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A Fall of Ashes Chapter 9, Now Available

The reward for Ashes is high, so is the fear of displeasing the mysterious Mistress Gru. Ashes’ best chance isn’t avoiding the searcher but being someone they would never suspect of being the young sorceress they seek. available on Kindle Vella and Patreon.

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Chapter 8 of Donald of Mars is now live.

I have the next installment of Donald of Mars now available on Kindle Vella and Patreon Donald has taken a job fixing the aquaponics based environmental system of a couple of adult film actress that didn’t take the time to keep it up.

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New Chapter of A Fall of Ashes is up

It hadn’t taken long for Ashes to get into deep trouble after becoming a full sorceress. It had been trouble of the type she either killed, or suffered badly. Now she and the two men she used as cover to escape the guard have to flee. Now available on Kindle Vella or Pateron.

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New Web site is up.

I have a new website. It is still under construction, but I have the basics in place now. My author site https://wordpress.com/home/jamesrsteinhausauthor.wordpress.com is still active. But most of my updates will be taking place here from now on. Vella Links

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Donald of Mars: Chapter 6, Home is now available

I use this chapter to introduce people to more of the unusual things one might see in a Mars colony and some attitudes that might result from living there. I hope you find it useful, and the topics get further explored in later chapters. It is available on Kindle Vella or Patron.

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A Fall of Ashes: Chapter VI, Sorceress now available

Now in her early twenties, Ashes has become comfortable as an apprentice studying healing, when her mistress sends her on an errand in a far distant town. Little does she realize it is a one-way trip and she will lose everything but what she is carrying. She is a sorceress and has her freedom now, but at a terrible cost. Read chapter IV of A Fall of Ashes, Sorceress, on Kindle Vella or…

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Fifth Chapter of A Fall of Ashes is now live

Ashes hated being sent to heal the very people that had raped her and wanted her for their slave, but accepted that it was something she had to do. She was in no way ready for the surprises that awaited her. Chapter 5 Apprentice Healer is now available on Kindle Vella and Patron

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What I Am Up To

I have three stories that I am putting out in episode form; two science fiction, Vikings of Asgard, and Donald of Mar; and one dark fantasy, A Fall of Ashes. I am making all three available on Kindle Vella, and on Patreon for those outside the United States or that prefer Patreon over Kindle Vella. Vikings of Asgard Vikings of Asgard I started on Kindle Vella over a year ago and have been…

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A Fall of Ashes: First three chapters now up.

Chapter three. Read them for free on Kindle Vella or Patron https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-of-ashes-01-77075289

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Three stories now available on Kindle Vella

Three stories now available on Kindle Vella

I have started three stories on Kindle Vella, two science fiction, and one fantasy. The first, Viking of Asgard, I drafted over two years ago. I began my rewriting this one over a year ago, having each chapter professionally edited and then publishing it on Vella. Now it has twenty chapters published and I will continue to add to this as a rewrite once chapters get professionally edited. It is…

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone. With the New Year I have added a new project, Donald Of Mars to my on-going story Viking of Asgard I started last year. I have in the past done quite a few blogs on many of the challenges of colonizing mars on the site Eptle.WordPress.com. In this new project, I am having my protagonist Donald overcome and deal with many of these things as a way of making them clear to…

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Viking of Asgard: Episode 19 Red Mountain now available

Viking of Asgard: Episode 19 Red Mountain now available

Join Don as he joins the caravan climbing Red Mountain to inspect the barony King Peter granted him.

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Viking of Asgard Chapter 16: Three Barons, is now available

Viking of Asgard Chapter 16: Three Barons, is now available

As of September 17 and the publishing of chapter 16, there are now 44 thousand words of Vikings of Asgard available to read on Kindle Vella. Getting these chapters out to you is a long, hard process and I hope you like them. James R Steinhaus.

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Spoiler: King Peter is an Avatar!

Spoiler: King Peter is an Avatar!

Some of my test readers of Vikings of Asgard have asked me about the character King Peter. Here is a partial spoiler; He is an Avatar. But unlike the movie Avatar, anyone that sits in the operator chair can operate him and when no one is in it, the AI runs him. Junior researchers mostly operate him. Asgard is their experiment. One of thousands, in fact. They have as little regard for the people…

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Viking of Asgard Chapter 12 now available

Viking of Asgard Chapter 12 now available

The people, the smells, and the sound of a city in India from more than three thousand years ago drive home to Don just how different the past was. Even so, he savors this last chance to explore a maker he will never again have a chance to visit Click here for Patreon for those outside the United States https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09Q1LN2B6

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Vikings of Asgard: Chapter 11, The Prince, Now Available

Vikings of Asgard: Chapter 11, The Prince, Now Available

Bob has made his living his whole life supplying the rich and powerful with the illegal or hard to get. None could be as openly cruel and abusive as those noblemen of the past. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09Q1LN2B6 It is also available on patreon for those living outside the United States. https://www.patreon.com/posts/vikings-of-11-66610646

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Ten Chapters of Vikings of Asgard are now available

Ten Chapters of Vikings of Asgard are now available

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09Q1LN2B6 Vikings of Asgard just released its tenth chapter on Kindle Vella. Keep up with Don and Bob continuing adventures as both find out things, gain, power, wealth and problems they never dreamed of. Also available on Patreon for those on Patreon.

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