We at Fenian House hate vendor lock-in.

We really, really hate vendor lock-in.

This is a part of why all Fenian House eBooks are published DRM-free. But that only goes just so far. Your Kindle book purchases come in Kindle's native file format, which is horribly obfuscated. Seriously, we could point you at the long post from the person who finally managed to successfully reverse-engineer it, but take it from us, the level of obfuscation is truly Byzantine.

However, Amazon just announded that beginning January 20, 2026, Amazon will allow titles published without DRM to be downloaded in PDF or native EPUB3 format. This means you, our readers, will no longer be tied to a Kindle reader app or device; you will be able to download our books in EPUB3 format and read them on any eBook reader.

We have just performed the necessary steps to make this happen for all existing Fenian House eBooks. This is a retroactive change. If you have ever bought any Fenian House eBook on Amazon Kindle, then starting January 20, the Kindle store will allow you to go back and re-download it as an EPUB3 that you can take with you wherever you go.

Because at Fenian House, #WeLoveOurReaders.

A few months ago, we tried removing Becoming Real from KDP Select to try cross-listing it on Kobo, at the request of a number of our readers who prefer not to buy from Amazon.

To put it mildly, this was not a success. The cross-listing generated one sale.

For those who really do not like Amazon (believe me, we understand*¹), we still have a plan for implementing a way for you to buy Fenian House books in epub3 format *direct from Fenian House. That plan is not near to fruition yet, but it’s still on the roadmap. We ask for your continued patience. There are a perhaps-surprising number of moving pieces involved, and some of them we cannot run ourselves.

¹ Honestly, if I had a non-Amazon alternative that would pay my bills, I’d gladly use it. But so far it appears there isn’t one. Amazon is the 800lb gorilla in this market.

NASA famously destroyed a Mars mission by making an error of units, performing a vital orbital-entry calculation in feet that should have been done in meters.

I didn't do that. But there is a typo in Appendix 2 of A Line In The Stars that I only spotted today. A Warlord class missile cruiser is of course 454 METERS long, not 454 MILLIMETERS.

Oops...

Be advised that there are issues with the softcover print edition of In Flux. At this time, the softcover edition is (at least in the US Kindle store) not properly linked to the Kindle edition, and may not show up correctly in all stores. (The link for amazon.de for example does not resolve.)

However, this is STARTING to clear up. If you cannot find In Flux in softcover in your Amazon store yet, please be patient.

What Is Old Is New Again:

Sean Fenian's Becoming Real is now available in a softcover print edition on Amazon Books, priced at $13.99.

Coming Soon:

Years ago, Justin—we'll call him Justin—escaped from a hated orphanage, and from his own time. Now he will give a woman whom he does not know a last-second escape from hers—and also from her imminent brutal murder. Together, they will learn and share mysteries and wonders, pain and joy, make new friends and face new challenges, in a strange place outside of time and space as we think of it, where possibility can become reality—if your will is strong enough, and your vision clear and firm.

But be careful. There are deadly dangers hiding within the Flux.

Sean Fenian's upcoming novel In Flux draws inspiration in part from sources including Jack L. Chalker and Julian May, in a setting with distant echoes of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, to tell a vaguely steampunk-era tale—without the steam. In Flux is in the final stages of production and should be on sale before Hallowe'en.

I have just been informed by Podium Entertainment that beginning this week, The Stardock Trilogy in audiobook format is being added to extended distribution, and will now be available on an additional twelve major audiobook platforms including Spotify, Apple, and Audiobooks.com, as well as in libraries via the Libby and Hoopla apps.

Further information to come.

Victory! After being served with a DMCA takedown demand by the intellectuAl property lawyer I retained, TikTok has finally decided they should pay attention to my impersonation-account complaint, found the offending account to be in violation of their impersonation policy, and taken it down.

My thanks go out to both said attorney, and to Coach Brent, the TikTok user who reported the impersonator to me.

Yes — you will soon be able to listen to Agency, the collaborative near-future-SF thriller novel that Robert Auerbach and I wrote together. Podium Publishing has advised us that the audiobook version will release on August 5. Robert and I have reviewed the MP3s and sent in our corrections.

Kudos to Tim Campbell for absolutely knocking the narration out of the ballpark. Thanks, Tim. Our speculative, closed-timelike-curve future owes you one.