Authors Jacob & H.P. Holo
Hey, y’all! 😄 All our books are now fully re-stocked, so it’s time to bring back the signed book sale!
From now through May 25th, enter Coupon Code “FCBD” at checkout to get 25% OFF ALL SIGNED BOOKS in our shop!
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! 😃
Dazzle has been promoted to marketing assistant, and he’s terrible at keeping secrets. 😸
Anyway, we had to cut yesterday’s Free Comic Book Day signing short ’cause Jacob wasn’t feeling too hot 😔, but if you missed us, never fear! 😄
From now through May 11th, you can enter Coupon Code “FCBD” at checkout to get 25% OFF ALL SIGNED BOOKS in our shop!
Note: Several titles are out of stock because we’ve had a BANGIN’ con season thus far, but I’ll be running this code again once my restocks come in. 😄
Sorry if we missed you yesterday!
Hey, y’all! 😄 We just set up a last-minute signing, so if you’re in Greenville, SC, swing by Richard’s Comics and Collectables THIS SATURDAY from 11am-5pm!
We’ll be at its Free Comic Book Day event, along with several artists and generally awesome people! 😄 (And, of course, free comics and sweet sales!)
Hey, y’all! 😄 Jacob’s next Baen Books title, Freelancers of Neptune, releases this October – but if you’d like a little taste of what’s to come, check out his short story “Release the Cyber-Kraken!” in Raconteur Press’ latest anthology!
Edited by LawDog
Published by Raconteur Press
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When every inch of our planet has been explored, from the depths of the sea to the top of every mountain, Space and her untamed frontiers will still be beckoning us, calling us to go beyond the farthest star and see what there is to see.
Old Sam Clemens once said that History don’t repeat itself, but it do rhyme. In Space, we got a vast, unexplored, mysterious, and dangerous frontier. We’ll have herds of some kind to watch over and to drive to market. Most times we’ll be far and beyond the reach of “civilization,” with their myriad of laws, lawyers, and politicians. Those tough enough to carve out a living will need the independent, rugged spirit of the cowboy to survive. There will be leeches and villains, for sure, heroes and anti-heroes, and some folks just trying to eke out a living. If we choose to tell their tales draped in the lingo and trappings of the cowboy, that’s just another rhyme, with form following the function.
If you’re new to the Space Cowboy series, you’re in for a treat. These ten stories, from ten different authors, are where you’ll find Explorers charting new frontiers in space, Trailhands and Drovers watching over their cattle on alien plains, and Lawdogs of every stripe meting out frontier justice, and doing their best to make sure scallywags with evil intent don’t win in the end. These cowboys and cowgirls don’t back down from a challenge. It’s not in their nature.
(From the Introduction written by Rick Cutler)
by Jacob Holo
Published by Baen Books
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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.
Hey, y’all! 😄 If you’re in the Greenville, SC area, come on over to the Artist’s Alley at SC ComiCon this weekend (April 6-7th)! We’ll be at Booth 918, signing books and generally hanging out. 😄
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 Gordian Division #6 – The Thermopylae Protocol.
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 June Monthly Bundle). 😁
However you choose to experience it, we’re looking forward to sharing it with you, and we hope you enjoy it. ️️😊
Imagine The Six Million Dollar Man as written by an internationally-recognized expert in neuroscience and bionics, and you have The Moon and the Desert.
As you might guess from the title, itself a reference to the first episode of the show, the Six Million Dollar Man played no small part in inspiring author Robert E. Hampson to enter said fields in the first place, and his love of the original concept and his present work shines here.
The ultimate questions of this novel are “What would it take to build a bionic man? What’s involved in adapting to a bionic body? What are its limits and practical uses? How, especially, can it help humans function in the very non-human-friendly environment of space?”
It’s equal parts hard sci-fi and medical thriller with enough detail on both fronts to make a science-loving reader happy, but what makes it succeed is its human element.
Despite his extraordinary circumstances, astronaut and flight surgeon Glenn Armstrong Shepard reads like a regular, determined guy who’s eager to turn the disaster of losing most of his body into an opportunity to test the limits of bionics. He’s no stereotypical action hero, though he is admirable: Even though he volunteered for his bionics, he struggles with adapting to his complex prosthetics with the same frustration of any person who suddenly finds themselves with metal and plastic where there was formerly flesh. This sets him up as a relatable character, which makes the reader even more eager to follow him when he volunteers himself for a mission in outer space that tests the limits of his bionic capabilities.
The first part of the novel is all human; the second is all thrilling medical mystery as he faces the dual challenges of handling a crew-sweeping medical emergency on a returning space shuttle, while also pushing his physical and technological limits.
Though there’s a lot of science and medical talk, it’s all conveyed so naturally and in such manageable bits that, combined with the relatable cast, it becomes an easy, fast-paced read, especially once the space action starts.
Overall, it’s highly recommended for anyone with an interest in bionics, medical technology, the future of humans in space, or just a solid story about a determined man facing an incredible situation.
It’s amazing to think we’re already on Book 6 of the Gordian Division series, but here we are. 😮
The Thermopylae Protocol marks an interesting departure for the series.
David and I wrote previous books to fit within their own separate branches, with the “Protocol” branch leaning toward alternate history and hard sci-fi with the risk of exploding universes, and the “File” branch being sci-fi police procedurals with lower-stakes but still thrilling adventures.
This novel starts with an exploding spaceship, which is fun for readers 😃 … but not so much for the Gordian Division, when it finds the wreckage is inexplicably 40 years older than it should be – not to mention carrying advanced self-replicating machines that, in the wrong hands, could be put to multiverse-destroying ends. 😨
Gordian Division’s no stranger to multiverse-threatening challenges, but time is of the essence, and when you’ve got a multiverse-spanning time-travel mystery, who better to call than a pair of time cops from two different universes? 😉
They’ll all have to work together to get to the bottom of this, and fast, because if they don’t, the fate of multiple universes could be at stake. (Again.)