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Balloon-World space stations are placed in the upper atmospheres of He3 rich planets where hyper-velocity winds swirl and rampage. A human crew tends to the gas collection, administration, and external repairs of the hull called the Skin. A sleep-cheat and a daydreaming doctor must solve a mystery when the Wind-Striders, who repair the Skin, disappear and a deadly A. They must resolve the problematic equation or lose time, life, and worst of all for the corporate sponsors, money. A late second discovery is infused into the turmoil and a terrible choice must be made.
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This fog attribution being a reference not only to thick, dense packets of clouds but also of vampiric drainage systems, emeraldean aether layers, wooded forests and more…. Thanks so much for doing this, John! Captain Alisa Marchenko was ready to settle down to a quiet life of cargo hauling with her finance, Leonidas, her daughter and crew. This novel was originally published as part of the Kindle Worlds program and has been republished with the permission of Fallen Empire author and creator Lindsay Buroker. Available in all eBook formats. You get nine sexy romances for just three bucks, with lawyers, alpha and omega wolves, spies and more.
Malaika is a barista that works in the big city… just trying to make a living. For some reason, she now has a demon and an angel following her around because they were ordered to. Life is about to change drastically for Mal, her best friend Ven, and her ultra conservative roomie, Aaya.
Some evil corporation has kicked off Armageddon ahead of time and started a war between angels and demons… all centered around Mal. Mal-adaptive is available on Amazon as an eBook and also paperback 5-star rating so far. If you like Mal, I have another novel about a kid that finds out he has any super power he could ever imagine… and how to deal with the consequences in Unlimited also available as an eBook and paperback — 4-star rating so far.
A dishonorable discharge left Margo unable to find honest work on Earth. Signing onto a colonizing mission to a new world promised a fresh start. On the ground, the straight forward colonizing mission becomes a scramble for survival. Accidents keep happening—too many to be just bad luck. Margo finds a trail of evidence that changes everything. One colonist is a saboteur, but who? Or check out the first two chapters here: She gets lost at home among her bazillion brothers, sisters, and cousins.
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A Wrinkle in Time meets Doctor Who. Or buy it for yourself! I love finding a new book with well developed characters, and a huge dollop of uniqueness! Discover the wonder and imagination when everything is possible in The Universes Inside the Lighthouse! For Megan Montaigne, library director, living in the top floor of the mansion-turned-library is a dream come true. At least it was, before the murders started. The small-town library director has always secretly wanted to be a forensics investigator. But when a local celebrity turns up dead, the time has come to put her sleuthing fantasies into action.
Has she unwittingly invited the murderer into her own home? A fantastically well-written novel with characters so real that one might reach out and touch them. Immerse in yourself in a cozy with a philosophical twist in Final Chapter. Death at Glacier Lake: An atmospheric whodunit for fans of traditional and cozy mysteries!
For two decades, the lush, isolated forests of the North Cascades have hidden a secret. A seemingly innocent creative design firm shows up for a company retreat, but all goes awry when one of their own turns up dead. The pace was just right for an evening spent curled up on the couch with a book. The whodunit plot kept me guessing throughout with an air of the murder mystery dinner party you have with your friends. Jo Mann is down to her last few dollars and looking for work when she bumps into literally Professor Alistair Conn who is looking for an assistant. Soon she is swept into a world of action and adventure Steampunk style.
With a thinking automaton, train rides, airships, and a dastardly villain, The Marvelous Mechanical Man starts the series off with a bang! Available for Kindle for 99 cents. To find out more about the series, and read the first chapters of all five books, check out The Conn-Mann Chronicles website—https: Other people talk about first-encounter ethics, intra-species accountability, and existensialism.
For the person or book club that wants to dig down, there are reader questions at the end of the book. When a quantum energy experiment goes horribly wrong, it accidentally shatters the future allowing alternative pasts to co-exist. As Alexandria Jane Merk passes through the nexus of the effect, she splits into two identities-each with full histories of their own-merged into one body. One identity, Army veteran Alex James Monroe, remembers a life full of failure and loss.
The second identity, freshman college coed Sarah Beth Merk, remembers a difficult childhood in a suburban upbringing. Both sense each other but neither believes the other really exists. To survive, they must accept their shared fates and find the person responsible for the fission before time runs out. Because if they fail, they will not only die, but they will also take everyone they have ever known with them. A mind-bending journey into existentialism and the interconnectedness of the human race. His jumpsuit, white satin. Cursive embroidery on the chest, magenta silk thread, spelling: I wrote my novella Polymer based on a premise which, I think, no reader of good taste should be able to resist: Castlevania meets Purple rain.
It was released earlier this year from Eraserhead Press, a small but awesome publisher of Bizarro and other weird things. If you like personal finance, fairy tales, parodies, or tongue-in-cheek cultural commentary, check it out! You can also read the title story for free: Getting into a Parisian art school was a dream come true for Ariana, but night terrors are disrupting her sleep, making it nearly impossible to complete her coursework, and now she faces expulsion.
When a mysterious woman gives her a pendant, promising it will solve her problems, Ariana is desperate enough to try it. Instead of sweet dreams, it transports her to the Demos Oneiroi — the dream world of the ancient Greek gods — and thrusts her amidst a war between the gods. Now Ariana must choose to let the gods fight amongst themselves, or risk everything to keep their feud from spilling into the real world. In a world of supernatural beings, not knowing what you are is dangerous. Can she learn the truth about herself and do what is needed in time to defend the Stronghold?
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In A Scarlet Fever , Mina wakes up after a night of partying to find herself caught in the middle of an ancient battle between mostly good and unapologetically evil. And with a thirst for blood. As she struggles to adapt to her new life, and come to terms with her unnatural thirst and unexpected hungers, a new threat arises — part terrifying myth, part half-forgotten legend. It jeopardizes the precarious ceasefire between warring vampire factions, and puts everything she loves — her city, her family, her friends — in danger.
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Unfortunately, her acceptance comes too late. Her tires are slashed and she is trapped at Kernroote. Now, in order to save her own life, Becca must unravel the horrifying secrets of the ancient castle and the family that lives there. Thank you, John, for allowing us to advertise our wares here. I have a Patreon where I post short stories, poems, novellas and the occasinal Zen Brush doodle. You can read everything I publish if you become a Patron. I also sell my self-published books there, with a discount for Patrons, of course.
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Each page is carefully illustrated and colored in a warm palette of fall hues, with inviting landscapes and creative creatures. Alastair Stone, charming British expat with a black belt in sarcasm, lives a double life: Follow his adventures in this Amazon-bestselling series, starting with this value-pack edition of the first four novels. You can also get two free novellas by joining the mailing list at http: For the Doctor Who fans in your life! You can pick up a copy here: Links and such can be found here: This stellar collection will appeal to both teens and grown-ups who dream of future worlds.
To be homesick for Mars? What do you say when your robot gets you in trouble? In the waning days of World War I, an English lord is sent home from the front to recover. But he has a secret: A nurse with a magical secret of her own is hired to care for him. Beauty and the Beast meets the Great War. Downton Abbey with magic.
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But being a young woman of resources and intellect, she turns fortune on its head. When a mysterious island appears off the coast of San Francisco, two intrepid academics risk everything to discover its secrets. The island boasts an idyllic retreat, ruled by the enigmatic Sentomoru, who invites them to share the wonders of his bathhouse. Neither Catilen nor Damian know how long the island will remain on Earth. Twenty years after breaking up with him, high-school girlfriend Penny Harper reconnects with Jack, forcing him to finally confront what happened at the end of the summer he turned sixteen.
As a midlife meditation on the loss of innocence, wrapped in teen drama, Penny Harper exposes how adult neurosis grows from the wiry tendrils of teenage crisis. Sometimes the past is so close it hurts. It hurts because the distance in the air between then and now seems small enough to close, if only we could stretch back far enough. Thanks for opportunity, John! Bob has spent much of his life crisscrossing the galaxy trying to protect people from the ancient evils, horrors, and demons that lurk among the stars; fearsome creatures that consider humans as mere nothings, if they bother with humans at all.
Some call them monsters. Bob calls them family. Now he has discovered evidence of an insidious and corrupting influence spreading across the galaxy, threatening his family and all of humanity. Unsure of who he can trust, Bob must fight to uncover the truth and find a way to save everyone. He will discover there are no perfect solutions, and all come with a price http: He gets tangled up in the situation, has to go into hiding, and finds himself needing to explain himself to his estranged teenage daughter.
The book is his maybe-not-so-reliably-narrated letter to her. This is my darkest book touches on PTSD but is also a ton of fun.
I have you covered. Danny Bannon and Eddie Roscoe have been fighting in and out of the ring for more than fifteen years, held together by mutual attraction and small-town ties, yet kept apart by a shared tragedy that continues to haunt them. Their steady on-again off-again is shaken up by the arrival of Tom Delaney, a teenage runaway trying to escape his tense home situation and his punch-happy dad. But when that hope is snuffed out, Tom is ready to turn his new fighting skills to a deadly purpose: Wisdom from Mom by Jenny Bristol, published summer Mothers are famous for dispensing advice, whether welcome or not.
Sometimes that advice is useful. Sometimes we remember it, but we often forget. Ultimately, not everyone has access to this kind of wisdom, support, or advice from a parent. Having a reference book of motherly advice that readers can refer to as they need it, from childhood to our elderly years, helps fill the gap.
Wisdom from Mom seeks to fill that gap, offering sometimes life changing advice that can be delivered at just the right time. Perfect for teens, graduates, new parents, those having a mid-life crisis, and those retiring from working life, this book will help you feel as if Mom has your back. Short-term protective custody, they said. Just until people stopped trying to kill her. But two years later, Anna Slaten—and the data locked inside her enhanced brain—is still behind bars with no word on her status with the deep-cover agency she works for.
Evgeni Belyakov seeks atonement. And that Anna is next on their hit list. But saving her could mean risking everything. And surrendering control to the most dangerous creature of all. The small-town series continues with Accepting Aerin https: Both available as e-book or paperback. Thank you for the opportunity! Your choices shape the story in Beamed Up: Flee in terror, welcome your new overlords, or boldly go anywhere you like in this funny, scary, weird alien odyssey. Available in paperback or on Kindle: Fight off the zombie invasion in Undead Rising: Published by Zumaya Publications.
Available as an audiobook, ebook, or paperback. He is twelve inches tall, full of fluff, and really, really bad at being a hero. Magically animated and discarded by his maker as a failed experiment, he is saved by a little girl. Which is good, because his creator has a whole lot of enemies…. Threadbare is a gamelit story. It takes place in a world that operates under game mechanics, with levels, hit points, and oh so many easter eggs and gamer in-jokes. It is also the story of a little girl and her teddy bear, and spans three volumes, with more on the way. Are you a Sherlock Holmes fan?
Do you know a Sherlock Holmes fan? And for a non-fiction but entirely readable proof behind this radical notion, see SHADOW WOMAN, by the same author, containing 30 years of research and analysis that will have you wondering at how and why someone as sophisticated as the creator of Sherlock Holmes could have gone to her grave never acknowledging her astonishing accomplishments. They need glider pilots, and the smaller the better. Born to a line of powerful silk merchants, her rebellion against an arranged marriage is doomed. The Avians are her only alternative. Hi everyone I have a steampunk, secondary world fantasy novel available.
That question haunts Jacquie Renairre for six years as she hunts down the people responsible for murdering her parents. Not even accepting an assignment to investigate a conspiracy that aims to start a war can keep her from searching for the stolen key.
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With the world edging closer to disaster, Jacquie is running out of time to figure out how the war, the key, and ancient legend are intertwined. The Federation of Independent Worlds returns to the planet Sestanus after many decades to restore the abandoned populace with its gift of citizenship. They dispatch one of their corporate contractors, Ascension Engineering and Mining Concern, to stabilize the planet and restore the economic might to this long-neglected sector.
He struggles to balance working with mysterious allies and protecting the men and women of his elite squad. Esperian finds further complications with the discovery of alien technology from multiple races not known to have previously visited the planet. He faces a collision of his past, present, and future, knowing it cannot be coincidence, and wonders what it will mean for everything happening on Sestanus.
Stuck between the boring life of a ghost in this world and the terrifying prospect of three-headed hell hounds, final judgment, and eternal torment in the next, Irene sets out to find a third option—preferably one that involves not being dead anymore. Available in paperback, ebook all formats , and the first book Hereafter is available in audio book. How about some free books? And if you like them, you can grab them in paperback for your favorite friend!
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First up is Maggie for Hire. This is snarky urban fantasy with lots of cussing, brawling, and unladylike behavior. Link to all the free vedors — https: Next up, how about a YA gothic penny dreadful? Grab A Spirited Manor! Friendly chills without all the blood spills. And then some YA shifter awesomeness with a strong female lead.
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Shortly after launch, a devastating malfunction forces the crew to make a choice: As the truth about their mission unravels, one thing is clear: Even if they make it to Titan, they will face another problem:. Sally Dahl thought she was casting rune spells for a healthier planet, but a grievous error in her magickal calculations has her calling up legendary Berserker warriors instead—sworn into her service, and with bottomless junk food cravings. Worse, her mistake rebounds and ages her at an alarming rate. So much for saving the Earth. With her own life on the line, can Sally harness her power and find her way to a new generation of Vikings in time to prevent Ragnarok?
Moon Dog Magic is the first book in the Rune Witch urban fantasy series—and book six will be out before the end of the year. Fifty years after first contact, the Qyntarak dominate the planet politically and economically. Now things are about to get much worse. Grieving and ill-equipped, they need to stay alive long enough to get those secrets into the hands of people who can use them. But how much more will they have to sacrifice to see it through to the end? Get it, get it?
Cheerful in the face of dark opposition. Innovative to improve a backward world. Industrial as a cure for oppressive conditions. Unyielding beneath all who seek to bind and control them. Faithful until they conquer the fear of death and rise to great acts of heroism and service. Mormons and Steampunks are two faces of the same coin. Twelve authors spin tales of true believers facing impossible odds, risking this life in the hope of gaining something better after. Grab a copy here or wherever you buy books: Hays and Meg Weidman. The perfect gift for dog lovers and Oz fans of all ages.
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Their new flatmates are laid-back Sanjay and conspiracy theorist Pete. Ben Cabot is more at home in a lab. Together, with their combined lack of experience, they have to find out what got the old team killed. Most historical fiction embedded in the Elizabethan era tends to be bodice-ripping tales of Court intrigue, set amidst the silken splendor of palaces. Mine tends to hang about in ale-soaked taverns, muddy streets and fetid back-alleys where cold-steel by lantern light offers redemption or grim death by turns….
Ex-soldier turned play-actor Christopher Tyburn thought he had left bloodshed and violence behind him when he abandoned the war against the Spanish in Flanders, but fate has different and far bloodier plans waiting. When Tyburn accidentally intercepts a coded letter from a hidden Jesuit priest in Warwickshire, he is entangled in a murderous and deadly conspiracy. Stalked by unknown enemies, he must race to uncover the conspiracy and hunt down the Jesuit to clear his name.
Ally Brown has lost her creative voice as a comedian and is hiding her failure from Drew Stephens, her live-in boyfriend. She has a day job as a legal assistant at a prestigious New York law firm which she is not particularly good at and also hates. When Elise Newman, the attorney she works with, disappears without a trace, an already bad day escalates into a violent encounter with a man in the park.
Gaining a false sense of control, Ally channels her rage into further acts of vigilantism until someone discovers her secret and wants to exploit her newfound violent disposition for their own gain. If America and the world had to cope with alien invasions, radioactive mutants and mad scientists, while launching humanity into space years earlier than in our timeline?
Atoms for Peace tells the adventures of science investigators Steve Flanagan and Gwen Montgomery and National Guard medic Dani Taylor as they cope with their personal struggles while trying to keep the world safe. Available in hardback from Amazon and ebook from multiple retailers. This fantasy adventure from bestselling author Kaitlyn Davis is perfect for fans of Sarah J.
Maas, Kristin Cashore, and Tamora Pierce! Campbell award two years in a row. A student at the Pifianka Academy of Polytechniques, Khaly accidentally reveals her magical gifts when she brings her school project, a mechanical dragon, to life. Forced into hiding from the Guild, a powerful government faction with the sole purpose of destroying all magic, Khaly discovers that the Guild has bigger plans than simply snuffing out all magic; they want complete control of non-magic users as well.
I arrived on the Spanish island of La Palma with a six month contract. Chedey will tell you how his world collapsed when the Spanish conquered the Island in , Althay will explain what happened when the volcano erupted, Daida shares her visit from an extraterrestrial and Leyre will take you out into space. Suitable for year olds. Nine quirky SF stories from the off-beat imagination of Sheila Crosby. PDF for almost anything. Due to the changes in EU sales tax, this book is currently only available from Amazon.
The Tales from the Canyons of the Damned anthology series is best described as Black Mirror for the printed page. In a solar system sucked dry by corporate miners who have now all but abandoned it, Mya just wants to enjoy her job as a salvager. But when an unlikely salvage turns out to not only be historical but embarrassing to the corporation that founded the system, powerful interests try to stop her. Can she prevail with the help of her friends and the people? Gallium by Tom Merritt read by Veronica Belmont http: Not only do they have to keep it a secret, but Elizabeth must learn quickly how to master them.
For a psychic in a Great House is a political liability which her father, Jonathan Weldsmore, knows only too well. As the Great Houses jockey for power, the three of them must contend with treachery, subterfuge, and potentially a new demonic threat, in this political and supernatural thriller set in an alternate-history Boston of It is available at these fine stores: Throttling the Bard, a modern tale of motorcycle road trip mayhem, has been described as Don Quixote meets Easy Rider. Hilarity ensues when an antiquated English professor and his grad student travel the state of Nevada encountering cults, drugs, and the Burning Man Arts Festival.
Within the pristine halls of academia lurks the unsavory department of financial aid, and an English professor who has bilked that system in order to redistribute its wealth to students of a lower socioeconomic class. Fearing that his teaching career will end prematurely, Vendicarsi must ride to Reno to face the inscrutable loan board.
Graduate student Quentin Mann goes along for the ride, thinking that the trip is the perfect opportunity to force dissertation comments from Dr. Together they embark upon a quixotic motorcycle trip across Nevada where they encounter everyday Americana: A new reality show pits ten contestants against one another, confined to a cramped bunker deep underground. But when the production crew learns that they are trapped with no way of contacting the world above, they are faced with a difficult choice: Thanks for taking the time to read this!
The Inconvenient God is available in ebook and paperback formats from Annorlunda Books: Like reading fun fiction that appeals to both teens and adults? Also a fan of music biographies? If you dare to at that point. Rule number two in the music business: Doug Shepherd, has been out of the military for nine years when the U.
Army re-activates his status. Within 48 hours Shep finds himself at a secret scientific military installation in Antarctica, tasked with finishing the work of a scientist who committed suicide—or was murdered. But something is dangerously wrong at Camp Crystal. Deep within the bowels of the experimental facility Shep will discover the horrifying truth. But the clock is ticking. In darkest Antarctica, a storm is coming.. What happens if you try to retire a god who is not ready to leave?
This official from the Ministry of Divinities is about to find out. The Inconvenient God , a novelette, is available in ebook and paperback, from Annorlunda Books. Do you have a Mac, or an iPhone, or an iPad, or a web browser? If so, you can pick up a copy of my recently like yesterday! This page book explains how to use Pages on all of the platforms for which Apple makes it available. Ten years ago Rook Aeron knelt in the mud next to her dying grandfather, begging forgiveness for killing him.
Instead, she got the Black Hare. In the decade since that rainy, bloody day Rook has drifted through life, always dreading the unwelcome appearance of the Hare. For when the dark creature appears it takes her away to areas where a violent death has occurred. The pain and suffering of a person who dies in violence stains the very earth itself, kindling a cancer of misery that touches all life.
To deal with the mess of her life and the burden of what she has done Rook armors herself in booze and sarcasm. She sees no future beyond endless service to the Hare. Red Horse River is unlike any place Rook has ever been. For one, there is a coursing magic that runs under the town. Reluctantly, Rook is drawn into the middle of the strange happenings in this strange town. In the course of tracking the killer she discovers that there is more to her than existing as a drunken failure.
She has a deadly power of her own. But is there enough time left in her life to become the person she was destined to be? Her boss, a seven-foot-tall rage demon, has control of everything but his anger. And her cat wants to eat her. Things could be better. It is a witty tale of conformity, prejudice, and transformation, in a world that is disturbing as much for its familiarity as for its strangeness.
In a place where everyone is different, Elsa is the wrong kind of different, and that means facing pity, discrimination, danger, and sharp teeth. Ever wonder why Swamp Thing was a hit and Man-Thing never took off? What were they all fighting for, anyway? The great composers of the century Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, and Tchaikovsky among others have their entrances and exits when their lives cross those of the trio — and the ghosts of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert are never distant.
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Firmly grounded in fact, the book unfolds like a novel, a narrative of love, insanity, suicide, revolution, politics, war — and, of course, music. A Star Trek style space opera, featuring an own-voice queer autistic woman protagonist. Available as e-book or paperback. A sequel, Tone of Voice , is out as e-book, paperback forthcoming. But her skill at negotiating with alien species is about to be put to the ultimate test. The Anmerilli, a notoriously reticent and xenophobic people, have invented a powerful weapon that will irrevocably change the face of space combat. Now the Starsystems Alliance has called in Xandri and the crew of the Carpathia to mediate.
Amidst sabotage, assassination attempts, and rampant cronyism, Xandri struggles to convince the doubtful and ornery Anmerilli. As tensions rise and tempers threaten to boil over, Xandri must focus all her energy into understanding the one species that has always been beyond her: If you know someone who may benefit from reading it, I would be really grateful for sharing a link. Adventurers call it Vegas because it offers so much to do. Thanks very much, John. Enjoying your work since finding you 10 years ago: Giving an ereader and want to add a great read, or just love some romantic suspense for yourself?
Mountain of Lies is currently free to download! The future is a pain in the ass. Detective Frank Mallory investigates a case about an empathy drug gone wrong and the serial killer who learns to abuse it. They called her Isobel then. Her hair was bright and her eyes were dark; she took in the world and she burned.
And so it was no surprise that she began to stray, into the forest and far from the village, to those deep forbidden places where the magicians were said to dwell. They took the forms of animals. She had been warned of them since birth. And yet from the moment Absalom beckoned, and she touched his thick red fur, seeing the shades of sunrise, she knew where she belonged. The fox was sleek and beguiling, and she, having nothing, could neither give nor lose.
This festive fantasy is all about the authentic small town Christmas experience in Tasmania: Alice Peavley, young heiress, had hoped life would be simple once everything surrounded her inheritance had been settled. However, life had other ideas, and Alice keeps running into touchy situations and absurd adventures! From book thievery to motorcar mayhem, riding flightless birds to outwitting mad scientists, Alice must face them all…and will hopefully triumph with the help of her eccentric and loyal friends, her brainy gnome valet Macalley, and a good cup of tea. Blending comedy, steampunk, and fantasy, Tales of Peavley Manor is an entertaining and delightful collection of four mannerpunk novelettes!
Imagine if Lady Catherine de Bourgh had the internet. And a Twitter account. For the child who loves time-travel adventures, how about In a Pickle? A time-traveling orphan gets caught up in a murder in s Chicago. If you like crazy pulp adventure with Nazis, talking Gorillas, rocket-powered Zeppelins and a side of true love, try my latest Doc Vandal Adventure — The Sunkiller Affair.
Travel to an alternate version of and join the team: An expatriate Russian countess, daredevil pilot and thrill-seeker. A silverback gorilla, he has a dozen doctorates, a fondness for Earl Grey tea, and excellent manners. Raised to be the host body for an alien intelligence, she carries a revolver chambered for gauge slugs in her purse. If you want your science fiction with more kissing and your romance innnn spaaaace! You can find all our pretty man-chesty heroes and bold heroines at http: I have self-published five other picture books for kids from ages 3 to They can be found here: In a sultry magical realm, an enchanting Lady ensnares a virtuous tax-collector into her dangerous double life.
Taxing Courtship is a story of forbidden romance, where an honorable man has to decide how far he will go for the woman he loves…. People flocked to the game in anticipation. For video game design majors Ryan Johnson and Noah Bowden, the game play was incredible. But then fatal accidents began happening to the gamers at the top of the leaderboard, including many at which men in black were seen. Check it out here: We all have that one teen girl we know who loves anime. If you have no idea about that stuff then my novel The Unseen World is probably what you need to buy her for Christmas.
Sanami is teenage girl living in a tiny village in a remote province of the Tensho Empire. Sanami is content with her quiet life and with her upcoming marriage to her childhood sweetheart. While there she meets the onmyouji, servants and advisors to His Majesty. Part sorcerer, part medium, part fortune teller, the Sasugawa onmyouji clan is one of the most powerful and feared families in the empire.
She agrees to stay in the capitol for one year while the onmyouji try to figure out why she is what she is, and what role she is meant to play. Over the course of this year Sanami is introduced to a world of spirits and magic that she never dreamed existed. But when she discovers the purpose for which the gods have chosen her, she wonders if she will ever be strong enough to fulfill her destiny. The year is For the people of Rubicon, Mars is Home — hostile and unforgiving — but still Home.
Jax and Dana, Ridley and Chuck, Lenny and Maliyah all stand on opposite sides of a class divide, battling passions and tensions in equal measure. But can they work together to avert a disaster? Could the fundamental differences between them be the key to their survival, or to their destruction? To make matters worse, unsettling events on Earth put the entire Mars Mission at risk and Rubicon — with little choice left — declares its independence.
The news of this is not welcomed by powerful politicians that devise dubious plans to shelve the settlement, once and for all. Mistakes are made, allegiances shift and lives hang in the balance. No one can be trusted as allies become enemies and the true nature of life on Mars is revealed — One wrong move, and it could be your last. Scarlet Raven With most of her past still a mystery and the man who tried to kill her dead, Scarlett thought she could live a normal life. But when the plasma blasts start flying, she may just find that the harsh truth of the future could cost her everything.
New from my micropress, Queen of Swords and thanks, John! Scourge of the Seas of Time and Space edited by Catherine Lundoff Think pirates are all about the rum and the pieces of eight? Let these fifteen tales draw you into the adventures of a new kind of pirate. Sail with them as they seek treasure, redemption, love, revenge and more. Raise the Jolly Roger and sharpen your cutlass or recharge your raygun and climb aboard for some unforgettable voyages.
Queen of Swords Press: Retribution by Paul Robinson ———- This is a tale of vengeance. Six months after the death of his mentor, Cole Traske is returning to work as the new leader of his former interplanetary shadow-ops squad, Penumbra. As they head towards their first target, Cole must balance the responsibility of leadership, the squabbling of his pilot and demolitions man, and the inexperience of their young new sniper. Unfortunately for Cole, his hopes for an uneventful return to work are shattered by a chance encounter with a spectre from his past, Tobias Navarr.
Robinson excels at creating an immersive off-world experience while inducing a laugh at spinning action tropes inversely. Retribution is a wild ride from start to finish. Klein, author of The Punch Escrow. Blasters and aliens, sarcasm and swearing. Digital and dead-tree versions are available across planet Earth. Writing is on website. A job gone horribly wrong makes her doubt everything she thought she knew, including her own identity.
I am honored to have my tale in this award winning magazine. So many great stories have found a home here over the years, and the authors of those tales include some of the legends of science fiction. Get your copy here: Theia grew up just across a canal way from Eoin. But this time, as she rises, something will go amiss in the world below and she will return to find it changed forever. Learn more about Stone-Cold Heart here! What can you expect when you live next door to the Mother of all Monsters?
Is there someone on your list who likes gritty sci-fi? Get caught up on his series before book three arrives in the late spring or early summer. Quirky, light science fiction always made me happy, so I gave it a try… Hopefully you enjoy it too!