Queen of Roses

[elizabethmccoy]

Sarafina was content to be an accountant, insulated from the public as she kept the numbers behaving and played chess with her fellows. But when the First Daris Bank is bought out, her indenture is sold to a cruise ship and Sarafina is thrust into a job she was never meant for. Now she's dealing with a motley crew, drunkard captain, flirtatious first officer, fire-sale equipment, and worst of all . . . Passengers.

(Suitable for mid-teens and up. Queen of Roses is not in the same universe as the Kintarans.)

Currently available from:
• Amazon, Amazon.AU, Amazon.CA, Amazon UK, Amazon.es, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.in, Amazon.it, Amazon Japan, and Amazon Brazil. (All in American English, of course; I don't have translations yet, alas.)
• Apple iBookstore
• Diesel eBook Store
• Barnes & Noble (Nook), and Nook UK.
• Blio (Blio does not allow permanent book-URLs; search on title and author at their main site.)
• Inktera
• Kobo
• Smashwords (Allows a 50% sample of this book!)
• Sony ebooks
• Versent

Reviews:
• GoodReads
• Shelfari
• Ravens N'Pennies
• iDreamBooks (no actual reviews as I enter this, but a percent rating that seems to like it?)

The first chapter may also be found at No Names, No Jackets, should the random number generator favor you. (Or go straight to its page.) Queen of Roses is filed as "SF."

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This is the first full-length (100,000+ words) novel I ever wrote. (It's been edited since then, of course.) It is much fluffier than some of my later novels, though on a par with most of the Kintaran stories. Space opera universe, but the plot... not so much with the blasters. And Sarafina's expression on the cover? Priceless.

Comments

Just bought it!

[(Anonymous)]

I got it from Smashwords. I'll be reading it soon. I found you through both Sara Hoyts site and Dear Author. The "Herb" stories look interesting even if that particular reviewer only gave you a 'C', so I'll probably buy them sometime soon. One nice thing about ebooks is that they don't disappear from the shelf at the bookstore in a month or so.

Re: Just bought it!

[elizabethmccoy]

I hope that you enjoy QoR!

The "HW" stories also have 50% sampling from Smashwords, so hopefully that's long enough that you'll have a better idea about whether you'd enjoy them or not. I am all about people buying books they enjoy, and avoiding ones they won't. (In truth, I think that's about the best "C" I've ever gotten on anything. They're tough graders there, and I knew that when I submitted the story, but they do very nice, detailed reviews.)

[(Anonymous)]

Ms. McCoy, my review of Queen of Roses in Analog is now up at http://www.analogsf.com/2014_09/reflib.shtml

You may remember me from a reading at Arisia 2014.

-Don Sakers (www.scatteredworlds.com)

[elizabethmccoy]

I do! And, in case you haven't seen me flailing around on Twitter, I have been squeeing like a squeeful thing for most of the afternoon here! I am so very glad that you enjoyed the book! (And not just for the review, but because, well, I'm glad. :) ...I am overusing exclamation points. I have been wandering around in a daze, too, and sort of babbling a lot. Because! Analog! I remember being a kid and reading old Analogs that my parents had saved, and reading the reviews, and... Pardon me, but I must go flail like a teenager now. Ahem.

I obviously need to prioritize getting a DBA-thing for a publishing-company name, so I can get an ISBN, so I can get a print copy arranged (without, in theory, losing page links and/or reviews if I start with CreateSpace and move on to somewhere else, like Lightning Source)...

That, and finish the second book like the kid's been bugging me to do.

Anyway! Thank you very much! I'm delighted! (And I am also pretty entertained to see M.C.A. Hogarth's book there, too.)

I am reminded to ask: Would it be okay if I excerpted a line or two from the review for the QoR page? (And/or the hardcopy whenever I can manage to get a legal Doing-Business-As name set up?)

[(Anonymous)]

I saw the review in Analog, and wondered whether the author was that Elizabeth McCoy. Evidently you are, so I'll be sure to get the book on Kindle.

Best Regards,
Nicholas D. Rosen
ndrosen on Livejournal

[elizabethmccoy]

There are a lot of Elizabeth McCoys! I hope that you enjoy the book. :)