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Top Reader Questions for Glynn Stewart, answered!

In reverse order, here are your top reader questions for Glynn Stewart answered ahead of 2018:

Question Four

Q. The Vigilante Duology seems to end with a setup for future books. Are there future books planned?

A. It’s certainly possible that there would be more books. Glynn and Terry Mixon have spoken about the possibility of sequel(s) for the Vigilante Duology but no agreements have been reached yet.

Question Three

Q. I am listening to the first book in the ONSET series, To Serve and Protect, on Audible. It is fantastic! I am curious whether Books 2-4 will be released to Audible as well?

A. All of the ONSET series books are contracted with Podium Publishing. Unfortunately, the schedule for subsequent books hasn’t been determined yet. We are hoping that books 2-4 will come out soon.

Question Two

Q. I was wondering if you had any plans for a sequel to City in the Sky?

A. City in the Sky was written to stand alone or set up a series. As one of the first fantasy books Glynn released, he was testing to see if continuing the story would be viable. However, compared to Glynn’s science fiction books and newer fantasy series, City in the Sky hasn’t been as successful. While the narrative leaves the possibility for a sequel open, and we love that the book has dedicated fans, Glynn would likely start a new fantasy universe rather than return to the existing ones in his two standalone fantasy works (City in the Sky as well as Children of Prophecy).

Top Reader Question!

Q. Are we going to see any more Starship’s Mage books with Damien Montgomery in them or is he done It would seem there are plenty of issues in his life that needs resolved. As far as I can see, the 2018 releases just are about Captain Rice.

A. There are two more Starship’s Mage: Red Falcon series books planned for 2018, with major POV character Captain David Rice:

Interstellar Mage
Mage Provocateur (coming March 2018)
Agent of Mars (coming September 2018)

In late 2018, the Unarcana Rebellions series will kick off, bringing a more ensemble cast, including Damien Montgomery as a major POV character. The first title of this series in Unarcana Stars, coming December 2018.

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2017: A Look Back

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, to start, it’s still technically 2017 awards season so here’s the list of stuff I put out this year that is at least technically eligible for awards.

*deep breath*

February 2017:    Duchess of Terra

March 2017:       Judgment of Mars

May 2017:         Rimward Stars

August 2017:      ONSET: Blood of the Innocent

August 2017:      Heart of Vengeance

September 2017: Terra & Imperium

October 2017:     Interstellar Mage

November 2017:    Changeling’s Fealty

November 2017:    Oath of Vengeance

December 2017:    Operation Medusa

 

All of these are eligible for the assorted Best Novel of 2017 awards, including Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Dragon, etc. etc. All are between 80 and 120K words.

If you think any of them deserve award consideration, I’d be shocked, stunned and pleased

Operation Medusa, book 6 in the Castle Federation series, is out now!

Operation Medusa, the sixth and final book in the Castle Federation series by Glynn Stewart, is now out on Amazon.

A battered but undefeated Alliance

A war they cannot win by force

A plan to turn the tide of history!

For two years, the Castle Federation and the Alliance of Free Stars have stood against Marshal James Walkingstick of the Terran Commonwealth and his mission of conquest. Battles have been won and lost, worlds have died, and soldiers like Admiral Kyle Roberts have been forged on the anvil of war.

But the Alliance cannot win. The Commonwealth has more worlds, more ships, more soldiers. They claim their victory is inevitable. That history is on their side.

Refusing to accept the Commonwealth’s future, the Alliance embarks on a do-or-die mission to end the war in one strike. If Kyle Roberts’s plan works, the Commonwealth will break.

But if it fails the Alliance will be broken.

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Oath of Vengeance out now!

Oath of Vengeance, the second book in the Vigilante Duology by Glynn Stewart and Terry Mixon, is now out on Amazon.

A mercenary with a secret past

A pirate leader with a secret mission

A clash that will shake planets

Mercenary Captain Brad Madrid has spent years building the resources to go after the man who murdered his family. His new career has benefits—but also duties and responsibilities he cannot lightly brush aside.

A new mission brings him once again into conflict with the Terror, however, and as friends and lovers alike perish around him, he realizes that responsibility and vengeance align. Neither the man he was nor the man he is can suffer the Terror to live.

Aided by allies across the planets and a familiar shadowy spy, Brad will hunt his enemy across the Solar System, chasing down a final confrontation that will shake the foundations of humanity…and fulfil his Oath of Vengeance.

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Changeling’s Fealty is out now!

Changeling’s Fealty, the first in the new urban fantasy series Changeling Blood, is now out on Amazon.

 A ragged newcomer…

        With a secret even he doesn’t know

A backwater city…

        With a countdown to an explosion no one is expecting

A secret Covenant…

         And a conspiracy to break it to pieces

Jason Kilkenny is a new arrival in the Canadian city of Calgary. Unlike most newcomers, Jason isn’t looking for a job in oil and gas: he’s a half-fae changeling that wants to get away from the politics of the inhuman races.

He soon learns that despite being a supernatural backwater, the city is run by a near-godlike Wizard—and the shadows are full of unseen dangers. Jason’s here to hide, but he finds himself called to service by Calgary’s understaffed Fae Court.

As supernatural politics collide in his new home, Jason’s plan to keep his head down is shattered and he finds himself testing the limits of his meager gifts. He cannot run, he cannot hide…and if he loses, he loses everything.

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The audiobook for Heart of Vengeance is out now!

The audiobook for Heart of Vengeance (Vigilante Book 1) is now available on Audible! The Vigilante series is a project I’m working on with Terry Mixon, author of The Empire of Bones Saga. Since Amazon ACX is now available in Canada, I’m producing the audiobooks for this series directly, rather than going through an outside publisher. I was very happy with the process and the final result.

Heart of Vengeance is narrated by Jeffrey Kafer, who also narrated the first Starship’s Mage series!

Get the audiobook here.

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Interstellar Mage is out now!

The newest Starship’s Mage Universe novel, Interstellar Mage kicks off the Red Falcon series, covering the adventures of Captain David Rice after Damien is drafted into the service of Mars.

Buy it now!

Mars destroyed his ship — but gave him a new one.

Mars drafted his Mage — for the good of humanity!

He should have known that wouldn’t be the end of it…

Captain David Rice has a new ship, a new crew, and a new set of Jump Mages to carry him between the stars. All he wants is to haul cargo, make money and keep his head down.

His past, however, is not so willing to let him go. An old enemy is reaching out from beyond the grave to destroy any chance of peace or life for Captain Rice—and old friends are only making things more complicated!

All he wants is to be a businessman, but as the death toll mounts he must decide what is more important: his quiet life or the peace humanity has enjoyed for centuries…

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Glynn talks Science Fiction Fantasy

Glynn recently had the chance to talk to Justin Sloan on the Creative Writing Career Podcast, which is dedicated to people who want to make writing more than just a hobby. Here’s your chance to get behind the scenes on the Starship’s Mage Universe and learn about how August’s breakout success Heart of Vengeance got started. As Justin says about writers in the interview: “Many of us are fans first!”

Below are a few of the top tidbits and quotes from the August 28 interview – for more on reading, writing, and self-publishing, you can:

Listen to the podcast (33 minutes)

Read the transcript (6,100 words)

The Highlights
On the future of the Starship’s Mage universe

Justin: So, are any of your series complete? As in, you’re in the final book in any of the series and you’ll never have another one?

Glynn: Technically, the Starship’s Mage series is complete.

Justin: Okay.

Glynn: Technically. But it’s complicated.

Justin: Yeah, like if we bribed you enough money right now, you might consider …

Glynn: Well, no, the original Starship’s Mage arc covers a specific series of events from, basically, Damien Montgomery getting dragged into galactic politics to galactic politics exploding in everybody’s face.

Justin: Yeah.

Glynn: The aftermath of galactic politics exploding in everybody’s face is a different series. But it’s still continuing Damien Montgomery’s story. So there will be a Starship’s Mage: UnArcana Rebellions series, which is a sequel series to the Starship’s Mage series.

Justin: But you’re not gonna list them on Amazon in the same series page?

Glynn: Probably not, no, because they’re intended to be… someone should be able to pick up the first book of that series and not need to have read Starship’s Mage.

On a new Starship’s Mage trilogy

And there’s a side series I’m writing right now based on some of the characters from the first book that is the same: someone should be able to pick Interstellar Mage, book one of the Red Falcon series, and not need to have read the Starship’s Mage series for it to make sense.

On the inspirations behind Starship’s Mage

It’s always hard, coming back from four years later, to go, “Where did this concept come from?” Because it started as a short story I wrote, and I think it was in response to the page on TV tropes on A Wizard Did It, where you’re basically hand-waving so much stuff it may as well just be magic.

So I wrote a short story where a ship was propelled through space by magic. And my agent at the time asked me to see if I could expand it and I kind of waffled on it because I really didn’t have, at that point, any faith in doing anything, really, in terms of publishing. And then my wife, who offered to do cover art for it, talked me into doing the series of novellas that became Starship’s Mage. She would do the cover art for them, and we could self-publish them. It seems to have worked now.

Vigilante
On collaboration and the Vigilante Project:

Justin: I’d love to hear about Heart of Vengeance and how this collaboration started. I could check real quick and see if you’ve done other collaborations, but I’d love to hear if you have.

Glynn: No, Heart of Vengeance is the first time I’ve ever collaborated with anybody. So basically, Heart of Vengeance is the first half of a novel I wrote when I was 20. It was a book that always needed to be two novels, and that was basically the issue with it in its original state. So I spent years planning to go back and rewrite it into two novels, realized I was never actually going to get around to it. I’d done some rewriting of pieces of it and it was no longer the book I’d written when I was 19. But still, it really needed to be two books.

I reached out to Terry Mixon and asked him if he wanted to take on the task of taking this book and turning it into two books. And he and I bounced an outline back and forth for several weeks while we kind of nailed down what we wanted to do. And then he took off, starting from the first thirty [to] forty thousand words that I had written and revised, and rewritten, and then he wrote the rest of what became Heart of Vengeance. And then we bounced that back and forth for a series of revisions and ended up with the final product, which I’m actually really pleased with. I think it is a distinctly different book than either of us would have written on our own.

Castle Federation
On Castle Federation and doing something just a little different:

Justin: Okay, cool. Yeah, you kind of like to take these ideas and not just follow the tropes. Am I wrong in saying that?

Glynn: No. Not at all. Tropes have their purpose. They’re useful tools, but you don’t want to build an entire … You don’t want to build a house out of LEGO. LEGO might make a useful accent feature over here, but you don’t want to build your house out of LEGO.

Justin: Yeah. I see a lot of these people who are trying to just jump on board with these series, these genres that are doing well.

Glynn: Yeah.

Justin: But then it does seem like they are, like you said, building a house out of the LEGOs. I was just looking at your sci-fi covers that are like the spaceship ones. So like on your [series] Duchy of Terra, would you say those are pretty stereotypical, like standard sci-fi? Or is there something weird about those that kind of separates them like the mages in Starship’s Mage?

Glynn: Duchy of Terra and Castle Federation are significantly more regular sci-fi. There’s definitely things going on in both that are non-standard, that are different takes on the universe, and so on and so forth, but they’re definitely a bit closer to the mainstream of space opera than Starship’s Mage is.

Justin: If I was to ask you what the hook is of Space Carrier Avalon …

Glynn:  Space Carrier Avalon was an attempt to do hard-science fiction space fighters, basically.

Justin:  Space fighters? What does that mean, space fighters?

Glynn:  So, like the starfighters in Star Wars, the X-wings and that kind of thing, it was an attempt to actually build a setting where, from an economic perspective, something that doesn’t necessarily make sense from a pure physics or technological perspective, made sense.

Justin:  Oh, okay.

Glynn:  So a lot of the parameters of the setting are structured around it being logically and necessary for them to have carriers swanning around, launching hundreds of starfighters at each other.

On where to start reading Glynn’s work:

I would say, if you want something unique, go to Starship’s Mage, but understand that it is my first published novel and it does have a bit of the issue with serialization. If you want to see my craft at its best, and the story I love the most, start with The Terran Privateer and go through that trilogy.

Buy Starship’s Mage on Amazon.

Buy The Terran Privateer on Amazon.

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New Website and a Can*Con Appearance

The new website is online! Feel free to click around and look at all the updates. You may have noticed that things were being quieter around here than usual and not getting updated promptly, we were having some issues while we were in transition!

And the website is back online right in time for me to tell you about my appearance at Can*Con!

I will be set up in the dealer’s room at Can*Con for all your sci-fi and urban fantasy writing needs. If you’ve always wanted a paperback of my books, we’ll have them on hand! If you already have them, I’ve been informed I will be bringing a pen and that I am not allowed to hide.

That said, if you are going to stop by any day, be sure to drop by on Sunday. I’m on the “Snakes and Ladders of Self-Publishing” panel at 10AM in Salon F, and we will be celebrating the elaunch of Interstellar Mage at Can*Con on Sunday, October 15th. Interstellar Mage is the first book in the Red Falcon series, a Starship’s Mage Universe novel following the journey of Captain David Rice. Be sure to stop by and celebrate with me (and enter to win a print of the Interstellar Mage cover art!).

While the panelling and dealer’s room schedule is still in flux, I will keep you up to date on Twitter throughout the weekend.

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Terra and Imperium is out now!

 

The third novel in the Duchy of Terra trilogy, Terra and Imperium, is now out!

(Don’t worry, this won’t be the last we see of Duchess Annette Bond! Just the end of this trilogy)

Enjoy!

Buy it on Amazon here.

 

Secrets both ancient and new.

Powers great and greater—

With Terra caught in the middle

Humanity’s first colony is a project neither the Duchy of Terra nor the A!Tol Imperium can allow to fail. The planet Hope in the Alpha Centauri system has been lavished with resources and attention—but when an unknown alien force attacks the system, all of that is in danger.

An ancient alien artifact is the apparent target of the attack, an artifact older than known galactic civilization. Suddenly, the backwater colony of a second-rate power is the gathering point for a confrontation of the galaxy’s greatest powers.

Duchess Annette Bond might be pregnant. She might be five light years away. She might have another galactic power on her doorstep demanding she surrender their rebels who’ve settled on Earth.

But she speaks for both Terra and the Imperium—and the galaxy will listen.

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