I hope you find something you like at the ship’s store. Don’t forget, this is where you can also download any free prequels you might have missed as well as a few other free books. Or you can use your discount to get JJ Green books and audiobooks a little cheaper than in bookstores.

It’s been a hot and sticky week aboard the starship, and not in a good way. As well as the outrageously hot weather the UK has been experiencing, your captain has been in the throes of working towards the end of the final Star Legend book, The Defiant.

If you’re reading the Star Legend series, you’ll already know about my fascination with British ancient history and mythology. You’ll also be pleased to hear the writing for the final book, The Defiant, is going at a cracking pace. There are so many threads to bring together for this final episode in the story of maverick Taylan Ellis and Major Wright, as well as new threads leading to a hush-hush new sci-fi spinoff series.

In commemoration of this special day, the starship is offering some cheap stories. All J.J. Green short story collections for 99c/99p or a little bit cheaper if you download direct. The first collection, There Comes a Time, was my very first publication.

Summer is also the time for long reads, whether you’re on a beach, train, aeroplane or just staying at home for a quiet evening, so for this ship’s bulletin I’ve included a free boxset of seven summer sci-fi books. Download it now if you think you might be interested in any of them because I’m not sure how long the set will stay free.

For this week’s featured book, we’re returning to the beginning of the space fantasy Star Mage Saga. Books two and three, Dark Mage Rises and Wildfire and Steel recently received brand spanking new covers and book one, Star Mage Quest has a new blurb, so I thought it was a good time to showcase the series.If you haven’t met our mage heroine yet, you can download the free prequel, Daughter of Discord.

It’s new release time again! The story of humanity’s first deep space colony continues in Space Colony One book seven, Restitution.

The menace of the Scythians hangs heavy over Concordia, the site of humanity’s first deep-space colony. The colonists fear the hostile aliens have discovered the location of the home planet, Earth, and are on their way there to wreak destruction.

Many thanks if you answered the question posed last week about what readers want from authors (as well as books). Unfortunately, there's a wrinkle in the plans for the starship that I'll talk about in a minute.  First, bluebells. The last bulletin promised...

The countdown continues! Restitution, Space Colony One book seven, is this week’s Saturday Snippet again. Let’s find out what happens in the next part of the epic adventure of humanity’s first deep-space colony.

We've been letting it all hang out recently on the starship. Well, the ship's cat has anyway. You can see him at the bottom of the bulletin. What a pose! I had to choose between showing you that picture of him or the beautiful bluebell woods we took a trip to a few...