Sherwood Smith

Writer of fantasy, historical romance, and science fiction

News

Writer stuff:

“Winter”* 2025

IngramSpark now enables direct ordering, for those who want hardcovers, or trade paperbacks that are not Amazon.

Finally got “Kerygma in Waltz Time” formatted with a cover, and put up at Kindle. (This novelette is my salute to the magic of story)

I’m in the slow process of getting audio recordings made of the books whose rights I control. Crown Duel is done and available. Ditto Coronets and Steel, The Blood Mage Texts, and Marend of Marloven Hess. A Stranger to Command is coming along. In other series, The Phoenix Feather: Fledglings is done, and its sequel in process. Also in process is The Trouble with Kings.

I am finishing up the writing of the last Phoenix Feather/Sagacious series book, Sagacious Blade

* Winter so far isn’t happening in Southern California–no rain whatsoever, every day sunny, constant air quality alerts. Sigh.

My laughable attempts at marketing:

You can read a chapter a day of current projects on my Patreon and discussion of same, and other subjects.

Katie and Jordan Heroine is a new podcast. Their first episodes focus on Crown Duel.

Being one of the many authors who have no skill (or budget) for marketing, I am grateful for word of mouth from readers. Here is a review that pretty much made my year.

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Interviews

I’ve done two interviews with Fiction Fans Podcast. The most recent was about the Inda series, episode 49.

An interview at the Milford Writers’ site.

with writer Francesca Forrest, about Lhind, and villains

Henry Herz

Book View Cafe

Why I link my books to Bookview Cafe:

BVC (which offers its e-books in mobi and epub formats) was formed by a bunch of writers as a cooperative publishing effort. Books offered cross all genres, from science fiction to romance to historical to mainstream. We function as editors, copyeditors, formatters, cover artists, and site maintainers for one another. 90% of the proceeds go to the authors! That means that the author actually earns most of the money you pay, instead of publishers and big venues like Amazon, B&N, and iTunes.

Here is our latest offering, and this is my bookshelf.

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