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Noble’s Honor, the third an 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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2018 Retrospective and 2019 Plans

2018 was the longest year that ever was a year. That was the repeated description from one of the handful of Youtube personalities I follow and I can’t help but agree.

I have to actually look at the spreadsheets to see what the first book we launched in 2019 was (ONSET: Stay of Execution, apparently. Wow.)

Seems like we wrapped up ONSET longer ago than that.

2018 was a year of missteps for us. We ended up shifting our mix more towards Urban Fantasy than we meant to, which hurt our overall sales, and we spent a lot of our own capacity on trying to break into more traditional print sales.

Most of that effort culminated in Book Expo America, where we received a rather thorough if painful education in just how even successful independent publishers are regarded by the mainstream publishing and distributing world. Distributors insisted on handling our electronic distribution as well as print distribution and, well, that wasn’t happening.

 

Then we came home from Book Expo America and I had a heart attack. Stress and pneumonia induced, primarily, but still a horrid wakeup call that I was burning myself out. Fortunately, our plan had been to use 2018 to build a lead time in our publishing schedule. That lead time ended up being used to allow me to take most of the summer of 2018 off without us falling behind on the release schedule.

I’m better now, I promise

UnArcana Stars Available Now on Amazon

UnArcana Stars is now available on Amazon and in Kindle Umlimited. This marks the beginning of the UnArcana Rebellions arc and the return of Damien Montgomery to the page.

Excited? Read the blurb below:

A humanitarian mission into unfriendly stars

A training cruise under the watch of a fortified fleet base

The closing jaws of a trap years in the making

It has been over a year since the UnArcana Worlds of the Protectorate of the Mage-King of Mars seceded, shattering the unity of the human race. The new Republic of Faith and Reason has raised new banners in defiance of the power of the Protectorate’s Mage aristocracy.

Now, Hand Damien Montgomery commands a relief mission to a Republic world ravaged by famine. His humanitarian mission collides with a newborn military beginning to flex its muscles—and a newborn nation prepared to accept no violations of its sovereignty, regardless of their needs.

Elsewhere, disaster strikes the Nia Kriti Fleet Base as an earthquake shatters their only communication with the rest of the Protectorate. Officer-in-training Roslyn Chambers is in the middle of the recovery effort when she realizes Nia Kriti is under attack.

The Republic is done with peace. They are coming for the Protectorate—and they will see the fleets of Mars break!

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Darkness Beyond Preorder Available on Audible.com

Darkness Beyond, the first book in the Light of Terra series, is available for preorder on Audible.com. It is set to be released December 18; then it will be available on all Audible regional sites as well.

Darkness Beyond, set fifteen years after the Duchy of Terra series, starts a new trilogy involving Duchess Annette Bond and her step-daughter Morgan Casimir:

A newly-founded human colony world burned from orbit

A warship squadron of the galaxy’s oldest race ambushed and destroyed

An ancient enemy reborn in the darkness beyond the known stars

The A!Tol Imperium and their new human subjects have had fifteen years of relative peace. New colonies have been founded, new worlds explored, new ships built. Formal and informal alliances have been built with the ancient powers of the Core, leaving humanity and the Imperium seemingly on the brink of a new dawn.

The devastation of one of the newly-founded human colonies sends ripples of shock through the Imperium, and a battle fleet under Fleet Lord Harriet Tanaka is dispatched to the edge of the Imperium to find the culprits and bring them to justice.

Meanwhile, the destruction of a Mesharom Frontier Fleet squadron calls the Duchy of Terra’s newest warship, Bellerophon, into action and combat with a strange new power that bears all the signs of the Imperium’s age-old enemy, the Kanzi.

Aboard Bellerophon is Annette Bond’s stepdaughter, Morgan Casimir. The recently promoted junior officer will be thrust into the crucible of war and challenged to rise to her mother’s example in the face of this both new and ancient enemy…

We hope you enjoy this new story set in the Duchy of Terra Universe!

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Bound by Honor, Book 4 in the Near Future Space Adventure Vigilante Universe, is Now Available

Bound by Honor, the fourth book in the near future space adventure Vigilante universe and the second book in the Bound by Stars arc, is now available on Amazon! This is Glynn’s fourth book co-authored with Terry Mixon.

About Bound by Honor:

An enemy of newfound strength

A friend gone missing in the night

A threat that can be ignored no more

Brad Madrid, Commodore of the Vikings Mercenary Company, has once again been drawn into the war against the resurgent Cadre. Called into action in battles across the Solar System, from the fogs of Venus to the ice fields of Ceres, he faces deadly enemies at every turn.

In the midst of the chaos, Brad learns that his Agency contact and partner, Kate Falcone, has gone missing before she could deliver the evidence of treason she carried. With millions of lives at stake, finding her cannot be his first priority, but he searches as he goes.

Then an old enemy shares a poisonous gift as they flee from battle: the Cadre doesn’t have Kate Falcone. They know who does, however, and the hints they give Brad lead him to the one place he thought he would never make war…

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Darkness Beyond, the first book in the Light of Terra trilogy that follows the events in Duchy of Terra, is now available!

Darkness Beyond, the first book in the Light of Terra series that follows the events in Duchy of Terra, is now available on Amazon! This military space opera adventure is not to be missed.

Intrigued? Here’s the back cover copy:

A newly-founded human colony world burned from orbit

A warship squadron of the galaxy’s oldest race ambushed and destroyed

An ancient enemy reborn in the darkness beyond the known stars

The A!Tol Imperium and their new human subjects have had fifteen years of relative peace. New colonies have been founded, new worlds explored, new ships built. Formal and informal alliances have been built with the ancient powers of the Core, leaving humanity and the Imperium seemingly on the brink of a new dawn.

The devastation of one of the newly-founded human colonies sends ripples of shock through the Imperium, and a battle fleet under Fleet Lord Harriet Tanaka is dispatched to the edge of the Imperium to find the culprits and bring them to justice.

Meanwhile, the destruction of a Mesharom Frontier Fleet squadron calls the Duchy of Terra’s newest warship, Bellerophon, into action and combat with a strange new power that bears all the signs of the Imperium’s age-old enemy, the Kanzi.

Aboard Bellerophon is Annette Bond’s stepdaughter, Morgan Casimir. The recently promoted junior officer will be thrust into the crucible of war and challenged to rise to her mother’s example in the face of this both new and ancient enemy…

The print book and audiobook versions of Darkness Beyond will come out soon.

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What’s the Starship’s Mage Reading Order?

Our team (which includes Glynn, the author!) gets a lot of questions about the Starship’s Mage reading order. Right now there are two different series in this universe, and each one has its own cast of main characters. How do you want to experience the universe: chronologically or by series?

The first book: Starship’s Mage

Above all, readers should start with Starship’s Mage, the first book in the main series, because it will introduce you to the main characters. Mage Damien Montgomery is the main character of the first book (and the main series). The side trilogy Red Falcon branches off from the main series by looking at what happens to characters like Captain David Rice and Officer Kelly LaMonte once Damien leaves the crew.

An older edition of the book was published under the name Starship’s Mage Omnibus. Originally, the stories of Damien Montgomery on the Blue Jay were published as five separate novellas.

Option A: Starship’s Mage reading order chronologically

Once you’re done the first book, you have a choice: if you want to read the Starship’s Mage and Red Falcon novels in the order the events occur, you can follow the visual timeline to the left. (The alt text is optimized for screen readers.) Below, you can find links to each of the books.

25th century timeline

2454: Starship’s Mage (Main Series #1)

2455, September: Interstellar Mage (Red Falcon #1)

2456, March/April: Mage-Provocateur (Red Falcon #2)

2457, September: Hand of Mars (Main Series #2)

2457, October/December: Agents of Mars (Red Falcon #3)

2458, March: Voice of Mars (Main Series #3)

2458, June: Alien Arcana (Main Series #4)

2458, September: Judgment of Mars (Main Series #5)

2460, March: UnArcana Stars (Main Series #6, COMING SOON)

Option B: Starship’s Mage reading order by series

Your next option is to read the Starship’s Mage books according to series. This option for the Starship’s Mage reading order lets you read all of the books in the main series first, and then you can go back and read the Red Falcon books to take a look behind the scenes.

Starship’s Mage Series

Starship’s Mage
Hand of Mars
Voice of Mars
Alien Arcana
Judgment of Mars
UnArcana Stars (upcoming)


Red Falcon Trilogy

Interstellar Mage
Mage-Provocateur
Agents of Mars



Anything else?

What order did you read the Starship’s Mage books in? Did Red Falcon affect how you saw the books and the characters? Let us know in the comments.

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Agents of Mars, the final book in the Red Falcon trilogy, is Available Now!

Agents of Mars wraps up the epic science fantasy adventure of the Red Falcon, set in the Starship’s Mage universe. You can now buy the book on Amazon.

For all of you who love the audiobooks, the Agents of Mars is currently in production and we expect it to be available soon.

An enemy hidden in the shadows

A crack in the armor of secrecy

One chance to find an answer

Captain David Rice and the crew of Red Falcon have spent two years infiltrating the arms smuggling underworld of the Protectorate of the Mage-King of Mars. When the co-opted rebellion on Ardennes reveals a supply chain of weapons intended to fight Mars, this makes them the perfect team to investigate.

His new mission brings him across old friends and old enemies alike, but as his suspects start turning up dead, David realizes he isn’t the only one following the loose ends.

As shadowy enemies move to position themselves for civil war, Red Falcon’s crew must chase an ever-shrinking set of clues. If they succeed, they might just buy the Protectorate peace for their lifetime.

But if they fail…

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When is the Next Damien Montgomery Book?

We have heard you all asking after Damien Montgomery. And we are pleased to announce that the next book featuring Damien Montgomery as a narrating character is UnArcana Stars, book six in the Starship’s Mage series. It will be released December 2018!

Check out that awesome cover by Jeff Brown!

If you are looking for a blurb, excerpt, or more information, your best option is to join the Glynn Stewart mailing list. We have a lot of amazing plans for this fall and winter dealing with Starship’s Mage, so be sure to join and keep in touch with all the latest news.

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Exile out today! ★ Starred Review of the Exile Space Opera from Publishers Weekly

Exile, a new space opera from Glynn Stewart, is out today! This release is a little different than the rest; the book is launching wide on all ebook platforms. Exile is available from the following vendors:

Amazon
Apple Books
Barnes & Noble
Google Play
Kobo
Smashwords

No need to wait for the audiobook!

There is also a simultaneous audiobook, live on Audible! The Exile audiobook was produced by our friends over at Podium Publishing and is narrated by JD Jackson (the same narrator as the Ashen Stars prequel novella audiobook on AudFans).

Starred Review!

Glynn and everyone on his team was so excited to see Exile received a starred review from Publishers Weekly! A starred review from Publishers Weekly is a big deal in the publishing world: the magazine puts a star next to certain books to indicate its “a book of outstanding quality”. Which, according to one of the biggest industry magazines in book publishing, is amazing.

Check out the whole of the review below:

★ A failed rebellion against a tyrannical space confederacy is exiled to a remote corner of the galaxy in this political space drama, the first full novel in Stewart’s Exile series (after the novella Ashen Stars). In the colonized cosmos of 2386, Isaac Gallant, the son of the dictatorial president of the interstellar Confederacy, is a high-ranking officer in the Confederacy fleet. He’s also secretly part of a rebellion against the Confederacy. Alongside rebellion leader Amelie Lestroud, a former movie star, Isaac helps to colonize a verdant planet. Moral dilemmas and political intrigue follow as they struggle to establish a new government on an idyllic world that might belong to someone else. Though there are few complicated relationships, the diverse cast of characters is refreshing, and Isaac and Amelie’s agonies over their growing romantic feelings are convincing. At the center of the story is the human will to adapt to new modes of existence. This fast-paced starfaring adventure succeeds with a thrilling mix of space battles and tender emotions. (July)

Want to know what got these reviewers so impressed? Check out the Exile blurb below:

A shackled Earth, ruled by an unstoppable tyrant

An exiled son, and a one-way trip across the galaxy

A perfect world, their last hope for survival

Vice Admiral Isaac Gallant is the heir apparent to the First Admiral, the dictator of the Confederacy of Humanity. Unwilling to let his mother’s tyranny stand, he joins the rebellion and leads his ships into war against the might of his own nation.

Betrayal and failure, however, see Isaac Gallant and his allies captured. Rather than execute her only son, the First Admiral instead decides to exile them, flinging four million dissidents and rebels through a one-shot wormhole to the other end of the galaxy.

There, Isaac finds himself forced to keep order and peace as they seek out a new home without becoming the very dictator he fought against—and when that new home turns out to be too perfect to be true, he and his fellow exiles must decide how hard they are prepared to fight for paradise…against the very people who built it.

Get Exile today:

Amazon
Apple Books
Barnes & Noble
Google Play
Kobo
Smashwords

 

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