The silver lining in a springtime cloud
Greetings from the Sub-Arctic!
Here’s the same back driveway I shared a couple weeks ago, but this time, it’s fresh with ruts from the water truck that refilled our tank. I’ll have my ground crew, the team who takes care of my yard, level this before it dries out and becomes trenches. We have a lot of gravel work to do back there, but we know another guy who does great work. We’ll have about 40 yards of gravel delivered and perfect that back driveway for year-round use.
It’s May 3rd and we still have snow on the ground, but almost exclusively in the shaded areas except for the mountains of snow that we plowed off our parking pad. Give it a couple more weeks and even the shaded areas will be melted and then another week to dry out from all of this. That’s when the sinkholes rush to the fore. Standby for pictures.
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Mischief Maker is Live!
An epic journey into Norse Mythology, immortals living today. What if Loki was never the bad guy?
Loki, once a god, now nothing more than a stage magician in modern-day Chicago…
…his enemies from a thousand years ago have long memories.
Victors wrote the history, and Loki was blamed for the sins of the Norse gods. They can’t let him live in peace.
He has to set aside his new life to settle old grudges while coming to terms with what it means to be a man.
And a god.
If Loki fails, the nine realms will fall.
Mischief Maker breathes new life into Norse mythology, reinterpreting the legends through Loki’s modern lens.
Mischief Maker could be one of the best stories you read this year. Try it today.
Published by Craig Martelle, Inc (me) – this is also available in Kindle Unlimited so you can give it a read as part of your subscription. It is an exceptionally well-told tale with a new take on everything you thought was familiar but isn’t quite. Loki fans unite behind a new look at an old favorite character.
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Starship Freedom – A new series from a master storyteller on sale now for only $2.99
Daniel is one of my favorite authors. I hope you give this book a shot. You won’t be disappointed. The starship Freedom is just a museum ship. Until the aliens attack!
Battlestar Galactica meets Starship Troopers in this brand new sci-fi adventure from Daniel Arenson, the USA Today bestselling author of Earthrise. Free to read for Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
The audio is also available now – buy the ebook and get the audio for half off.
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Shadow Vanguard 5 – Alien Genocide is now available.
From the publisher: “Unfortunately a couple years ago the world lost a true genius in writing. A family lost their Dad, Husband, and friend. He managed to write the beats for the last two books in Shadow Vanguard and Craig has done an awesome job writing them.Tommy would be proud. Craig is now working on the final book that brings the series to a close. This is Tom’s legacy to his family!”
Either the Enkelites are going to die or the Onbir. The Shadows fight for a third option.
Displaced from their home by a war fought over their planet, the Enkelites become refugees, under the Federation’s protection. They find a new home with no life, but there’s a machine that’s being tested. A terraformer.
The Shadows arrive to help set things up, but nothing is ever straightforward.
An eco-terrorist is waiting for them, one who they’ve met before, and they didn’t like him then.
The planet is cleared, or is it?
The action starts as soon as they drop their guard. Can Adina reconcile the werewolf within? Has Tc’aarlat found love? Will Jack keep the team together? Who is Zorxia and why does she matter?
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What else am I working on?
JJE12 – Blood Trade is done & with the proofreaders for one final sweep. It is on track for publication on May 13th (I have a massive series of promotions running for the series, so we can’t early up the release).
Battleship: Leviathan is off to the editor. Leviathan’s War (Book 2) is well under way. My target to get it finished is May 21, then I’ll immediately begin Leviathan’s Final Battle (Book 3). I want to have this trilogy finished by June 15th so I can get it turned in to Aethon Books for publication of the series this fall.
I finished my noir short story (think Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick) for Baen and it passed the first round of editor approval. Looks good to make the sweep and join the anthology to be published this fall.
My short story for The Expanding Universe 7 is done and has passed muster with the editor and insider team.
Zenophobia 1 – Heretic is at the editor. Brad Torgersen is on track to deliver books 2 and 3 later this year.
And then Ian Bragg 4 – A Fatal Bragg. That cover is under contract and we should have it soon.
Love – Haight is a book about a paranormal court, where everyone’s rights are protected, and justice comes for the lawbreakers. A little humor, romance, horror, and mystery. I have the two books for that series to be published on June 7 and July 19. You’ll see a lot more on these.
A new coming-of-age fantasy series that I am co-authoring. We are meeting for about a half hour a week to discuss progress and review current words. It is a gripping tale of a young lady trying to understand the gift she has which could also be her curse. Fun, intense, and a little allegory action, too.
A military sci-fi series that I’m working on as a co-author to punch up the combat action scenes and military interaction. The author on this one is an exceptional talent who will go far.
I’m sure there’s more…
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Craig Martelle Stories available for free!
The Green Door of Fate (an audiobook)- https://dl.bookfunnel.com/sjzsmyj5nr or get it as an ebook – https://dl.bookfunnel.com/m4p4psj0t9
Fear Peace – https://dl.bookfunnel.com/nzhwlsdy1w (a story of galactic betrayal)
The Tide Changes – https://dl.bookfunnel.com/efxi5f4kjw (A tale from the Four Horsemen Universe)
Fall Before the Spring – https://BookHip.com/VFBKFS (a Marine’s second chance)
The Outcast – https://BookHip.com/RDPFHQ (when punishment requires service)
Information War – https://BookHip.com/GPQBFZ (there’s more than one way to meet aliens)
Jacob Wild McKilljoy – https://BookHip.com/MFWNLH (a ridiculous comedy romp)
Just One More Fight – https://BookHip.com/GPLSVB (who is the alien?)
A Galactic Affair – https://BookHip.com/QADTF (what if the aliens choose who represents humanity?)
The Human Experiment – https://dl.bookfunnel.com/8g82o72oju (a full-length Sci-Fi novel, in case you haven’t downloaded it yet)
A Builder’s Angst – https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jm2lqbgxlb (building a megastructure to replace Earth)
A Language Barrier – https://dl.bookfunnel.com/wmue1fwjqz (communication is not a given)
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