Return of the Book Promo — This time is Serious!

Felicitations, O my people! My apologies for the lack of books the last few weekends – much of the vast Oyster Clan converged on my sleepy little town [Ed.: Did you just call your sister-in-law “vast”?] and then there were some… communications breakdowns. [Ed.: Oh, is that what you’re calling it? FRO: Okay, so the giant squid may have escaped his tank momentarily and eaten the network hub, but that’s it! The rumours of my developing a snickerdoodle addiction and spending a week in rehab are lies, lies I tell you!] To my great pleasure, I can offer you in recompense a half-score of stirring stories, an array of astonishing adventures, a plethora of pleasing prose, a multitude of marvelous melodramas! [Ed.: Speaking of melodrama…] So, as I was saying, we’ve a fine lot of books for you this week, including several new releases! Also, a sincere thank you to all of you who send things in each week. You’ve all been marvelous to work with; I haven’t seen one complaint! [Ed.: Yes, you are quick with the delete button, aren’t you?] If you have books to include in the future, promo post entries can (and should!) be sent to my email. Now if you’ll excuse me, I think my editor needs some… wall-to-wall revisions. Happy reading!

Jason Dyck, AKA The Free Range Oyster

Word Polisher, Code Hawker (a lambda for the pretty lady?), and Proud Minion to the Beautiful but Evil Space Princess

Cedar Sanderson

The God’s Wolfling

Children of Myth Book 2

When The God’s Wolfling opens, Linnea Vulkane has grown up since the summer of Vulcan’s Kittens. Sanctuary, the refuge of immortals on an Hawaiian island, is boring. When the opportunity for an adventure arises, she jumps right into it, only realizing too late the water may be over her head. Literally, as she is embroiled in the affairs of the sea god Manannan Mac’Lir.

Merrick Swift has a secret he’s ashamed of. Then when he meets Linnea and her best friend, he doesn’t like her. She’s bossy, stuck up… and oddly accepting of his wolf heritage. Like her or not, he must do his duty and keep her alive. The children of the myths are being plunged into the whirlpool of immortal politics, intrigue, and goblin wars, and they might be the only ones who can save a world.

Stargazer

Free this weekend!

A short story of a woman who looks to the stars as she tries to protect her children and offer them a future. In a world with no escape for those who cannot undergo a genescan, a fugitive mother has vanishingly few options left to her. Ultimately, only her sacrifice can change the world… but what becomes of the children?

Sabrina Chase

Dragonhunters

Guardian’s Compact Book 2

Only one Mage Guardian now defends Aerope from the malevolent plans of Denais and his dreams of conquest and revenge. Ardhuin desperately tries to make the Allied governments see the danger and replace their murdered Guardians, but the long peace dulls any sense of urgency. Her new husband Dominic fears the Allies consider Ardhuin’s phenomenal power sufficient—and in no need of help from their mages. And yet… a weary traveler from the ends of the earth rushes to their home to deliver a message from a man thought dead. A desperate plea for help, invoking the Compact—as only another Mage Guardian would. Does another survive after all? And what new danger threatens the world?

Walt Pimbley

Sundowning

A Short Story

Korea vet steps irritably into the twilight, but unexpected guests make him feel young again. (Warning: a few salty epithets, and maybe some VIOLENCE.)

Forgiving Michael

A teen trying to improve concrete for a science prize stumbles onto a formula that transforms the foundation of his parents’ house to mud. Hilarity does not ensue, even when the mud dries “into something rich and strange.”

Moscow wants that formula, and so do Tehran and Peking. Tel Aviv wants it buried, fast. Washington isn’t sure what it wants, but the EPA’s hopping mad and throwing its weight around.

With sinister spies and comely assassins on the prowl, can Michael’s family find a way to safety?

Jerry Lawson

No Network Found

Future Tech Book 1

Cell phones are useful. Cell phones with lots of books? Even more useful.

A cell phone with a lot of books… that got pushed back to 1956? That’s just trouble looking for a place to happen.

Early Adopter

Future Tech Book 2

When the conditions are right – an avalanche can be started by a dropped pebble.

A cell phone with almost 40,000 books from the future is a little larger than a pebble, with a far greater impact.

What will be left when the avalanche is finished?

Worlds of Wonder – August 1956: A Semi-Pulp Magazine

Future Tech Book 4

You’re looking through a pile of old pulp magazines in a used bookstore – and a cover photo and odd titles catches your eye. Parting with your hard-earned money, you go home and settle in for something… unusual.

In this little collection, I’ve emulated the story styles of the science fiction magazines I grew up with. Short stories, terse writing, something that would give you a smile or a chuckle, and then pop you into the next story.

So pull up a chair, blow the dust off this odd little magazine you’ve found – and enjoy this little semi-pulp magazine.

Richard Alan Chandler

Kiwi

Alex Sanderson doesn’t like much of anything, but of all the things he hates, getting locked up in an alien prison on trumped-up charges tops the list. All he wants is a fair hearing and he’s sure he can get out. His cellmate on the other hand, she has different plans for Alex…

Note: This story contains profanity, some violence, and sexual situations; although not especially graphic, they may be offensive to some readers.

Wesley Morrison

A Piece of Eternity

Films That Never Were Book 1

A premium human in a genetically enhanced future, Rylen Weir was bred for a life of harmony and balance. Being kidnapped by unenhanced “throwbacks” and finding himself the key to which version of humanity survives was never in the plan.

Rylen has little choice, however. An unknowing test subject for the Traveller Enhancement, allowing him to send his consciousness back through time among his own ancestors, Rylen can possess the one man who set this future in motion. Which gives Rylen the power to save everyone, and everything, that he has ever known—or to prevent his world from ever happening.

Only neither side knows what Rylen will choose, because Rylen Weir is flawed.

Alma Boykin

Between Flood and Flame

A Cat Among Dragons Book 6

When trouble calls, don’t answer the radio!

Rada and Zabet return to Drakon IV and promptly end up in a tangle of Lineage politics, imperial incompetence, natural disasters, and rumblings of possible civil war. Just when she thinks it’s safe to take a few days hunting trip, Rada discovers a dying junior and a long-secret crime. There’s no such thing as a quiet decade, or half-century, when Rada ni Drako gets her fur up. Or is there?

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