The week of September 13th is shaping up to be a big week for A Time and a Place. That’s when it will be featured as a BookBub Featured Deal. It’s also going to be featured in several other newsletters that week, and I’ll be the Manybooks Author of the Day on Sept 11th, just before the big promotion.
I thought this would be a good time to give away a few free copies of the well-received audiobook version of A Time and a Place.
At the moment I can offer the free version to readers and listeners in the US and Great Britain (sorry fellow Canadians! perhaps later).
If you would like a free version of the Audible version of A Time and a Place, simply email me at ilanderz@gmail.com, tell me where you live, and I’ll send you your promo code. All I ask in return is an honest review on Audible once you’ve finished.
I look forward to hearing from you. Happy listening!
Burning Eyes lay down. But instead of going to sleep, he glanced up at Sweep. “I’ve been thinking about what you said.”
“What?”
“About going to Burning Eyes. Do you still think it’s stupid?”
Embarrassed, Sweep didn’t say anything.
“I know why I’m still alive,” Half Ear said.
“Why?”
“Because I’m going to save our people. When I was young I didn’t believe in Burning Eyes. I thought the whole idea of offering up sacrifices to him in return for services that never happened was silly. So the last time I brought him an offering on behalf of the family I waited. I hid and waited a long time because I wanted to see what if anything took the offering.”
Sweep didn’t say anything. She was learning to be quiet, like a grown-up T’Klee. But Half Ear didn’t go on, and Sweep was not grown up, not yet.
“What took the offering?” she asked finally.
“Burning Eyes took the offering.”
Sweep drew a sharp breath. “You saw him? What did he look like?”
“Terrible. And beautiful. He stood on his hind legs, and he was naked—didn’t have a lick of fur on him anywhere. He shone like polished stone. And his eyes were just like everyone’s always said. You know how when a fire’s dying and you’ve got those embers that keep on glowing? They burned like that.”
Sweep could see it clearly in her mind’s eye. I could too.
“What did you do?” she asked. “When you saw him.”
“I followed him. All the way up Kimay. He never knew I was there. I saw where he lives and I can find it again. That’s the reason I’m still alive. So I can save our people.”
Sweep could accept that. If anybody could save their people it was Half Ear. “What about me?”
Sweep felt herself withering under Half Ear’s gaze, but she didn’t look away for fear of missing what he might say.
“I can’t tell you why you’re still alive,” he said. “You need to decide that for yourself.”
Moments later Sweep and I watched as Half Ear’s back rose and fell rhythmically. She lay close to him, still and frightened, with no idea why she was still alive.
Excerpt From Chapter Ten of A Time and a Place
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