Authors Standing For Freedom, special book promo

So, this is what happened:

Some of you are probably aware of the kerfuffle where Devon Eriksen was kicked out (on spurious grounds) from a contest he never entered because he said things the left does not like on X.

However for me the enlightening moment came after, when I realized a lot of beginning writers who were on the side of liberty, or at least to the right of Lenin, assumed everyone else writing fiction was a leftist. So, they tried to fit in with groups of leftists, keeping their heads down and feeling grateful for crumbs of information and publicity.

Guys, even given that there aren’t many of OUR groups, because the individualists as always fail to organize, the truth is that since the advent of indie, we’re the majority of this field.

Being incapable, or at least too busy to form a group, I decided to promote people who aren’t afraid to be seen on this blog. I figured that’s enough of a “purity test” for being to the right of Lenin. Later, once I get a chance to get my head together with a friend who can program (the snow isn’t helping) we’ll try to design a site for the like of us. For now, in addition to publicity, you get to know you’re not alone.

Because people glaze over after about ten books, I’m doing ten a night till I run out. You are of course free (eh) to send us the amazon link to your book at: email to bookpimping at outlook dot com

I am not reading each of these books before I post them, (though I have read a few, and might read more, just not before the promo is done.) So look at samples and exert normal caution before buying.

Oh, yeah: A COMMISSION IS EARNED FROM EACH PURCHASE. This is good because I spend a bunch of time compiling the info and getting the links. Yes, I want to help, but I could be writing ;). (Which makes more money, but never mind.)

FROM C. R. WALTON: Wilderness Five: Hard Science Fiction (Metamorphosis Book 1)

‘MYSTERY, SUSPENSE, AND COSMIC DREAD. A MUST READ FOR FANS OF PETER F HAMILTON OR ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY.’ Reader review

From Cambridge planetary scientist and award-winning author C. R. Walton comes a spectacular new space opera that sees the ingenious creation of new ecosystems throughout the System turn into a living nightmare. Extinction is only the beginning . . .

Accelerated evolution ‘Manifold’ technology has changed everything – dead worlds and asteroids bloom with strange new life.

People flocked to colonise the new wilderness only barely to survive obliteration by a Manifold experiment gone wrong. Like so many others, Bryn watched his people burn that day. Unlike the rest, Bryn finds himself hailed as the lone hero who saved his species. Only he knows better.

Bryn’s grim new life of solitude in the depths of the wilderness is shattered when the past comes calling. His presence is requested on the ringworld Wilderness Five.

There, at the edge of inhabited space, the oldest and richest man in the System has expended every drop of his money and influence to launch the most daring Manifold experiment ever attempted.

Bryn’s moment has come. Plunged back into a world of faceless corporations, hell-bent scientists, and terrifying engineered species, he must learn to finally live up to his reputation. Otherwise, nature will take its course with humanity once and for all.

On Wilderness Five, the fate of the species comes down to one question: whom to trust and whom to kill?

FROM CAITLIN WALSH: Mama Bunny #1: Comics and Stories

Parenting is tough, but it’s also rewarding. And occasionally even hilarious. Now collected for the first time, follow Mama Bunny and her family through this series of mostly-autobiographical strips and written stories as they navigate the ups and downs of dinnertime, chores, and all the other day-to-day adventures of a stay-at-home mom trying to raise and teach two children.

FROM BLAKE CARPENTER: The Way of Mortals: The Four Sisters: Book One

In the city of Bhai Mandwa, towers of steel and glass reach for the sky while boiler-cars roll along streets that are inhabited by gangsters, demonic assassins, inept policemen and wandering ghosts. More than a million people call the city home, one in the midst of an industrial revolution, torn between the traditions of the old world and a new, frightening future. Below, the Genja River flows, waters possessed by spirits and magic from ancient times.

Prem Marantha, third of four royal sisters, was kidnapped and trained to kill as a child. Upon returning home after her long absence, she discovers that her parents are dead and her youngest sister has taken the throne. Now Prem must find out how to evade an assassin’s plot, elude the unwanted attention of the ruling Parliament and the police force it controls, and stop a conspiracy planning to overthrow the monarchy for good.

THE WAY OF MORTALS is a mix of Indian-flavored steampunk, gaslamp fantasy and alternate history, with the aesthetics of Larry Correia’s SON OF THE BLACK SWORD and Guy Ritchie’s SHERLOCK HOLMES films, along with a dash of political intrigue, mystery, and murder. Fans of fantasy with an Asian and Oriental twist will not be disappointed.

FROM MANFRED WEICHSEL: Sword & Scandal (The Scandal Anthology Series Book 1)

the Gateway of Pleasure
By JIM LEE
A knight and a lady from warring kingdoms have an erotic encounter in feudal Vietnam

Shaven Beards
By ROSS BAXTER
A man and a woman sellsword learn more than they wanted to know about the secret lives of dwarves

The Snow Princess
By PIP PINKERTON
A magical princess teaches her special friend Annie new uses for ice

Vermina’s Creature
By BITTER KARELLA
A malevolent sorceress keeps a manservant as a pet

The Baron with a Thousand Cats
By GARY EVERY
A groom must save his bride from suffering prima notte with a grotesque baron

Windblades
By C. L. WERNER
A comfort woman summons killer demon weasels in a most uncomfortable way

Flesh and Ink
By Rebecca Buchanan
A female assassin’s tattoos hold a deadly power

Confessions of a Wicked Harpastum Player
By J. MANFRED WEICHSEL and ALEXANDER JOYNER
A sadistic inquisitor accuses a female Harpastum player of witchcraft… and sapphism

Kai-zur the Godless
By DAVID CARTER
A warrior becomes a lover only to learn that love is war

Abduction from the Seraglio
By DAVID J. WEST
A sellsword gets himself into an awkward situation after being hired to abduct a woman from a harem

The Harem of Al’Azeri
By JASIAH WITKOFSKY
A gentleman out for a night on the town has a serious mishap in a brothel

He Who Sows
By AUSTIN WORLEY
Two female thieves break into a temple to steal the phallus of a stone fertility god but get a little too excited by it

With thirteen filthy black and white illustrations by NSFW fantasy artist, Apolonster

Manfred is running a kickstarter for the next book.

FROM J. ISHIRO FINNEY: SCARS: Heroes come in all sizes.

James was a high-rider, a thrill seeker, an EVA cowboy. He was one of a small brotherhood of men who made a living out of lassoing dead satellites and towing them out of Earth’s orbit. Then came the accident, the one which cost James everything. Now landlocked and grounded with no chance of returning to space, James lives a life of quiet desperation. By day, he struggles with having become an amputee. By night, he is haunted by nightmares of the moment that took his leg, his friends, and his entire career. After a failed suicide attempt, a company psychologist assigns James a companion animal named Max—a very smart rat with an interesting past. Now, once again, James will find his life radically changed as old wounds are opened and fresh scars are forced to heal.

FROM JORDAN ALLEN: The Life Feast (The Hollow Realms)

Lord Legot had more money and power than any man in the town of Bastia would know what to do with, but the one thing he valued above everything else was his family. When his twin daughters are abducted one stormy night, he calls upon Caen the Hell Stalker to bring his beloved daughters back safely.

No stranger to wickedness, the intrepid monster hunter scours the land for any clues that will lead him to the girls, battling werewolves, mercenaries, demons and even monstrous hellhounds along the way. What he doesn’t yet realise is just how deeply twisted the mystery of the missing Legot girls is.

Jordan Allen returns with the fifth book in his Hollow Realms series of dark fantasy tales. The Life Feast is a standalone novella that promises action, adventure and mystery.

FROM XAVIER BASORA, WHO HAS A STORY IN THIS ANTHOLOGY: Shoot the Devil 3: Militia of Martyrs

Once again, we bring you tales of horror, adventure, and shooting the devil! Preferably in the face. This one is loaded with tales of the average fire fighter, to simple pastors, space vikings and more with one thing in common – coming face to face with supernatural evil and sending it packing.

If you have read the previous installments of the Shoot the Devil series, you will recognize some names, while others are brand new to the fold. That was our focus this time around, giving unknown and unestablished authors a chance to flex their muscle and show off their skill. And skill they have. The talent and imagination on display is extremely impressive and Crucifixion Press is extremely proud to welcome them all to the Militia!

FROM CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL: Danforth: Eldritch Tales of WWII: Tomb of the Black Pharaoh

The Cthulhu Mythos continues in series Danforth: Eldritch Tales of WWII.

In this Lovecraftian tale of horror and espionage, Tomb of the Black Pharaoh follows Robert B. Danforth, a former Miskatonic University scholar still reeling from the horrific events At the Mountains of Madness. Now part of the newly formed Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI) – the predecessor of the famed Office of Strategic Services (OSS) – Danforth is dispatched to Cairo to thwart a Nazi plot to recover the Talisman of Nephren-ka, buried deep within the lost tomb of Black Pharaoh. Said to grant unspeakable power, the artifact could tip the scales of World War II in the Nazis’ favor. As Danforth delves into the ancient tomb, he faces cults devoted to Nephren-ka, Nazi occultists, and cosmic horrors that strain the limits of his sanity.

Danforth must battle not only the looming threat of the Nazis but also the terrifying implications of the Amulet’s power. As eldritch forces close in and the boundaries between reality and madness begin to crumble, Danforth realizes the cost of failure may be far greater than even the war—humanity itself may be at stake.

This heart-pounding mix of Lovecraftian horror and historical espionage will captivate fans of cosmic terror and WWII thrillers alike, immersing readers in a world where ancient gods and modern warfare collide in a fight for ultimate power.

FROM R. H. SNOW: Transmutation Texas (WATCHER of the DAMNED: WATCHER Book 1)

In a World gone Viral, a Hero shall Arise – join the Revolution with WATCHER of the DAMNED!

The Happening wreaked havoc as Humanity got a hard reset from a deadly gender-cidal Virus – and for TransMutated Survivors like The Watcher, life in Post-Apocalyptic Texas just got a whole lot bloodier and a whole lot lonelier. In a cyberpunk Wild West gone awry, The Watcher was a Rebel without a clue under the System: a brutal, high-tech Social Construct engineered to serve the Enlightened and oppress the Damned. But that’s all about to change, thanks to a cheeky chaos agent named Rose…

Now The Watcher must lead a Revolution to save Rose from the System He helped create, or Rose will die – and Humanity will die with her.

Fight the System – Join the Revolution – with WATCHER of the DAMNED!

FROM JAY MCINTYRE AND DAN JORDAN: Lowther and Deardon: Tainted Gold

The city of Lanteius is divided between three rival nations. A grim mercenary and a cynical bard are thrust into an investigation to uncover a conspiracy that threatens the balance of power. Swords and sorcery, magic and crime, intrigue and betrayal.