Book Promo
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FROM DALE COZORT: Devouring Wind
"They're coming for us, from the sky and emptiness." Ten months ago, technology guru Sharon Mack and her autistic and strangely prescient daughter Bethany were trapped in the wild alternate version of Earth called Bear Country. They took refuge at Fort Eegan, an outpost built by a peculiar cult with mysterious ties to the US government. Now a new Exchange brings terrifying new consequences.
The new Exchange blocks Fort Eegan's water supply, threatening deprivation now and catastrophic floods in the future. It also pits Fort Eegan against beings with superior technology, inhuman ruthlessness and a weapon capable of devouring everything in its path, including Fort Eegan.
In spite of the danger from the new Exchange, the humans of Bear Country are nearing a war with one another. Ruthless escaped convicts hold hundreds of women hostage. With supplies dwindling, they eye Fort Eegan's already limited resources. Inside and outside the fort, conflicts fester among the isolated humans, including a deadly love triangle. Fort Eegan's only hope is to unite before it is blown away by the devouring winds.
FROM SCOTT MCCREA: U.S. Marshal Ezra Flint: Hard As Flint: A Western Adventure (A U.S. Marshal Ezra Flint Western Book 1)
Introducing an action-packed new Western series by master storyteller Scott McCrea and introducing his new character, Marshal Ezra Flint—a rough, tough lawman who fights for what is right and never gives ground to a wrong-doer.
Marshal Ezra Flint keeps the mean streets of Misery safe, but things get personal when his ex-lover runs off with one of the most dangerous bandits in the territories. Flint goes on a quest to bring her back, but each step of the trail is dogged by paid killers. He traces her to a flyspeck town in Kansas, but can he bring her back before the killers find him?
Hard as Flint is the first in an exciting new series of westerns featuring Marshal Ezra Flint by Western Writers of America Spur Award finalist Scott McCrea.
"Hard as Flint is a noir western with an especially hardboiled marshal. It's a story of the violence of the West and of the passions that make men do dirty deeds. I hope you'll like it," said author Scott McCrea.
BY MAX BRAND, REVIVED BY D. JASON FLEMING: The Gun Tamer (annotated): The Classic Pulp Western
When Don Felipe Christobal Hernandez Consalvo appeared at the local dance, every young lady noticed him. Most especially did Mary Mackay notice him. Lydia, her mother, could tell immediately that, no matter how charming and elegant, there was something off about the man. Her husband, the colonel, saw only Consalvo's regal heritage, and invited him into their home. Now Lydia must play a complicated game, doing nothing to push her daughter away, enlisting outside help from the sheriff, and trying to solve the riddle of Don Consalvo, who claims to be the merest fop, yet is a crack shot capable of defeating the fastest draw in the land.
- This iktaPOP Media edition includes a new introduction giving the novel genre and historical context.
FROM DAVID K. THOMASSON: The First Impression
A man framed . . . his life ruined . . . and then the twists begin.
Jack Bolt rose from a hillbilly childhood of poverty, neglect, and abuse. Thanks to his unusually keen mind and the faith of a teacher and a bookstore owner, his future looks bright. At age 25 he's working maintenance in a college town, studying on a scholarship, and about to marry the girl of his dreams.
During a routine service call at a church he runs into 13-year-old Sarah Ellison. Moments after he leaves, Sarah is brutally murdered. Bolt is charged with the crime and convicted by a brilliant prosecutor who uses his own honesty against him.
He's been framed with tainted evidence, but this is no whodunit. Bolt knows exactly who did it—Conrad Baylor, church deacon and deputy chief of police.
Held in jail during his trial, Bolt is haunted by the 'howdunit': How did Baylor manage to tamper with the evidence and frame him? And how can he discover the secret and clear his name if he goes to prison?
But then, in a strange turn of events, Bolt is offered a chance to prove his innocence and recover his once-promising future. That's when a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins . . .
FROM LAURA MONTGOMERY: Long in the Land: A Science Fiction Lost Colony Adventure (Martha's Sons Book 2)
He's a man on the run. But on this harsh alien world, freedom doesn't mean he's safe.
Peter Dawe can't face his mother's relentless grief. With her anguish deepening his guilt and the colony's governor out for revenge, he's desperate to escape a deadly situation ready to explode. So he jumps at the chance to journey north away from danger, chasing the rare sight of a long-lost aircraft.
Buoyed by the glimpse of a machine he's never seen before, Peter discovers the pilot desperately needs aid for his newborn son. But with sinister agents searching for them both, the remote planet may not be big enough to preserve the young fugitive from his enemy's vengeance.
Can Peter find them refuge before they all fall to their doom?
Long in the Land is the thrilling second book in the Martha's Sons science fiction series. If you like captivating world-building, edge-of-your-seat tension, and memorable characters, then you'll love Laura Montgomery's high-stakes tale.Buy Long in the Land to make a stark choice today!
FROM HOLLY CHISM: Bite Sized (Liquid Diet Chronicles Book 1)
Meg Turner has been a vampire for twenty years. Her favorite food is rapists. Which is how she met Andi Donahue, her new best friend/ girl Friday.
And then the nightmares start. And the bodies start showing up--bled out and raped. Just like Meg was. They don't have a whole lot of time to stop the killer before he strikes again, and only one way to stop the killer.
But how can Andi help Meg stop a killer she can't even see?
FROM KAREN MYERS: To Carry the Horn - A Virginian in Elfland (The Hounds of Annwn Book 1)
AN ENTIRE KINGDOM BUILT AROUND A SUPERNATURAL NEED FOR JUSTICE, ENFORCED BY THE WILD HUNT AND THE HOUNDS OF HELL.
What would you do if you blundered into a strange world, where all around you was the familiar landscape of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, but the inhabitants were the long-lived fae, and you the only human?
George Talbot Traherne stumbles across the murdered huntsman of the Wild Hunt, and is drafted into finding out who did it. Oh, and assigned the task of taking the huntsman's place with the Hounds of Hell, whether he wants the job or not.
The antlered god Cernunnos is the sponsor of this kingdom, and he requires its king to conduct the annual hunt for justice in pursuit of an evil criminal, or else lose his right to the kingship, and possibly end up hunted himself.
Success is far from guaranteed, and no human has held the post. George discovers his own blood links to the fae king, and he's determined to try. But Cernunnos himself has a personal role to play, and George will have to sort out just why he's the one who's been chosen for the task.
And whether he has any chance of surviving the job.
Find out what it's like to live in a world where you can help the Right to prevail, even if it might cost you everything.
FROM WILLIAM STROOCK: The Great Nuclear War of 1975
In a Different 1975…
Superpower relations breakdown and a nuclear war all but annihilates the Soviet Union and devastates the United States.
100 million Americans are dead.
After Washington is destroyed, a smalltown judge delivers the oath of office to Vice President Rockefeller.
Surviving American forces on land, sea and in the air await orders from the new president.
Americans across the nation climb out of the rubble looking for a homeland that no longer exists.
In surviving capitals across the globe, governments ponder the implications of a world without the superpowers.
In Britain, a rump cabinet meets in the Cotswolds to plan a way forward without the United States.
Commonwealth Prime Ministers in Canberra, Auckland and Ottawa look to the UK for leadership.
In Buenos Ares, a weak government plots the takeover of the Malvines.
As radiation sweeps down from Siberia, the Chinese government faces unprecedented famine.
In New Delhi, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi wonders how she will feed India.
In Rhode Island, one man will start a trek halfway across North America to reunite with his family.
William Stroock is the author of 15 novels including the World War 1990 alternate history series.
FROM LEIGH KIMMEL: The Shadow over Leningrad
In Stalin's Soviet Union, Tikhon Grigoriev lives a precarious life. He knows too much. He's seen too much. A single misstep could destroy him, and if he stumbles, he will take his family down with him. With Leningrad besieged by Nazi armies, the danger has only increased.
He's not a man who wants to come to the notice of those in high places. But when he solved a murder that seemed supernatural, impossible, he attracted the attention of Leningrad's First Party Secretary.
So when a plot of land grows vegetables of unusual size and vigor, and anyone who eats them goes mad, who should be called upon to solve the mystery but Tikhon Grigoriev. However, these secrets could get him far worse than a bullet in the head. For during the White Nights the boundaries between worlds grow thin, and in some of those worlds humanity can have no place.
Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and 'Nother Mike.
So what's a vignette? You might know them as flash fiction, or even just sketches. We will provide a prompt each Sunday that you can use directly (including it in your work) or just as an inspiration. You, in turn, will write about 50 words (yes, we are going for short shorts! Not even a Drabble 100 words, just half that!). Then post it! For an additional challenge, you can aim to make it exactly 50 words, if you like.
We recommend that if you have an original vignette, you post that as a new reply. If you are commenting on someone's vignette, then post that as a reply to the vignette. Comments — this is writing practice, so comments should be aimed at helping someone be a better writer, not at crushing them. And since these are likely to be drafts, don't jump up and down too hard on typos and grammar.
If you have questions, feel free to ask.
Your writing prompt this week is: SATISFY
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