No More Canceling now, liberty book promo

How we got here: 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.

During that I became aware of how little visibility our side of the political divide (aka those to the right of Lenin) get for their Indie efforts. Part of it is that we truly suck at organizing/doing anything in a group.

So all the groups are left-leaning or the vocal people in the groups are left leaning. Combine that with the fact trad pub is left leaning, (except Baen, of course) and what you get is people on our side thinking that they’re alone.

I decided to change that by doing nightly promo posts.

Now, it’s calmed down enough I think I can do just weekly, on Sunday. So if you want to be promoted, send it to bookpimping at outlook dot com. by this Saturday, and I’m put you in.

Obviously I’m not reading all of these books, particularly not this week. So, exert the normal cautions before buying, such as looking at a sample, or downloading a sample, even.

And I get a small commission per book sold. #COMMISSIONEARNED. Which is good, because the last… 8? 9? days of posting were a lot of work, mostly because wordpress delenda est.

FROM JON LAFORCE: Hell’s Belles: Love and War Downrange

Two souls collide in the middle of a deadly war.

Sergeant Sylvie Lyons of Her Majesty’s Royal Engineers wishes she’d listened to her grandda’s advice and stayed away from the military.

USMC Sergeant Hondo Cassidy wants nothing more in life than being a Marine and fighting.

Hondo and Sylvie find themselves thrown together when his artillerymen are assigned to provide security for her engineers deep in the desert of Afghanistan.. Amidst death, destruction, cultural misunderstanding and the inevitable that happens when you mix an all male unit of Marines with an engineer unit that is mostly female, Sylvie and Hondo find in each other a reason to live.

That is, if they can survive.

FROM DAN MELSON: The Invention of Motherhood (The Politics of Empire Book 1)

Pregnancy is dangerous in the Empire!

For thousands of years, Imperial women have used artificial gestation. But Grace was born on barbarian, pre-contact Earth. She can’t call herself a mother without doing it the hard way at least once.

Grace has married into one of the most important families in the Empire – and Imperial politics are deadly at the top.

Despite the risks, she discovers that there are advantages, both to herself and to her unborn baby. The Empire will never be quite the same again.

FROM RICHARD F. WEYAND: Razor Sharp (D Branch Book 1)

Is vengeance out of reach?

Pirates have been harrassing Federation shipping for twenty years. The Federation Navy seems powerless to stop them.

Deke Sharp, of the secretive D Branch, takes on the case. He makes good progress until his ship is found destroyed, a victim of the pirates he’s been chasing.

The only sign of life the Navy finds in the wreckage is a single medical life-support unit. The DNA signature is of Deke Sharp.

Terribly injured, with no memory, can D Branch put Deke Sharp back together enough for him to seek vengeance for his murdered crew?

FROM J. MANFRED WEICHSEL: Ebu Gogo

Terror lies waiting in the jungle island of Flores.

Terror in the form of cryptids called ebu gogo.

Terror for the cryptozoologists who dream to discover them.

The one thing Lewis Dare wants more than anything in the world is to discover the ebu gogo – three-foot-tall cryptids in the genus of Homo rumored to live in Indonesia.

But Lewis Dare’s ex-wife, Linda, wanting to beat the famous cryptozoologist at his own game, has rushed to Indonesia in order to discover the ebu gogo before he does.

On the Indonesian island of Flores, their dream to discover a cryptid becomes a nightmare when the ebu gogo turn out to be primitive, savage, sex fiends.

FROM LARS WALKER: The Year of the Warrior: Books 1 and 2 of the Saga of Erling Skjalgsson; Author’s paperback edition – PLEASE NOTE THE OTHER EDITIONS ARE STILL WITH THE PUBLISHER. AUTHOR GETS MORE IF YOU BUY THIS ONE.

What is better? To impersonate a Christian priest for a Viking chieftain, or remain a slave? Aillil of Ireland doesn’t hesitate. But he’ll soon have reason to question his choice.

In a Norway wracked by religious and political change, his master Erling Skjalgsson is fighting obstinate heathens, old family foes, and new challengers:

A blacksmith struck by lightning, who sees things that shouldn’t be seen…

A slave who longs to be hanged, and wants Aillil to do it for him…

A dead man who walks again…

FROM LEIGH KIMMEL: A Gift of Koi

Ancient and wise, the grandfather Koi knows at first sight that this human bears a hidden wound. But how can a mere fish, even one as old as himself, be of any aid to a human?

Astronaut Tyler Lanham had come to Grissom City, first and oldest lunar settlement, in search of the medical expertise he couldn’t find on the far side of the Moon. When he sees the scar on the ancient koi’s side, he knows he’s found a kindred spirit.

But an enemy is stalking these lovely gardens. A danger that will change both man and fish.

A short story of the Grissom timeline.

FROM ROY M. GRIFFIS: By the Hands of Men, Book One: The Old World: A Sweeping Saga of Courage, Love, and Redemption

A soldier fights for his soul in the trenches of France. A field hospital nurse battles death every day. When duty and honor are not enough of a reason to go on in the hell of a world at war, love gives purpose to their lives.

A mere mile from the blood-drenched front lines, Russian refugee and nurse Charlotte Braninov encounters English Lieutenant Robert Fitzgerald, who helps her save the life of another soldier. Robert’s calm, courtly manner lingers in Charlotte’s mind, a comforting memory amid the deluge of suffering that surrounds her when she returns to the hospital.

Wounded during an unauthorized mission of mercy and then demoted to a Medical Supply Officer, Robert Fitzgerald once more meets the brave young Russian nurse. When Charlotte volunteers to help the Lieutenant learn about his duties in this new life of service, a quiet friendship blooms and love grows in that harshest of soils, even as the war rages on. But human cruelty and endemic disease claw at their lives. Can love survive in a world torn by warfare, greed, and deception?

The Old World is the first volume of the epic globe-spanning By the Hands of Men series. From World War I France, it follows Robert and Charlotte through civil-war torn Russia to pre-revolution Shanghai, across the superstition-haunted swamps of the Congo and the timeless deserts of Central Africa, through Paris and London, and into the dream factory of Hollywood in the late 1930s.

Immersive, exciting, and emotionally compelling, By the Hands of Men is a gripping saga of fate, loss, redemption, and undying love.

FROM TERRY M. RUWA: Space Ranger: Outbreak at Fargone

Originally published with author name Terri M. Rqwe because one should not have a cat walking on the ketboard while doing this.

Eddie Cinquena is a Ranger, not a Doctor. On loan to the Spaceforce Regulars, he serves as Exec on the U.G.S. Patrouche, which is now is space dock for a retrofit. He thinks he will have the leisure to pursue his own research–-wrong!

When the Alliance station, Fargone, which is only half-completed, is hit by a plague, Eddie volunteers to lead a mission of mercy to the station: a team of Doctors and other researchers, to find a cure for this mystery disease. It has killed everyone that has contracted it. Or is it a disease? Eddie and his team work frantically to find out. Will he end up having to destroy the Station and everyone in it, (including the last family members of his Turrillean friend, Mikk Karayan) to protect the rest of the Alliance?

FROM MARY CATELLI: Through A Mirror, Darkly

Powers have filled the world with both heroes and villains.  Helen, despite her own powers, had acquired the name Sanddollar but stayed out of the fights.

When the enigmatic chess masters create a mirrored world reflecting her own home and the world about it, it’s not so easy to escape.  All the more in that the people of that world are a dark reflection of all those she knows.

FROM M. TIMOTHY GRAY: Cryfder and Bahiyah: Tales of Desertania

Cryfder is in love.

He is of the people of the Northern Vales. She is of the people of the Desert. But, he is working patiently to pay the bride price that her father has demanded.

That is, until he finds out that she has been kidnapped by an evil mage and he only has a short time to rescue her from a city that is only legend to his people.

It will take all of his skill, courage and magic to find her and save her before she becomes the wife of Yazid and any chance at happiness for Cryfder is lost forever.