We both want to extend a big, huge, fat Thank You! to all our readers! Sometime today, the thousandth copy of Asylum sold. We are flabbergasted, humbled, and giddy. Words cannot express the gratitude we feel towards each and every one of you. (So as the Bard said: “Upon your imaginary forces, work…)
Now back to writing…
As a little break for Tax Time, we are offering Asylum for 99 cents, starting April 12 at 5:00 AM (PST). The price goes up to $1.99 on April 14 at 11:00 AM (PST), and then to $2.99 on April 16 at 5:00 PM. The sale ends at midnight, April 19.
Don’t miss this opportunity to get the latest Loralynn Kennakris novel on sale!
Today we announce the fourth book in the Loralynn Kennakris series!* Enjoy the sample chapter below! Want more sample chapters? How do you feel about mailing lists? Sound off in the comments!
“Go in harm’s way? Like Hell! I’m gonna put them in harm’s way!”
The war has flared up again, and Senior Lieutenant Loralynn Kennakris is thoroughly pissed off. On the walking-wounded list with a paralyzed arm and unable to fly, her superiors have decided to give her a meaningless promotion and send her off with a diplomatic mission to Iona. For years, tensions have been ramping up between the Nereidian League and its increasingly powerful former colony. It’s the diplomat’s job to defuse them before they explode. Kris’s job is to act as the mission’s ‘military advisor’—which really means looking decorative, fetching coffee, and keeping her mouth shut.
That is, until someone screwed up.
Caught on the wrong side of a military disaster that threatens the League’s whole war effort and forced into a role she never desired, Kris knows she didn’t start this fight. But she’s sure as hell gonna finish it . . . one way or another.
Recon Flight Viper Fox, on patrol
Phase Plane Anvil, Mirandan Space
“How many bogies you got, Tanner?” Her voice was cool and smooth, but the med-monitors showed that her blood pressure was already ramping up.
“I got five—that’s five—at tango one forty, nine hundred kips closure.” His voice was thin and tinny over the burst link.
“You got that, Baz?”
“Roger that—got five, I say five. Bearing okay, closure okay.”
Her own T-Synth showed five too—five little red dots starting to spread out in attack formation in T-Synth’s holographic volume. It chewed on their energy profiles and declared them hostile, but she already knew that. “Baz, I make ‘em Halith heavy attack craft. You concur?”
“Oh, they’re Doms all right. Emissions signature looks like Talon-3s.”
“Okay, go to attack pattern delta. Suck it in Tanner, you’re too low.” Obediently, one of the three little blue triangles that indicated her and her wingmen snuggled closer to her port quarter. “Good. Now don’t break it up until I tell you.”
“You got it, Kris.”
The blood chemistry monitors started to light up yellow with stress compounds as her fighter eased down and left. The sphere of the T-Synth rotated as it began to carve maneuver envelopes and velocity vectors through the volume. “I have intercept in four hundred thirty seconds,” she said with a calmness that the med-monitors didn’t reflect.
Hello Again, Everyone!
Just wanted to let you know that my Celtic fantasy novel is FREE on Amazon for these two days: Monday, March 30, and Saturday, April 4! If you like “old-school” epic fantasy with a bit of a twist, you might want to check it out! (Plenty of epic battles, desperate combat, narrow escapes, a few elves, a little gore and a bit of sex.)
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FMBBDZ8.
As we are hard at work on the fourth book, and desiring to improve anything we can, we’d like to solicit feedback on TOCs. The TOC in Asylum was quite detailed which also made it quite long. Did including the subchapters in the TOC help or hinder?
Sound off in the comments and help us make the fourth book a better reading experience.
Thanks for all your support!
For those of you who prefer to hold actual paper in your hands, the print edition of Asylum is available. Use the link below to get it direct from Createspace and save some money as well!
Print Edition: https://www.createspace.com/5315273
(To get $3.00 dollars off, use this code: NA5GGCRC. Good only at CreateSpace.)
Hello Everyone!
Just wanted to let you know that my Celtic fantasy novel is now on sale at Amazon for $0.99! If you like “old-school” epic fantasy with a bit of a twist, you might want to check out my novel! (Plenty of desperate combat, epic battles, narrow escapes, a few elves, a little gore and a bit of sex.)
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FMBBDZ8.
Print: https://www.createspace.com/4468294.
Get the Kindle edition free with purchase!
Get $2.00 Dollars off with this code: BZVWZTXW. [Good only at Createspace.]
Asylum is live on Amazon Kindle! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TVF0S8E
Whoo hoo! (Time to do the happy dance!) And because we are doing the Happy Dance, both Alecto and The Morning which Breaks are on sale for a week! Get Alecto for only $0.99 and The Morning which Breaks for $1.99!
Okay, now we’ll get back to work…
Look for news of the print edition in a few days.
Update: If anyone out there uses a Kindle Voyage, could you please leave a comment to that effect here? Thanks!
Asylum has been submitted for publication! If all goes well, it should be live on Amazon KDP in the 12 hours or so.
We will update here with a link as soon as it goes live! For those interested in such things, the print edition (with should be live on Createspace early next week) came in at 520 pages.
Onward and upward!
We have a release date for Asylum (good lord willing and the creek don’t rise): February 20th. If there are no hiccups with Amazon, the Kindle edition should be available that weekend (February 21st-22nd). The paperback version will follow within 2 or 3 weeks. (The paperback version always seems to take a while to get listed on Amazon from Createspace for some reason.)
We have decided not to deal with preordering this time around. Looking into it more closely and discussing other authors’ experiences with them, we decided it was unlikely to convey a great enough benefit this time. So we are going to revisit the issue when the fourth book is ready.
Many thanks to everyone who helped get this book into shape. Your assistance has been invaluable. What deficiencies remain are ours alone, and are probably there because we didn’t listen where we ought to have.
Enjoy Asylum and onward to Book 4!