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Book Blast: Magelight by Kacey Ezell

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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.

Kacey Ezell‘s been a busy bee as of late, as she’s gone straight from deckbuilding LitRPG last month to reverse harem romantasy this month with Magelight, from Baen Books! If you’re curious to hear about it from the author herself, I interviewed her about it last night:

But if you’d like to go ahead and read it … šŸ˜

READ MAGELIGHT HERE

Magelight

by Kacey Ezell

Published by Baen Books

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Fleeing her sheltered life, a noblewoman must trust a warrior, a forester, and a thief to unlock her true power and face her destiny.

Embrace Your Power and Forge Your Destiny

All her life, Aelys of Brionne had been weak. As the noble daughter of one of the empireā€™s most powerful magic-wielding families, it should have been easy for her to live her dream of bonding with a warrior protector and joining the Imperial Battlemage Corps. But when her weakness robs her of her dreams, her best friend, and the man she loves, Aelys makes the only choice she can see: she takes her fate into her own hands and she runs, leaving her safe, protected world behind.

Now she must find a way to work with three dangerous strangersā€”a warrior, a forester, and a thiefā€”to escape the bandits stalking her, fight through the dangers of the untamed forest, and make her way back home, where her family and her destiny await.

Only . . . her violent protectors might be the key to the power and freedom sheā€™s always craved. Can Aelys find the strength to choose her own destiny and become the sorceress she was born to be? Or lose herself on the path to power?

READ MAGELIGHT HERE

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TOMORROW! Q and A (and PRIZES!) with KACEY EZELL, author of MAGELIGHT

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H.P. Holo/Edie Skye chats with author KACEY EZELL about her new romantasy MAGELIGHT ā€¦ and gives away a signed copy!

Pre-Order MAGELIGHT Here: https://amzn.to/42jCTWc

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

Visit Kacey’s Website Here: https://kaceyezell.net/

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

Fleeing her sheltered life, a noblewoman must trust a warrior, a forester, and a thief to unlock her true power and face her destiny.

EMBRACE YOUR POWER AND FORGE YOUR DESTINY

All her life, Aelys of Brionne had been weak. As the noble daughter of one of the empireā€™s most powerful magic-wielding families, it should have been easy for her to live her dream of bonding with a warrior protector and joining the Imperial Battlemage Corps. But when her weakness robs her of her dreams, her best friend, and the man she loves, Aelys makes the only choice she can see: she takes her fate into her own hands and she runs, leaving her safe, protected world behind.

Now she must find a way to work with three dangerous strangersā€”a warrior, a forester, and a thiefā€”to escape the bandits stalking her, fight through the dangers of the untamed forest, and make her way back home, where her family and her destiny await.

Only . . . her violent protectors might be the key to the power and freedom sheā€™s always craved. Can Aelys find the strength to choose her own destiny and become the sorceress she was born to be? Or lose herself on the path to power?

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Dancing with Destruction is up for pre-order!

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It’s pre-order time again, this time a sci-fi anthology! šŸ˜„

Dancing with DestructionĀ comes from Editor Jason CordovaĀ 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 kick ass 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?” šŸ˜€

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

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. šŸ˜ˆ

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. šŸ¤£

(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.)

Dancing with DestructionĀ releases on July 1, 2025, but you can pre-order it in trade paperback now!

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Also, if you have no idea what Sol BlazersĀ 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. šŸ¤£

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Freelancers of Neptune (Sol Blazers #1) is Out Today! :D

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Freelancers of Neptune

Sol Blazers #1

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 ainā€™t what it used to be!

In the far distant future, Saturnā€™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. Heā€™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 Sā€™Kaari, a mysterious and beautiful cat girl who triedā€”and failedā€”to steal a ship belonging to a band of space pirates. Vessaniā€™s in over her head and is clearly more trouble than sheā€™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 heā€™d like a few words with Nathan and his new crewmember.

READ FREELANCERS OF NEPTUNE HERE
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Pre-Order Signed (Bookplate) Copies of Freelancers of Neptune from Uncle Hugo’s!

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Hey, y’all! šŸ˜ H.P. here!

I’m about to ship A BUNCH of signed bookplates and super shiny pre-order swag to Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore – which is to say, if you like signed books and shiny bookmarks, Uncle Hugo’s is one more place to pre-order Freelancers of Neptune!

PRE-ORDER BOOKPLATE-SIGNED COPIES FROM UNCLE HUGO’S HERE

Can you believe release day’s just two weeks away? šŸ˜® Don’t forget, through October 1st, all readers who pre-order Freelancers of Neptune will receive an exclusive double-sided foil bookmark, complete with fancy plastic slipcase and tassel!

Readers who order the hardback specifically, though, will get that and a little something extra. šŸ˜‰

Readers who order from Uncle Hugo’s and Fiction Addiction will automatically receive their perks. For everyone else, I need to know where to send your stuff, so be sure to fill out this form once you’ve pre-ordered: šŸ˜

FILL OUT THIS FORM TO CLAIM YOUR SWAG

What’s this mischievous catgirl up to? What’s our heroic captain shooting at? What even is “Flesh and metal for the wound?”

Find out next month in the space opera adventure Freelancers of Neptune (Sol Blazers #1)! šŸš€

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Freelancers of Neptune

Sol Blazers #1

by Jacob Holo

Published by Baen Books

***

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 ainā€™t what it used to be!

In the far distant future, Saturnā€™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. Heā€™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 Sā€™Kaari, a mysterious and beautiful cat girl who triedā€”and failedā€”to steal a ship belonging to a band of space pirates. Vessaniā€™s in over her head and is clearly more trouble than sheā€™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 heā€™d like a few words with Nathan and his new crewmember.

PRE-ORDER FREELANCERS OF NEPTUNE HERE

PRE-ORDER BOOKPLATE-SIGNED COPIES FROM UNCLE HUGO’s here

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Claim your exclusive pre-order swag here

Ooh, shiny! āœØ Grab this exclusive foil bookmark when you pre-order Freelancers of Neptune!

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Hey, y’all! šŸ˜ H.P. here!

Freelancers of Neptune is just a month away, and since it’s Jacob’s first new solo novel in 9 years(šŸ˜®!), we’re sweetening the release with special pre-order perks!

Through October 1st, all readers who pre-order Freelancers of Neptune will receive an exclusive double-sided foil bookmark, complete with fancy plastic slipcase and tassel!

Readers who order the hardback specifically, though, will get that and a little something extra. šŸ˜‰

Either way, I need to know where to send your stuff, so be sure to fill out this form once you’ve pre-ordered. šŸ˜

What’s this mischievous catgirl up to? What’s our heroic captain shooting at? What even is “Flesh and metal for the wound?”

Find out next month in Freelancers of Neptune (Sol Blazers #1)! šŸš€

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Freelancers of Neptune Book Cover

Freelancers of Neptune

Sol Blazers #1

by Jacob Holo

Published by Baen Books

***

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 ainā€™t what it used to be!

In the far distant future, Saturnā€™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. Heā€™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 Sā€™Kaari, a mysterious and beautiful cat girl who triedā€”and failedā€”to steal a ship belonging to a band of space pirates. Vessaniā€™s in over her head and is clearly more trouble than sheā€™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 heā€™d like a few words with Nathan and his new crewmember.

PRE-ORDER FREELANCERS OF NEPTUNE HERE

PRE-ORDER SIGNED COPIES here

Claim your exclusive pre-order swag here

Join us for The Thermopylae Protocol’s Virtual Launch Party! (DATE CHANGE)

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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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The Thermopylae Protocol

Gordian Division #6

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 Divisionā€™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 shipā€™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 searchā€”but before plans can be formalized, the leader of the Adminā€™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 Cantrellā€”both fast becoming experts in transdimensional crimeā€”are dispatched to Providence. But the clock is ticking for the detectives and Raibertā€™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.

READ THE THERMOPYLAE PROTOCOL HERE

The Thermopylae Protocol (Gordian Division #6) is Out Today! (Also, join us for a Virtual Launch Party!)

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The Thermopylae Protocol

Gordian Division #6

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 Divisionā€™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 shipā€™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 searchā€”but before plans can be formalized, the leader of the Adminā€™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 Cantrellā€”both fast becoming experts in transdimensional crimeā€”are dispatched to Providence. But the clock is ticking for the detectives and Raibertā€™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.

READ THE THERMOPYLAE PROTOCOL HERE

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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!

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Freelancers of Neptune is up for Pre-Order!

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Freelancers of Neptune

Sol Blazers

by Jacob Holo

Published by Baen Books

***

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 ainā€™t what it used to be!

In the far distant future, Saturnā€™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. Heā€™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 Sā€™Kaari, a mysterious and beautiful cat girl who triedā€”and failedā€”to steal a ship belonging to a band of space pirates. Vessaniā€™s in over her head and is clearly more trouble than sheā€™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 heā€™d like a few words with Nathan and his new crewmember.

Releases October 1, 2024. PRE-ORDER HERE!

The Thermopylae Protocol (Gordian Division #6) is up for Pre-Order!

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It’s amazing to think we’re already on Book 6 of the Gordian Division series, but here we are. šŸ˜®

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 šŸ˜ƒ … 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. šŸ˜Ø

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? šŸ˜‰

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.)

Releases June 4th, 2024. Pre-Order HERE!

Reading & Q&A (& PRIZES!) with Patrick Chiles, Author of Interstellar Medic: The Long Run

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Saturday, February 24th @ 8pm EST

H.P. chats with author Patrick Chiles about his new sci-fi novel, Interstellar Medic: The Long Run, (available March 5, 2024 from Baen Books). Join us for a reading and fun book chatter, and enter to win a signed book of your own!

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BEING A PARAMEDIC IS A TOUGH JOB; IT’S TOUGHER WHEN YOU STUMBLE ONTO A CRASHED ALIEN SPACECRAFT.

Melanie Mooney thought she was just doing her job when she came upon an unusual accident in the deep woods late one night. Acting alone, what she found was nothing like sheā€™d expected. What followed was even more unexpected.

Recruited by emissaries of a galaxy-spanning civilization, Melanie is thrust into a world she thought only existed in supermarket tabloids. As the first human in the Galactic Union Medical Corps, she cares for extraterrestrials in desperate need of a medic who can ignore the fact that theyā€™re nothing like any patient sheā€™s ever seen, even on their best days. And in emergency medicine, itā€™s a given that every patient is having the worst day of their life.

Each run takes her deeper into the galaxy and farther from home, navigating alien cultures that only get weirder with each call. It will take all of Melanieā€™s experience, instinct, and grit to prove herselfā€”and the rest of humanityā€”to be worthy of the Union. Thatā€™s a lot to put on a woman whoā€™d just like to end the day with a cheeseburger and a cold beer.

READ Interstellar MEDIC HERE

Q&A (& PRIZES!) with Marisa Wolf, Author of Beyond Enemies

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Saturday, February 17th @ 8pm EST

H.P. chats with author Marisa Wolf about her new sci-fi novel, Beyond Enemies (available now from Baen Books). Join us for fun book chatter and enter to win a signed book of your own!

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An assignment on a backwater world turns deadly for a combat vet and her AI tank. Military SF with heart and humor from up-and-coming author Marisa Wolf.

Sometimes the only way forward is to burn it all down.

Talinn Reaze and Bee serve as ā€œBreezy,ā€ part of the United Colonial Forceā€™s elite Artificial Intelligence Troops. Trained for full integration since before Talinnā€™s birth, they exceeded expectations and became one of the premier heavy tanks, leading assaults on several fronts of the long war against the Interstellar Defense Corps.

When theyā€™re thrown to a backwater base without cause, boredom becomes their main enemyā€”until the world falls out from under their treads and they begin to question everything theyā€™ve ever known.

As they orient to their new reality, they have a decision to make: Uphold the status quo, or risk burning civilization to the ground?

Talinn and Bee always did have a fondness for fire.

READ BEYOND ENEMIES HERE