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March 8, 2022
Beyond the Eyes of Mars, Starship’s Mage #12, Available for Preorder
The Mage-Queen of Mars has charged Roslyn Chambers and her ship, Voice of the Forgotten, to bring the remnants of the Republic of Faith and Reason to justice. With only her crew and a small task force to back her up, she starts the hunt for the First Legion.
Fortunately, Roslyn and the Protectorate have an unexpected ally: a victim of the Republic’s horrific Promethean project.
Preorder Beyond the Eyes of Mars, book #12 of Starship’s Mage, on Amazon now! Coming March 22nd.
**The audiobook version is not yet available for preorder, but will be available on release day. The paperback will also be available then.
Here’s more about the book:
Beyond the borders of the Protectorate
Beyond the eyes of the Royal Martian Navy
Beyond the reach of the Mage-Queen
Innocents cry out for help—and Mars will answer!
When the Royal Martian Navy moved against reports of piracy in the Fringe Systems, the last thing Mage-Commander Roslyn Chambers expected was to find was a malignant remnant of the defeated Republic of Faith and Reason.
Now the Royal Martian Navy knows their enemy and their Mage-Queen has charged them to bring the First Legion, conquerors of the hidden colonies beyond the Fringe, to justice. The Legion knows the RMN’s tricks, though, and has cleverly concealed their tracks.
As Chambers and the spy Kelly Lamonte sweep distant stars for the trail of their enemies, the fleets of Mars gather behind them—but the fate of millions may lie in the hands of a woman none of them have ever met.
A woman the Republic already killed.
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February 28, 2022
Fantasy Worlds of Glynn Stewart
Did you enjoy Balefire: A Dark Fantasy Novella and are hungry for more fantasy from Glynn? Well, you’re in luck! Here are a few of his works that take place in magical worlds.
Attempting to escape the supernatural politics of the fae, half-Fae Jason Kilkenny moves to the Canadian city of Calgary. Despite its relative backwater status, however, Calgary is the source for a rare material desperately sought after in the supernatural world.
Jason is drafted by the Queen of the Fae to act as her agent in the city and is drawn into the middle of a conspiracy that will destroy the fragile peace. Calgary’s resources and Jason’s own secrets combine to draw the city into the center of supernatural affairs—and threaten to destroy it!
Changeling Blood is a trilogy that starts with Changeling’s Fealty. It is a complete urban fantasy series, plus a novella.
In the world of ONSET, the supernatural has been a secret known to most of the world’s governments for some time. David White is recruited to the USA’s Office of the National Supernatural Enforcement Teams to help keep the peace in this secret community.
Other factions have different goals, however, and he finds himself dragged into a long and bloody secret civil war against the vampires of the United States—and even when he manages to help forge a peace with that enemy, others seek to destroy not merely his country but the very structure of his world.
ONSET is a complete series of four books, and a novella. The series begins with To Serve and Protect.
Glynn is very well-known for combining the fantasy and science fiction genres in Starship’s Mage. He continues this genre fusion tradition with Teer and Kard, which combines westerns and high fantasy.
Teer was forced into exile in the Spehari’s Eastern Territories after they betrayed his father’s memory, leaving him and his mother destitute. He has grown up on the ranch of his mother’s new husband, nursing the skills of a cowboy and the anger of a betrayed child.
When one of the demigod-like Spehari walks into his bar, Teer gives in to a pointless moment of anger—opening fire on one of the rulers of the Unity!
Sentenced to hang for his crime, Teer’s life hangs by the slimmest of threads: the mercy and secrets of the very immortal he tried to kill…
Teer and Kard is an ongoing series that begins with Wardtown.
Or perhaps high fantasy is more your thing. In which case, check out City in the Sky, a standalone fantasy novel.
Erik Tarverro is a half-breed raised as a smith in the human city of Vidran. Hounded for his mixed blood and denied mastery in his craft, he leaps at the chance to join his father’s people in the Sky City of Newport.
There, he learns he is the only heir of an ancient and noble line. His father’s name opens doors and gathers allies, but Erik must still struggle to understand both this strange new culture and his place within it.
Fate will deny him a peaceful understanding, though, as the clouds of war gather – and his father’s enemies have laid their eyes upon his City in the Sky.
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February 15, 2022
Balefire: A Dark Fantasy Novella, Available Now on Amazon
Ready to read something a little different from Glynn? Balefire: A Dark Fantasy Novella is available now on Amazon.
Enter a brand-new dark fantasy world of demons, paladins and mystical plagues in Balefire, a short novella. The paladin Alsan is charged with cleansing a town of a dark infection, but the town holds many secrets….
Here’s more about the novella:
A demon born of human evil
A knight forged in holy fire
A town that he must either save…or destroy!
Alsan is a Paladin of the Intercessor, a holy warrior called to the village of Redgarton to investigate a demonic plague. Powerful magic of his fellow priests has sealed the village against the demon’s escape, and still more powerful mage awaits only his command to destroy demon and village alike.
To save the innocent, the knight must enter the village alone and learn what has unleashed the Abyss amongst them. If he can strike down the demon, his holy oath is sufficient to spare the town the balefire.
But the plague is spreading and the order he leaves behind is simple: come dawn, unleash the balefire.**NOTE: As this is a short novella, it is not available as an audiobook or a print version. It may be collected with other short works in the future.The post Balefire: A Dark Fantasy Novella, Available Now on Amazon appeared first on Glynn Stewart.
February 1, 2022
Balefire: A Dark Fantasy Novella Available for Preorder
Every now and again, Glynn likes to bring you something new.
Enter a brand-new dark fantasy world of demons, paladins and mystical plagues in Balefire, a short novella. The paladin Alsan is charged with cleansing a town of a dark infection, but the town holds many secrets….
Preorder Balefire: A Dark Fantasy Novella now! Coming February 15.Here’s more about the novella:
A demon born of human evilA knight forged in holy fireA town that he must either save…or destroy!Alsan is a Paladin of the Intercessor, a holy warrior called to the village of Redgarton to investigate a demonic plague. Powerful magic of his fellow priests has sealed the village against the demon’s escape, and still more powerful mage awaits only his command to destroy demon and village alike.To save the innocent, the knight must enter the village alone and learn what has unleashed the Abyss amongst them. If he can strike down the demon, his holy oath is sufficient to spare the town the balefire.But the plague is spreading and the order he leaves behind is simple: come dawn, unleash the balefire.
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January 11, 2022
Admiral’s Oath, The Return of Castle Federation, Available Now
The Castle Federation universe returns with a brand-new adventure starring Commonwealth Admiral James Tecumseh.
After a crushing defeat of the Commonwealth that cuts off communication with Earth, Tecumseh finds himself with power he didn’t ask for.
Get Admiral’s Oath, the next book in the Castle Federation universe and book #1 of the Dakotan Confederacy, on Amazon now! Click here for the paperback and here for the audiobook.
Here’s more about the book:
An empire broken by hubris
An officer raised by chance
Oaths that must be honored
Oaths that must be betrayed
Rear Admiral James Tecumseh barely survived his last mission against the Alliance of Free Stars with his reputation and life intact. Under a cloud of suspicion, he has been assigned to a quiet sector far from the front of the Terran Commonwealth’s war with the Castle Federation and its allies.
But when the Federation’s Operation Medusa cripples his nation’s communications and plummets an interstellar empire into silence, Admiral Tecumseh finds himself thrust into command of an entire fleet—and responsible for the safety of billions of innocent souls.
Enemies internal and external alike challenge the nation he is sworn to serve. Duty and honor call him to action to protect the innocent, and the Admiral and his new fleet are called to war once more.
But the darkest treason lurks where no one expects it…
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January 5, 2022
The Universe of Castle Federation
The Castle Federation series is a far-future transhumanist space opera where the Terran Commonwealth, driven by their vision of Unification, are determined to bring all of human space under the rule of Earth.
They were stymied for thirty years by the forces of the Alliance of Free Stars, a multi-national force led by the Castle Federation and the Coraline Imperium.
Now, after three decades of cold war, the Commonwealth is moving again…
The series began in 2015 with Space Carrier Avalon, and ran until 2017 with Operation Medusa.
Now, Glynn Stewart’s beloved transhumanist space opera returns with Admiral’s Oath as of January 11, 2022.
When we begin…The series focuses on the development of Kyle Roberts from a relatively low-ranking Commander, Air Group, to the architect of the operation that turns the tide of the war and the choices and sacrifices he and his comrades make along the way.
Roberts didn’t expect that a job on the decommissioned Avalon would result in both the end of peacetime and his career as a starfighter pilot. Now he has a new position in the Navy, impossible expectations to live up to, and finds himself on the losing side of a war.
Will he live up to the name of Stellar Fox, or will the Commonwealth conquer the Alliance of the Free Stars?
And when we return…
Admiral’s Oath launches the Dakotan Confederacy series and begins a brand-new adventure starring Commonwealth Admiral James Tecumseh.
After a crushing defeat of the Commonwealth that cuts off communication with Earth, Tecumseh finds himself with power he didn’t ask for.
The Admiral is forced to choose between upholding the principles of democracy, or to turn warlord in the name of stability.
Preorder Admiral’s Oath now, or start your Castle Federation adventure with Space Carrier Avalon.
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December 30, 2021
2021
This won’t be a full length wrap-up. Like I said last year, my partner and I are both particularly vulnerable to covid so we’ve hunkered down as best as we can.
We lost my mother this year. Not directly to covid, but the overload of hospitals in her region due to people refusing to take it seriously was a huge factor. My sympathy and tolerance for covidiots is now less than zero. Be warned.
And as a final capstone to the year, we’ve discovered that our house has serious water damage and mold due to errors in construction. We’re out for six months while a team basically strips it down to the frames and rebuilds it from scratch.
So yeah. It’s been a stressful year. I’ve written seven novels and a novella and published, amusingly, the same number of each (there is overlap, but the novella I published in 2021 is not the one I wrote. That’s coming out in February).
Equilibrium (January 2021) – Book Three of Scattered Stars Conviction.Excalibur Lost (February 2021) – stand-alone novella.A Darker Magic (March 2021) – Book Ten of Starship’s Mage, the first book in the Mage-Officer of Mars arc with Roslyn ChambersEyes of Tomorrow (April 2021) – Book Nine of Duchy of Terra and the final book of the series. (Also the last book in an nineteen-month run of monthly releases)Drifter’s Folly (June 2021) – Book Four of the Peacekeepers of SolFortitude (August 2021) – Book Four of of Scattered Stars Conviction.Mage-Commander (September 2021) – Book Eleven of Starship’s MageEvasion (November 2021) – Book One of Scattered Stars Evasion (the second series in the setting, though Conviction is continuing)I believe we started simultaneous audiobook releases with Evasion and will continue with Admiral’s Oath, the first book in the new series in the Castle Federation Universe. This requires some careful timing with our audiobook partner, though, and I lost several months’ of work with my mom’s illness.
But the only way to go is forward, one step at a time, one word at a time.
I hope everyone is staying safe and having a wonderful set of holidays, whatever you celebrate.
Happy reading!
Glynn Stewart
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December 14, 2021
Admiral’s Oath, the Return of Castle Federation, Available for Preorder
The Castle Federation universe returns with a brand-new adventure starring Commonwealth Admiral James Tecumseh.
After a crushing defeat of the Commonwealth that cuts off communication with Earth, Tecumseh finds himself with power he didn’t ask for.
Preorder Admiral’s Oath, the next book in the Castle Federation universe and book #1 of the Dakotan Confederacy, on Amazon now! Coming January 11th. Preorder the audiobook by clicking here.
Here’s more about the book:
An empire broken by hubris
An officer raised by chance
Oaths that must be honored
Oaths that must be betrayed
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November 10, 2021
Win A Set of Signed Castle Federation Paperbacks!
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November 9, 2021
Evasion, Scattered Stars: Evasion #1 Now Available on Amazon
Evasion, book 1 in Scattered Stars: Evasion, is available on Amazon now! The paperback can be found by clicking here. The audiobook is also available now, exclusively on Audible.
Evridiki “EB” Bardacki was once a Nova fighter pilot who, like Kira Demirci, fled his home system and was pursued by bounty hunters. Unlike his former comrades, EB decided not to sign on with Memorial Squadron and to instead branch out on his own.
EB’s adventures begin on his star freighter, Evasion. His crew are all running from something – but the old pilot has good instincts about the people he surrounds himself with. These aren’t the kind of people to turn away from those in need.
Here’s more about the book:
An empire broken by hubris
An officer raised by chance
Oaths that must be honored
Oaths that must be betrayed
Rear Admiral James Tecumseh barely survived his last mission against the Alliance of Free Stars with his reputation and life intact. Under a cloud of suspicion, he has been assigned to a quiet sector far from the front of the Terran Commonwealth’s war with the Castle Federation and its allies.
But when the Federation’s Operation Medusa cripples his nation’s communications and plummets an interstellar empire into silence, Admiral Tecumseh finds himself thrust into command of an entire fleet—and responsible for the safety of billions of innocent souls.
Enemies internal and external alike challenge the nation he is sworn to serve. Duty and honor call him to action to protect the innocent, and the Admiral and his new fleet are called to war once more.
But the darkest treason lurks where no one expects it…
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