Liminal Space is here in 2 days! Social media has been all about the teaser excerpts - so here’s a barrage of them.
Shiny
Exponential shininess on display here. I swear, this art positively leaps off the cover.
Also, a photo can't begin to convey how thick it is! It's practically a Brandon Sanderson novel....
If you want one of your own (minus that hideous proof banner), get your preorder in today: https://www.gsjennsen.com/paperback-store
Liminal Space Teaser Excerpt
And boom, suddenly LIMINAL SPACE will be here in 2.5 weeks! All the edits are in, and I'm working on the print and ebook formatting now. And HERE is your first teaser excerpt. Are you ready for the most epic showdowns of epic showdowns?
A Tale in 2 Pictures
When your Sunday takes a sudden, hard-left turn….
Yep, it was a lost cause. D.E.D. dead. And since I'm getting on a plane Wednesday morning, I give you...SIYANE MARK II. All loaded up and ready to transport Amaranthe wherever I go (in this instance, Atlanta for Dragon Con).
Proofreading
And this is my life THIS week! ...Definitely next week, too.
Liminal Space is an absolute beast, you guys. 144K and change words. Epic, sprawling, complex, character-driven space opera is what you all wanted, right?
Liminal Space Update #435
My life this week. Let's see what manner of words I have written, shall we?
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Yes, yes, the formatting is a mess. This is a straight Word-to-ePub conversion. All the prettifying comes later.


Another Liminal Space Update
* whistles right on past 140K words and keeps going *
I guess this is what happens when I leave most of the characters to their own devices for 3 years....
Wild Heroine
One of the tools us indie authors use to help in marketing has added a reverse lookup feature. You input a book's Amazon ASIN number, and it tells you what searches the book ranks highest in.
For fun and research, I input Starshine. One of its highest searches?
“wild heroine space opera romance”
They've got Alex's number good, lol.

Liminal Space Update
THERE. Now it’s a first draft!


Bracket Purgatory
Oh, Past GS, how I loathe you so. Before I can begin to truly edit this manuscript, at least a first attempt at all the words need to be on the page. So I'll be over here choosing names and colors and crafting evocative descriptions and nuanced emotions. ...For a while.
Liminal Space Update
I went ahead and upped the target word count from 120K to 130K because, let's be honest - this book will be AT LEAST that long. I'm not even finished with the Zero Draft yet! (I've talked often about how skinny my early drafts are.)
Philip K. Dick On Science Fiction
Now, now, "frenzy and hysteria" is such a negative characterization. I prefer "a cackle of diabolical glee," myself. ;)
Via Raconteur Press
The Notebook
At various times in the last 10 years, key parts of Aurora Renegades, Aurora Resonant, Asterion Noir, and Riven Worlds have all been brainstormed in this notebook on long drives.
When I initially posted this pic on social media, in real time, I said, “Wonder what I'll write in it today?”
Now, of course, I know what I wrote in it. And that’s all I’ll say about that. For now. ;)
I have words on the moon!
It's a historic day for private space exploration. Early Sunday morning, Firefly Space's Blue Ghost stuck the landing, making it the first fully successful private, commercial moon landing!
On a tiny nanofiche onboard Blue Ghost reside two of my short stories, "Apogee" and "Solatium," as part of the Lunar Codex. All the thanks to Samuel Peralta for making so many writers' and artists' dream come true.
Blue Ghost is ALSO carrying a bucketload of science. Instruments will investigate the structure and composition of the moon’s mantle, the heat flow at different depths beneath the lunar surface, the interaction of solar wind and Earth’s magnetic field, and the impact of solar radiation on the lunar surface.
The lander also carries the Lunar PlanetVac, which is designed to collect regolith from the lunar surface that could be returned to Earth as part of a separate mission, and the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment, which will test the ability to use GPS signals at lunar distances.
Blue Ghost will operate for about 14 Earth days on the lunar surface. On March 14, Firefly expects to capture high-definition imagery of a total eclipse when the Earth blocks the sun above the moon’s horizon. How amazing is that going to be?
The gang's all back together
I'll have more to say about * this * in a few weeks, after more people have finished The Universe Within and I've caught my breath from many goings-on. But over here, we're getting this party started.
P.S.: For those of you who haven’t seen this kind of image from me before, this is a storyboard outline of the next book, created in an app called Plottr. Each row/color corresponds to a character or related set of characters. I won’t give them all away, but blue is Alex and Caleb. The content of the blocks is strategically blurred out so you don’t get spoiled way, way early - but maybe it gets you thinking about what those blocks could involve. :D
Final The Universe Within Teaser
It's their motto. They should emblazon it over the entryway of the house on Akeso.
The Culprits
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the reason we have 22 books.
Writing heroes who demand to shake up the world can at times be like the Chinese proverb of riding the tiger - except instead of being afraid to dismount, I just hang on and enjoy the ride.
9 days until THE UNIVERSE WITHIN gets here!
The Universe Within Teaser
What a heady experience it must be to get rescued by these two....
One Last Check
* rubs hands together *
Who's ready for a final proofread?
P.S.: I'm absolutely loving the Colorsoft. It's beautiful and fast, and the text is super-crisp.
The Universe Within Teaser
No, we can't expect any such thing.
So Valkyrie and Akeso have to, for the most part, sit this adventure out. This gave me a chance to right Alex without Valkyrie and especially Caleb without Akeso. I think you all will enjoy how this plays out for them. In some ways, it's like the old days...but not in every way, for they've experienced so much since then.