This year is the 10th anniversary of the founding of Twilight Times Books (1999) In celebration, Twilight Times Books will have a print book sale from Oct. 1st to Nov. 15th. For a limited time, and while quantities last, we are offering a 30% - 50% discount Check out our newsletter for info on our latest releases. Lida E. Quillen, Publisher



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A Review in the NY Times!
NYTimes: This Week at Mobile Tech Manor
http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2009/05/22/22gigaom-this-week-at-mobile-tech-manor-40--e-books-and-id-10572.html

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and the 5th year since we went to print (2004). Those are significant milestones.
Most titles will be offered to the general public at a 10 - 30% discount.
Print Books Sale
on selected titles.
Print Books Special
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Announcements!
The Y Factor, Book 2 of the Cresperia Series, is an EPIC Award finalist!
The Y Factor, Book 2 of the Cresperia Series, will be released in print format November 15, just in time for holiday shopping!
The first 3 chapters of the sequel to Burnout, tentatively titled, Escape Velocity, is now complete!
Burnout is now available on the New Releases shelves at all Barnes-Noble Bookstores in the Huntsville region!
The Cresperian Alliance, Book 3 in the Cresperia Series, has been accepted by Twilight Times Books!
Contract is IN HAND! The tentative publication date for the ebook version is January 15, 2010.
The tentative publication date for the trade paperback version is July 15, 2010.
For those of you who have been looking for Kindle versions of Burnout:
A Kindle compatible non-DRM Mobi version of Burnout is now available
for purchase from OmniLit,
as well as Fictionwise.
Check out Teleread.org, bringing the e-books home! News & views on e-books,
libraries, publishing and related topics.
Burnout Items Now Available at Cafe Press! See button, "Steph's Cool Stuff,"
or link, "The Doctor's Lab at Cafe Press" for items from Stephanie Osborn's
books and Mad Doc Osborn's World Domination campaign!
More coming soon!
Burnout By Stephanie Osborn Available At Fictionwise
The Y Factor By Darrell Bain & Stephanie Osborn Available At Fictionwise
Stephanie Osborn's BlogTalkRadio interviews by Missa Dixon on Missa's Urban
Homesteading, Dellani on Red River Writers Live, Lesa on The Odd Mind, E.W. on
The Mortal Vampire (parts I and II), & M.J. on The Key To Midnight are available
on my interview page!

Press Releases
Brains, Brains, and More Brains Gathered Together on Premium Views!
Austin Peay State University Sponsors Best-selling Alumna Author
The Cresperian Alliance, Third in the Cresperian Series of Novels, Now Under Contract
Suspenseful Space Thriller Novel Burnout Impossible To Put Down
The 4-1-1 on Science Fiction Writer Stephanie Osborn
Best-Selling Author Stephanie Osborn's "Burnout" Products Now Available

Reminder of Stephanie Osborn's Upcoming Appearances!
Teledyne Brown Engineering Christmas Craft Fair, 4:30-6:00pm Thursday, 19 Nov 09
Red River Writers Live BlogTalkRadio, noon Wednesday, 3 Dec 09
Barnes-Noble Bookstore, Bridge Street Towne Centre, Huntsville AL 10:00-12:00am 5 December 2009
Imagicopter stop: Lebanon, TN Sherlock's Book Emporium, 1:00-4:00pm, Saturday, 19 Dec 09

Awards and Nominations
Burnout: The mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281 nominated for:
USA Book of the Year, Mystery/Suspense and Science Fiction
Foreword Book of the Year
Philip K. Dick Award
Compton Crook Award
EPPIE Award
International Thriller Writers Best First Novel Award
Darrell Award
The Y Factor nominated for:
EPIC Award
EPIC Award Finalist


What People Are Saying About Burnout


Stephanie's Bio
Novelist Stephanie Osborn is a former payload flight controller, a veteran of over
twenty years of working in the civilian space program, as well as various
military space defense programs.
Stephanie holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences:
Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, and she is "fluent" in
several more, including Geology and Anatomy. She obtained her various
degrees from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN and
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
Stephanie Osborn has worked on numerous Space Shuttle flights and the
International Space Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her resume.
Of those astronauts she trained, one was Kalpana Chawla, or "K.C.," a member
of the crew lost in the Columbia disaster.
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The last crew of Shuttle Columbia. KC is in the center, holding the logo.
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Stephanie is currently retired from space work. She now happily "passes it
forward," tutoring math and science to students in the Huntsville area, from
elementary through college, while writing science fiction mysteries based
on her knowledge, experience, and travels.
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Shuttle launch and ascent, just prior to SRB Sep.
Image by S. Osborn
Stephanie's Books and Projects
One of her current science fiction mysteries (in e-book and trade paperback
formats) by Twilight Times Books is Burnout, a techno-thriller about a Space Shuttle
disaster that turns out to be no accident. As the true scope of the conspiracy is
gradually uncovered by the principal investigators, "Crash" Murphy and
Dr. Mike Anders, they find themselves running for their lives, as lovers, friends
and coworkers involved in the investigation perish around them. What
happened to the Shuttle? Who is responsible for the disaster and why?
Why is the government calling it an accident? Why is someone willing to kill
to keep it a secret? And how big is the conspiracy? An exciting action
techno-thriller, Burnout will leave you on the edge of your seat, not wanting
to put it down. Burnout has been in Fictionwise's SF Top 25. To date, it has
been nominated for eight awards in four separate genres (e-book, science
fiction, mystery, and thriller).
Also recently released as an e-book, and anticipated in trade paperback November 15,
2009, just in time for the Holidays, is The Y Factor, coauthored with Darrell Bain,
multiple Eppie Award winner. It is the next novel in the Cresperian science fiction
series. Osborn's mentor, Travis "Doc" Taylor, and Bain co-authored the first
novel of the series, Human By Choice, published by Twilight Times Books. The
Cresperians are an alien race whose starship wrecks in our solar system, with some
of the lifepods landing scattered around Earth. The series tells of the new "space race"
that ensues as various nations vie for the Cresperians and their technology.
The Y Factor is a Fictionwise best-seller.
Stephanie is maintaining her collaboration with Darrell Bain, and they
recently completed the third book in the Cresperian science fiction series,
titled The Cresperian Alliance. A fourth, and possibly fifth, book is anticipated
in the series.
In addition, Stephanie is thrilled to be collaborating with her mentor,
Travis S. "Doc" Taylor, on the first in what we hope will be a series of books.
The first book is Extraction Point!, another action packed science fiction
mystery, definitely a techno-thriller read. She also has three manuscripts
complete on her own science fiction mystery series, regarding the discovery
of alternate universes, and the commotion which ensues when the
inhabitant of one universe inadvertently crosses into our own.
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