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Giveaway: Win the SIDESPACE Audiobook, Plus All 3 Aurora Rising Audiobooks

Giveaway: Win the SIDESPACE Audiobook, Plus All 3 Aurora Rising Audiobooks

The SIDESPACE audiobook is "headed to retail" - which means it should be available in the next 5-7 days. To celebrate its release, I'm giving away 5 copies each of all 4 audiobooks: StarshineVertigoTranscendence and Sidespace. 

  • EDIT: The contest is over. The winners have been emailed and are listed in the widget below.

The Revolution

The Revolution

The Author's Note in Sidespace got a shiny new coat of paint for Aurora Renegades. Among a few other things, in it I say the following:

Sidespace was an independently published novel, written by one person and worked on by a small team of colleagues. Right now there are thousands of writers out there chasing this same dream.

Go to Amazon and surf until you find an author you like the sound of. Take a small chance with a few dollars and a few hours of your time. In doing so, you may be changing those authors’ lives by giving visibility to people who until recently were shut out of publishing, but who have something they need to say. It’s a revolution, and it’s waiting on you.

In the spirit of the Author's Note, Thanksgiving and the impending Christmas, Hannukah and New Years, I want to take the opportunity to express my thanks for the success I've enjoyed by spotlighting other authors.

Sidespace Is Live

I am extremely excited to bring you SIDESPACE: Aurora Renegades Book One. It's the start of a new adventure for Alex, Caleb and everyone in Aurora, and we get to go along for the ride.

  • Sidespace is available in ebook and paperback on Amazon.com. Live outside the U.S.? This link will take you to the book on your Amazon International site.
  • Don't have a Kindle but prefer ebooks to paperbacks? Kindle apps for your tablet or phone (iOS, Android, Windows Phone), PC, Mac and the cloud can be downloaded here: Kindle Apps. If you read ebooks on something other than a Kindle or Kindle app, please send me an email.
  • I can't wait for everyone to read Sidespace, and I truly hope you enjoy it. Of course if you do, don't be shy about it! Reviews are the greatest gift you can give, but posts on Twitter, Facebook or other social media sites, your own blogs, and forums are also most welcome.

Win a SIDESPACE Paperback, Plus Go Behind The Scenes

It's one week until the release of SIDESPACE, and to celebrate, I'm giving away 5 copies of the paperback (with the help of Goodreads). The contest ends next Tuesday, and you can enter here or via the widget at the end of this post.

More Sidespace news:

  • Not surprisingly, it has a Goodreads page! Add it to your "Want to Read" shelf, vote for it on lists, like the quotes, all that jazz.
  • I'm thrilled to report that Pyper Down has signed on to do the audiobook :). It won't be available immediately, but it IS coming.
  • New blog post today: Behind the Scenes with Sidespace. Trivia, sneak peaks, humor and tattoos(!) abound, so check it out.

Short-story anthology news:

  • I've got an awesome cover reveal for Crime & Punishment:

Behind the Scenes with SIDESPACE

Behind the Scenes with SIDESPACE

Twice makes a routine (according to my dogs anyway). With the release of SIDESPACE: Aurora Renegades Book One coming up in one week, here’s a peek behind the scenes of the book – we’ve got facts and figures, trivia, musings, numerous awards, several secrets, and one tattoo.

Relatedly, be sure to check out the teaser quotes, which I'm sharing with increasing frequency as release day approaches. See them on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and all the other social media sites. Also, I shared the back cover blurb in this news update.

Sidespace is divided into seven parts. Seven, you repeat, incredulous. But isn’t this book shorter than the first three, and they only had four parts each? Yep. Sidespace is structured a little differently than the previous books (more on this below); I think it enhances the storytelling, but you’ll have to tell me. So seven parts (plus a Coda!) titled and quoted thusly:

Sidespace Release Date, Excerpts and More

SIDESPACE (Aurora Renegades Book One) will be released and in your hands on NOVEMBER 9, 2015. Otherwise known as one month from today.

  • As that date draws closer I'll have various fun promotions and the like to announce, including a Goodreads paperback giveaway, a string of teaser quotes, a "behind the scenes" blog post, sales on the Aurora Rising books and a Sidespace-themed makeover of the website and social media pages. To kick things off today, I'm excited to share the back-cover blurb for Sidespace.

Starshine (you remember it, right?) had a very good September - and since you all are on this ride together with me, I thought you might like to hear about it....

  • First off, tremendous thanks to S. E. Lehenbauer at Novel Commentary for her drop-dead fabulous review of Starshine. It's as if she knew tossing in all the Firefly references (including calling Alex a "damn shiny pilot") would have me shedding tears of joy even without saying it "might be the perfect set-in-space science fiction book."