Science Fiction Adventure Storybundle, Out Now!

Hey Party People! Want a huge collection of amazing Science Fiction ebooks? I've got you covered.

Until Thursday, 9 February, Storybundle is hosting a selection of Science Fiction Adventure novels from some of the greatest SFF indie writers today. Curator, Joseph R. Lallo, has this to say about the collection:

“This is one of the biggest and best bundles we've ever put together. Oasis by New York Times Bestseller Dima Zales will blur the line of utopia and dystopia. The complete Big Sigma Series will take you blazing through the galaxy with a desperate race pilot and a quirky AI. Cyborg Legacy, the latest from the prolific and talented Lindsay Buroker is available for the first time anywhere in this bundle. Tim Ward takes the world of Hugh Howey's Sand in cinematic and thrilling new directions with Scavenger: Evolution. Tammy Salyer assembles a rugged team of space marines in Contract of Defiance and Contract of Betrayal. Geoffrey Morrison returns to his deep-sea world of devastation and decay with Undersea Atrophia, and that still only scratches the surface. We've got brilliant series-starters by Patty Jansen, M. Pax, and Joe Vasicek that are sure to hook you from the first page and never let you go. All told, that's fifteen titles from nine authors in one colossal bundle.

Every title is a cunningly woven tale of sci-fi mastery. We've got aquatic wastelands and complex time loops. There are hard-edge military stories and tales of the struggle to survive. The triumph of the human spirit, the fall of civilizations, and everything in between can all be yours. Just name your own price and dive into the action!”

The initial titles in the Sci-Fi Adventure Bundle (minimum $5 to purchase) are:

Cyborg Legacy by Lindsay Buroker

The Big Sigma Collection Volume 1 by Joseph R. Lallo

Undersea by Geoffrey Morrison

Contract of Defiance: The Spectras Arise Trilogy Book 1 by me

Shifting Reality by Patty Jansen

If you pay more than the bonus price of just $15, you get all five of the regular titles, plus EIGHT more!

Bringing Stella Home by Joe Vasicek

Temporal Contingency by Joseph R. Lallo

Undersea Atrophia by Geoffrey Morrison

Oasis by Dima Zales

Stopover at the Backworlds' Edge by M. Pax

Ambassador 1A: The Sahara Conspiracy by Patty Jansen

Contract of Betrayal: The Spectras Arise Trilogy Book 2 by me again

Scavenger: Evolution by Timothy C. Ward

This bundle is available only for a limited time via http://www.storybundle.com. It allows easy reading on computers, smartphones, and tablets as well as Kindle and other ereaders via file transfer, email, and other methods. You get multiple DRM-free formats (.epub and .mobi) for all books!For $5-$15, you can pick up over a dozen flights of fancy and lose yourself for hours.

The bundle ends 9 February, so only a few days left to pick it up, either for yourself or to gift to someone else! Just click here. Who knows, you could find your next favorite author.

Lastly, I just happen to have two free bundle download codes that I’m giving away to the first two people who can tell me the first name of my buff-as-f*ck weapons guru known in the Spectras series as Desto. If you know, shoot me an email at tammy (at) inspiredinkediting (dot) com and I’ll send you your very own free download code.

Happy reading!

Get Your Read On!

Yo Bloggolicious! Just wanted to let you know about a couple of opportunities to get your hard-core SF/F read on for zero to almost zero pennies over the next couple of days. First off, author Patty Jansen is hosting a list of over NINETY SF/F novels, of which Conviction is one, by a huge range of terrific writers. Do yourself a favor and take a look. I’m betting you’ll find so much to love you’ll be stuck in your reading nook for decades! (That’s a good thing, btw. Just make sure you bring snacks.)

And secondly, my friend and recent collaborator onForged From the Stars, G. J. Jennsen released her latest book today, Dissonance, Book 5 of the tremendously popular Aurora Rhapsody series. It’s a special day for G. S., who is one of the nicest authors I know—her birthday! Help her make it a fabulous one and buy yourself the series as a birthday present to yourself. Weird how that works, huh? I call it a win-win.

Happy reading, Bloggolites! Feel free to share the news or this post with your word-lovin' friends.

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New Release: Forged From The Stars, a sweeping three-book science fiction collection

Greetings Blogtastics! It's my pleasure to tell you of a new Science Fiction Adventure collection from three authors (at least one of whom you already know *wink-nudge*) out TODAY!

Announcing

FORGED FROM THE STARS

Brought to you by best-selling science fiction series authors G. S. Jennsen, E. J. Fisch, and me.

Collection Includes:

FOREWORD: S. E. Lehenbauer from

The Novel Commentary

STARSHINE: AURORA RISING BOOK ONE (Aurora Rhapsody 1) by G. S. Jennsen

DAKITI: ZIVA PAYVAN BOOK 1 by E. J. Fisch

CONTRACT OF DEFIANCE: SPECTRAS ARISE TRILOGY, BOOK 1 by Tammy Salyer

At

Amazon for Kindle

with a limited-time special release price of 99¢.

SOME WOMEN ARE CONSUMED BY THE FIRE.

SOME

BECOME

THE FIRE.

An elite operative. A war-hardened soldier. A daring explorer. One strikes from the shadows to protect a deadly secret. One strives to reclaim what was taken from her. One searches the void for the answers denied her.Their stories are their own, but they share a gritty determination to fight for what they believe in and an unwavering conviction that they can and will do whatever is necessary to save themselves, those they hold dear and, if worse comes to worst (as it always does), civilization itself.FORGED FROM THE STARS brings you the first books in three exciting, original space opera adventure series, Ziva Payvan, Spectras Arise, and Aurora Rising. These epic tales feature empires that stretch across the vastness of space, suspenseful action as new worlds are discovered and old ones destroyed, thrilling interstellar warfare and deadly conspiracies that promise to reshape galaxies.At the heart of the storm stand three women: Ziva Payvan. Aly Erikson. Alexis Solovy. Forged from the stars, in the face of overwhelming odds they will bend those stars to their will—or die trying.

HELP US GET THE WORD OUT

If you've already read any of the novels in the collection, then you know what a terrific set of books this is. Why not help us get the word out by:

1. Sending a Tweet or ten. Here's one you can cut and paste: Three Warriors. Three Missions. Three Novels. FORGED FROM THE STARS. http://amzn.to/1nVMNIo By @EJFisch @GSJennsen @TammySalyer #scifi

2. Leaving a review on the collection for whichever among the novels you've already read. (For instance, if you read CONTRACT OF DEFIANCE, all you have to do is cut and paste your review to the FORGED FROM THE STARS page. Easy breezy.)

3. Sharing it on Facebook.

4. And, obviously, getting your own copy here! http://amzn.to/1nVMNIo

Thanks Blogtastics! You're going to love this. And the best thing about it is, each of these novels is merely the first of a series.

To continue E. J. Fisch's Ziva Payvan series, pick up:

To continue G. S. Jennsen's Aurora Rising series, pick up:

WHAT I'VE BEEN UP TO

Writing. Yep, I know it's hard to believe, given how long it's been since I dropped another book. But I wrote one, and now I'm rewriting it. Because—OCD word-nerd perfectionism. I also spoke on a writing panel last weekend at the Orange County branch of the California Writers Club, and, as usual, had a blast. If you're in the SoCal region and want to have me speak for an event, I'm all over it. Just shoot me an email and we'll set it up.

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Book Review: Green Zulu Five One and other stories from the Vyptellian War

Green Zulu Five One and other stories from the Vyptellian War by Scott WhitmoreMy rating: 5 of 5 stars

If you want the short version of my review, here it is: I loved this story.

Now for more: The first line of Green Zulu 51’s jacket copy is “A war of millions is fought by individuals,” and this gets right to the center of the brilliance that is speculative fiction author and former US Navy officer Scott Whitmore’s military science fiction novella. I enjoy a good space battle—with fighters contesting not only enemies, sometimes aliens, and incredible futuristic weapons, but also the zero-g properties of outer space, the distance scales that ensure rescue from outside could never happen, and the uncertainties and unknowabilities of things like dark matter and wormholes—as much as the next person, but at the end of the day, no story can really keep my imagination occupied for long if the people living that story aren’t interesting, authentic, and "real." Whitmore is a master at painting the stories he tells with vivid clarity and attention to every little detail, as well as bringing the people within them to dramatic life. The characters in GZ51 are all people you'll feel like buying a drink for and spending hours with just listening to their war stories. They are each unique, interesting, surprising, and deeply substantive, which is a pleasant turn for a story that isn’t quite novel length about an intergalactic war.

GZ51 is told in a style that puts readers directly inside the minds and boots of its main characters, a hotshot fighter pilot who isn’t even old enough to drink legally, a grizzled war veteran with more survival instinct in her little finger than most platoons have in their full ranks, and a tired administrative clerk who faces a losing battle that has nothing to do with guns and tactics. Whitmore engages all the senses and brings his battle scenes flying off the page, while skillfully weaving in the psychology and histories of his characters, leaving readers feeling almost as if they’ve been there, done that right beside each of them.

For such a relatively short tale, GZ51 leaves no stone unturned in exposing the intricacies of war from its zoomed-out view of historical, political, and cultural genesis, to the zoomed-in and intimate view of the goals, hopes, and fears of each of its characters, who must fight it in their own ways. Incredibly entertaining and highly recommended. I wish I could give it 10 stars.

Side note: The Devil’s Harvest, the author's alternate steampunk history—with zombies!—of WWI is equally brilliant and a rollicking good read! And bonus, here's an interview I did of Scott talking about writing in steampunk and paranormal genres a while back, too.

View all my reviews

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