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Newsletter, August 29, 2022

August 29, 2022 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

GREETINGS FROM THE SUB-ARCTIC!

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Your favorite space lawyer returns in Succession

Rocking the free galaxy with a passion for justice. Rivka takes no crap, not from an ex-wife, a widow, a child or even a downloaded consciousness.

Rivka #16 (Judge, Jury, & Executioner, Succession) is live! Get it today or read it as part of your Kindle Unlimited subscription.

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YTFCT2H

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09YTFCT2H

Amazon Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09YTFCT2H

Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09YTFCT2H

Can you succeed yourself by downloading your consciousness?

Will your family let you? Hidden micro-blasters, paper-thin blades, plasma torches, and surges in voltage come into play as the jockeying begins for the vast estate of the honorable J. Bennet Johnstone.

Is a downloaded consciousness eligible to be a citizen of the Singularity? Erasmus goes on a mission without Ankh. Will their worlds end, one without the other?

Rivka tossed into the middle of deceit and selfishness. Even seeing into their minds cannot unravel the sordid truth.

She has to spend more time with the Johnstone legacy if she’s to keep the family from killing each other while the bigger question of consciousness is considered.

Will it ever be resolved?

If Rivka has her way, it will be, once and for all.

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Free Trader 1 – Free Trader of Warren Deep is on sale for FREE, today only (August 27) as part of a Hello Books promotion. You can join Hello Books and get an email once a week with some enticing new reads 🙂

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CDFYFE6

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01CDFYFE6

Amazon Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B01CDFYFE6

Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01CDFYFE6

 

A Cat and his human minions fight to bring peace to humanity.

The reviewers had these words: “Engaging characters…fun and interesting…enjoyable and light reading…you won’t want to put it down!”

Compared to Andre Norton, the Free Trader series takes you to a colonized world across the galaxy where humans and their sentient creations struggle together to build a better world. Not everyone believes. Some believe that being stronger means they can take what they want. People suffer, until the Free Trader arrives. He only wants to trade, but the takers have other ideas.

Join the Free Trader as he journeys across the world of Vii in search of something better.

While you’re at it, jump on the Hello Books list for the genres you like to read. 

https://hellobooks.com/

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KING SUMO Raffle – free to enter!

We have awarded the two HD8 Kindles, so now it’s onto the 10” Kindle Fire HD. Less than a week left to enter…

An enormously incredible screen and device to suit the most demanding reader’s needs. 

Third up, a Kindle Fire HD10 AND a $50 Amazon Gift Card (US Only). What do you get? A chance to win. What do I get? Your email address, but since you’re clicking from here, you’re already on my list, so I get to thank you for being here.

https://kingsumo.com/g/l6inzw/kindle-fire-hd10-50-amazon-gift-card-us-only-giveaway

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What’s next? 

I have short stories in two anthologies coming out soon

No Game for Knights – a Baen anthology and would you look at that? Right on the cover. My story is not that dark, a dystopian paradise where humans aren’t allowed to determine their own destiny. Will the robot overlords change humanity or will humanity change them?

The Expanding Universe 8 – this is an anthology that I publish annually. It might be a little thinner this year, but the quality of the stories within is exceptional. I count my own, For the World Is Hollow… among those. It’s been a premise that I’ve mulled over for a long time. There’s a lot of old-time Sci-Fi that explores the question of what it’s like when people don’t know they aren’t in the greater universe, but a bubble?

Battleship Leviathan 5 – Leviathan Rises! is edited and in the can, ready to go to the publisher. My insider team finally had a chance to read the completed story. Here’s a couple of their comments:

“Wow! Edge of your seat action start to finish.”

“Another superb Battleship Leviathan. I think the fans will really enjoy it.”

. Delivery remains Sep 27 since we already set up a bunch of paid promotions to get the word out about this series. Battleship Leviathan #1 will be Free from Sep 27 to Oct 1 during that time. If you haven’t jumped on board this series, that will be the time to dive in. Book #2 will be on sale for 99 cents during those five days, too.

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TWG1C5M

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TWG1C5M

Amazon Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09TWG1C5M

Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09TWG1C5M

Battleship Leviathan #6 – Leviathan’s Fear, the final book in the Battleship Leviathan series. It came in just over 90k words and wraps the storyline and the series. I hope you like how it turned out. This one will release on October 25. The preorder is live!

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BBPLT9JZ

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BBPLT9JZ

Amazon Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BBPLT9JZ

Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BBPLT9JZ

Jack Foster #5 – You Don’t Know Jack is well over halfway written. This one will be ready and delivered right on time on September 30. I think I have a good mix of John’s approach and my economy of words to deliver a high-octane adventure painted on the backdrop of the space surrounding Jack’s Planet. I hope you like it.

If you’d like to start the series, to be ready when #5 publishes, click the link below and then go to the series page. You’ll find Violent Graduation at the top of the list. The entire series is available in Kindle Unlimited for your convenience.

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZQ64ST3

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09ZQ64ST3

Amazon Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09ZQ64ST3

Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09ZQ64ST3

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We’ve had some rain so it hasn’t been great for woods time, since Stanley acts like he’s going to melt. But when we can get in there, Stanley will find a spot and sit down so he can watch and listen.

Leaves are now changing rapidly, even though we’ve had a warm spell where lows are only getting to about 50F. Still, the leaves are starting to fall, too. You see them across the trail, but a lot more are coming. A few days below freezing will take care of the ground cover and the leaves will lie like a blanket on top, crushing everything to the ground. Stanley can finally see over most of the grasses. To him, the walk had to be like going through a great green tunnel.

Until next week. Peace, fellow humans.

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