It’s been a while since I had a book ranking on Amazon, so I can’t help but share. I didn’t edit this anthology, but I’m super glad to have One Cog in it. #1 in Hot New SciFi Anthologies! If you don’t have it yet, what are you waiting for?
Eleven years. That’s how old this story is.
I wrote it in 2012 to enter the Jim Baen Memorial Contest… and took 3rd place. I held onto it for years because of some promised anthology Baen was going to do with the entries. That never panned out. So I submitted it to TWO different anthologies. It was accepted both times. And both of them fell through. I was starting to think this story was cursed. Then last year I sent it to Cloaked Press. They accepted it, and they actually printed it! (And the cover’s pretty great, too.)
So, after a long, hard journey, I finally present ONE COG!
A technician on a mining ship in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter gets an offer from the Captain he can’t turn down. Fix the broken airlock so they can finish this mission and he gets to keep the ship. But how do you fix one broken gear in deep space with almost no resources?
Hey, my publisher is having a sale for St. Patrick’s Day on paperback books (including some of mine). Not only are they discounted, but shipping is free!
Find them here: https://www.immortalworks.press/bookstore
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I haven’t forgotten you. This year I have a special surprise for Halloween… A FREE Anthology of Flash Fiction stories. It features my story, The Calling, which you might have seen last year. But it’s also got a lot more spooky fun. Get it now!
Excerpt from The Calling:
When she heard the cry of wolves in the distance, Amy closed her eyes and kept quiet. She already knew nobody else could hear them. Her parents said they believed her. They took her to counseling, and had her hearing checked. Friends found it novel at first, but soon stopped sympathizing with her little quirk. In the end, people became impatient, even accusing her of making it up to get attention. College was hard enough without feeling isolated and weird. So, she just kept to herself, waiting for the soulful wail to fade. (Keep Reading…)
If you prefer, you can get this book in paperback.
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Happy Holidays! I got you a present early this year: Witch on the Run. It’s about a young woman coming to grips with powers she’s been trying to hide.
You can read the whole thing here on Story Origin. Hey, a superhero origin story on Story Origin… that’s funny! Enjoy. 🙂
It’s finally out!
This book has been a longer than usual journey. I’ve had illustrators start and quit. I’ve bounced it off several publishers. It’s gone through a few big rewrites. Eventually, the art and publishing came together, and it’s now available on Amazon in Kindle and Paperback!
Superheroes and villains constantly battle for control of Denver, Colorado, so somebody has to do the heavy lifting. CJ Cruz found his niche working for whichever super-flavor-of-the-day happens to be running the show at the time. Since most of the self-labeled heroes claiming to be on the side of justice don’t hire henchmen, he usually winds up doing the street-level work for supers operating outside the law. His family and priest just think he’s a gangster, but CJ knows his motivation is pure. He keeps on the windy side of law enforcement by following a few simple rules, the first of which is keep your head down and never be the boss’s right-hand man. People tell him he should get a new job, but he likes working around supers. Besides, except for intimidation and roughing-people-up he doesn’t have any other skills necessary to make rent and pay child support.
Get more information on the THUG #1 Page.
My friend, Holli Anderson, has a superhero themed book out new today, too. So we are doing a double release cross promotion. If you get both of the e-books from Amazon, we’ll mail you a copy of the CHOOSE YOUR OWN APOCALYPSE anthology with both authors’ signatures! We both have short stories in it, of course. So what are you waiting for?
Get MYRIKAL
Send a screen shot to jameswymore (at) gmail.com with your mailing address.
Then just sit back and enjoy some amazing super powered stories with some incredible art by John Christian Perkins!
If that’s not enough, you can come and get autographed paperbacks this weekend at the Immortal Works table at LTUE or next Wednesday, February 20, at our Double Release Signing Event. 🙂
Get every e-book published by Immortal Works Press for just 99 cents on Black Friday through Cyber-Monday! That includes my own Novella: Schism! This is a great time to get amazing stories to keep you warm through the cold of the upcoming winter. Also, e-books make great gifts! No need for anybody else to know you got them cheap. Also, you can avoid the madding crowds in the wee hours of crazy AM. Just follow this link and it’ll find you the whole list on Amazon.
The fiery finale of the world-breaking series arrived today! In order to celebrate, Curiosity Quills Press is having the biggest giveaway and sale EVER. You can get Book 1, the Anthology, and the RPG Manual for FREE. Also, Books 2 & 3 are just 99 cents each. You can literally get the entire series for under $8! Here are all the links–
FREE! The Actuator: Fractured Earth
FREE! The Actuator: Borderlands Anthology
FREE! The Actuator Role-playing Game
99 cents! The Actuator 2: Return of the Saboteur
99 cents! The Actuator 3: Chaos Chronicles
NEW! The Actuator 4: The Last Key
If the cover art and the price aren’t enough to convince you already, you can read all the summaries and get more information on my Actuator page. Or just watch the series trailer on YouTube.
Thank you all for your support. I hope you love the climax of this long journey!
Schism is on sale for just 99 cents! If you buy it soon, Amazon will send you a $1 kindle credit you can use to buy any other e-book. That’s better than FREE!
Also, if you act fast, I’m offering the first two people who buy it and message me on Facebook with a picture of the purchase a code to get the audiobook FREE, too. Here’s where you’d go to message me: James Wymore’s Facebook Page. Also, we should be friends if we aren’t already.
What are you waiting for? Get it now!
(Note: I think Amazon is running this promotion for anybody who buys a kindle e-book. You can only get it once, so it won’t work again if you got it already. Technically, you can get it for any book. So, if you have SCHISM already, you should still buy something. I recommend HAIR IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES by Andrew Buckley, which is also on sale for 99 cents today. If you post on Facebook and tag him, he’ll send you something else free, too. It’s like Christmas in October… which is like a movie, I think. Who loves you? I do.)
Daniel Swenson hits a panel of high powered fans (Robert J. Defendi, R. A. Baxter, Nathan Croft, and yours truly) with some of the hardest questions to plague sci-fi fans for decades. It felt like a convention panel gone off the rails!
http://www.dungeoncrawlersradio.com/episodes/episode-sticks-and-stones-or-is-that-blasters
Also, Immortal Works just opened an imprint with a new logo! What do you think?
James Wymore 