Gravity of a Distant Sun is just a month away! Its release date remains February 18, 2020, and you can pre-order the paper and ebook editions pretty much anywhere. I’m pleased to report that the audiobook page is up on the Recorded Books website, including a neat cover with a space station orbiting Jupiter. Look for it at your favorite audiobook retailer soon, and feel free to remind your local library that it’s coming in audio format as well as print and ebook.

If you’re just hearing about this trilogy now, or you’ve been waiting until the last book is out to start, here’s a quick summary: Girlfriends set out to join a space pirate crew and get more than they planned for when a trio of powerful AIs take an interest in them. I like plotting and having things actually happen in my stories, so that’s a vast simplification, but that’s basically what happens.

And now, because there are some unfortunate tropes associated with stories starring wlw characters, here are some SPOILERS which may help you decide whether to read this book or this series. If you want to avoid the SPOILERS, skip to the < /SPOILERS > section at the bottom of this post.

• Adda and Iridian start the story physically separated, but they get back together in the middle.
• Adda and Iridian live through the whole story. Neither one dies. As far as I’m concerned, they’re immortal.
• None of the non-straight characters suddenly discover they're straight for some reason.

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I hope you love this conclusion to the Shieldrunner Pirates trilogy. With luck, I’ll have an announcement about an entirely new novel sometime this year!