Writers (and others) Standing For Liberty Promo Post

So how I started this new hobby that’s eating my evenings was like this:

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. But that’s not important, right now…

Or rather, it’s super important and it was heartening to see people stand up against the cancel crowd.

However in the aftermath I realized that a lot of the newer indies assumed (because traditional publishing discriminated against everyone not hard left for … well, since the forties, if some of the histories I’ve read can be trusted) that if they were to the right of Lenin, they were a minority and needed to keep their heads down.

This is very far from true. So far that a lot of the perception might come from preference falsification, where you don’t say anything because you think you are alone.

You guys know me. I can’t see this type of thing and not go over and kick the status quo. it’s who I am, it’s what I do. And in this case, as we’ve been seeing this last month, it desperately needs kicking. I put it on twitter that if people sent me an Amazon link to their book to bookpimping at outlook dot com I would give them promo. The ONLY requirement is not being embarrassed of being seen on my blog. (Which means I wouldn’t be doing even the minimal filtering I normally do, when I reserve my right not to promo you for any reason or none. )

So, here we are. The number of people sending me books as astonished even me, and I’m doing (more or less) ten books a night.

Oh, yeah, I earn a commission per each book, which trust me, I do earn since this is fussy and tedious work. As I said, it’s a new hobby for my evenings. Fun, eh?

Two further notes today: 1- Some of you might have thought I hated you or something. no. Email was hiding a bunch of you under “Junk” and I just found you this morning while trying to email someone else. 2- Today, at the bottom there will be shops run by indie artisans and sellers who also wish to say they’re for liberty. If you are one of these, page upward, find the email, and send me a link to your shop. I’ll include one or two after the books.

FROM JONATHAN SOUZA: Solist At Large: The Last Solist #1

Adelaide Taylor is the newest Solist to have gained her powers. A magical warrior of the ancient and lost Dawn Empire, she moved from California to New Jersey in secret. Enrolled in a very Catholic high school, she has to find her Companions-five teenagers that will help her to defeat magical threats to the human race. But, in the process of becoming a Solist, Adelaide has to hide the truth of her past from everyone else. Including the five people that she needs to trust the most. And, there are secrets that Adelaide still has to discover about herself and the world she has become a part of… And, who she truly is.

AND: The Winter Solist: The Last Solist #2

Adelaide Taylor has survived her first semester at school and as a Dawn Empire Solist. She’s found her first Companion, Sayuri Suisha. Sayuri’s grandfather wants to meet his only grand-daughter’s new friend. In Japan, just before New Years. Along with that, she’s gotten a warning-one of the High Fae is hunting her and is planning to ensnare Adelaide in her schemes.
There’s a girl in her school that has been set up as a tethered goat for Solists.
Her local and very Catholic high school is putting her into places that shouldn’t happen at a Catholic high school.
And there’s a monster eating prostitutes in Queens.
Nobody ever said being a Solist would be easy…

FROM HOLLY CHISM: Escape Velocity

Xanadu–Sometimes, making a profit just needs an outside perspective for why it hasn’t yet.
Turing’s Legacy–It takes love to make a person. And maybe an accident.
Theory in Practice–Psychological care may well be more important in a closed environment.
Reasonable Accommodations–Microgravity could be an answer to some disabilities.
You Can’t Go Home Again–The effects of long-term isolation on asteroid miners explored.
Everyday Miracles–What could push someone to emigrate to a new off-planet colony?

FROM KARL K. GALLAGHER: Ultimate Conclusions (Short Story Collections)

Rocket scientist Karl K. Gallagher writes stories stretching the imagination to new frontiers of wonder:

• An Amish boy on the Moon must choose between obeying his people’s separation or saving the life of a “Modern.”
• A squire tries to save a village from the monster which killed his knight.
• A junior officer makes contact with aliens whose mere appearance terrifies people.

And three new stories following up on the Torchship Trilogy, showing how Michigan Long and her friends deal with the aftermath of war and revolutions.

FROM THOMAS J. WEISS: Murmurations

They wanted him to start a war. Instead, he became a legend.

Daniel Lyon lives his life in virtual reality. His days are filled with games and friends and a family that cares for him. Until one day, when terrorists rip it all away.

Motivated by an unrelenting desire to even the score, Daniel leaves his now empty home and enlists in the Defense Force, where he learns to pilot a group highly sophisticated intelligence collection assets: robotic Starlings that look and sound like the real thing.

After quickly discovering the DF isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, Daniel meets a rich, eccentric man with plans of his own for dealing with the terrorists. The payoff is considerable, but so is the price. Daniel must leave behind everyone and everything he knows and journey to Geb, the terrorists’ home planet.

There, he teams up with a striking young woman, and together they embark upon one of the most audacious missions in history, one that promises to end the conflict once and for all.

Except nothing goes according to plan.

What happens instead is outrageous and terrifying and Daniel has no idea if he’ll live through it.

FROM JULIE FROST: Dark Day, Bright Hour

A choir girl cast into the Pit through an egregious clerical error
Her strapping Guardian Angel
A condemned hitman
… and Derek

–a crossroads demon who’s been secretly storing up power for millennia.

He wants revenge on everyone on his extensive list, from Lucifer all the way up to Daddy and every devil and angel between. It’s a frankly impossible goal for a low-level guy like him, but “dream big” is his motto and sheer spite keeps him going.

Now he’s stuck escorting three idiots through Hell—and Derek has a history with the angel, thanks very much.
An infernal rebellion looms along with a premature Armageddon, and the black and withered thing Derek used to call a conscience rears its stupid, stupid head. He’s faced with a choice.

Rescue friends he never thought he’d make from a boss he never really thought he’d defy, at the possible cost of his life, such as it is…

Or let it all burn and dance in the ashes.

FROM JOHN A. DOUGLAS: The Black Crown (Age of Adventures Book 1)

The Crown Pantheon, authoritarian rulers of Allspire, slaughtered the marauding Orcs by the tens of thousands and returned peace to the continent of Evergrad. But among the many half-orc bastards left in the wake of the war, one was Prince Ragoth Brightsorn, son of the notorious Warlord Thorgoth and Seranna, Queen of Namaria, the sole human-ruled kingdom.

After seventeen years of isolation, Ragoth is cruelly forced out of his life of luxurious comfort and into exile on the eve of his royal Crowning before he can receive his gilded mark, the magic sigil that proves his royal birth. Unable to prove who he is or return home, he embarks on a quest to reach his father’s tribe, the Sunderfang, in the lawless wilds of Dreadmour.

But his venture is not taken alone. He earns the company of Cortland Lowhelm, a pugilistic human farmboy hellbent on finding a legend to fill, and Denith, a compassionate, if helpless, elvish goodwill worker. To ensure safe passage, they acquire the services of Val’Mora, a world-weary veteran adventurer down on her luck. Together, they cross the kingdoms of the Crown Pantheon with nefarious forces seemingly at every step.

The Black Crown is a coming-of-age epic fantasy packed to the brim with action & adventure, political intrigue, found family, vengeful dragons, dark abominations, and, most of all….ORCS!

FROM JOHN SHUERGER: In Darkness Cast (Shades of Black Book 1)

A soldier prays for a mentor to train him to be a hero… what he gets is the dark sorcerer who killed thousands of them.

Gideon Halcyon is a young man who wants nothing more than to save his people from the hordes of Hell. Demons and cultists run roughshod over his home, slaughtering and sacrificing to a trifecta of fallen angels on the cusp of destroying the kingdoms of Man. Gideon is helpless in the face of extinction itself…

…until he meets Ashkelon.

Coming from the Void beyond the world, Ashkelon alone survives the world he left in ruins. Cynical and ruthless, the last lord of the Everlasting Dark seethes with millennia of hatred, and his cursed sword Acherlith shrieks with the last screams of a thousand failed heroes.

Ashkelon makes Gideon an offer – to train him to be a hero of the Light beyond the failures sealed within his blade, a peerless warrior to exceed even the exacting standards of the Dark. Reluctantly, Gideon accepts and is thrust into a world of infinite cruelty under Ashkelon’s black fist where the slightest misstep will see him just another scream in the murderer’s black blade.

As Hell consumes the hopes of Man, a hero is forged in darkness. Read it today.

FROM SABRINA ROSEN: The Sorceress Tangled: Chloe Delis Book 2 (Sorceress Chloe Delis)

Chloe hasn’t been a City Sorceress for long
Just long enough to realize her training isn’t what it should have been

Her magic is still going sideways
But maybe that will be useful
If it doesn’t kill her first.

She has to find answers before she
hurts herself, or anyone else.

But she’s not getting time off
And there are still beastials to hunt
Or maybe something worse

If she can’t follow Persephone’s rules,
Chloe’s patron goddess will take her to Hades.
Which is better than the alternative.

FROM D. S. BLAKE: Exopreneurs (4 book series)

From Book 1: It should have been a routine negotiation, an easy task for even a novice bailiff to handle.

Jake Ambler, a disaffected youth searching for purpose in the cosmos, finds solace in the ranks of the disreputable “exopreneurs” – those who seek to profit from the exploitation of alien worlds. His assignment?

Bug Space, a region of the galaxy where colossal, intelligent insectoids reign supreme. But when Jake arrives on the insect-infested planet of Telia, he quickly discovers that nothing about his mission is routine. The Spider Queens of Teila, a domineering race of arachnids, wield power like nothing he’s ever encountered. Their disdain for lesser life forms is only surpassed by their insatiable desire for supremacy among their own kind, especially the males.

And his fellow exopreneurs intend to cash in on it.

As Jake delves deeper into the tangled web of Teila’s intrigue, he finds himself embroiled in an uprising that threatens to consume him and those he cares for most. Survival is a high-stakes gamble, and the only way out is to unravel Teila’s greatest secret before Jake becomes yet another pawn in this galactic struggle for power.

Silk Unspun is a pulse-pounding science fiction odyssey that explores the boundaries of loyalty, survival, and the pursuit of forbidden knowledge in a universe where danger is as limitless as the cosmos.

FROM JON DEL ARROZ: The Immortal Edge: A Sci-Fi Spy Thriller (The Terran Imperium Chronicles Book 1)

…comes with a destructive price.

Imperial Special Agent Ayla Rin has uncovered a web of conspiracy leading back to the stronghold of the dangerous Robeni Space Pirates. Intelligence networks intercepted transmissions that indicate the pirates may have access to a new refined spore that can stop the aging process in humans.

But there’s more than meets the eye, as the trail leads Ayla to a mysterious planet which isn’t on any of the Imperial star charts, a world lost to time. Sinister forces seek to control this immortality spore and weaponize it against the Imperium.

Ayla Rin must uncover who is pulling the strings behind this planetary government and stop their evil plans before they’re exported to the entire Imperium. If she fails, humanity as we know it could be erased.

Fans of Star Wars: Heir To The Empire and Dan Simmons’ Hyperion will love The Immortal Edge!

SHOPS (I DON’T GET A CUT FROM THESE, BUT THEY WANT TO STAND WITH US, SO HERE THEY ARE: … because we shouldn’t willfully give money to people who hate us, and these people don’t.

MURPHIC INDUSTRIES: If you’re a gamer or simply like to paint miniatures, you could do worse than order from Murphic Industries.

MORRIGAN’S MERCANTILE: For blades, purses, drinking horns, and other needs of ren fair, or simply when you wake up feeling medieval. You could do worse than Morrigan’s Mercantile.