Love in Dark Settings

I'm planning to publish three new Three Lands novels next year. The question I've been facing is whether I should post them online as well.

I know that most of you are here because of my gay fiction, but a lot of the same types of characters, plotlines, and themes show up in my friendship fiction. (Seriously. Why do you think the main plotline of Michael's House is friendship fiction? Why do you think The Eternal Dungeon and Life Prison are half gay fiction, half friendship fiction?) So would anyone here be interested in a Three Lands discussion next year in connection with me serializing the new Three Lands novels?

The e-book can be downloaded for free in electronic braille (Grade 2 - contracted - North American English Braille) or in DAISY format. You do not need to be a member of Bookshare.org to download the e-book.

Bard of Pain (braille and DAISY).

Site content label for the series.

If you would like to order an embossed version of the braille e-book, click on the link in this sentence for information on how to do so.

There is a fee for the embossed version that covers only the cost of the embossing.

I've been rather late in getting my e-books onto Bookshare.org, but I plan to get more uploaded this summer.

What can you give a slave who, by law, can own nothing? . . . A 2008 holiday gift story for Dusk Peterson's readers.

He could not leave this room without his father's permission. And he could not imagine going to his father and saying, "Please let me go gather moss so that my slave can have a proper New Year for once."

The final part of Blood Vow is now online.

"If you cannot serve me, then you must be my captive."

Just wanted to show off the new coverfor Mystery. I plan to make covers for all my stories eventually.

The fifth part of Blood Vow is now online.

"The only way in which to bring peace," said the governor, "is to find this Koretian rebel-leader and kill him."

The fourth part of Blood Vow is now online.

"Here we are in a land with no native law of its own, whose people have always depended on the whims of passion to decide their loyalties . . . or else have followed the commands of enigmatic and irrational gods. I hope that you do not allow this visit to confuse your carefully acquired Emorian sensibilities as to the proper definition of loyalty."

The third part of Blood Vow, "The Look of the Chara," is now online.

"You have not been raped or killed or enslaved, or watched as your city was destroyed on the orders of the Chara."

The second part of Blood Vow, "Land of the Chara," is now online.

"This Koretian dog speaks with a barbaric tongue and comes from a barbaric land, one which has no order or laws. Yet if I were to take him, in three months you would find him thinking and acting like a civilized Emorian. If you know how to discipline a slave, as I do, such transformations are accomplished with ease."

He has taken a blood vow to the Jackal God to bring freedom to his land by killing Koretia's greatest enemy. But what will he do when the enemy becomes his friend?

Thrust into exile and pain, young Andrew has no choice but to accept the friendship of the very person he had vowed to kill. When he returns with his friend to his homeland fifteen years later, though, he finds himself in a land of conflicting loyalties . . . where a vengeful god awaits him.

This novel is part of The Three Lands, a fantasy series set in a multicultural world where conflicts over law and spirituality provide opportunities for friendship and romance, and for betrayal.

I had come to tell him, in the cheerful manner boys have, that our world was about to be destroyed.

As a holiday present, I'm posting the final two chapters of Bard of Pain today, so that those of you who have spare time during the holidays can read them.

In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

The sixth and seventh chapters (scroll down to "Online Edition"). For the songvid, go to the "Booktrailer" section.

Chapter Five of the serialization is online. Note also that the price of the e-book editions has dropped to one dollar.

In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

(This is the thread where you can post your comments on this chapter of the online serialization of Bard of Pain, as well as the songvid (booktrailer). If you want to comment on the e-book or audio book, please post your comments here in order to keep this thread spoiler-free.)

The fifth chapter (scroll down to "Online Edition"). For the songvid, go to the "Booktrailer" section.

Chapter Four of the serialization is online.

In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

(This is the thread where you can post your comments on this chapter of the online serialization of Bard of Pain, as well as the songvid (booktrailer). If you want to comment on the e-book or audio book, please post your comments here in order to keep this thread spoiler-free.)

The fourth chapter (scroll down to "Online Edition"). For the songvid, go to the "Booktrailer" section.

Chapter Three of the online serialization is online.

In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

(This is the thread where you can post your comments on this chapter of the online serialization of Bard of Pain, as well as the songvid (booktrailer). If you want to comment on the e-book or audio book, please post your comments here in order to keep this thread spoiler-free.)

The third chapter (scroll down to "Online Edition"). For the songvid, go to the "Booktrailer" section.

In one of those "How could I have done that?" moments, I discovered that, last week, I accidentally uploaded an earlier version of the Bard of Pain index that didn't have links to most of the e-book editions. My apologies to any of you who may have been frustrated in your quest for a particular edition; the links are fixed now.

Chapter Two of the online serialization is also online:

In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

(This is the thread where you can post your comments on this chapter of the online serialization of Bard of Pain, as well as the songvid (booktrailer). If you want to comment on the e-book or audio book, please post your comments here in order to keep this thread spoiler-free.)

The second chapter (scroll down to "Online Edition"). For the songvid, go to the "Booktrailer" section.

In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

As the world's most skilled torturer struggles with his change of fortune, he finds that his fate is intertwined with the destinies of an idealistic army commander, an affectionate prisoner, and a protégé who reveres the Lieutenant's art . . . but is on the wrong side of the conflict.

The beginning of the end for him (or so it seemed at the time) came in the moment that he stepped into the shadow of Capital Mountain and was assaulted by a stranger.

In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

(This is the thread where you can post your comments on this chapter of the online serialization of Bard of Pain, as well as the songvid (booktrailer). If you want to comment on the e-book or audio book, please post your comments here in order to keep this thread spoiler-free.)

The epigraph and first chapter (scroll down to "Online Edition"). For the songvid, go to the "Booktrailer" section.