The CHYRSALIS short story - originally published in the fantastic Beyond the Stars: Infinite Expanse anthology - is now available as a stand-alone ebook, FREE at all online retailers. And in a first around here, it’s also available on release day in audiobook! You can listen to the audio FREE here on the website, or grab it for $0.99 at most audiobook retailers.

The blurb goes like this: “In the cutting-edge laboratories of Asterion Prime, a new manner of life emerges: sentient artificial intelligence. But when the government responds by trying to shut down the AIs before they have a chance to flourish, one woman realizes she must do whatever it takes to protect this still fragile new life, no matter the consequences.”

But for AMARANTHE veterans, what you want to know is that Chrysalis tells the story of how the SAI Rebellion began. See Nika back when she was still an Anaden named Nicolette Hinotori. Meet her brother, Loshi, who we learned about in Continuum (he's quite a character; now that I've written him, I'm really sorry he's no longer around). With special guest appearances by: Maris Debray (then Idoni), KIR, Steven Olivaw, Magnus Forchelle and Corradeo Praesidis.

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More news: I promised it would happen eventually, and now it has. The ECHO RIFT audiobook is now available at Audible and Amazon! Of course, as a reminder, it’s also available at many other audio retailers, often at a lower price. See them all here.

And as part of the continuing roll-out of all my audiobooks to non-Audible retailers, STARSHINE, VERTIGO and TRANSCENDENCE are now available at those retailers (and directly on the website at a discount) as well.

Back in September of last year (somewhere mid-quarantine), I promised you that I was going to do whatever I could to ensure you had the audiobook of the latest release as fast as Pyper and I could make it happen. Today I’m making good on that promise. Less than three weeks after ECHO RIFT arrived in ebook and paperback, I give you the audiobook, on multiple vendors plus right here on the website.

No, it isn’t available on Audible yet. It’s been submitted and will be available there as soon as they finish their process. The last year has shown that this can take upward of two months; I hope it doesn’t take that long, but it’s out of my control. If you want to wait for Audible, I understand, and I will absolutely be sending another email whenever it’s available there.

But if you want to listen to this wonderful story of hope, love and redemption (and action, adventure, battles and aliens) right now, then I’ve endeavored to make it available to you in as many formats, apps and places as possible. It’s available at all major retailers other than Audible (and at $14.95 or less, cheaper than Audible) - that means Apple, Nook, Google Play, Kobo and Chirp (note: Nook is being a little slow, but it should be available there at the link below shortly).

For a discount off the retail price at $12.95, it’s also available at Authors Direct (listen online or via an app). For a bigger discount ($9.95) to make up for the slightly less seamless experience, you can listen to the audiobook directly on my website, or download the MP3 files to your computer or mobile device and listen in your favorite music player.

Find all your options and retailers HERE.

Bonus gift for February: Over 40 sci-fi ebooks, free or heavily discounted for the next month. Get them here.