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March 30, 2021
Crusade Audiobook Now Available
The audiobook for Crusade, book 3 in the Exile Trilogy is available now on Audible.
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A newborn Alliance, forged to stop the destroyers of worlds
A potential ally, with secrets hidden by a thousand lies
A long-doomed star, whose ruins hold a vital answer
Isaac Lestroud, Admiral of the Exilium Space Fleet, has spent the last three years working with Ambassador Amelie Lestroud to build an alliance against the Rogue Matrices, AIs bent on converting every world into a paradise—regardless of whether anyone lives on it.
As Isaac hunts the Rogue that destroyed one of their allies’ homeworlds, Amelie begins negotiations with a potential new ally that could tip the balance. The Governance is a power to rival the human homeworlds the Lestrouds were exiled from—but like those homeworlds, not all is as it seems.
And far from the war, Octavio Catalan leads an expedition into the shattered wreckage of the home system of the Matrices’ builders. Among those dead worlds, he hopes to find the answer to the question that haunts the survivors of that race: why did their AIs go genocidally insane?
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March 19, 2021
10 Random Facts About Starship’s Mage
The following is a Twitter thread that Glynn posted on the day of the release of A Darker Magic , book 10 in Starship’s Mage.
Starship’s Mage was originally written as a short story. I think it was 5500 words long. My then-agent suggested turning it into something longer, which became Episode 1 of Starship’s Mage (the first 27,000 words of Starship’s Mage, now)Alaura Stealey was originally envisaged as this grizzled badass older man, a physical form and mood eventually applied to Hand Hans Lomond.Mars in the Starship’s Mage universe has a twenty-four hour day. When Desmond the First was magically completing the terraforming of the planet, he decided to adjust the spin as well. Because why not?
Desmond the Third’s wife and the mother of the current Mage-Queen was a diplomat and died in a car crash on another planet. Keira has basically no memories of her. Damien has zero ancestors or genetic connections to Project Olympus. He is entirely a genetic fluke, a natural Rune Wright. So was Merlin. Following on from 5. A Mage who knows some magic can experiment and create more, but it’s hard. A Mage who knows no magic is only ever going to be very lucky. A Rune Wright, though, is going to work out magic from base principles. Several have existed over history Once Starship’s Mage was compiled into a single book, my plan was still for only two more books, titled Hand of Mars and Sword of Mars. The plan for that trilogy ended up covering all Starship Mage books up to Sword of Mars. Artificial gestation in the Starship’s Mage universe is a fully accepted and mature technology. It would be considered unusual for a woman to bear her children herself-and irresponsible for a woman to get on a spaceship carrying a live fetus.Connected to 8. Admiral Grace Mclaughlin was delayed by work matters in Sherwood and almost didn’t make it back to Mars in time for the birth of her twin daughters.Between work, children, and cats, Damien Montgomery is never again going to go anywhere more dangerous than a desk.
10A: Roslyn Chambers will be the titular Mage-Commander in Starship’s Mage book 11, coming later this year.
Check out her first entirely solo adventure dealing with the shadowy remnants of the Republic in A Darker Magic.
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March 16, 2021
Equilibrium Audiobook Now Available
A mercenary heavy cruiser claimed from the enemy by rogue starfighter pilots. A captain determined to save the lives of millions. And in the shadows, whispers of a forgotten name: Cobra Squadron.
The audiobook of Equilibrium, Scattered Stars: Conviction #3, is available now, exclusively on Audible.
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March 9, 2021
A Darker Magic (Starship’s Mage #10) Available Now
The UnArcana Wars are over. Lieutenant Commander Roslyn Chambers has come to a planet in the former Republic, ordered by the Mage-Queen of Mars to locate missing spies. What she finds instead is a deadly virus with a mysterious source.
A Darker Magic, Starship’s Mage Book 10 is now available.The paperback is available by clicking here. The audiobook will release on May 18.
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A bloody war has ended in a restored peace
And the shield of Martian magic guards the stars
Two centuries of spell and steel to ward all humanity
Two years ago, Lieutenant Commander Roslyn Chambers stood witness to the surrender of the last remnants of the Republic. Fueled by atrocity against Mage and mundane alike, the secessionists who waged war against the Protectorate of Mars are finally defeated.
Now, a special commission from the Mage-Queen of Mars takes Roslyn deep into the former Republic to hunt the architects of that atrocity. Mages who betrayed their own, the creators of Project Prometheus must be brought to justice.
But hidden from even the Republic, Prometheus has woven magic and technology together once more. Here, hidden from all prying eyes, they have created a monster…one that even a Protectorate forged by the spell must call black magic.
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February 25, 2021
Raven’s Course Audiobook Now Available
Amid the ruins of a fallen empire, a captain and an ambassador must combine might and diplomacy against a former ally. The audiobook of Raven’s Course (Peacekeepers of Sol #3) is available now, exclusively on Audible.
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February 23, 2021
Preorder A Darker Magic (Starship’s Mage #10)
The UnArcana Wars are over. Lieutenant Commander Roslyn Chambers has come to a planet in the former Republic, ordered by the Mage-Queen of Mars to locate missing spies. What she finds instead is a deadly virus with a mysterious source.
A Darker Magic, Starship’s Mage Book 10 is now available for preorder.
Here’s more about the book:
A bloody war has ended in a restored peace
And the shield of Martian magic guards the stars
Two centuries of spell and steel to ward all humanity
Two years ago, Lieutenant Commander Roslyn Chambers stood witness to the surrender of the last remnants of the Republic. Fueled by atrocity against Mage and mundane alike, the secessionists who waged war against the Protectorate of Mars are finally defeated.
Now, a special commission from the Mage-Queen of Mars takes Roslyn deep into the former Republic to hunt the architects of that atrocity. Mages who betrayed their own, the creators of Project Prometheus must be brought to justice.
But hidden from even the Republic, Prometheus has woven magic and technology together once more. Here, hidden from all prying eyes, they have created a monster…one that even a Protectorate forged by the spell must call black magic.
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February 9, 2021
Excalibur Lost, a Standalone Space Opera Novella, Available Now
An alien theocracy has conquered humanity. A human refugee and his salvage crew must pick over the bones of their own civilization. But a lost legend might be the key to what his people need: hope. Excalibur Lost, a standalone space opera novella is available on Amazon now!
Here’s more about the book:
A broken species
A broken man
A lost legend…
Only dreams and stories remain of the worlds humanity once called home, but scattered refugees live in the corners of the empire of their conquerors, the Sacred Council of Races.
Among those refugees is Gerard Arkanis, first officer of a salvage ship dedicated to picking over the remains of his species’ desperate attempt to stand against the Council’s galaxy-spanning theocracy.
Hard work and hypocrisy have kept Arkanis alive, serving a god he cannot believe in. Humanity’s fate leaves him no choice—until their ship stumbles onto a legendary lost warship and the remains of a failed plan to save all mankind…
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February 2, 2021
Shadows of the Fall Audiobook Now Available
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January 26, 2021
Preorder Excalibur Lost, A Standalone Space Opera Novella
An alien theocracy has conquered Earth, and a human refugee and his salvage crew may bring hope to humanity in the new space opera novella, Excalibur Lost. Preorder the novella on Amazon now! Release date: February 9th.
Here’s more about the novella:
A broken species
A broken man
A lost legend…
Only dreams and stories remain of the worlds humanity once called home, but scattered refugees live in the corners of the empire of their conquerors, the Sacred Council of Races.
Among those refugees is Gerard Arkanis, first officer of a salvage ship dedicated to picking over the remains of his species’ desperate attempt to stand against the Council’s galaxy-spanning theocracy.
Hard work and hypocrisy have kept Arkanis alive, serving a god he cannot believe in. Humanity’s fate leaves him no choice—until their ship stumbles onto a legendary lost warship and the remains of a failed plan to save all mankind…
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January 19, 2021
Equilibrium (Scattered Stars: Conviction #3) Available Now
The first book of 2021 has arrived! Equilibrium, Scattered Stars: Conviction #3 is available now on Amazon. The paperback is available by clicking here.
Here’s more about the book:
Peace forged on the edge of civilization
Lies forged in the heart of mankind
A legend rises to the final challenge
Exile to the Syntactic Cluster has been good for Kira Demirci and her friends. Once elite pilots of the Apollo System Defense Force, they now own the most powerful mercenary warship in the entire star cluster. Working with the carrier-for-hire Conviction and her Captain John Estanza, they have helped the King of Redward usher in a new era of hope for the entire Cluster.
That hope is nearly shattered when Estanza’s old enemies in the Equilibrium Institute strike directly at Redward’s king. Revenge and money bring the mercenaries into an allied fleet—one intended to neutralize the last threats to the peace.
But the Institute’s plans for the Syntactic Cluster are intricate and deep. Even as the mercenaries and their employers move against the enemies they see, shadows gather in the Cluster, bearing whispers of a forgotten name: Cobra Squadron.
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