Book Three in the Five Penalties Series Up for Preorder!

Hello all, Great news! Book three is finally available for preorder, and I’m pleased to announce that TOD’s full name is: THE TEETH OF DAWN Cover still to be revealed, but I am very eager to share that with you as well! Aaaaaaand, if you preorder The Teeth of Dawn from Barnes & Noble today, you

Updates and Ghost Sightings

Hello all! I’m hard at work editing the third and final book in the Five Penalties trilogy (currently only mysteriously known as TOD) and in my down time I’ve been making clay ghosts to unwind. Halloween is my favorite holiday, and tis the season to be spooky! But, I’ve been making so many ghosts I’m

Patreon

I’ve recently started a Patreon, where I’ll be sharing excerpts of upcoming work, reprints, writing advice, and exclusive new fiction! There will be public posts as well as tier-based subscription posts, so feel free to give my profile a free follow or upgrade to any one of the following teirs:

Cover Reveal for THE CAGE OF DARK HOURS

The Cage of Dark Hours is the second novel in a new trilogy from acclaimed author Marina Lostetter, where the defeat of a serial killer back from the dead has pulled the mask off the myths and magics of a fantastical city. Krona and her Regulators survived their encounter with Charbon, the long-dead serial killer who

Cover Reveal for ACTIVATION DEGRADATION

The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new, futuristic, standalone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four, from Marina Lostetter, critically acclaimed author of Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra. When Unit Four—a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere—is activated for the first time,

Ozark Bookcon Today!

The Ozark Book Con is this Saturday, November 9th, all day at the Holiday Inn on 1500 S. 48th Street in Springdale, AR.  It’s a one-day-only event, but it is jampacked with gaming, a dealers room, and panels on all kinds of writing-related topics.  Below is my schedule. Admission is $20, but children 12 and under

Reddit AMA

Hello, all! Just wanted to let you know I’ll be on Reddit May 16th, at 12:00pm Easter Standard Time, ready to answer any burning questions you have about the Noumenon series, the upcoming fantasy series, writing, hobbies, life, and sci-fi and fantasy in general.  Username: MarinaJLostetter I’ll be posting a direct link to the AMA

Arkansas Literary Festival, April 25th-28th

Hello all!  At the end of this month I’ll be attending the Arkansas Literary Festival in Little Rock, Arkansas. Arkady Martin, author of A Memory Called Empire, and I will be on a joint panel at 2:30pm on April 27th, at the UA Little Rock Downtown location, next to the Main Library (333 President Clinton

Noumenon now in German!

Deutsch: Sprichst du Deutsch? Ich spreche kein Deutsch, aber die wunderbare Irene Holicki hat Noumenon für Heyne ins Deutsche übersetzt. Und es gab eine Titeländerung! “Die Reise”. Dies ist das erste Mal, dass meine Arbeit offiziell in eine andere Sprache übersetzt wurde, und ich bin so aufgeregt! Der Roman ist heute heraus! Fröhliches Lesen! https://www.randomhouse.de/Taschenbuch/Die-Reise/Marina-Lostetter/Heyne/e509768.rhd

Noumenon Infinity Honored by the ALA

Noumenon Infinity was honored by the American Library Association and The Reading List Council at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle.  It made the short list for their 2019 Reading List in the Science fiction category.  The winner and other short listed sci-fi novels are as follows: Winner “The Calculating Stars” by Mary Robinette Kowal. A