A Piece of the Pi is publishing NOW!

  Yup, Rea and Goodlifeguide pulled out all the stops and cleared the decks before the upcoming holiday. I just got it back from Goodlifeguide and immediately published it.

So, 4 stories of the Reborn Federation:

Hot off the virtual presses, four new short stories from the New Federation. In Hunter or Hunted, the crew of Io 11 and Fortuity explore the Pi sector, confident in their ships and crews. But which are they, hunter or prey?

Second up is Molly's Madness, where the crew of the good ship Molly finally gets a chance to strike out on their own in the southern loop of Rho sector. Third, You've got to have Faith; Faith Meikle has to deal with the headaches of running the growing ETMI shipyards in a place as dangerous and corrupt as Epsilon Triangula...

And finally, Off to War, a group of Spacebees are sent to Nuevo to update the army a few months before all hell breaks loose...

I will post the links here when they become available.
EDIT: Thank you cwpick for being on the ball ahead of me:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077NTR1PT/ref=sr_1_15?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1511315870&sr=1-15&refinements=p_n_date%3A1249100011

EDIT: And here it is on B&N:
 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-piece-of-the-pi-chris-hechtl/1127525168?ean=2940158949852

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got more cleaning to do before tomorrow! :P

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

A Piece of the Pi

A Piece of the Pie, aka Tales of the Reborn Federation 2, aka how plans change.

   Okay, that last part is me, not the title. And I bet a lot of you are wondering what the devil I'm talking about. Okay, here goes.
   I finished story 4 of the Federation contingent and realized I had 2 more stories to go (the PRI one, a Princess in a Strange Land and the Bootstrap story) but I was already over 300 pages for Multiverse 3. Oops? I didn't want to push it, since anthologies don't sell well, so I hemmed and hawed and then today decided to bite the bullet and toss the 4 stories into their own short book with a bit of extras and call it good. I'll dig out one of the other Fed story treatments to go with MV3.

   So, here we are. 4 stories, 3 of them with the gang from Io 11, and 1 story on Nuevo A. And a bunch of back matter to play with. It is all around 200+ pages. Yes it is short. I sent out a Beta blast about it. I don't know if we can get the manuscript published by the end of the month, but we are going to try.
I'll work on the cover art tomorrow. At the moment the only thing coming to me is Io 11's climax... no, I can't get into that. Or... no, I can't do that either. Or... no, not that either, though it would be cool... Grrr! Anyway, I'll think of something! (I hope!)

EDIT: I threw this cover together yesterday. I'm still waiting on Beta feedback. (Everyone is busy!)

If any Betas want in, let me know ASAP! You've got until Saturday to get it back to me!

  In other news, I've been making slow progress with the Reindeer Project. It's coming down to the wire, I was honestly hoping I'd have the reindeers almost done by now, but nope. (like a lot of people, we put up our decorations the weekend after Thanksgiving. I wanted to have it done by then) Hopefully we'll see more progress soon. Once I get it all together I'll post the limited pictures and videos I've taken and do a blog post or two about it. It is pretty cool, in my own humble opinion. :)
  I've learned all sorts of things, like casting latex. I definitely need to learn a bit more soon though, like how to paint said latex with an airbrush. But first I need to learn how to close the latex seams and how to attach the latex to the legs and head. (not fun) Right now I'm getting teased because Rudolph my prototype looks like a skinned cow. :P

Despite the costs involved, (and yes they are high!) I'm already thinking of projects I want to do next for next year. Muhahaha >:D