Release Announcement: All These Worlds

ALL THESE WORLDS by Dennis E Taylor, the final volume of the Bobiverse trilogy releases Aug 8th by Audible and WorldBuilders Press/Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency.

It has become one of Audible’s most successful SF series ever published and it concludes with the publication of ALL THESE WORLDS on August 8th.

The first book in the series, WE ARE LEGION (WE ARE BOB), was the Audible debut from Dennis E. Taylor--released on September 20, 2016 by Audible and WorldBuilders Press/Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency. It went on to win Audible’s best book of 2016 in the Science Fiction category.

For Audible it was an instant hit and it cracked their top ten main bestseller list in the first week.  And it stayed there.  The second book FOR WE ARE MANY was published April 18, 2017 and it too went on to become an Audible top ten bestseller.  As the series concludes with ALL THESE WORLDS it has pre-orders that actually made it Audible’s #1 bestseller prior to the book’s actual publication.

Clearly Dennis E. Taylor is a major new talent writing Science Fiction and the Bobiverse books have struck a special chord in a large readership.  Here’s just a taste of what all the noise is about:

WE ARE LEGION (WE ARE BOB) book 1 in the Bobiverse Trilogy.

Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.

Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.

The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.

The Bobiverse books are not only smash hits in audio and ebook but they have attracted world-wide interest.  The Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency has sold translation rights in Germany, France, Japan, China and Hungary so far.

This is the best science fiction has to offer--a brilliant plot brimming with suspense and adventure, a unique, intelligent hero, thoughtful and courageous, in a world of ideas and hard science that will make you think and feel. Dennis’s fans have made the trilogy a bestseller in two formats and on August 8th the wait is over as the trilogy concludes in spectacular fashion.

For more information, or to request a copy, contact Bibi Lewis: Bibi@ethanellenberg.com

ARC Giveaway!

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Enter for a chance to win one of these four ARCs! (US only, sorry! - unless you are willing to pay for shipping!)

It is time for another ARC clean out! As I'm sure many of you know, an ARC aka advanced reader copy is a copy of a book that is released to select groups like bloggers, librarians, and book shop owners to help with early reviews and promotion. ARCs have not gone through the final rounds of editing, so they may differ slightly or have more errors than the finished copy. One thing about ARCs is that they are illegal to sell, so I can't bring them to sell to Powell's like I do with all my other books. Due to this fact, I am giving away four of my ARCs for your reading pleasure! I have included titles and blurbs for all of them below.

A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown
"At once a penetrating work of literary analysis and a riveting historical narrative." -Nathaniel Philbrick 

Merging maritime adventure and early colonial history, A Brave Vessel charts a little-known chapter of the past that offers a window on the inspiration for one of Shakespeare's greatest works. In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail for the New World aboard the Sea Venture, only to wreck on the shores of Bermuda. Strachey's meticulous account of the tragedy, the castaways' time in Bermuda, and their arrival in a devastated Jamestown, remains among the most vivid writings of the early colonial period. Though Strachey had literary aspirations, only in the hands of another William would his tale make history as The Tempest-a fascinating connection across time and literature that Hobson Woodward brings vividly to life.

If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Lost and Found and Hoped For.
In 2006 Jamie Tworkowski wrote a story called “To Write Love on Her Arms,” about helping a friend through her struggle with drug addiction, depression, and self-injury. The piece was so hauntingly beautiful that it quickly went viral, giving birth to a non-profit organization of the same name. Now, To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) is an internationally recognized leader in suicide prevention and a source of hope, encouragement, and support for people worldwide.

If You Feel Too Much is a celebration of hope, wonder, and what it means to be human. From personal stories of struggling on days most people celebrate to words of strength and encouragement in moments of loss, the essays in this book invite readers to believe that it’s okay to admit to pain and okay to ask for help. If You Feel Too Much is an important book from one of this generation’s most important voices.

Lotus and Thorn
A thrilling fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Tamora Pierce and Sarah Maas
Ravaged by a plague known as Red Death, the planet Gabriel, a former colony of Earth, is a barren wasteland. Since being abandoned by Earth 500 years ago, resources are scarce and life is cheap. To stay alive, the survivors, the Citizens, scavenge the remains of a now dead city, trading for food with the resource-rich Curadores, the only other survivors on Gabriel. Every old computer, every piece of wire, every scrap of metal counts. To steal is the ultimate sin. So when tough-as-nails seventeen-year-old Leica is caught doing just that, she's exiled and left to the mercy of Gabriel's unforgiving desert for the rest of her life. 

While in exile, Leica discovers a mysterious shuttle, which may not only lead her home, but even more impossible—reestablish contact with Earth. Then Red Death rears its head again, killing her entire work crew, leaving Leica all alone until a handsome Curador offers her refuge in the Dome—the only place on Gabriel untouched by Red Death, where a decadent and sultry life awaits. But there's a catch: Leica can only enter the Dome as his concubine—his Kisaeng. When a rogue group of Citizens see their chance for revolution in Leica's good fortune, she finds herself unraveling a deadly mystery with chilling answers to the true origin of Red Death and the reason Earth really abandoned them so long ago. 

A richly imagined tale in the vein of Tamora Pierce, Lotus and Thorn is a magnificent, epic fantasy adventure.

Rebel Heart (Dust Lands #2)
Nothing is certain and no one is safe in the scorching sequel to Blood Red Road, which MTV’s Hollywood Crush blog called “better than The Hunger Games.”

There is a price on Saba’s head. She brought down a ruthless tyrant and saved her kidnapped brother. But winning has come at a terrible cost. Saba is haunted by her past—and a new enemy is on the rise, an enemy who searches for her across the Dust Lands.

Saba needs Jack: his moonlit eyes, his reckless courage, his wild heart. But Jack has left. And her brother is haunted by ghosts of his own. Then news comes that tells her Jack can never be trusted again. Deceived and betrayed, haunted and hunted, Saba will need all of her warrior’s strength just to survive. For the enemy has cunning plans of his own…




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Codename: Freedom: Survive Week One

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War is coming. 

The government must accelerate their super soldier program. They have pushed beyond what was thought possible and developed a new Virtual Reality system; the perfect tool to weed out and train recruits. There is another problem. Every soldier has already been sorted and those found to possess the “talent” are already in training. There just aren’t enough. That is why Codename: Freedom has been developed. It’s time they looked outside the military. Failure is not an option.

Against all odds, Lucius, a semipro gamer who was raised by his Artificial Intelligence Bot named Destiny, is selected to participate in Codename: Freedom, a VRMMO that promises to push Virtual Reality to the ultimate level. 

The Game Developers are kind enough to hide a key feature. 100% pain. There are no pain dampeners. He finds himself among the other participants of Codename: Freedom who are thrown in with hardly any time to get their bearings before the entire player city is attacked. 

With the world watching live, Lucius is faced with the opportunity to gain a following and impressing sponsors. After years of hard work to move up in the gamer ranks, this new game will challenge Lucius to the point of breaking and beyond. Will he quit, go mad, or find the motivation to fight when it becomes painfully clear that this is far from just another game?

Author Bio:

Apollos Thorne’s love for stories comes from many different sources. The original spark began with role playing games. The legendary Final Fantasy VII took this love to a different level, and many other games built upon what it had inflamed. He went to college and got a film degree, where he found his love for writing while writing his own scripts. The novel was a much more natural medium for his tastes, so he began writing more often. It was in college when he picked up the Farseer Trilogy that his love of fantasy fiction really took off. After that, it was rare for him not to finish at least one novel a week. In 11/01/2015 he found the website royalroadl.com. It allowed anyone to publish their writing online and get feedback from readers. He was intrigued. Beginning to post book one of Codename: Freedom, he was drawn into the process in large thanks to a number of fans. He finished eight months later with over 500,000 views. A few more months later and book one of the Codename: Freedom saga, Survive Week One, will be published 07/12/2017.

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Spotlight: DarkSkull Hall

Description:
Decades ago, the mages went to war with each other in a destructive, decades-long battle that killed thousands and destroyed entire cities. Now, an uneasy peace lingers. 
Born into the small, peaceful country of Rionn, a place almost untouched by the past war, Alyx Egalion knows little of mages or battles. Yet soon after her sixteenth birthday, the pampered daughter of nobility has her entire world shattered when she learns that she is the daughter of a mage and must travel to the distant country of Tregaya to learn her magic at DarkSkull Hall.
Stripped of everything familiar to her, and surrounded by strangers she cannot trust, Alyx finds herself in a world where courage, magic and wits are the only things that will keep her alive. 
Outside DarkSkull Hall, the fragile peace is beginning to show cracks, and Alyx will soon learn that her wealth and status will not protect her from what is coming…



About the Author:
Lisa was born in Melbourne, Australia, but now lives in the nation's capital, Canberra!

She mostly sticks to novel-length fantasy but occasionally likes to break out with short stories on random things like unicorns and ninjas. When not writing, you’ll like catch her enthusiastically spectating a basketball game (#NewYorkKnickForLife), working for a living, or…well… writing!

Whenever you buy a copy of one of Lisa's books, you will be helping to support One Girl. One Girl is committed to educating 1 million girls across Africa, and Lisa is excited to contribute to this vision. Together they're changing the world, one girl at a time.

Feel free to follow Lisa on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram– she loves to discuss her work with readers!

Check out her website at www.lcasswrites.com

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Review: Soolie Beetch and the Dying Light

Title: Soolie Beech and the Dying Light (Book 1)
Author: Gypsie Raleigh
Page Count: 350
My Rating: 4 TURTLES: A great read, I definitely recommend.
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Description:
A strange woman passing through the village of Hob Glen dies a sudden and violent death, leaving something evil behind. Now young Soolie Beetch is cursed with deadly powers she can’t control and a golden-eyed child haunting her dreams. Fighting for her freedom and her life, an ordinary girl must resort to extraordinary measures to save her family and her town.

Searching for answers, Soolie journeys to the dazzling city of Ravus where the dead walk among the living, and the living have started going missing. Pursued by monsters and racing against time, she must use all her courage and determination to unwind a dark mystery that threatens the lives and souls of everyone she loves.

Fast-paced, daring and vividly written, Soolie Beetch and the Dying Light hooks the reader from page one and provides a breathtaking ride to a shocking climax.

Review:
Gypsie is an amazing storyteller, no doubt about it! Her descriptions are vivid, at times beautiful or horrifying, sometimes within a sentence. Her style is captivating and kept me on my toes. Just when I thought I knew what was going to happen, something totally unexpected would happen! I really liked how much the characters lived in a gray area of morality, it certainly made for an original, thought-provoking read. I also really liked how the ending isn't a cliffhanger, but certainly leaves the reader wanting more.

I will say though, that this is dark fantasy, and, as I told someone earlier today "the body count is impressive." And while the main character of the story is a girl, this is definitely adult, not young adult. If you are a person who has trouble with pets/animals dying, children dying, or main characters dying, this may not be the book for you. I was taken aback at times by how violent it was, and if I hadn't enjoyed the writing so much I might have found it more off-putting than I did.

If you do like dark fantasy, I would highly recommend you check out "Soolie Beech and the Dying Light." The writing is beautiful, the characters are memorable, and the story is engrossing. I can't wait to see what else this author has in store!



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Spotlight: The Devil's Backbone

About the Book: 
Through the ethereal window rippling above the sun-scorched pavement, Sadie Bishop would sometimes catch glimpses of a mysterious world, a desert landscape, punctuated by giant fissures that cleaved the land. What wonders haunted that interior world, the visions never revealed, they only tempted her with promises whispered from their depths . . . 
Sadie Bishop was ready to move on from the terrible events that had ripped her away from her job and family, so ready that she was about to indulge a dark compulsion, one that called to her in the night, urging her to hit the road and plunge deep into the heart of the American West. But her country was broken, plagued by cultists, mutants, and a ruthless cartel. 
In a nightmarish future, will Sadie be able to endure those who seek to expose and exploit the enigmatic shadow lurking within her? Or will they open her mind to the awesome power contained within . . . The Empyrean.

About the Author:

L. Kent Gaskill has been imagining new words and re-imagining this one since he was a child. Always on the lookout for new creative tools, be they technology-based or traditional, he has been absorbed with rendering creative realms with anything from the tip of a pencil to the turn of a phrase. He is a professional graphic designer and illustrator who works and lives on beautiful Vancouver Island. He has recently published the first book in his new science fiction adventure series and is in the process of editing the second.

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Spotlight: Wildcat

Book Blurb

Rhianwyn of the Caderyn is conflicted about giving up a warrior’s life to become a wife and mother, but her love for her new husband is enough to at least make her consider it.  However, with the conquering Gaians moving ever closer to her homeland a peaceful life may no longer be an option, for Rhia or for any of her people.  With rival tribes, old suitors, and the dangerous General Lepidus to contend with, Rhia soon finds her new family in unprecedented danger, and her choices now must be about more than just herself...  

Author Bio

JP Harker is the pen-name of James Thomas, a former archaeology student, an obsessive martial artist and a committed geek of various types, who apparently didn’t drive his fiancée mad enough with those things and so took up writing fantasy books as well.  A proud Welshman with just enough Saxon in him to make things interesting, James hails from glamorous Glamorgan in South Wales.

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