Jules Jones

I've uploaded The Syndicate: Volume 1 to my website. This is a draft page, so please let me know if there are any problems with it. I may get to Volume 2 later today, but I need to have a break from the computer for a while.

http://julesjones.com/fiction/syndicate/TS1_postLI.html

I've just had another letter asking whether I can sell someone a copy of the later Syndicate books. The answer is that I can't sell (or give away) the Loose Id editions, because I don't hold the copyright in that specific edition. I would need to produce my own edition first, which would take a certain amount of work.

What I was vaguely thinking of doing was serialising the whole thing on my website next year, perhaps one chapter a month. Not promoting it, but just making it available to anyone who was looking for it. But I've had several requests specifically for Vol 3 and Four Leaf Clover, from people who'd bought the first two books but not got to the others before they went off sale. So I think I'm going to put up Four Leaf Clover first, as that's a single novelette and should be relatively easy to format. I probably won't have time to do anything about it for a couple of weeks, but at some point I will be asking for people to test the download to see if it works.

Volume 3 of The Syndicate has just been released at Fictionwise, so there's another 40 kwords or so of gay geek romantic comedy now available from Fictionwise as well as direct from the publisher. Here's the blurb:

Because geeks have sex lives too...
A renegade sysadmin looking for a way out of his boring job, Allard's escaped to space. Now he's on the Mary Sue, a spaceship with a slightly nutty crew of syndicalists who have an even more malevolent attitude toward traditional management structures than he does. Much to his surprise, Allard's found co-workers he actually likes, and a man he more than likes. Now Allard and his new love are getting married. But who's going to be the bride, and who the groom? And what will Mark wear? When the fitting's done, the parents settled, and the sex games are over, they'll be glad they found Something Blue.

http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook40674.htm