Battle Group Avalon is the third Castle Federation novel. Get it on Amazon here. TURNING THE TIDE The Terran Commonwealth has proved a nigh-unstoppable juggernaut in its war against the smaller Castle Federation and her allies, but an almost accidental victory by Captain Kyle Roberts of the carrier Avalon has opened a chink in its armor. Desperate to change the course of a war they are rapidly losing; the Federation assembles a new forward fleet with orders to retake the systems ... Read more »
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Kindle Unlimited & The Scammers
As I'm pretty sure everyone reading this knows, Faolan's Pen Publishing Inc. started as me self-publishing, and our catalog is fully enrolled in Kindle Unlimited. There has been a growing amount of media coverage lately of the current issues with scammy books moving into Kindle Unlimited. (Sample article at The Observer). There are two components to this mess that haven't really made it into the general kerfuffle: 1) The situation has dramatically improved from the perspective of the ... Read more »
Voice of Mars Paperback Released
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Fashionably late, the paperback version of Voice of Mars is now out! Currently available on Createspace and should be available on Amazon shortly. Two weeks in is also a good time to speak to how well Voice of Mars has done, and the simple description is spectacularly. Voice peaked at #180 on Amazon.com, making it my highest ranked book to date. It ... Read more »
Voice of Mars is out Now!
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Voice of Mars is out now! Get it on Amazon. YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME When accusations of piracy and mass murder are laid against his homeworld, Damien Montgomery is sent to resolve the crisis. As counter-accusations fly and an old flame re-enters his life, the newest Hand of the Mage-King of Mars finds himself in the midst of a bloody interstellar shadow ... Read more »
Amazon Exclusivity
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Over the course of the first month of 2016, I experimented with removing the Amazon exclusivity from Hand of Mars (Starship's Mage Omnibus had never been exclusive with Amazon) and running promotions to see if I could get the non-Amazon retailer sales of both books to equal, at least, the December Kindle Unlimited royalties for Hand of Mars alone. I ... Read more »
Two Years On
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Two years ago today, I launched Starship's Mage: Episode 1 on Amazon. I had high hopes for its success - I quite liked the novella and was very pleased with it. Over the course of it's first three months, however, it sold less than 100 copies. The general fate, so far as I can tell, of any stand-alone e-novella from a new author. I was disappointed ... Read more »