Success

What does it mean to call an expedition a 'success'? For me, a backpacking and hiking trip to the mountains never required that I stand atop a summit. 'Success' wears many faces, and striving and companionship leave an abundance of memories that are cherished years later.

Read my account of two summit attempts on the highest peak in Southern California (Mt San Gorgonio), one that reached the summit and one that did not.

'Mosaics' is a work of creative nonfiction: stories, memoirs, and essays of travel and adventure that celebrate the human spirit and honor the diverse moments that comprise a human life. Timeless and emotive, these 41 stories hold something for everyone.

'Mosaics' is available at Smaswords and Amazon, or at your favorite ebook retailers everywhere.

'Mosaics' at Smashwords

'Mosaics' at Amazon

Chapters
Breakfast in Pahrump
The Dreams of a Young Man
A Special Cup of Coffee
Joan Osborne
The Ocean House
Bobby Fischer - In Memoriam
The Cosmic Bridge of November 1999
Talking to Carla Jean
Maizie
Reunion
Murder at Midnight
Blood Mountain
Brautigan Gift
Dog-Day Afternoon in the Laguna Mountains
Salters Pond, Beau Geste, and the Return of the Vikings
Suit
Snow Day
A Husband Dies
Worms
Passages in Stone
Cheers and Slainte
Shoehorn
Burial Detail
Bridge Inspection
On a Beach on Nantucket
La Grange
Mt San Jacinto, Winter 1991
Mt San Jacinto, Summer 1992
September 1959
Out of a Blue Sky
Mt San Gorgonio
Leigh Lake
Paper and Fire
Manchester Redux
Remembering the Dugout and Larry Lisciotti
Empty Bottle
My AMC White Mountain Guides
Through the Past Darkly with Sven Saws and Candle Lanterns
Pilgrimage
I'm Seeing Keith Richards in the Morning
In the Grass of Mt Diablo


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Read an eBook Week March 6-12, 2011

Read an eBook Week is March 6-12, 2011

To show my support for this promotion, I am reducing the price of all three eBooks that I currently have available at Smashwords: I will sell 2 books ("The White Mountain Chronicles" and "Mosaics") at 50% off list price, and "Death Valley Wind" will be free.

They are published by Smashwords and are available in all the download formats used by the most popular digital readers: the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook, the Sony e-reader, select Palm devices, the Apple iPhone or iPad, and your personal computer as well.

To begin, create an account at smashwords.com with an email address and a password.

Visit my authors page during the week of March 6-12 at the following link to select a book.
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Add a book to your shopping cart and follow the instructions.

Don't have a handheld digital reader? Download a version for your PC at the links below and enjoy eBooks all the more.

Adobe Digital Reader for PC

Kindle for PC

Kindle for MAC

FBReader for Unix

Enjoy, and thanks. Laudizen King

Spring eBook Sale - 'Mosaics'

March is almost here, welcome in the Spring season a new eBook.

'Mosaics', a collection of travels, essays, and memoirs that includes many of my best-known works, is now on sale at Smashwords only for 2.99, a dollar off the list price.

Included in this volume are: Remembering the Dugout and Larry Lisciotti, Paper and Fire, On a Beach on Nantucket, Worms, Leigh Lake, and many more.

Also included are three stories from my years of service in the US Army: Murder at Midnight (about the tragic deaths of two American MPs, James Workman and Eugene Cox, in a Saigon bar in 1969), Bridge Inspection (a strange night mission during the Vietnam War), and Burial Detail (some Army details take you to unexpected places).

Timeless and emotive, these 41 stories hold something for everyone.

'Mosaics' is available for download in all the popular eReader formats for use on your handheld device or your PC.

To begin, create a free account at Smashwords with an email address and a password.

Then, follow the link below and use coupon code ET93G at checkout

Mosaics

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Free Ebook Available

Now thru Christmas, I am giving away copies of 'Mosaics', an ebook containing my favorite collection of travels, memoirs, and stories!

It is published by Smashwords and is available in all the download formats used by the most popular digital readers: the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook, the Sony e-reader, select Palm devices, the Apple iPhone or iPad, and your personal computer as well.

To begin, create an account at smashwords.com with an email address and a password.

Go to the page for 'Mosaics' by Laudizen King
Mosaics

Add the book to your shopping cart and use coupon code XU44W at checkout

Don't have a digital reader? Download a version for your PC at the links below and enjoy 'Mosaics' all the more.

Adobe Digital Reader for PC

Kindle for PC

Kindle for MAC

FBReader for Unix

Enjoy! Happy holidays, Laudizen King

Ebook Stores for Laudizen King

The White Mountain Chronicles
Mosaics
Death Valley Wind

Laudizen King's Ebooks are available for purchase and download at the following Ebook stores. Visit the links below to compare prices.

Smashwords

Kobo

Diesel

Sony

Barnes and Noble

iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users can download the iBooks App at iTunes:
Apple


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'Signposts and Junctions' is now out of Print

I recently received several emails asking me about purchasing a copy of 'Signposts and Junctions'. That collection of stories, my first paperback book, is now out of print.

The best of those stories, however, appear in 'Mosaics' and 'The White Mountain Chronicles', two eBooks published by, and available at, Smashwords.

Find them both at the links below:

'Mosaics' is a collection of 41 stories, essays, travels, and memoirs that span the decades of a life.

Mosaics

'The White Mountain Chronicles' celebrate the eighteen years the author spent traveling and hiking in the Granite State of New Hampshire.

The White Mountain Chronicles

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Now available at Sony, Apple, and Smashwords

My two ebooks, 'Mosaics' and 'The White Mountain Chronicles', are now available for download at the Sony Reader Store, the Apple iBook store, and at Smashwords. Readers now have easy access to both collections of stories.

'Mosaics' is a compilation of stories and travels that celebrate the people and emotions that make the human experience so personal and grand.

'The White Mountain Chronicles' is a unique collection of stories detailing eighteen years of adventure in the mountains of New Hampshire: from nights of revelry to dangerous water crossings and mountain blizzards, from friendships forged on the trail to solitary moments on windy summits.

'Mosaics' and 'The White Mountain Chronicles' are published by Smashwords. Support your independent writers.

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Ebooks Now Available at Sony Reader Store

My two ebooks, 'Mosaics' and 'The White Mountain Chronicles', are now available for download at the Sony Reader Store. Readers with accounts at the Sony ebook store now have easy access to both collections of stories.

'Mosaics' is a compilation of stories and travels that celebrate the people and emotions that make the human experience so personal and grand.

'The White Mountain Chronicles' is a unique collection of stories detailing eighteen years of adventure in the mountains of New Hampshire: from nights of revelry to dangerous water crossings and mountain blizzards, from friendships forged on the trail to solitary moments on windy summits.

Peruse them both at the Sony Reader Store by following the links below.

Mosaics

The White Mountain Chronicles

'Mosaics' and 'The White Mountain Chronicles' are published by Smashwords. They are also available at the Smashwords website.

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2 downloads

'Mosaics' and 'The White Mountain Chronicles' are the titles of two Ebooks by Laudizen King and are published by Smashwords. Sales coupons good for a discount on the price of each download are available on the Laudizen website.


'Mosaics' is a collection of 41 stories, essays, travels, and memoirs that span the decades of a life. Because this book is so hard to encapsulate in the 400 characters (including spaces) that appear with the publisher, Laudizen has published a description of 'Mosaics' on his website.

Find it at the link below.

Mosaics

'The White Mountain Chronicles' celebrate the eighteen years the author spent traveling and hiking in the Granite State of New Hampshire. Discover 'The White Mountain Chronicles' at the link below.

The White Mountain Chronicles

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