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Dancing with Destruction is out today from Baen Books!

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Surprise! We’ve got a new short story out, this time in a sci-fi anthology! 😄

Dancing with Destruction comes from Editor Jason Cordova at Baen Books, and has a super fun origin story.

Basically, cover art was commissioned for another of Baen‘s books … but the resulting illustration ended up not fitting the vibe the publisher was looking for.

However, it was still a kickass piece of art.

So, Jason presented this art to a handful of authors – ourselves included – and said, “Hey, want to write a short story for an anthology based on this cover?” 😀

Jacob saw this art and immediately said “HECK YES! I already have the perfect Sol Blazers story in mind.” But then he looked at his packed writing schedule. 😬 Then he looked to me and said, “What if we make this a Jacob Holo + Edie Skye collaboration?” 😏

Thus we get “The Joy of the Chase,” an adventure in Jacob’s Sol Blazers universe wherein our underpaid heroes take a simple missing persons job on a deserted jungle habitat … and find it not so deserted at all. In fact, it’s a whole lot hotter than expected. 😈

Also, if you weren’t aware of my love for over-the-top 80s action movies, you will be after this short. Yes, I watched Predator for research. Yes, Jacob had to cut plenty of 80s action movie references, and YES, Jason cut more. 🤣

(This is not the version where Nathan + Aiko chase an acid-bleeding monster through simulated vents made of interwoven jungle branches, but I assure you, it’s still cool.)

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Also, if you have no idea what Sol Blazers is, go check it out! It’s basically adventure space opera for people who are mad that Firefly never got a second season, with catgirls, sassy androids, and maybe a lil’ mild cosmic horror. 🤣

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SATURDAY! MECHS, MAGIC, and MAYHEM (formerly Author Q and A) – Featuring PATRICK CHILES

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Mechs, Magic, and Mayhem – featuring PATRICK CHILES

Saturday, July 5th @ 8pm EST

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HEY, Y’ALL, and welcome to my re-branding of what used to be the rather clunkily named “Author Q&A (and Prizes!)”

Why the clunk? Well, I started that interview series on a whim because I have loads of author friends and like to chat with them, and figured readers would like to chat with them too, so I half-assed a title and slapped it on YouTube.

Then, as happens with fun things I half-ass … it became a success, people started calling me A Podcaster, and I needed something better than “Author Q&A (and Prizes)!” to call said podcast. (I still consider myself more “author with occasional delusions of podcaster-dom,” but the people have spoken.)

All that said, I combined a bunch of things I love about the works of the authors I interview, so—ta-da!—we have “MECHS, MAGIC, and MAYHEM: INTERVIEWS WITH SCI-FI AND FANTASY AUTHORS.”

Today’s guest is Patrick Chiles, whom you may remember from medical sci-fi novel INTERSTELLAR MEDIC: THE LONG RUN, and who’s back with its sequel, INTERSTELLAR MEDIC: THE LONG WAY HOME.

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Visit Patrick’s Website Here: https://chilesfiles.com/

Enter to win a signed copy of Interstellar Medic: The Long Way Home Here: https://forms.gle/EsbjVc8HAgKj88669

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And then bring all your burning fan questions and ask them here! 😀

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TONIGHT! MECHS, MAGIC, and MAYHEM (formerly Author Q and A) – Featuring TERRY MAGGERT

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HEY, Y’ALL, and welcome to my re-branding of what used to be the rather clunkily named “Author Q&A (and Prizes!)” 

Why the clunk? Well, I started that interview series on a whim because I have loads of author friends and like to chat with them, and figured readers would like to chat with them too, so I half-assed a title and slapped it on YouTube. 

Then, as happens with fun things I half-ass … it became a success, people started calling me A Podcaster, and I needed something better than “Author Q&A (and Prizes)!” to call said podcast. (I still consider myself more “author with occasional delusions of podcaster-dom,” but the people have spoken.)

All that said, I combined a bunch of things I love about the works of the authors I interview, so—ta-da!—we have “MECHS, MAGIC, and MAYHEM: INTERVIEWS WITH SCI-FI AND FANTASY AUTHORS.”

We’re kicking off this name with one of my favorite dudes, Terry Maggert, who you might recognize from a tiny lil’ series called BACKYARD STARSHIP, or if you’re a mech-head like me, THE MESSENGER. And if you don’t, GET ON THAT:

Read Backyard Starship here: https://amzn.to/4kaWQWm #AmazonAffiliate

Read The Messenger here: https://amzn.to/4463xmk #AmazonAffiliate

And then bring all your burning fan questions and ask them here! 😀

ALSO:

Back the BACKYARD STARSHIP: FORGED-IN-FOIL COLLECTOR’S EDITION Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/variantpublications/backyard-starship-the-illustrated-legacy-edition/

Enter to win a signed book from Terry: https://forms.gle/1X3TYw4W78c9ACYd8

Check out Terry’s YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdat9Bwk0ZOcS3A21cVMJTA

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SATURDAY! Q and A (and PRIZES!) with MELISSA OLTHOFF, author of DAUGHTER OF SHIPPO

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H.P. Holo/Edie Skye chats with author MELISSA OLTHOFF about her new military sci-fi novel DAUGHTER OF SHIPPO … and gives away a signed copy!

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Enter to win a signed copy here: https://forms.gle/Sj4KPfzV6Ym9x3wU8

Visit Melissa’s Website Here: https://www.melissaolthoff.com/

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Kailey Jackson never wanted to be a fighter.

All she’d wanted out of life was to be normal. To fit in with Humans after being raised by Kitsoonay, to master the Asur language, to discover their hidden outposts… and to maybe solve the mystery of their disappearance.

But after her academic ambitions resulted in the invasion of her homeworld, Kailey’s quiet life spiraled into one disastrous adventure after another. She became a mercenary, embraced her Kitsoonay soul, and found a new family. A family she would do anything to protect—including bonding with the last Asur Warbird.

With Kailey’s fate irrevocably tied to the Warbird, finding the Asur is no longer an academic pursuit. It’s her only hope for survival. But the Knights aren’t the only ones searching for the Asur, and Kailey will have to risk everything she’s fought for—her old home, her found family, her new life—in order to save the Asur from their ancient enemy.

And maybe save herself one last time.

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Book Blast: Quintus Fox: Bounty Hunter (#1) by Jason Cordova

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Hey, y’all! 😄 I have lots of cool author friends who write lots of cool books, and occasionally I like to show off those books.

Our pal Jason Cordova‘s back today with a tale of bounty hunters and kickassery. If that’s your jam, check out Quintus Fox: Bounty Hunter (and then pre-order the sequel ’cause you know you’ll want more of that goodness).

READ QUINTUS FOX: Bounty hunter HERE

Quintus Fox: Bounty Hunter

Quintus Fox #1

by Jason Cordova

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Bounty Hunter Wanted! Top Credits Paid! Serious Inquiries Only!

Throughout his long and storied career, Quintus Fox has done a little bit of everything. But as the wild frontier civilizes, people like Quintus – and those whom he pursues – will be nothing more than relics of a turbulent past.

To make ends meet, Quintus must take jobs he might think were beneath him, but sometimes a man must swallow his pride and make a deal with the devil to take care of his ship and his crew, especially when opportunities are slim.

Worse, sometimes the devil has your commcode… and he won’t take no for an answer.

READ QUINTUS FOX: BOUNTY HUNTER HERE

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Monster Girl Tamer #2 is up for pre-order!

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Hey, y’all! 😄 These days, it’s not often that I write under my H.P. Holo pen name, largely buried in writing as the surprise best-seller my spicy Edie Skye pen name became.

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However, as I was writing Titan Mage, my first series under that name, a funny thing happened: Readers started asking for a monster girl series, and on my H.P. Holo pen name, I’d already written Monster Punk Horizon …

All that combined to result in Monster Girl Tamer #1: I Power Up with Every Monster Girl I Defeat!

Read Monster Girl Tamer #1 HERE!

And now series-finisher Monster Girl Tamer #2: I’m an Isekai Hero! Of Course I’m Fighting a Demon Lord is finally up for pre-order!

PRe-ORDER Monster Girl Tamer #2 HERE!

I’m an Isekai Hero!

Of Course I’m Fighting a Demon Lord

Monster Girl Tamer #2
by Edie Skye & H.P. Holo

A thicc cowgirl with a thicker accent. A bookish succubus with an absurd secret. A demon, goblin, and oni girl who’re as chaotic as they are good.

And they’re going to defeat a demon lord … how?

It’s been three months since Axel Hunter Radcliff fell through a magic portal into another world of dangerous monsters.

Hailing from a family of Chosen Ones, he’s trained his whole life to be a hero. He just didn’t expect destiny to involve taming monster girls into semi-civilized adventurers. Or training them to form his tactical harem.

Or their giant robots. Or their conspicuous anime tropes. Or the geeky succubus “Sexy Wizard” who transformed them in the first place.

When a new minotaur girl shows up at his hot spring, he realizes the Sexy Wizard needs his help, too. She’s been captured by some of her own creations—but this time there’s a twist. These dragon ladies used to be two of his monster hunting friends, Jaz and Pix.

With all the isekai tropes tied up in his destiny, Axel expected a demon lord. What he didn’t expect was Demon Lord Jaspartina “Jaz” Red and her Demon Lord General Tailer “Pix” Weaver!

And, after a mere three months, he doesn’t have the stats to face his final boss.

Fortunately, his magic power grows with his romantic bonds. And he has a whole harem of devoted monster girls eager to help raise his stats.

WARNING: Monster Girl Tamer is a fun isekai LitRPG fantasy action adventure where the hero saves the day and gets all the girls. (So don’t read it and then complain about the spice. Y’all know exactly what you’re getting into.)

Spice level differences aside, this series continues the same redonkulous monster-hunting hijinks you know and love from Monster Punk Horizon (and the spicy scenes are largely skippable, for those who don’t enjoy that kind of content 😊).

Whatever your taste, I hope you enjoy it! 😄

Jacob chatted The Thermopylae Protocol with Blasters and Blades!

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Hey, y’all! 😄 One of our favorite podcasts invited Jacob to chat The Thermopylae Protocol, so go check out the latest episode of Blasters and Blades!

YouTube is linked above, but you can also watch/hear it on Rumble, BitChute, and Spotify.

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Come see us at ConGregate in Winston-Salem, NC (July 11-13)!

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Hey, y’all! 😄 We’ve been trying to get into ConGregate for YEEEEARS and now, finally, the waiting list gods have smiled upon us!

If you want to get some books signed, watch us goof off on panels, or just generally hang out, come join us July 11-13 in Winston-Salem, NC.

Check out ConGregate here: https://con-gregate.com/

Also, don’t forget, Jacob’s a Guest of Honor at P-Con, coming up in Fort Worth, TX September 19-21.

Check out P-Con: https://www.p-con.us/

FRIDAY! Q and A (and PRIZES!) with SHAMI STOVALL, author of WORDS OF POWER

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H.P. Holo/Edie Skye chats with author SHAMI STOVALL about her new progression fantasy epic WORDS OF POWER … and gives away a signed copy!

Pre-Order WORDS OF POWER Here: https://amzn.to/4kXhvxL

Enter to win a signed copy of WORDS OF POWER here: https://forms.gle/Sj4KPfzV6Ym9x3wU8

Visit Shami’s Website Here: https://sastovallauthor.com/

Power is not given. It’s taken.

In the Tze Empire, spirits and demons rule the wilds, but Ring Warlocks control civilization. For Rimon, the son of a courtesan and lowest in society, Ring Warlocks seem like gods.

Each has their own magic drawn from Titans, and they can do whatever they please, regardless of how it affects the prefectures they rule.

But when a chance encounter places one of the ancient and powerful rings in Rimon’s hands, everything changes. For there is a trick to the rings, and Rimon sees through the test given to him.

Suddenly, he is no longer a player at the fringes of power; he is a Ring Warlock and granted his own territory.

Determined to make sure his prefecture thrives, Rimon must contend with jealous rivals, demons seeking his ring for themselves, and forces he cannot yet name, all while mastering his new abilities. He will prove even the lowest can rise to challenge gods.

Rimon will have to grow twice as strong as his rival warlocks just to survive in this new Progression Fantasy Adventure by Shami Stovall, the Dragon-Award winning author of Knightmare Arcanist!

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Book Blast: Rise From Ruin by Melissa Olthoff

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Hey, y’all! 😄 I have lots of cool author friends who write lots of cool books, and occasionally I like to show off those books.

Baen Books is #FeralForFantasy this summer, and its latest is Melissa Olthoff‘s dragon – er, griffin rider military fantasy romance Rise From Ruin! (Basically, imagine it as Fourth Wing meets Dragonriders of Pern.) If you’re curious to hear about it from the author herself, I interviewed her about it this past Sunday:

But if you’d like to go ahead and read it … 😁

READ RISE FROM RUIN HERE

Rise From Ruin

by Melissa Olthoff

Published by Baen Books

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When a prank bonds Harper Tavros to a fierce griffin instead of the dragon she always dreamed of, she must battle her doubts and rise to the front lines, forging an unbreakable alliance to save her country from impending doom.

Together we fly, divided we fall.

All Harper Tavros ever wanted was to be a dragon rider.

But after a prank goes wrong, she ends up soul bonded to a griffin. Now, she’ll have to learn an entirely new skillset before she ends up on the front lines of a war her country is slowly losing.

If she’s going to make a difference, she’ll need to rise up from the ruin of her dreams and embrace a new path. One that includes her accidental bondmate, an utterly ridiculous, insanely brave griffin. But in order to form a strong enough bond to defend their country, they’ll need to keep the pressures of war, loss, and doubt from tearing them apart. Because the only way Harper and her griffin will survive is together.

READ RISE FROM RUIN HERE

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SUNDAY! Q and A (and PRIZES!) with MELISSA OLTHOFF, author of RISE FROM RUIN

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H.P. Holo/Edie Skye chats with author MELISSA OLTHOFF about her new military fantasy romance RISE FROM RUIN … and gives away a signed copy!

Pre-Order RISE FROM RUIN Here: https://www.baen.com/rise-from-ruin.html

Enter to win a signed copy of RISE FROM RUIN here: https://forms.gle/Sj4KPfzV6Ym9x3wU8

Visit Melissa’s Website Here: https://www.melissaolthoff.com/

Find other Baen Books here: https://www.baen.com/

When a prank bonds Harper Tavros to a fierce griffin instead of the dragon she always dreamed of, she must battle her doubts and rise to the front lines, forging an unbreakable alliance to save her country from impending doom.

Together we fly, divided we fall.

All Harper Tavros ever wanted was to be a dragon rider.

But after a prank goes wrong, she ends up soul bonded to a griffin. Now, she’ll have to learn an entirely new skillset before she ends up on the front lines of a war her country is slowly losing.

If she’s going to make a difference, she’ll need to rise up from the ruin of her dreams and embrace a new path. One that includes her accidental bondmate, an utterly ridiculous, insanely brave griffin. But in order to form a strong enough bond to defend their country, they’ll need to keep the pressures of war, loss, and doubt from tearing them apart. Because the only way Harper and her griffin will survive is together.

Support the podcast (and/or buy Dazzle treats) at …

Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/holowriting
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Win a Kindle Paperwhite and 6 eBooks in our Feral For Fantasy Reddit Giveaway!

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Hey, y’all! 😄 A bunch of author pals (and our spicy pen name 😉) are doing a giveaway over on Reddit wherein you can win a Kindle Paperwhite AND eBook copies of the following books, some of which have yet to be released! 😁

All you have to do to enter is answer the question at the bottom of the post, which is: “Which book has the best chapter 1 you’ve ever read? (And why?)”

If that sounds like your jam, hop on over to:

THE FERAL FOR FANTASY GIVEAWAY