This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. And with a 6,300 word sprint day, Starship's Mage book 2: Hand of Mars (originally Mage-King's Hand) is now done. There's still a few stages for it to go through before it ends up in your hands (beta readers, editing, covers, minor things like that XD) so I'm not going to give a specific release date. The goal is to have it out, as originally promised, ... Read more »
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Hand of Mars Snippet 2
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. To celebrate crossing the 50,000 word mark on Hand of Mars, here's the second scene XD ... Read more »
Success and the 900lb Gorilla
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit the books page for up to date links and releases. Space Carrier Avalon has been an EPIC success. As of writing this post, with Avalon having been out for about twenty-eight days, it sits at roughly #600 on Kindle. It peaked about #325, and hit the top ten for Space Opera and Military SF on every single English-speaking Amazon site. It is, without any real argument, a bestselling independent novel. Before I say anything ... Read more »
Experiments & Enchantments
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. So I decided to try an experiment. I've joined with a number of other Kindle authors of varying levels of success to launch an anthology of 'firsts.' Each of us submitted the first piece of a serialized piece of fiction. The anthology is Experiments & Enchantments, and it includes Starship's Mage Episode One. (While I presume most people reading ... Read more »
Hand of Mars Snippet 1
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. As I speak, Space Carrier Avalon is finishing its second week of sales, and is currently ranking in the top ten for Space Opera on Amazon around the world. Since I am currently almost completely unable to digest this sufficiently to blog about it, here's the first scene from Mage-King's Hand (the sequel to Starship's Mage) ... Read more »
Release Schedule
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. The bottom of the front page has now been updated with a schedule of the planned release dates for 2015. They are as follows: City in the Sky: Late March. Also known as 'Very Soon Now (TM)" Space Carrier Avalon: May or June. I'm aiming for the end of May, but I've got about 25,000 words left to go, plus at least one edit cycle. If it slips into ... Read more »