Aurora Rising

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SIDESPACE Audiobook Now Available, Giveaway Winners

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SIDESPACE Audiobook Now Available, Giveaway Winners

The SIDESPACE audiobook is now available on Amazon, Audible and iTunes. 

  • The winners in the giveaway of the Sidespace and Aurora Rising audiobooks have been chosen and notified, so if your name's displayed on the widget, check your email!
  • Want to catch up? Here are the links to the Starshine, Vertigo and Transcendence audiobooks (note: they may also be discounted on Amazon if you own the Kindle version):
  • Starshine on Amazon, Audible and iTunes
  • Vertigo on Amazon, Audible and iTunes
  • Transcendence on Amazon, Audible and iTunes

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Giveaway: Win the SIDESPACE Audiobook, Plus All 3 Aurora Rising Audiobooks

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Giveaway: Win the SIDESPACE Audiobook, Plus All 3 Aurora Rising Audiobooks

The SIDESPACE audiobook is "headed to retail" - which means it should be available in the next 5-7 days. To celebrate its release, I'm giving away 5 copies each of all 4 audiobooks: Starshine, Vertigo, Transcendence and Sidespace. 

  • EDIT: The contest is over. The winners have been emailed and are listed in the widget below.

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FORGED FROM THE STARS Announcement & Cover Reveal

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FORGED FROM THE STARS Announcement & Cover Reveal

What is a perfect idea? FORGED FROM THE STARS is a perfect idea. A perfect collaboration, leading to a perfect title, a perfect tagline and a perfect cover. Inside, a perfect selection of galaxy-spanning epic science fiction featuring…not quite perfect heroines. They may have a few flaws here and there—flaws more than made up for with spirit, determination and a generous sprinkling of audaciousness. Damsels in distress, they are not.

FORGED FROM THE STARS is an upcoming collection featuring the first novels in three science fiction series: Ziva Payvan, Spectras Arise and Aurora Rising. STARSHINE, you’ve probably heard of. I'm thrilled to have it included alongside books by two amazing women who are blazing their own trails in the independent publishing world, Dakiti: Ziva Payvan Book One by EJ Fisch and Contract of Defiance: Spectras Arise Book One by Tammy Salyer, plus a groovy foreword from irreverent writer, reviewer and wordsmith S.E. Lehenbauer.

AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE FOR KINDLE ON FEBRUARY 15TH AT A SPECIAL RELEASE PRICE OF $0.99

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Galaxy Chronicles / Crime & Punishment Now Available

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Happy Monday-After-Thanksgiving to my American readers! (I know, it's a bummer.) To everyone, welcome to December and the plethora of holidays it brings.

Allow me to say (with some authority) that what your holidays need is more space opera, speculative fiction and, above all, more books.

  • The Galaxy Chronicles is now available in ebook on Amazon. Paperbacks will follow in the next few weeks. Along with 11 other epic stories from some of today's best sci-fi authors, The Galaxy Chronicles includes my short story, Apogee. It tells the story of the opening hours of the 1st Crux War between the Earth Alliance and the Senecan Federation, as lived by the Senecans who started it. If you've had a chance to read Sidespace, there are several cryptic references to these events; read Apogee and discover the truth.

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Sidespace Release Date, Excerpts and More

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SIDESPACE (Aurora Renegades Book One) will be released and in your hands on NOVEMBER 9, 2015. Otherwise known as one month from today.

  • As that date draws closer I'll have various fun promotions and the like to announce, including a Goodreads paperback giveaway, a string of teaser quotes, a "behind the scenes" blog post, sales on the Aurora Rising books and a Sidespace-themed makeover of the website and social media pages. To kick things off today, I'm excited to share the back-cover blurb for Sidespace.

Starshine (you remember it, right?) had a very good September - and since you all are on this ride together with me, I thought you might like to hear about it....

  • First off, tremendous thanks to S. E. Lehenbauer at Novel Commentary for her drop-dead fabulous review of Starshine. It's as if she knew tossing in all the Firefly references (including calling Alex a "damn shiny pilot") would have me shedding tears of joy even without saying it "might be the perfect set-in-space science fiction book."

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Sidespace Update, Anthology Release Dates and the Concept Art of Aurora Rising

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It's been a little while - I know, I know. But you were all spending your summer outside, sunbathing and hiking and gardening, right? (Unless you live in Australia, in which case, snow!) But now fall is upon us, and there is news:

  • I'll now have two Aurora short stories appearing in upcoming anthologies. The release date for The Galaxy Chronicles is November 15, 2015. My contribution, APOGEE, tells the story of the opening hours of the 1st Crux War between the Earth Alliance and the Senecan Federation, as lived by the Senecans who started it. You can read an excerpt from Apogee here, and see all the outstanding books in The Future Chronicles series here. In particular, check out the new Immortality Chronicles - proceeds go to charity.

I'm also contributing a story to the upcoming Crime and Punishment anthology, a follow-on to the terrific No Way Home. My short, titled SOLATIUM, takes place 12 years before the events of Starshine, features two characters from Aurora Rising...and that's all I can tell you. Crime and Punishment is expected to be released in mid-to-late October.