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Free Fantasy Novel


Help yourself to a free copy of Dragonsword, the first fantasy novel from Deborah Teramis Christian in over a decade. Now available for immediate download at the Dragonsword book site, or you can read an excerpt here.

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The business of writing and publishing on a broad scale.

Amazon: “Authors are our customers” Except in Forums

Amazon: “Authors are our customers” Except in Forums

Questioning the dichotomous tension between Amazon ("authors are our customers"), and the reception authors get on Amazon discussion fora. [Continue]

Improving Sales and Income in Ebook Publishing

Improving Sales and Income in Ebook Publishing

How can a short story writer make a reasonable profit in today's ebook publishing market? Here are a few approaches that might help. [Continue]

Book Covers, Artists, Authors, and Publishing

Book Covers, Artists, Authors, and Publishing

What is the relationship between author, artist, publisher and book cover? Getting the right look for a book is not all that straightforward. This post explains how some of this stuff works, sometimes. [Continue]

Sa’adani Tales: Folklore in Short Stories

Sa’adani Tales: Folklore in Short Stories

I've written some folklore for my fictional worlds, and decided to expand this into a book. "Sa'adani Tales" is the collection name. Soon I'll be seeking crowdfunding support for this project. [Continue]

Three Problems to Avoid If You Publish a Fiction Ebook

Three Problems to Avoid If You Publish a Fiction Ebook

If you're writing and publishing ebook fiction, here are some quirks to avoid if you want to succeed. [Continue]

Why You Don’t Need to Register Something to Copyright It

Why You Don’t Need to Register Something to Copyright It

Some people mistakenly think you need to register a manuscript to copyright it. Not so. Read about the two factors that ensure your copyright. [Continue]

Ebook How-To: a 3-Step Strategy For Quick Sales

Ebook How-To: a 3-Step Strategy For Quick Sales

Here's a quick and dirty three-step strategy for publishing non-fiction ebooks. In the world of ebook how-to, this is one effective bare bones approach to get into the market and create quick sales. Advice to a friend, spawned from my own ebook [Continue]

Analog Thinking in a Digital World

Pdfs are a vestige of analog thinking in a digital world. This persistance of the outmoded is a common pattern when pervasive technological change happens, but the blogosphere and altered information habits is forcing a change. [Continue]

Author Deborah Teramis Christian


Teramis wrote her first book at age 9, but like all good literary lizards has taken her time charging upon the market. Finally in a situation where she can write full time, she is becoming the Dragon, Unleashed, or a close facsimile thereof. Roar, said the saur.

Teramis On the Web

Alternate History Weekly Update - Guest Blogging

MilSciFi Interview - re "Live Fire" in No Man's Land

New Books


This military science fiction anthology contains "Live Fire," Christian's Tiptree Award-nominated short story set in the Sa'adani Empire, the setting of her science fiction novels. Now available at Amazon in print and Kindle editions.