It’s amazing any of us made it out of our teens
Greetings from the Sub-Arctic!
Winter is upon us.
Stanley is getting into the winter spirit – with the darkness comes extra sleep. Yesterday, I think he managed about eighteen hours. At the nadir of winter, Phyllis was able to sleep about twenty-two hours. Stanley has a ways to go before he achieves that level of mastery. On the winter solstice, we have three hours and fifty minutes of daylight. It’s never twenty-four hours of darkness like I experienced when I worked inside the Arctic Circle. The sun will rise on the southern horizon, cruise along it for a little while, and then set on the southern horizon. I’m sure your parents never taught you that the sun rises and sets in the south. It does up here for a couple months out of the year. And in the summer, the sun never sets.
I want to talk about Las Vegas! I’m running an author conference and at the end of it, we’re having a huge book sale & signing. We’ll have over 300 authors. I’ll be there, not with many books, mind you, but book plates and I’ll be more than willing to sign any of my books that you might have and bring with you!
I’ll be at Bally’s Hotel & Casino, in their Convention Center right on the Las Vegas Strip Friday, November 12, from 10 AM to 4 PM. Look for me straddling the Science Fiction and Urban Fantasy areas, sharing a table with my friend Martha Carr. Please stop by if you’re able to drive to Vegas. Maybe stay for a long weekend. Lots to do, even if you don’t gamble. I don’t, and I always have a great time in Vegas because I’m a serial people watcher. Vegas brings out the best and worst in humanity. And there is great food. Greater than that, even.
And keep reading to the bottom because there’s cool stuff, like always:)
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Not Enough Book #1, Echo Breaker
a coming of age fantasy
This balances well for readers of all ages with a little something for everyone. I’m 58 years old, and I thought this was a great story (I’m sure I”m biased but a good story is a good story). Available right now in Kindle Unlimited. If you pre-ordered, it is already on your Kindle, waiting for you:) Books 2 & 3 will publish in the next two months. You won’t have long to wait for the next parts of this epic tale.
What if our desires create fantastic worlds?
Fantastically flawed, as if every day were Christmas…
No one understands what emotional turmoil people live with. Boiling beneath the surface until it explodes. The world must change.
Unless a person can create a new world and disappear into it, an echo world, reverberating with the sounds of one’s own dreams.
But like a dream, they aren’t real. Who can see the unreal, the real, the fantastic, and the mundane? Those who were born in the dreamland and brought to the real world. A part of them is forever elsewhere. It makes them special.
Who has the emotional range, from atmospheric highs to the depths of despair and all points in between to best deal with the unreal? The young, that’s who.
Twelve-year-old Ravlen has to grow up too soon, to save those who can’t save themselves.
She’s not ready, but she goes anyway.
Into the echo, where she has to find herself as much as the lost souls within.
Read it today.
Book 2 coming November 15
Book 3 coming December 13
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Hellfire: Mech Force 1.
Only 99 cents or free with your Kindle Unlimited membership.
Nathan Stout was born to save the world.
Cloned from the genes of heroes past, tossed aside when the Army abandoned the program, Nate has seized his own destiny. Forming the Broken Arrow Mercenary Force, he leads a team of hired guns piloting cutting-edge mechs in a last-ditch effort to restore a United States he never knew.
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Patreon
Is the insider’s view how you want to see the world?
It’s a different way to read my stories and you get them well ahead of everyone else. Months ahead… Is that worth something to you?
Do you want to read any of the books shown below before anyone else, like before they even go to the editor? Join my Patreon at the second tier and you’ll get complete books when they’re finished. I’ve already posted five or six books over there that are not yet available for sale. Don’t wait. Read now. You can get them along with a metric butt-ton of other stuff that has not yet published – https://www.patreon.com/craigmartelle
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Books that are almost ready to go are available on pre-order. I’ve been working my ass off over the past year to load up for the end of 2021. Celebrate with me by giving these a go.
Shadow Vanguard 6 – Family Reunion
Tommy D’s (God rest his soul) final book. I rewrote this in entirety after the ghostwriter we hired to do it went off the rails. But it’s done and now available for pre-order!
Coming October 28
Zenophobia – anthropomorphic space opera: Think Island of Dr. Moreau meets Indiana Jones in space. A ragtag band of enemies on a search for the Truth.
Coming November 29
Book 2 coming December 7
Book 3 coming December 27
Glory – An epic military science fiction tale. We’re at 100k words and winding down with an earth-shaking climactic battle in Book #1. Glory will publish this year. Books #2 and #3 will push to next year, but did I tell you that it’s epic? One old ship, in mothballs, little better than scrap, challenged with nothing less than defeating a technologically superior alien enemy. But it carries a secret the aliens don’t know and may not be ready for. Drake has one shot to save humanity.
Coming November 22nd
Ian Bragg 4 – A Fatal Bragg
The Marines are under fire…
…and it takes someone outside the government to fix the problem.
Ian and Jenny Bragg return in this standalone suspense action adventure. It’s a race against both the clock and a group that’s been in place for years…
Coming November 26
And you’ll see the first box omnibus edition go live on that date, too. While you’re at the thrillers, Rick Banik 2 – Loss of Power is now available for pre-order for 2022, but it should be ready well before the end of March. I’ll publish it when it’s good to go.
I have a short story in a Baen anthology called No Time for Knights coming this fall – a little Sci-Fi Noir. A washed-up cop in an America taken over by AI.
After you’ve read this far… I am writing JJE14 – Jack the Ripper.
I’m still about a ⅓ of the way finished. You will get it this year.
Rivka will match wits with one attempting to bring back the terror of the infamous killer from the 1800s. I’m looking to finish this one by the end of October to publish on December 15th to coincide with the release of Rivka’s third box set with books 9-12.
And if you haven’t picked up any of the Judge, Jury, & Executioner books, then you’ll want to wait until December 20th, when the whole series goes on sale starting with the first book for free. You’ll get book 13 for 99 cents and I’m sorry, but the newest has to pay the bills, so that will remain full price until Book 15 comes out in February or March.
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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)
- The Leader Within – https://dl.bookfunnel.com/7jl5sz4jy7 (a book on leadership for everyone) – I’ll be turning off the free download on this book this week. After that, it’ll be $2.99 on all platforms.
- If you like it, have your boss buy the audiobook for only $2.99 .https://buy.bookfunnel.com/vbyt6e9f1o
And another picture of Stanley sleeping:)
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Craig Martelle’s Other Books (listed by series, also available in audio)
- Terry Henry Walton Chronicles* (co-written with Michael Anderle) – a post-apocalyptic paranormal adventure
- Gateway to the Universe* (co-written with Justin Sloan & Michael Anderle) – this book transitions the characters from the Terry Henry Walton Chronicles to The Bad Company
- The Bad Company* (co-written with Michael Anderle) – a military science fiction space opera
- Judge, Jury, & Executioner* – a space opera adventure legal thriller with Bad Company cameos
- Shadow Vanguard – a Tom Dublin series
- Superdreadnought* (co-written with Tim Marquitz)– an AI military space opera
- Metal Legion* (co-written with Caleb Wachter) – a military space opera
- The Free Trader* – a young adult science fiction action adventure
- Cygnus Space Opera* – A young adult space opera (set in the Free Trader universe)
- Zenophobia – an alien archaeological space adventure, coming late 2021
- Battleship: Leviathan – a military sci-fi adventure, coming late 2021
- Glory (co-written with Ira Heinichen) – pure military sci-fi, coming late 2021
- Darklanding* (co-written with Scott Moon) – a space western
- Mystically Engineered (co-written with Valerie Emerson) – Mystics, dragons, & spaceships
- End Times Alaska* – a Permuted Press publication – a post-apocalyptic survivalist adventure
- Nightwalker (a Frank Roderus series) with Craig Martelle – A post-apocalyptic western adventure
- End Days* (co-written with E.E. Isherwood) – a post-apocalyptic adventure
- Krimson Empire (co-written with Julia Huni) – a galactic adventure
- Successful Indie Author* – a non-fiction series to help self-published authors
- Leader Within – a standalone non-fiction book about leadership (audio available exclusively from BookFunnel)
- Metamorphosis Alpha – stories from the world’s first science fiction RPG
- The Expanding Universe – science fiction anthologies
- Monster Case Files (co-written with Kathryn Hearst) – A Warner twins mystery adventure
- Not Enough (co-written with Eden Wolfe) – a coming of age contemporary fantasy
- Rick Banik* – Spy & terrorism action adventure
- Ian Bragg* – A hitman with a conscience
- Goranth the Mighty (co-written with Jean Rabe) – an epic sword & sorcery adventure
Books published by Craig Martelle, Inc
- The Dragon’s Call by Angelique Anderson & Craig A. Price, Jr. – an epic fantasy quest
- A Couple’s Travels – a non-fiction travel adventure series
- Mischief Maker by Bruce Nesmith – contemporary fiction on Norse mythology
- Love-Haight by Jean Rabe and Donald J. Bingle – a mystery, horror, humorous, paranormal legal drama
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