Authors Jacob & H.P. Holo
Y’AAAAAALLLLL! 😀 H.P. Here!
… To tell you that Barnes & Noble‘s back with its holiest of sales (at least, for authors who have pre-orders up), which is to say:
1) Premium and Reward members get 25% off pre-orders with code PREORDER25 through July 17th
2) Jacob has a pre-order up, and
3) Our readers are BRILLIANT. You can put two and two together. 
If 25% off deals are your thing, hop on over to BN.com and pre that order! 😄
Hey, y’all! H.P. here! 😄 If you like cats, noir, and short stories, you’re in for a treat, because Raconteur Press just dropped Moggie Noir (complete with a new story from yours truly)!
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The question remains whether you should tuck into this volume in a comfy chair for a bit of adventure. Well, if you like cats, there’s more than a little of something you love in the pages or pixels herein because, instead of a bland all-two-legger cast, these stories feature felines as central or pivotal characters. If you are a fan of noir fiction, you’ll enjoy how these authors have explored this genre and maybe stretched the bounds of what you find familiar. Some are set in the 1930s, some are present day, and some are who-knows-when.
After all, who better than a cat might convey the contradictions of a ruthless killer enrobed in the most exquisite package of sumptuous fur with glittering emerald eyes? No one, see? Cats are the ultimate expression of the noir aesthetic, and we hope you will agree, but fasten your seatbelts: it’s going to be a bumpy read.
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This particular anthology marks a REALLY COOL POINT in my author career. 😀
Last year, Raconteur Press invited me to be an anchor author for a project themed around noir and cats.
Had I ever written in the noir genre? NOPE. Had I even read a noir novel? NOPE. The closest I’d come was watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit? It’s my favorite movie of all time, granted … but it’s not exactly a standard noir.
Sure, I’d written about cats, but noir’s a very distinct genre with very distinct tropes.
And yet RacPress had such faith in my writing, they were confident I’d produce an anchor-worthy story in a genre I’d never touched. 😮
I have since touched the genre A LOT, and much like Jacob with police procedurals and the File novels … found a new genre I love to write in. 😄
All this to say, I’m excited for you to meet the two newest tenants of my head in “Logan Decker, P.I. and the Bodies Agatha Definitely Didn’t Put There.” 😄 One’s a gruff, jaded PI; the other’s the ghost of a cat who spent all nine lives. Together they’ll solve crimes (or do them, Agatha’s cool with either). 😸
I had a lot of fun writing it, and I hope you have just as much fun reading it!
Ever wished you could read a new book before it releases? 😀 Well, you’re in luck, as Baen Books just released the Early Access eARC for Freelancers of Neptune (Sol Blazers #1) – i.e. Jacob’s first solo series since the Seraphim Revival! 😮
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All he wanted was a simple job to make ends meet. What he got was a mysterious cat girl, a shot at a hoard of treasure, and a whole lot of trouble.
The Solar System ain’t what it used to be!
In the far distant future, Saturn’s rings are gone, Mercury is a gas giant, and Earth is remembered only as a unit of measure. Nearly godlike AIs reshaped the Solar System in eons past, but they too are now nothing more than a fading memory.
Captain Nathaniel Kade cares for none of that. He’s but a simple freelancer from the orbital ring of Neptune, struggling to make ends meet and to keep his understaffed spaceship from falling apart. All he wants is a decent, uneventful job to help put his finances back in order.
What he receives instead is Vessani S’Kaari, a mysterious and beautiful cat girl who tried—and failed—to steal a ship belonging to a band of space pirates. Vessani’s in over her head and is clearly more trouble than she’s worth, but she also has a lead on what may be the greatest treasure trove of lost technology the Solar System has ever seen.
Nathan pulls her butt out of the fire, and together they begin to assemble a team to seek out this long-lost bounty. But other interested parties have their eyes on the same prize; the Jovian Everlife has dispatched a fleet of warships with one of their elite, many-bodied agents in command, and he’d like a few words with Nathan and his new crewmember.
What’s an eARC? It’s the semi-final version of the book; it’ll have a few typos (and, in fact, is the version H.P.’s editing right now), but other than that, it’s pretty close to the final version that will release in June.
But, of course, if you’d rather wait for the finished version, it’s also up for pre-order wherever you like to buy books (and in Baen’s October Monthly Bundle). 😁
However you choose to experience it, we’re looking forward to sharing it with you, and we hope you enjoy it. 😊
Hey, y’all! 😃 If you follow us on social media, you’ve already heard, but if not:
Jacob and I are set to be Guests of Honor at P-Con in Fort Worth, TX September 20th-22nd!
The con was a bit delayed in getting its updates off the ground due to staff health issues and whatnot, but relevant information is starting to come in.
Namely, that it’ll be held at the Holiday Inn DFW Airport South, and the room block is now open! 😄
P-Con’s an itty-bitty new con – and small cons are my favorite because they allow me time to actually hang out with readers rather than spend all my time rushing from panel to panel.
Most importantly, though, it’ll be the furthest west we’ve gone thus far. 😮 (Usually we stick close to home for East Coast cons.)
That said, if you’re on the western side of the US, it’s a perfect chance to meet us in person! 😄 I look forward to hanging out with as many of you as I can. 😊
Hey, y’all! 😄 We’ll be at LibertyCon in Chattanooga, TN this weekend (June 21st-23rd)! Tickets are already sold out, but if you’ll be there, come find us between panels and chill! 😁
Also – more detailed post coming once the website’s fully updated – but we’re both set to be Guests of Honor at P-Con in Fort Worth, TX from September 20-22! 😁
The staff’s had some health-related delays behind the scenes, so they’re a little behind with updates. Location’s going to be the Holiday Inn DFW Airport South, though, and through June 30th, they’re offering $5 off adult admission!
Until the website’s updated, you can also find updates on the P-Con and P-Con: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Literacy Convention Facebook groups!.
P-Con will be our first-ever Texas con (and, really, our first off the East Coast), so we’re pumped to meet our readers in that area! 😄
Curious to hear more about The Thermopylae Protocol? Join us for our Virtual Launch Party Saturday, June 15th DATE CHANGE! June 29th @ 8pm as we chat with David Weber … and give away some signed copies!
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by David Weber & Jacob Holo
Published by Baen Books
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NEW NOVEL IN THE BEST-SELLING GORDIAN DIVISION SERIES FROM NYT BEST-SELLING AUTHOR DAVID WEBER AND JACOB HOLO
After an industrial ship carrying advanced self-replicating machines explodes on its way to Mercury, analysis of the wreckage reveals it to be forty years too old. Raibert Kaminski, the Gordian Division’s top agent, and his crew on the TransTemporal Vehicle Kleio soon discover the ship was transported to an uncharted universe, one with temporarily accelerated time. Forty years passed for the ship’s industrial machines while everyone else experienced only a few short days. Raibert is certain a powerful weapon of some nature has been built out in the unexplored reaches of the multiverse, but where and by whom remains unknown.
The search is on, and the Gordian Division musters its fleet of time machines at Providence, a massive transdimensional station under construction. They call upon their allies from the militaristic Admin for aid in their search—but before plans can be formalized, the leader of the Admin’s Department of Temporal Investigation is murdered while visiting Providence, and the joint operation is thrown into chaos.
Accusations fly and tensions mount between the two organizations. Detectives Isaac Cho and Susan Cantrell—both fast becoming experts in transdimensional crime—are dispatched to Providence. But the clock is ticking for the detectives and Raibert’s crew. A vast, powerful conspiracy has shuddered into motion, and the two teams may be all that stand between it and destruction on a universal scale.
by David Weber & Jacob Holo
Published by Baen Books
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NEW NOVEL IN THE BEST-SELLING GORDIAN DIVISION SERIES FROM NYT BEST-SELLING AUTHOR DAVID WEBER AND JACOB HOLO
After an industrial ship carrying advanced self-replicating machines explodes on its way to Mercury, analysis of the wreckage reveals it to be forty years too old. Raibert Kaminski, the Gordian Division’s top agent, and his crew on the TransTemporal Vehicle Kleio soon discover the ship was transported to an uncharted universe, one with temporarily accelerated time. Forty years passed for the ship’s industrial machines while everyone else experienced only a few short days. Raibert is certain a powerful weapon of some nature has been built out in the unexplored reaches of the multiverse, but where and by whom remains unknown.
The search is on, and the Gordian Division musters its fleet of time machines at Providence, a massive transdimensional station under construction. They call upon their allies from the militaristic Admin for aid in their search—but before plans can be formalized, the leader of the Admin’s Department of Temporal Investigation is murdered while visiting Providence, and the joint operation is thrown into chaos.
Accusations fly and tensions mount between the two organizations. Detectives Isaac Cho and Susan Cantrell—both fast becoming experts in transdimensional crime—are dispatched to Providence. But the clock is ticking for the detectives and Raibert’s crew. A vast, powerful conspiracy has shuddered into motion, and the two teams may be all that stand between it and destruction on a universal scale.
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Curious to hear more about the book? Join us for our Virtual Launch Party Satruday, June 15th DATE CHANGE! June 29th @ 8pm as we chat with David Weber … and give away some signed copies!
H.P. Holo chats with Baen author Casey Moores about NO FAIL, Book 2 in Bill Fawcett’s Blood and Armor series.
Enter here to win a signed copy of NO FAIL: https://forms.gle/6zVNLYSVZCULdPox6
Read NO FAIL here: https://www.amazon.com/No-Fail-Blood-Armor-Book-ebook/dp/B0D3VLLPB6/
Find Casey’s Indie Books Here: https://www.caseymoores.net/
Find Casey’s Baen Books Here: https://www.baen.com/down-these-mean-streets.html (Team And More! 😀 )
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“For fans of Tom Clancy and John Ringo, edge-of-your-seat near-future military science fiction with the verisimilitude that you’d expect from historian Fawcett and special-ops pilot Moores. Get set for a pulse-pounding adventure that hinges on plausible technology and a deep understanding of our precarious world situation.” — Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of The Oppenheimer Alternative
Thanks to the General Ordnance Garment, or “GOG” combat suits, the Kurdish Republic’s military forces have defeated the Iranian armored columns. But now the theocratic dictatorship has a much more sinister plan to eradicate the newly formed Kurdish Republic.
Three elite GOG teams will have to launch on three desperate, high-risk, deep strikes.
And if even one of them fails, their home will be a radioactive wasteland, and their people will be gone forever.
Authors Shami Stovall, Kacey Ezell, Melissa Olthoff, Marisa Wolf, and H.Y. Gregor just talk about networking with author buddies! (Moderated by Edie Skye/H.P. Holo.)
For more information about the panelists and their works, visit their websites below:
Shami Stovall: https://sastovallauthor.com/
Kacey Ezell: https://kaceyezell.net/
Melissa Olthoff: https://www.melissaolthoff.net/
Marisa Wolf: https://www.marisawolf.net/
H.Y. Gregor: https://hygregor.com/
Edie Skye: https://edieskye.com/
H.P. Holo: https://holowriting.com/
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Hey, y’all! 😄 All our books are now fully re-stocked, so it’s time to bring back the signed book sale!
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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.
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.
Now, monster girls hadn’t been established as a part of Titan Mage lore, and I didn’t want to retcon something so potentially complex into that world.
However, on my H.P. Holo pen name, I’d already written Monster Punk Horizon—and, in fact, I’d already planned to write a monster girl harem parody in that series (albeit a chaste one in the style of early-2000s harem anime like Tenchi Muyo and Love Hina). Moreover, Monster Punk fans have been asking me for a continuation of that series for years.
And I do love giving my readers what they ask for! 😉
Since the basic groundwork was already in place, it wasn’t hard to re-work my original Monster Punk harem concept into a sexy monster girl series. As much as I love Pix and Jaz, they don’t fit the archetypes of the harem genre all that well, so I ended up creating a new cast for readers to follow. (The old favorites still end up making significant cameos, though. After all, I love them too much to stop writing them! 😊)
Our MC in Monster Girl Tamer, then, is the heroic Axel Hunter Radcliffe. He’s from a family of Chosen Ones, destined to be his generation’s Chosen One … but he doesn’t know what he’s been Chosen to do. All he knows is that he’s fated to assemble a group of skilled women to do it—a “tactical harem.”
Things get even more complicated when he falls through a portal into the Dazzling Skies.
And even more complicated when monsters start turning into hot monster girl versions of themselves—Thicc Variants—and wreaking havoc across the Monstrous Continent. Are they the problem he’s been Chosen to stop? Or are they the essential pieces of the harem that will help him save the world?
He doesn’t know, but either way, these monster girls need to be tamed! 🤣
Obviously, a series of that nature would be written under my Edie Skye pen name, since that’s basically my shorthand for “This is smut.” (If spiciness isn’t your thing, be warned: It’s a lot spicier than Monster Punk Horizon was.) However, I also wanted to be clear that it’s set in a world I created as H.P. Holo.
Thus, we have this odd little situation where I’m co-authoring a book … with myself. 😂
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! 😄
Signed book collectors, rejoice! 😄 We’ve teamed up with one of our local booksellers, Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC, to offer signed copies of David Weber and Jacob’s next title, The Thermopylae Protocol.
If signed books are your jam, hop on over to their website to order yours – but go fast, because the promo ends May 28th! 😃