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July 30, 2019
Refuge, the Sequel to Exile, is Available Now
Refuge, the sequel to Exile, is now available. This book is on sale now wide at all ebook vendors. The audiobook is in production with Podium Publishing and is expected later.
Here’s the cover copy:
A dying world , shattered by a broken machine
A desperate flight , their only hope for refuge
A robotic race , ally and destroyer alike
The Republic of Exilium has grown in strength and confidence at the far end of the galaxy from the rest of mankind, sending out scout ships to survey the worlds around them as they try to learn more about the mysterious Construction Matrix AIs.
Finding one of the genocidal rogues of that mysterious “race” in the process of destroying an inhabited world, Captain Octavio Catalan takes his ship into a desperate battle. He is victorious—but he is too late. The world of the strange aliens he has encountered is doomed.
The distant Republic can barely help, but the honor of their leaders will not permit them to stand idly by. Ships and crews are set into motion to commence a desperate evacuation of their newfound friends, and debts with the strange Matrices are called in.
One branch of Matrices destroyed the planet. Another may well save it—but the AIs have their own agenda and the price they ask may be beyond the Republic and its new allies…
You can order the ebook from vendors including:
Amazon
Kobo
Nook
Google Play
Apple Books
As this book is a wide release, it will not be available on Kindle Unlimited.
The paperback version is also available. It is up on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, or you can search your preferred platform.
If you haven’t read anything in the Exile Universe, we recommend first reading the novella Ashen Stars. These events shape why the Exile begins where it does: on the cusp of a revolution.
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July 25, 2019
Shield of Terra Audiobook Available for Preorder
The Shield of Terra Audiobook, book two in the Light of Terra trilogy set in the Duchy of Terra Universe, is now available for preorder. Go to Audible.com or your regional Audible store to preorder it today and have it land in your listening queue on August 6, 2019.
Here’s the cover copy:
The mother, ruler of an entire world
Sent to the heart of an old enemy to build a new peace
The daughter, officer of a deadly warship
Sent to the darkness to find the new enemy hunting them all
A dozen inhabited worlds of the Kanzi Theocracy and the A!Tol Imperium are ash. Millions of sentients of a dozen species are dead, including humans from the brand-new colonies built under the Imperium’s watch. Despite the losses, the strange Taljzi fanatics have been defeated—but everything suggests that more will be coming.
The Empress of the A!Tol has resolved that the cold war between A!Tol and Kanzi must end. She sends Duchess Annette Bond to the heart of the Kanzi Theocracy to negotiate a new alliance.
Elsewhere, Bond’s stepdaughter Morgan Casimir and the battleship Bellerophon are sent into the darkness beyond known space to see what they can learn about the Taljzi.
As they uncover old secrets of new enemies and new secrets of old enemies the fate of humanity and five dozen other races hangs on the actions of mother and daughter alike!
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July 4, 2019
Refuge Available for Preorder
Refuge, the next book in the alien contact Exile trilogy, is now available for preorder. This book will be launching wide at all ebook vendors on July 30, 2019. The audiobook is in production with Podium Publishing and is expected later.
Here’s the cover copy:
A dying world , shattered by a broken machine
A desperate flight , their only hope for refuge
A robotic race , ally and destroyer alike
The Republic of Exilium has grown in strength and confidence at the far end of the galaxy from the rest of mankind, sending out scout ships to survey the worlds around them as they try to learn more about the mysterious Construction Matrix AIs.
Finding one of the genocidal rogues of that mysterious “race” in the process of destroying an inhabited world, Captain Octavio Catalan his ship into a desperate battle. He is victorious—but he is too late. The world of the strange aliens he has encountered is doomed.
The distant Republic can barely help, but the honor of their leaders will not permit them to stand idly by. Ships and crews are set into motion to commence a desperate evacuation of their newfound friends, and debts with the strange Matrices are called in.
One branch of Matrices destroyed the planet. Another may well save it—but the AIs have their own agenda and the price they ask may be beyond the Republic and its new allies…
You can preorder the book from vendors including:
Amazon
Kobo
More to come…
As this book is a wide release, it will not be available on Kindle Unlimited.
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June 11, 2019
Sword of Mars Available Now
Are you prepared for the next instalment in the space fantasy series Starship’s Mage Universe? Damien Montgomery and Roslyn Chambers return in Sword of Mars:
A defector with a dangerous lead
A chance to speak for the silent
A perilous quest into enemy stars
When the star system of Legatus was preparing to secede from the Protectorate of the Mage-King of Mars, it was the secret agents of the Legatan Military Intelligence Directorate that laid the groundwork and fought the covert war to make it happen.
Now, as the open conflict draws to a bloody stalemate, LMID has been broken. Their leader is dead, murdered by agents of the Republic they helped birth. Their surviving agents have scattered, following a final protocol that orders them to defect to the Protectorate.
An old friend brings all of this to Damien Montgomery, First Hand of the Mage-King, and begs for his help in unravelling the mystery. The only answers lie where the Hands of Mars should never go: on the worlds of the Republic.
The audiobook is in production with our friends over at Podium Publishing. The paperback version of the book is available here.
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May 23, 2019
One Million Books Sold
We’ve been keeping a careful eye on our total numbers for e-book and print sales. We were over 900,000 and creeping in the direction of a million units sold, so the plan was to send out a press release to the local newspapers when we crossed that line.
“Local independent author sells one million books” makes for a nice human interest piece for them and some solid visibility for us.
We were tracking the numbers and it looked like we’d clear the million sale line sometime this fall. But there was something missing from my spreadsheet – it was only e-book and print. Because our audiobooks are mostly sold through publishers and ACX’s reporting is ugly to try and import into my spreadsheet, I’d never included them.
Yesterday, I took the plunge and manually loaded them in. The inclusion is far from perfect to my data-analyst brain, but the numbers are in there and I learned something fascinating.
We’ve sold over 100,000 audiobooks. Above, I noted that we’d sold more than 900,000 e-books and print books.
Sometime this winter, I can’t be sure exactly when, we cleared a million books sold.
One. Million. Books.
I’m not even sure I can process that number and making sense of numbers like that used to be my job!
It’s a huge milestone and all thanks to the people who read and listen to my work. Thank you all!
I hope you keep on reading. I have a lot more books rattling around the back of my head demanding to get out, after all!
Happy reading
April 23, 2019
Bound by Blood Now Available
Bound by Blood is now available in ebook and paperback format. This near future science fiction is the final book in the Bound by Stars trilogy set in the Vigilante universe, written by Glynn Stewart and Terry Mixon.
About Bound by Blood:
The President is dead.
The outer colonies are in revolt.
One man will make himself Emperor.
The Commonwealth must stop him…or fall.
In the chaos after the death of President Barnes and the revelation of his betrayals, Brad Madrid has been imprisoned because of his relationship to the pirate known as the Phoenix. His relationship takes on a new edge when the Phoenix declares himself Lord Protector of the Outer Worlds—the unquestioned dictator of a nation born to wage war against the Commonwealth.
Released from his prison and drafted into the Commonwealth Navy, Brad is sent out to wage war against his last living relative. As his own home, Jupiter, tries to step aside from the conflict, he finds himself with a sparse list of allies—and facing a far more powerful enemy than he’d ever feared.
The Phoenix promised that he would be Emperor. As years of hidden work comes to fruition, Brad isn’t sure he can stop him. He only knows one thing: brothers or not, he will defy the Phoenix to his last dying breath!
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April 22, 2019
Urban Fantasy Noble’s Honor Now Available on Audiobook
Jason Kilkenny fans! Noble’s Honor, the final book in the Changeling Blood trilogy, is now available in audiobook.
About the book:
Vassal of the Queen of the Fae
Noble of the Wild Hunt
Child of the Horned King
Bait
Jason Kilkenny has learned his full heritage and the nature of the bloodline that runs in his veins. One quarter mortal, he is also the child of a Power, the Horned King of the Wild Hunt of the Fae.
But his father is dead, murdered in a fae civil war that ended before Jason was born. It ended because of a powerful spell the Horned King cast, trading his life to deny the Masked Lords the weapon they needed to kill the Fae Powers.
Now, Jason gathers allies and resources in his new home of Calgary. The Fae Masked Lords are hunting him, but he has what they want and they have to come to him. The Fae Powers have prepared a trap for their long-hidden enemies, with Jason as both bait and ambush.It’s a clever plan – but no plan survives contact with the enemy!
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March 26, 2019
The Second Return of the Taljzi Alien Invasion! Shield of Terra Available Now!
Shield of Terra, book two in the Light of Terra series set in the Duchy of Terra Universe, is now available in ebook and paperback. This alien invasion science fiction story takes place after Darkness Beyond and continues the fight against the fanatical Taljzi.
The mother, ruler of an entire world
Sent to the heart of an old enemy to build a new peace
The daughter, officer of a deadly warship
Sent to the darkness to find the new enemy hunting them all
A dozen inhabited worlds of the Kanzi Theocracy and the A!Tol Imperium are ash. Millions of sentients of a dozen species are dead, including humans from the brand-new colonies built under the Imperium’s watch. Despite the losses, the strange Taljzi fanatics have been defeated—but everything suggests that more will be coming.
The Empress of the A!Tol has resolved that the cold war between A!Tol and Kanzi must end. She sends Duchess Annette Bond to the heart of the Kanzi Theocracy to negotiate a new alliance.
Elsewhere, Bond’s stepdaughter Morgan Casimir and the battleship Bellerophon are sent into the darkness beyond known space to see what they can learn about the Taljzi.
As they uncover old secrets of new enemies and new secrets of old enemies the fate of humanity and five dozen other races hangs on the actions of mother and daughter alike!
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UnArcana Stars Audiobook and Bound by Honor Audiobook Now Available
Both the UnArcana Stars audiobook and the Bound by Blood audiobook (authored with Terry Mixon) are now available, both narrated by the fantastic Jeffrey Kafer.
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February 11, 2019
Noble’s Honor, the third and final book in the urban fantasy series Changeling Blood, is now available!
Noble’s Honor, the third and final book in the Changeling Blood series, is on sale now on Amazon. The paperback is also available now and the audiobook version is in production.
Read the cover copy for Noble’s Honor below:
Vassal of the Queen of the Fae
Noble of the Wild Hunt
Child of the Horned King.
Bait.
Jason Kilkenny has learned his full heritage and the nature of the bloodline that runs in his veins. One quarter mortal, he is also the child of a Power, the Horned King of the Wild Hunt of the Fae.
But his father is dead, murdered in a fae civil war that ended before Jason was born. It ended because of a powerful spell the Horned King cast, trading his life to deny the Masked Lords the weapon they needed to kill the Fae Powers.
Now, Jason gathers allies and resources in his new home of Calgary. The Fae Masked Lords are hunting him, but he has what they want and they have to come to him. The Fae Powers have prepared a trap for their long-hidden enemies, with Jason as both bait and ambush.
It’s a clever plan—but no plan survives contact with the enemy!
With this release, Glynn will be hosting a live Facebook Q&A. So feel free to submit a question through our form. The live video Q+A on Glynn’s Facebook page will take place on Thursday, February 14th at 4:00pm EST!
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