Skim On Down!

Art By Jane Noel

Based on the photo for today’s Wandering, I bet you can guess what at least one bit of this week’s news is, but there’s more, so skim on down…

At long last, there’s a new e-book edition of my 2004 novel, The Buried Pyramid, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo.  The cover art is by Jane Noel, who also did the interior design, including putting together some insane ciphers.  Blessings on her patient head!

For those of you who aren’t fond of series, I am happy to inform you that The Buried Pyramid is a stand-alone novel.  It’s set in England and Egypt in the 1880s, and is full of adventure and intrigue.  As with my other e-books, it also includes an extra content essay.

I’m terrible at talking about my own books, so let me share the cover blurb.

Is It Better For the Lost to Remain Unfound?

As a young officer in Her Majesty’s army in Egypt, Neville Hawthorne was assigned to escort German archeologist Alphonse Liebermann to find the tomb of Neferankhotep, a pharaoh said to be so beloved of the gods that they themselves built his final resting place.  Liebermann’s expedition suffered a disastrous ending from which all Neville gained was a permanently injured leg.  Now a civilian of middle years, financially secure, and knighted for his achievements, Neville has decided he will not rest until he finds the tomb of Neferankhotep.

Seventeen-year-old Jenny Benet grew up in the Wild West, daughter of a French frontier doctor and unconventional Englishwoman.  Now orphaned, having discovered that polite society bores her to tears, she flees to her Uncle Neville.  When Jenny finds he will be leaving for Egypt, she’s determined not to be left behind.

Dogged by messages from a cipher-crazed doomsayer self-styled “Sphinx,” Neville, Jenny, and their companions become drawn into an intrigue nearly as old as Egypt.  If they hope to succeed where Liebermann failed, they must pass from the land of the living into that of the dead—and be judged as no one in thousands of years has been judged.

Of The Buried Pyramid, Publisher’s Weekly says: Lindskold delivers an exotic historical fantasy that takes the reader from Victorian England to Egypt. Lindskold does a fine job of describing the English lifestyle of the day and ancient Egyptian rituals. The action [shifts] to high gear and the supernatural spookiness carries the story to a satisfying conclusion. 

With The Buried Pyramid, all but a couple of my backlist novels are available in new e-book editions.  I do plan to get the last few—my early books from Avon—out, but first…

Earlier this week, David Weber sent me the much-expanded manuscript of the next Stephanie Harrington novel.  Star Kingdom Five (aka SK5) doesn’t have a title yet, but it does take young Stephanie across the threshold to where she is more an adult than a young adult.  The challenges begin in court on Manticore, but return to the deep forests of Sphinx, where Stephanie, Lionheart, and their friends are confronted with intrigues and dangers quite different from any they have faced before.

My next job will be reviewing Weber’s new material, and then we’ll put our heads together to make sure we’re both delighted with the final version.

This manuscript arrives on the threshold of my rotator cuff surgery, but I’m going to try to start work before, and will pick it up again as soon as I can.

Next week will be my last Wednesday Wanderings of any length until my arm is out of a sling, so let me know if you have any questions, and I’ll do my best to provide an answer.

Take care!