The Terran Privateer is book one of the Duchy of Terra. Get it on Amazon here. (It will be $2.99 US until the end of July, then go up to $4.99) Earth is conquered. Sol is lost. One ship is tasked to free them. One Captain to save them all. When an alien armada destroys the United Earth Space Force and takes control of the human homeworld, newly reinstated Captain Annette Bond must take her experimental hyperspace cruiser Tornado into exile as Terra’s ... Read more »
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Mystery Project Unveiled: The Terran Privateer
Since completing Battle Group Avalon I've been working on a new project to help clear my mind a bit before returning to Starship's Mage for book four in that series. This is the one that's been labelled as 'Mystery Project #1' on this site so far (there are, for the curious, now four Mystery Projects.) and, since its now exactly one month from release, I figure it's time to unveil the mystery! The Terran Privateer (Book One of the Duchy of Terra) is an epic space opera in the vein of David ... Read more »
Battle Group Avalon is out now!
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 »
Battle Group Avalon Complete
In the middle of February, having just finished the first round edits on Voice of Mars, I started into the third Castle Federation Book: Battle Group Avalon. It was intended to be a 90,000 word novel, and I gave myself 45 days to finish it - until the end of March. 2,000 words a day is a pretty sustainable pace for me at this point, so this seemed a reasonable target. About ten PM on March 31, I finished the book. It is... not 90,000 words. Battle Group Avalon ended up being just over ... 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This blog post was published on and may be out of date.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 »
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 »