New Web Store For Ebooks, Plus a Roundtable Discussion & More

I’ve got so much news today! We’ll start with the new web store. Starting today, you can buy all of my ebooks direct from me, at a discount over their retail prices. If you downloaded Vertigo for free when you subscribed to the newsletter, sending the ebooks to your ereader or app works exactly the same way, so it should be easy as pie.

To celebrate the store opening, all the ebooks are an additional 20% OFF for the next five days (on top of the already discounted prices). Just click “Add Coupon” during checkout and enter the code: GRAND-OPENING.

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Thanks to the article I wrote for The Debrief on warp drives, I was lucky enough to get to participate in a roundtable with mega-bestselling author Douglas E. Richards and dystopian sci-fi writer Eliza Green. The topic: “Is it more difficult to write science fiction in an age of exponential technological growth? To what extent does science fiction guide innovation?” We had a great time and a very lively discussion about those topics and many more, and you can check out the video on YouTube here.

You can tell it was fun, because everyone is laughing. ;)

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Thank you all so much for sharing your thoughts in the character poll in the last newsletter. Here are the results:

I’m not surprised that Marlee won (I also wouldn’t have been surprised if Eren had won), and I absolutely love seeing so much enthusiasm for Nyx! Maybe I can do something with this after all….

In honor of Marlee’s victory, check out this incredible character art I have adopted as the spot-on image of our young Marano firebrand (I tweaked the color a little, but all credit goes to the artist, Shai Daniel).

Finally, I wanted to let you know about two new updates to the Amaranthe Wiki. I’ve added the quotes used in the Part headings of the books, all on one page here. I’ve also added a long-requested item: Russian translations from all the books. You can see them here, but enter at your own risk - you only think Alex curses in English. You can find both the new pages under the “Novels & Short Stories” category.

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Before I leave you, I’ve got another collection of books for your reading pleasure. Go here to choose from 42 FREE sci-fi ebooks from popular indie authors. Enjoy!