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Book Blast: Discount Dan (Discount Dan’s Backroom Bargains #1) by James A. Hunter

March 17, 2025 by hpholo Leave a Comment

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

Now, for this one: A bunch of my friends frequently tag me as the one who got them hooked on Dungeon Crawler Carl, so 1) I am delighted to be your corruptor 😈, but also 2) author buddy of another author buddy James A Hunter has just released a LitRPG with BIG DCC VIBES.

Admittedly, I haven’t read it yet, but c’mon, it’s got a series title like DISCOUNT DAN’S BACKROOM BARGAINS and this googly eyed dog monstrosity on the cover and a mimic toilet LIKE WHY ARE YOU STILL LOOKING AT THIS SCREEN GET IT NOW

READ DISCOUNT DAN HERE!

For real, how can you turn down this face?

Discount Dan: A LitRPG Adventure

Discount Dan’s Backroom Bargains #1

by James A. Hunter

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Noclip In, No Way Out…

All Dan wants is to find a way home. He’d settle for a beer, a bite to eat, and a place to sleep off his hangover.

But, in an endless, ever-changing dungeon cobbled together from twisted carnivals, abandoned shopping malls, janky laundromats, and condemned insane asylums, getting a bit of shut-eye is harder than it sounds.

Dan has accidentally “Noclipped” into the Backrooms—a bizarro, extra-dimensional Alice-in-Wonderland world, overrun with horrific nightmare creatures known as the Dwellers. No one ever gets out. Hell, forget about leaving, if Dan wants to survive the week, he’s going to need to harness the strange game-like magic of the Backrooms, make some very sketchy allies, and carve out a little safe haven to call his own.

And he’s going to need to do it fast because Dan is being hunted. The Flayed Monarch of the 999th floor has marked him for death and no one walks away from the Skinless Court with their hide intact…

ā€œThe book is a f***ing delight. I enjoyed the absolute hell out of it and think it’s an excellent use of pop culture to make something fun and horrific and awesome.ā€ā€“ Eric Ugland, Author of the Good Guys and Bad Guys

ā€œBuckle up, buttercup! James Hunter takes you on a balls-to-the-wall adventure that’s as insane as it is awesome.ā€Ā ā€“ Jez Cajiao, Author of Arise and Rise of Mankind

“
Discount Dan is a fun, fast-paced read with awesome game mechanics, surprising humor, and a brutal adventure you won’t want to put down!” – Dakota Krout, Author of Completionist Chronicles, Full Murder Hobo, and The Divine Dungeon

READ DISCOUNT DAN HERE!

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Filed Under: Book Blasts Tagged With: adventure, Discount Dan, Discount Dan's Backroom Bargains #1, Dungeon Crawler Carl, James A Hunter, LitRPG

TONIGHT! Q and A with Shami Stovall, author of the FRITH CHRONICLES

October 9, 2024 by hpholo Leave a Comment

Q and A with Shami Stovall, author of the FRITH CHRONICLES

Wednesday, October 9th @ 8pm EST

H.P. Holo/Edie Skye chats with author Shami Stovall about the Pokemon-meets-Harry Potter fantasy adventure of the FRITH CHRONICLES!

Enter to win a signed copy of KNIGHTMARE ARCANIST here: https://forms.gle/GjvQ28K6BkV9rmNe7

Support the Special Bestiary Edition (Books 3-4) Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/authorshamistovall/special-bestiary-edition-of-the-frith-chronicles-books-3-4

Read the FRITH CHRONICLES here: https://amzn.to/4eGKnY8

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

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SUPPORT THE SPECIAL BESTIARY EDITION (Books 3-4) HERE

What are the Frith Chronicles, you might ask?

I like to tell people they’re ā€œHarry Potter meets PokĆ©monā€ā€”an epic fantasy tale of bonding with mystical creatures. The creature a person bonds with will determine the magics they gain.

Volke Savan, the main character, starts out on his small home island. If he can bond with a mystical creature, he can become an arcanist, and then he can finally leave and explore the world like he always wanted.

Unfortunately, there is a magical plague that warps creatures into monstrous versions of themselves… And Volke finds himself in the thick of it. Adventure ensues!

Fun fact, true fact: Every creature in the Frith Chronicles has unique magics they grant their arcanist upon bonding. The arcanist trains to improve their magic and grow their power.

(Plus every creature can ā€œevolveā€ into their true form, gaining a new, powerful ability, so the fun of the adventure is just beginning!)

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Filed Under: Interviews and Podcasts, Q&A Tagged With: Action, adventure, Frith Chronicles, harry potter, Kickstarter, Pokemon, Shami Stovall

TONIGHT! Jacob and H.P. Just Talk About … Freelancers of Neptune (Sol Blazers #1)

October 5, 2024 by hpholo Leave a Comment

Jacob and H.P. Just Talk About … Freelancers of Neptune (Sol Blazers #1)

Saturday, October 5th @ 8pm EST

Hey, y’all! We’re Jacob & H.P. Holo(/Edie Skye), and we write action-packed sci-fi & fantasy with a dash of crazy. (Or in Edie’s case, an entire spice rack of crazy.)

Welcome to our monthly(ish) series, wherein we just talk about stuff – the topic of the day, but also whatever we’re up to in writing and life.

Today we’re talking about Jacob’s latest space opera action adventure with cat girls, space pirates, and sentient coffee trees, FREELANCERS OF NEPTUNE (Sol Blazers #1)! Published by Baen Books.

(Also there will probably be Dazzle.)

Read FREELANCERS OF NEPTUNE Here: https://amzn.to/3TYRdjB

Claim your FREELANCERS OF NEPTUNE Launch Swag Here: https://forms.gle/J8tCWwrbVGXygJbz7

Enter to win a copy of FREELANCERS OF NEPTUNE Here: https://forms.gle/DtSHJFuK6odv1eNk7

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Freelancers of Neptune Book Cover

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.

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OBLIGATORY SELF-PROMO:


Find Jacob’s Baen Books Here: https://www.baen.com/allbooks/category/index/id/4971
Visit Jacob & H.P.’s Website Here: https://holowriting.com/
Visit Edie’s Website Here: https://edieskye.com/
Buy Our Stuff Here so We Can Give Dazzle a Good Life: https://store.holowriting.com/

***

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

Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/holowriting
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/holowriting

Filed Under: Interviews and Podcasts, Q&A Tagged With: Action, adventure, Freelancers of Neptune, Jacob and H.P. Just Talk About, Sol Blazers, Space Opera

We chatted Freelancers of Neptune with Blasters and Blades!

September 24, 2024 by hpholo Leave a Comment

Hey, y’all! šŸ˜„ One of our favorite podcasts invited us back to chat Freelancers of Neptune, 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.

WATCH ON YOUTUBE
WATCH ON RUMBLE
LISTEN ON BITCHUTE
LISTEN ON SPOTIFY

Filed Under: Interviews and Podcasts Tagged With: adventure, Blasters and Blades, Blasters and Blades Podcast, Freelancers of Neptune, Jacob Holo, Scrappy Crew, Space Opera

Get 25% off Freelancers of Neptune at Barnes and Noble thru 7/17!

July 10, 2024 by hpholo 1 Comment

Y’AAAAAALLLLL! šŸ˜€ 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. šŸ˜‰

If 25% off deals are your thing, hop on over to BN.com and pre that order! šŸ˜„

Pre-Order FREELANCERS OF NEPTUNE HERE

Freelancers of Neptune Book Cover

Pre-Order FREELANCERS OF NEPTUNE HERE

Filed Under: Holo Books Tagged With: adventure, Catgirls, Freelancers of Neptune, Ragtag Crew, Science Fiction, Scrappy Crew, Sentient Coffee Plants, Space Opera, Space pirates

Monster Girl Tamer #1 is out today!

May 16, 2024 by hpholo Leave a Comment

Hey, y’all! šŸ˜„ 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.

Titan Mage Book Cover

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! šŸ˜‰

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! 😊)

Read Monster Girl Tamer #1 HERE!

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 ā€œtactical harem.ā€

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 ā€œThis is smut.ā€ (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. šŸ˜‚

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! šŸ˜„

Filed Under: Holo Books Tagged With: adventure, Edie Skye, Fantasy, H.P. Holo, HaremLit, isekai, LitRPG, Monster Girl Tamer, Monster Punk Horizon

Space Cowboys 5: Cattle Drive is Out Today! :D

May 2, 2024 by hpholo Leave a Comment

Hey, y’all! šŸ˜„ 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!

Space Cowboys 5: Cattle Drive

Raconteur Press Anthologies #27

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 ā€œcivilization,ā€ 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)

READ SPACE COWBOYS 5: CATTLE DRIVE HERE

Filed Under: Holo Books Tagged With: adventure, Anthologies, Cattle Drive, Freelancers of Neptune, Jacob Holo, Raconteur Press, Release the Cyber-Kraken, Science Fiction

Library of the Sapphire Wind – Book Review

July 8, 2022 by hpholo Leave a Comment

There’s a meme that occasionally graces my social media feeds, lamenting that so many fictional heroes are unqualified teenagers, wishing for a story that follows an old grandma with the benefit of experience on her side.

Jane Lindskold’s Library of the Sapphire Wind has become the book I recommend whenever I see this meme.

Library of the Sapphire Wind Book Cover

In Library of the Sapphire Wind, Meg, Peg, and Teg are three ladies of retirement age and the only people in attendance at a book club when, suddenly, they find themselves transported to another world—summoned by three precocious youths who were hoping for mentors from their own world to help with various weighty problems. The three book clubbers, however, are the first humans this animal-headed trio has ever seen, and they’re not sure what to make of them.

However, Meg, Peg, and Teg are also three ladies with useful experience of their own, and they reason that, since they’ve been summoned to an alternate magical world to help solve a problem, they might as well see what they can do.

After all, it’s more exciting than regular retirement could ever be.

And as a former librarian, a semi-retired archaeologist, and a dedicated parent and grandparent to generations of children, they might be more qualified than even they realize, especially when the magic of the summons points them toward the isolated, destroyed ruin of the titular Library of the Sapphire Wind—along with the young summoners they have to manage on the way.

I can’t gush enough about this book, y’all.

I knew I was going to like it from page one because, let’s face it, librarians, archaeologists, and cool grandmas make for great characters in any type of story—but then the mini talking carrier pterodactyl showed up, and then a discussion of the magical translation linguistics of the world of ā€œOver Whereā€ (as the main characters dub it), and I’m a sucker for linguistics and pterodactyls, too.

My personal reading preferences aside, though, this is a more complex book than I expected it to be.

The animal-head motif that defines the residents of Over Where makes the book seem like it’s going to be a fun storybook adventure—and it definitely is a fun adventure—but fox-headed Vereez, stag-headed Grunwold, and lion-headed Xerak all have reasons for summoning aid that are darker and more complicated than the book’s colorful cover would suggest.

And while this tale told from the viewpoint of these three would likely present them as the heroes of their own stories, the tale as told by Meg, Peg, and Teg is one of how these characters need to mature, and how the three help them do so along the way. Which isn’t to say that Vereez, Grunwold, and Xerak are children in the conventional sense—Over Where has a different understanding of such rites of passage, where adulthood is not reached at a specific age but by the acquisition of a mature state of mind. Thematically, this raises the question of what it even means to be an adult, with each maturing character yielding a different answer, and often expressing maturity that is surprising for their relative ages. (When one young character speaks of a complicated romantic association, it’s to say, ā€œThere’s good in him. I’m just not sure it’s good for me.ā€)

It’s as much a tale of adventure as it is a tale of three mentors helping three adolescents grow up, and taking their jobs very seriously. There’s also a not-so-subtle jab at famous fantasy mentors like Dumbledore who send young protagonists off to do dangerous world-saving things without giving them useful guidance, such that I wonder if the book wasn’t entirely written as a reaction to such mentors.

That doesn’t mean it’s a book one reads for its Important Themes, though. Library of the Sapphire Wind is ultimately a book of complex, thoughtful points wrapped up in an adventure that is just plain fun. There are plenty of exotic locations for the main characters to explore; the Library itself is as cool as one would expect a magical library to be (complete with its own sentient, incorporeal guardian, from which it draws its name); and the variety of monsters the characters face as they travel to and excavate the library are as enthralling as any that ever captured young imaginations in children’s stories (Mine, at least; I’m a sucker for monsters, too).

The depth to which the worldbuilding goes is hypnotic, as well. Much is made of the summoning spell’s translation magic and how the characters must adapt—and thus learn more about each other’s worlds—when the magic doesn’t know how to translate specific words or concepts. There are also plenty of wonderful background details that don’t necessarily contribute anything to the story (yet—there’s a sequel, Aurora Borealis Bridge) but still serve to flesh out the world of Over Where as a living, breathing character of its own. One of my favorite such details was the setting’s concept of reincarnation: Over Where is a world where reincarnation is such an accepted (and proven) occurrence that it exists casually in the background, and though there are different subdivisions of the related belief system that disagree over some specifics, the concept in this setting is also wholly separate from theology. (ā€œWhat do gods have to do with it? Gods are for crops, moral guidance, explaining how things got started, stuff like that,ā€ as one character says.) It doesn’t affect the story at all that much except to explain why one character lives in a necropolis community (which exists because of those subdivisions trying to influence reincarnation through the treatment of interred bodies), but it’s still a really cool look into the spiritual and physical logic of the world.

Though, perhaps, given the age of the main characters, reflections on mortality are not wholly out of place—especially when one considers other inevitable effects of age, and in turn how those affect the storytelling.

Though Library of the Sapphire Wind is ultimately an interesting fantasy adventure, it’s not a rollicking quest to beat a conspicuous bad guy in a Hollywood-style castle-crashing battle (though the characters do see their fair share of dangerous encounters and action scenes). Meg, Peg, and Teg are not reckless, daring heroes who barge into danger without thinking. Age and experience has made them careful and sensible (if sometimes to the chagrin of their young companions), and the novel flows at a calm, fluid pace that reflects that sense of care. And yet it’s never boring, but rather appreciative, introspective, and always enjoying the ride—and encouraging its readers to do so as well.

Library of the Sapphire Wind is easily one of my new favorite books. It expertly balances the thoughtful maturity of its older protagonists with the eager energies of its young ones. Combine that with its infectious sense of wonder, and it becomes something the fantasy world needs more of.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: adventure, Aurora Borealis Bridge, baen books, Book Review, Fantasy, fantasy adventure, Jane Lindskold, Library of the Sapphire Wind, Over WHere, Review

The Story of Edie Skye

July 2, 2022 by hpholo Leave a Comment

Edie Skye Banner

OK y’all, it’s time for the epic story of how this whole Titan Mage thing happened, so buckle up and grab some popcorn:

It begins in 2020.

One of my jobs as writer/author wife/handler/marketer/general awesome person is to research keywords for our books’ Amazon ads. One of the places I look for keyword ideas is the also-boughts on our books, and for some reason, the also-boughts of Jacob’s anime-inspired giant mech series, Seraphim Revival, were loaded with … harem books.

The Seraphim Revival is perhaps the least spicy thing either of us has ever written, so naturally I was curious and started looking into the featured titles.

Which is when Jacob walked into my office and saw my computer screen full of booby book covers.

I joked, ā€œWe’re writing the wrong books, Jacob.ā€

Jacob joked, ā€œYou should write a harem novel.ā€

I joked, ā€œYou write the outline and design the babes and I’ll do it.ā€

I neglected to realize that Jacob was between projects at the time.

It was also the beginning of lockdown. Which meant he was at home. With free time.

And Jacob’s brain is not one to sit idle.

Which is why he came to me later with 5 outlines for a complete series of harem novels, complete with a sci-fi-inspired elemental magic system, a mech upgrade system, character details for the main cast, and the first few chapters, just because.

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There’s slightly more to it than that, though. Y’all know I struggle with OCD (and it’s the primary reason why my writing/writing process is often so chaotic).

We didn’t know it was OCD in early 2020, but we did know there was a problem – manifesting heavily in my inability to write consistently, among other more practical problems – and one of Jacob’s suggested solutions to help me over this hump was for him to outline a project and oversee details of the world, and me to do the actual writing.

One of my greatest challenges pre-OCD diagnosis was simply managing the complex details/consistency of my own world in The Wizard’s Circus (the sequel to The Wizard’s Way, still in progress). This way – with Jacob in charge of the basic foundation – if I had a question about the world, I could just ask him for the answer instead of trying to make up one and thus accidentally overcomplicate things.

I resisted the idea, partly because it felt like admitting defeat – that I couldn’t write a book on my own – and partly because we didn’t really have a concept that we wanted to collaborate on at the time.

Until I was formally diagnosed with OCD in late 2020.

Being able to put a name to the monster I faced changed how I approached the monster. I now had a specific lens through which to analyse my problem and as a result could pinpoint how it was manifesting in my writing, and how to fix it.

At the time, The Wizard’s Circus was a hot mess and I didn’t have the skills to address all its flaws. So I decided to rebuild my writing techniques and style from the ground up, keeping my OCD tendencies in mind and playing to my strengths. The result was Monster Punk Horizon.

However, around that time, Jacob and I also remembered his earlier suggestion – that he outline something for me to write. MPH was already well on its way by that point – and my confidence in my own writing back up, since it was wholly of my own imagination – and so I was more open to writing something that had already been laid out by someone else.

Plus there was something totally hilarious about collaborating with my husband on a harem novel.

And the sheer ridiculousness of that situation unlocked something inside my brain while I was writing it. The first draft of Titan Mage was done in less than a month, and it required very little editing from Jacob.

It showed me that, despite my years of struggling to finish a book, I had it in me to write quickly, and well.

Titan Mage, then, sure, started as a joke.

But it – and Jacob’s help through it – also played a pivotal role in helping me wrangle the monster that is my OCD.

So in a way, it’s also a strange little love letter. ā˜ŗļø

Filed Under: Holo Books Tagged With: ads, adventure, book ads, Edie Skye, Fantasy, fantasy adventure, harem, marketing, Monster Punk Horizon, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Seraphim Revival, The Wizard's Circus, The Wizard's Way, Titan Mage

H.P. has a new bestseller (on a spicy new pen name)!

July 2, 2022 by hpholo Leave a Comment

Edie Skye Banner

Well, that was a pleasant surprise! 😮

One of my recent background projects has been working on books under a new pen name – new because the content in those books is quite a bit šŸŒ¶ļø spicier šŸŒ¶ļø than my usual stuff, and I didn’t want YA readers who found me through The Wizard’s Way to be surprised by content that they weren’t ready to encounter.

I didn’t advertise the first one much at all outside of my personal Facebook page (intending to do so once more books in the series were out) …

… So you can imagine my surprise when the book rocketed to #1 on Amazon’s Steampunk Fiction bestseller list, lurked in the Top 10 on two other bestseller lists … and has been doing so since the book’s release 2 weeks ago. 😮😮😮

That said, if you’re into giant mechs, mages, and harem fantasy adventures, now’s the perfect time to check out Titan Mage, under my pen name Edie Skye!

Titan Mage Book Cover

Magic powers? His own mech? A whole airship of gorgeous women desperate for his genes? Yes, please!

Paralyzed by a drunk driver, let go from his job, and stuck in a sad, stagnant town in the middle of nowhere, Joseph Locke was having the worst day of his life.

And then heĀ died.

But considering that he wakes up with a brand new body, in the cockpit of a badass steampunk robot, on an airship of nothing but hot babes, his next life may not be all that bad. Especially when he learns that he’s a void mage—the rarest and most powerful of all mages on the world of Haven. And his shipmates want to help him makeĀ more.

As if that weren’t enough, they offer Locke a job piloting one of their mechs, which they call Titans. In the meantime, Locke has to learn his way around this exciting world, all while coming to grips with his new—andĀ dangerous—occupation. Will he be able to master his Titan? How can he best upgrade the machine to become as badass as possible? Why’s a strange parasitic sludge falling from the sky? And what’s up with the ghost of a space witch living in his Titan—and inside his head?

WARNING:Ā Titan MageĀ is a fun fantasy adventure containing steam both punk and smutty: raunchy sausage-obsessed mechanics, lusty airship captains, prurient mech pilots, and saucy language to match. (So don’t read it and then complain about the spice. Y’all know exactly what you’re getting into.)

Download Titan Mage Here

From here on, updates about the series will be posted over on the Edie Skye webpage, so be sure to check it out if this is your jam. You can also follow me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok!

And, most importantly, you can join my newsletter for direct updates when new titles release – and get a free novella for signing up! šŸ˜€

Sign Up for the Edie Skye Newsletter Here

Reviews and ratings thus far have been spectacular, and I hope you’ll enjoy it just as much as my new readers! šŸ˜„

Filed Under: Holo Books Tagged With: adventure, Edie Skye, Fantasy, fantasy adventure, Giant Robots, harem, mech, men's adventure, spicy, spicy books

The Isekai Skies audiobook is out!

December 4, 2021 by hpholo Leave a Comment

Another month, another audiobook! šŸ˜€ Monster Punk Horizon #2: Isekai Skies is now out on Audible and ready for your enjoyment! šŸ˜„

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Tess Irondale once again did a fabulous job bringing all of H.P.’s characters to auditory life, and we’re excited to continue sharing her work with you.

Especially since readers, thus far, seem to be enjoying Book 2 as much as – if not more than – the first one! šŸ˜„

Check out what some have had to say:

ā­ļøā­ļøā­ļøā­ļøā­ļø I loved the first book with all my heart and the second one has ear wormed right into my very being! Sometimes you worry that a sequel just won’t stand up to the first. Especially when the first book was as amazing as Monster Punk Horizon … but fear not. Isekai Skies has risen to the challenge and surpassed my hopes! New characters to love and new monsters to awaken our imaginations. Jaz, Pix and the Dragon Pig Pirates are kicking ass and taking names once again! Don’t miss an exciting moment! On to book 3!

Frances Cooper

Amazon Reviewer

ā­ļøā­ļøā­ļøā­ļøā­ļø WOW. This book is unlike any other I have ever read! Being the second book in a series, I was pretty nervous, because I feel like second books tend to be less spectacular than the first. But this sequel did not disappoint one bit! It was so enjoyable to read – there are few books that make me audibly laugh out loud, but I’m so glad that this is one of them!

The way the author ties in these classic nerdy elements is incredible and nostalgic. The character development is outstanding – the characters stay consistently themselves, so you still know and love them while reading, but they also have so much growth throughout the story as well.

I had no idea where the plot was going to go after the first book, and I definitely didn’t expect it to go the way it did, but I have zero qualms about it. And the magic systems and fantasy world building is so awesome – unlike anything I’ve ever read. Literally, just wow. Such a fun read – can’t wait to read the third book!

Melisa Longhurst

Amazon Reviewer

ā­ļøā­ļøā­ļøā­ļø …Ā Imaginative, inventive and light-hearted …

Isekai Skies follows in the same vein as Monster Punk Horizon, where the two main protagonists Jaz and Pix become embroiled in more shenanigans. This time with the aid of Kaito, who has mysteriously been sucked through a portal from a future Earth. Kaito thinks he is in some sort of fantasy adventure, and it is up to Jaz and Pix to keep him in one piece.

I love [this] pair, they are such a refreshing change from the normal, run of the mill heroines. They are so good as a double act, and yet they are as different as chalk and cheese. I find the banter between them clever and full of humour. They are backed up with an array of terrific characters, friends and foes alike. Kaito’s initial naivety does make for interesting reading as he gets to grip with his new surroundings … Isekai Skies is more character-driven than anything, and it is not surprising, considering the talent on show. That does not mean the storyline is lacking because it isn’t. It is packed with action and adventure, and there is never a dull moment.

Isekai Skies is a thoroughly entertaining and engaging read, and I enjoyed every little bit.

John Derek

Goodreads Reviewer

We hope you enjoy it as much as these did! šŸ˜„

Filed Under: Holo Books Tagged With: action fantasy, adventure, Audible, audiobook, Comedy, Fantasy, fantasy comedy, GameLit, isekai skies, Monster Hunter games, Monster Hunter Rise, Monster Hunter World, Monster Punk Horizon

It’s Isekai Skies’ Launch Week!

November 14, 2021 by hpholo 1 Comment

Monster Punk Horizon has been out in the wild a little over a month, which means that it’s almost time for Monster Punk Horizon #2: Isekai Skies to make its debut! šŸ˜€

Like last time, H.P. has planned a fun week of readings and chats to lead up to its release on Thursday, November 18th. Check out the schedule below to see what she has in store this time around, and be sure to follow us on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch to receive notifications when her videos go live!

And of course, don’t forget that you can preorder Isekai Skies now on Amazon – or read it starting Thursday on Kindle Unlimited! šŸ˜„

Isekai Skies Launch Week Events

  • Sunday, November 14th @ 8pm EST – H.P. Talks Isekai Skies
  • Monday, November 15th @ 8pm EST – H.P. Reads Isekai Skies: Chapter 1
  • Tuesday, November 16th @ 8pm EST – H.P. Reads Isekai Skies: Chapter 2
  • Wednesday, November 17th @ 8pm EST – H.P. Reads Isekai Skies: Chapter 3
  • Wednesday, November 17th @ 8:20pm EST – H.P. Reads Isekai Skies: Chapter 4
  • Thursday, November 18th @ 8pm EST – Isekai Skies Virtual Launch Party ✨ LIVE WITH PRIZES! ✨

Filed Under: Holo Books Tagged With: action adventure, action comedy, action fantasy, adventure, Fantasy, fantasy adventure, fantasy comedy, Game Lit, GameLit, GamerLit, isekai, isekai anime, isekai skies, LitRPG, Monster Hunter, Monster Hunters, Monster Punk Horizon, Video Games

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