Why I Write
Some of you know that I have been working for some time on moving from book writing to screenwriting. Go here to read an essay about why I became a writer in the first place, and why I am trying to change media now.
Jean Lorrah Collected
A collection of Jean Lorrah's short stories is now available under the Borgo Press imprint. It is part of a huge project by Amazon.com and Booksurge to bring thousands of beloved books back into print. Find it at Amazon.com.
Dudley Does Pet Therapy
My cat, Earl Gray Dudley, Th.C., (called "Dudley") is a certified therapy pet. We do pet therapy with the Calloway County Humane Society. While we visit nursing homes and the long-term care unit at the hospital on a regular schedule, an increasingly popular project is to bring the therapy pets to the Murray State University campus, for students who have had to leave their own pets at home. Click here to see Dudley with one of the students on a recent visit.
Sime~Gen News
When Meisha Merlin once again missed the publication date for Sime~Gen: To Kiss or To Kill, without consulting us, Jacqueline Lichtenberg and I withdrew the Sime~Gen books from that publisher. We regret to inform you that at the moment we do not know who will publish the new Sime~Gen books we have complete and waiting, or when.
Savage Empire News
All seven Savage Empire novels will be reprinted in 2008-9 under the Borgo Press imprint. They will be part of the Borgo Press/Amazon.com/Booksurge project mentioned above.
Meanwhile, the second volume of the reissue of all of Jean Lorrah and Winston Howlett's Savage Empire books is still available. SAVAGE EMPIRE: PROPHECIES contains the fourth and fifth volumes of the series, the ongoing history of what happens after Lenardo, the Master Reader (telepath) becomes a Lord Adept of the Savage Empire. New characters are introduced, while characters like Torio, the blind Reader, finally get their own books. While each of these novels is complete in itselt, the volume title, "Prophecies," indicates that something is building--a culmination that will arrive in the next two volumes. Savage Empire: Prophecies may be ordered at Amazon.com or BenBella Books.
The first volume, Savage Empire: Dark Moon Rising, may be ordered at Amazon.com or BenBella Books. See Jean's Savage Empire Website for more information.
Three Articles by Jean Lorrah
Jean has an article, "Love Saves the World," in Seven Seasons of Buffy, a collection of essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer by science fiction and fantasy authors, from BenBella Books. Order here.
Her article, "A World Without Love," is in Five Seasons of Angel, a companion volume to the Buffy collection, from BenBella Books. Pre-order here.
She also had an article, "Romancing the Undead Hero," in the October, 2003, issue of Romantic Times BOOK Club.
Blood Will Tell News
Blood Will Tell is out of print but not out of stock from BenBella Books. You can still order it here. This book will also be reprinted as part of the Borgo Press/Amazon.com/Booksurge project mentioned above.
December, 2002, Blood Will Tell wins Best Paranormal in the LORRIE contest sponsored by From the Heart chapter of Romance Writers of America. Find information on the LORRIES here.
March, 2002, Blood Will Tell wins the Lord Ruthven Award for Best Vampire Fiction. Each year the Lord Ruthven Assembly gives awards for the best fiction and nonfiction works on the subject of vampires.
There were over 150 vampire novels published in 2001, so being named the best is truly an honor.
The Lord Ruthven Assembly is the group of scholars of vampire literature and lore who meet every year in association with the International Conference on the Fantastic.
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Blood Will Tell mixes mystery, police procedural, romance, and dark fantasy. For more information about this novel, see Jean's Kiss of Death, Kiss of Life website. Blood Will Tell is available as an e-book from Awe-Struck E-books. It is currently available for download in HTML for the standard computer, Rocket reader for the Rocket eBook reader device, PRC DOC files for the Palm Pilot device, MS Reader for the PC and Pocket PC, FUB for eBookMan, Mobipocket for Palm Pilot, Pocket PC, eBookMan, and KML for hiebook. You can also order it from Barnes and Noble.
Jean Lorrah on radio!
Saturday, October 25, 2003 midnight Eastern, 11pm Central, 9pm Pacific Time, on the GCN network (one of the talk networks). The show is called Erskine Live. The program is archived at www.m2ktalk.com. It appears that Jean's appearance will be available for free soon, as they are now up to September, 2003. This is an hour-length program and Jean is the only guest.
Watch the video, listen to the sound bite, or read the transcript from the McNeil News Hour, April 30, 2001. (It's all available here.) Jean Lorrah Honored for 35 Years of Service
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NESSIE wins Independent E-book Award
Nessie and the Living Stone by Lois June Wickstrom and Jean Lorrah was named best children's book at the Independent E-book Awards on Saturday, March 24, 2001. Lois was on hand to receive the award, which was presented in conjunction with the University of Virginia Festival of the Book.
Judges for the Award included editors from Publishers Weekly, Foreword Magazine, Random House, and Writer's Digest, several best-selling authors, and the founder of the New York Review of Books.
Click here to read the reviews of Nessie and the Living Stone.
Nessie now available in printed paper book version.
Nessie and the Living Stone has been available since 2000 as an e-book for direct download or on CD-ROM. Now for those of you who want a traditional paper book that you can read anywhere, it is available as a trade paperback from Amazon.com. It has been the #1 best-selling children's book on Fictionwise time and time again for the past six years, and is perpetually in the top five.
Nessie and the Viking Gold
By Lois Wickstrom and Jean Lorrah. The sequel to Nessie and the Living Stone, is also available on Amazon.com.
The third book in the series, Nessie and the Celtic Maze is available as an ebook from Fictionwise.
All three of these award-winning children's books will also become available in 2007 as part of the Borgo Press/Amazon.com/Booksurge project mentioned above.
For older works that are currently available, click here.
Three of my four Star Trek novels are now available for download as electronic books. Find The Vulcan Academy Murders, The I.D.I.C. Epidemic, and Survivors at Amazon.com.
Survivors
by Jean Lorrah
This is Pocket Books' Star Trek: The Next Generation novel #4. For all you fans in the Czech Republic, there is now an edition in your language from Laser publishers.
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for Star Trek: The Next Generation posters.
"Alison and Scarlett: Undeveloped Anima in the Wife of Bath and Scarlett O'Hara"
Jungian interpretation of these two well-known characters, to be published in the 2000 volume of the conference proceedings of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.
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