I would highly recommend this little book to anyone who enjoys a character-based story with a touch of magic and fantasy to it!”

Every Mystery Unexplained published in David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible (HarperPrism) on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle. “The Golden Age of stage magic meets Real Magic.”

New! Celestial Girl, Book 1: The Heartland (A Lily Modjeska Mystery) is on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle! After her husband is found dead in a notorious brothel, Lily flees Toledo on the Overland train. She must share a seat with the debonair Dr. Jackson Tremaine and befriends the Celestial Girl, the daughter of a Chinese dignitary. But appearances are not what they seem.

New! Celestial Girl, Book 2: Jewel of the Golden West (A Lily Modjeska Mystery) is on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle! Lily and Jackson arrive in San Francisco and discover the murder of an immigration official connected with the Celestial Girl. She and Jackson are compelled into a dangerous murder investigation. As they begin a passionate affair, a contract for murder is taken out on Lily’s life.

New! The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria, published in Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam), is now on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

New! HUMMERS, published in Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, is on Nook, Kindle, Smashwords, and UK Kindle.

If you enjoy a work, please “Like” it, add some stars, write a review, post a blog, post a Tweet, and spread the word to your friends. Your participation really matters!

Thank you for your readership!

Visit me at Lisa Mason’s Official Website for books, ebooks, stories, and screenplays, forthcoming projects and more, on my Facebook Author Page, on Amazon, on my Facebook Profile Page, on Goodreads, on LinkedIn, on Twitter at @lisaSmason, at Smashwords, and at Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Your participation really matters!

Thank you for your readership!

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