Black Friday Sale, Plus "The Thief" Gets a Gold Star

I am so excited to share that THE THIEF has won the Indie Author Project 2025 Award for Best SciFi Book! The Thief and Eren have gotten so much love, and I could not be happier about it.

What’s the Indie Author Project? It’s a national library program (Canada, too) dedicated to connecting local libraries and the readers that use them with great indie-published books. In addition to the Awards program, they sponsor Indie Author Day every year, which is 2 weeks of events at libraries across North America. You can learn more about the program and see all the award winners here: Indie Author Project 2025 Awards

So what all did The Thief win? There was an online awards ceremony, and I got to record a little acceptance video, which was too cool. Should you want to see it, the video is available here: Awards Ceremony (I’m at 15:22). The book will be featured in the “Best of Books” issue of Library Journal, an actual physically printed magazine. I’ll have an interview with IAP up in a few weeks as well. Oh, and I won some money! Neat.

I want to give a shout out to my local libraries for all their support of indie authors: Coeur d'Alene Public Library and the Community Library Network (the CDA suburbs network of libraries). I’m excited to be doing a local author event at the Hayden library (part of CLN) this weekend, in fact. Libraries are awesome, guys, and they are doing great work to keep books in people's lives, no matter a person's means. If you haven't hooked up with your local library in a while, give them a visit.

Writing updates! THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING is coming along quite nicely, while shaping up to be another beast of a book. I’ve just about finished up the cover for it, and I am head-over-heels in love with it - I can’t wait to share it with you. Also, Pyper is about 2/3 finished with the LIMINAL SPACE audiobook - I’ll let you all know as soon as it’s available.

Now about that sale. From now through next Tuesday—Black Friday, Cyber Monday and everything in between—the first two omnibus collections in the Amaranthe saga are on massive sale over at my store. Get AMARANTHE I: RISE (3 huge novels, 2 short stories plus bonus materials) for all of 99 cents, plus AMARANTHE II: REBELLION (3 more novels and a short story plus yet more bonus materials) for 50% at $4.99. Tell your friends, and get them utterly hooked on this universe.

Note: The Rebellion discount is an add-on that appears when you put Rise in your cart; it’s not on sale separately.

But you’ve probably read all those books, so I’ve got some great recommendations for you today, too, from two of the best indie scifi authors writing today (and I can personally attest that both are fantastic people as well).

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STARSHIP WAKING by C. Gockel is now FREE at all retailers. It's part of her wonderful Archangel Project universe, but it's 100% newcomer-friendly, so no worries if you haven't read the other books. This is one crazy ride of a book. Get it HERE.

THE ORACLE, the newest entry in Peter Cawdron's wildly original and inventive First Contact series, is now out. Every First Contact story is a standalone, self-contained novel. I’ve recommended other books in the series to you before, and I’ve heard great things back, so I think many of you will enjoy it. Get it HERE.