As a lifer in the Imperial Navy, fighting in a war that has lasted for generations, York Ballin’s only hope at an honorable discharge is the grave. Matters only get worse when the emperor's daughter, princess Aeya, decides to do a little slumming with her entourage on a remote planet, and York and his fellow crewmen are forced to rescue her. But after returning her safely into the empress' care on the planet Dumark, the entire planet is hit by a massive Directorate assault. To evacuate the empress along with the rest of the imperial embassy, York is ordered to commandeer the imperial cruiser Cinesstar, which is crewless and undergoing repairs in the Dumark Navy Yard. And after a narrow escape York finds himself deep behind enemy lines, on a commandeered imperial cruiser without a trained crew, commanded by an incompetent nobleman, with the empress and 200 civilians as passengers, and the enemy, the Directorate, pulling out all stops to destroy them. But, from a strategic or military standpoint, the assault on Dumark was an unwarranted waste of the Directorate's resources, and it becomes clear the empress, and a member or Aeya's entourage, are carrying a dangerous secret, so dangerous it threatens power structures of both the Empire and the Directorate, so even their own comrades in the empire want them eliminated. And with everyone now hell-bent on turning Cinesstar and all those aboard her into a cloud of radioactive vapor, it falls to York to save them all. But he must choose between saving them, or saving himself, and he finds his options are limited to a choice of treasons.
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J.L. Doty
I was born in Seattle, but I've lived most of my life in California, though I did live on the east coast and in Europe for a while. From a very early age I made up stories in my head, but I never considered writing. In my family you went to college, got a degree in something useful and got a real job. So I got a Ph.D. in optical engineering, and went to work as a research scientist. But I was still making up those stories in my head, so I wrote the first draft of A Choice of Treasons, and it was 250,000 words of pure, unmitigated crap. It was terrible: poorly written, poorly plotted, shallow characters that no reader could come to care about. It was the hardest decision I ever made, but I literally threw it away and turned to other projects. I spent more than a year writing the first draft of Child of the Sword. Then I went back to A Choice of Treasons and started again, from scratch, a complete rewrite from the get-go. I worked on it for several years before releasing it, and now I think it's one of my best works. Child of the Sword also went through a number of rewrites, and I think it too is one of my best works. Science has always been a passion of mine, but writing is an addiction. I've finished four books now, with four more that are in various stages of completion. In the next six to twelve months I intend to release The SteelMaster of Indwallin, book 2 in The Gods Within, and Still Not Dead Enough, book 2 in The Dead Among Us. I have a big pet peeve regarding lasers as weapons in science fiction. I spent decades working in the laser and electro-optics industry, even did some research on laser weapons in the 80's. I've read hundreds of science fiction stories, and I can honestly say that every time a writer has used a laser as a weapon in a story, it was done wrong. Most often they violated the basic laws of physics regarding light. So you'll never see a laser weapon in any of my science fiction.
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