Space Colony One: Night of Flames
Happy New Year!
I tend to be in bed by the time midnight rolls around on the 31st of December, but I hope your New Year celebrations went well if you had them. I have lots to tell you but let’s get the most important announcements out of the way first – competition winners! Thanks for your entries to my reader competitions. I enjoyed reading them all.
Competition 1 was won by Robert Faber Sr, who told a lovely Christmas tale where his wife received three very special gifts.
Competition 2 was won by Beverly D Laude whose favourite invention was books.
Competition 3 was won by Robert Duran, who told the joke: Jedi knights have an extra advantage at Christmas. They can feel the presents.
Congratulations to the winners! I’ll be in touch with you soon to arrange sending your books.
I hope you enjoyed Carl’s Story, my Christmas gift to you. I received a polite comment that because the story was in pdf format the print came up small on some devices, so I apologise for that. Next time I’ll include a choice of formats.
I also hope you’ve enjoyed my book suggestions over 2017. Did you have a favourite or another science fiction book that you really enjoyed and would like to recommend to other readers? Please let me know here or by email. I’m going to post a list of the most popular choices on my blog.
We had a wonderful late Christmas dinner on Sunday with some Taiwanese friends. We invite them every year and it’s always fun to share our British traditions with them. They made me eat stinky tofu once and I get my revenge on them by serving blue cheese, heehee. But, can you believe it, you can’t buy Christmas crackers in Taiwan!
On the subject of Christmas, I wanted to let you know that I’ll be taking down the limited edition of Carrie’s Calamity that includes the bonus story, A Very Carrie Christmas soon and replacing it with a standard copy.
I have a couple of book suggestions this week, and one is very special to me. Firstly, check out R.D. Armstrong’s new release, The Legion and the Lioness, which is 99 cents for a limited time.
Secondly, snap up your free copy of my Space Colony One prequel, Night of Flames! I’ve given a Bookfunnel link, but if you enjoy your sci-fi freebie and have a few spare moments I would appreciate a review on the Amazon book page.
The Legion and the Lionness
They said I would never finish flight school. Never rank at the top of my class. Never fly with the top aces. Never return from combat against the Kelton androids. Never survive emergency surgery. Here I am.
The year is 2151, Earth is gone. A hellscape. I’ve been unfrozen after 72 years of cryosleep on a medical facility on Saturn’s moon, Titan. I have nothing, no home, no friends, no concept of this new world, these Titans.
All that remains is the old conflict that has blackened my veins and memories of the ones I loved still fresh in my heart. Forgotten for decades.
But it seems war hasn’t forgotten me, no, even in my slumber. My name is Captain Victoria Ann Belic, I was a wife and an ace fighter pilot, and have been revived for one reason–to die again.
New release price of 99 cents here for a limited time!
Night of Flames
A new world colony…
A moonless night…
An alien attack…
Ever wondered what it would be like to live on a starship? It was the only life Ethan knew.
When the colony starship Nova Fortuna reaches the end of its 184-year journey, most of its passengers have grown up aboard ship. They have no idea what it’s like to feel the wind on their faces or get wet in the rain.
On the first night of the new colony, Ethan is one of the lucky few who are sleeping planetside. Most of the others are are Gens like Ethan, bred and born on the starship. A few are Woken, who were revived from cryonic suspension two years prior to Arrival.
The colonists settle down to sleep, but Ethan is restless. A strange noise disturbs him, and so begins the fight for his life, the lives of the settlers, and the colony itself.
Night of Flames is the prequel to the space colonization epic, Space Colony One.
Get your free copy here.
What’s Coming Up?
A Facebook author page isn’t good for interacting with readers, Facebook doesn’t show my posts to all my followers, and you can’t write your own posts. So this week I’ll be creating a reader group page where everyone can join in. It’s going to be called…drum roll…Starship JJ Green!
Another exciting upcoming event is the publication of Star Mage Exile, the prequel to Star Mage Saga. The next time I write to you, I’ll be asking for your feedback on two or three book descriptions. I need to know which one most makes you want to pick up the book. Until then,
Happy reading!
P.S. Amazon has been behaving strangely with my novella, Mars Born, randomly removing the book from KIndle Unlimited. If you were unable to borrow a copy recently, I apologise. Mars Born is now in KU again, though like the rest of my Shadows of the Void series, it will be leaving the program later in 2018.