An Alien, a Marine, and a Dinosaur Walk into a Bar…
The day has come at last. I’ve been building up to this for days now. At least two, maybe three! The anxiety and suspense was killing me, I tell you! Okay, maybe I’m a little over the top (or a lot). Regardless, tomorrow is the first of five days that my Vitalis Omnibus goes on a freebie promo at Amazon.
The Vitalis Omnibus includes all seven of my Vitalis novellas, which is somewhere around 150,000 words. A novel is considered 50,000 – 100,000, as a point of reference (longer works are considered super novels). And it’s all free for a few days. I know, what the heck is wrong with me! Well I’ll admit that I have an ulterior motive – I want to get you hooked so you’ll buy the other books in the series (Vitalis: Resurrection and Vitalis: Provenance).
What’s Vitalis got to make it worth your time? Well, it’s a mix of science fiction and, well, more scifi. Not the hard stuff in spite of faster than light travel and discovering an unexplored world light years beyond the explored systems of the Terran Coalition. That’s where the aliens and dinosaurs come in. And Marines. There’s lot of Marines and it gets pretty messy. Ooh! I forgot to mention the pirates, the assassin, and the cross breeding between species. Yeah, I went there and it was fun!
So go pick yourself up a free copy. Even if you don’t have time for it now, it’s only free for five days. Grab it and come back later to read it. Heck, even if you might never get to it or aren’t interested in science fiction, a free lunch is a free lunch! Not to mention I’ve been told my Vitalis books are the perfect gateway drug for people who’ve never been interested in science fiction before…
Here’s the blurb and the cover. Go ahead and click in it or the links to head straight to Amazon.
Mysterious blackouts left Kira with precious few memories of events in her life, never mind those worth sharing. Somewhere in those blank spots she acquired skills – skills she was hard pressed to explain. But those skills got her a job as the new navigator for the Rented Mule, a transport ship that plied the Rim Systems at the very edge of human civilization.
When their ship is set upon by pirates Kira’s skills allow her and the crew to escape, only to find themselves stranded in deep space with only one chance for survival, an undiscovered planet teeming with life that is light years beyond the borders of the Terran Coalition of Systems.
Forced to crash land, the crew of the Rented Mule learns immediately that the key to surviving on Vitalis is a closely guarded secret. Vitalis has a way of getting inside the mind, body, and soul of a person and once it’s got them, it doesn’t let them go.
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