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The Fourth Annual Indie Author Labor Day Sale!
Welcome to another long holiday weekend, and have we got reading material for you! Kick back, relax, let the smoker do the work on that brisket, and check out these books and stories by independent authors.
Coming Home
By Tom Rogneby
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One sale from Sept 1 through the weekend
Elsked, son of DaddyBear the Minivandian and Ruarin, the Lady of Eyre, ventures out into the night to learn the saga of his mother and father.
An ancient storyteller exchanges tales of Elsked’s life for the story of how DaddyBear and Ruarin became the lord and lady of their manor.
Coming Home brings together the stories of Quest to the North, Lost Children, and Lady of Eyre, along with four new short tales of the Minivandian and his family.
Join Elsked as he creeps into the storyteller’s lair and comes to know the next Tales of the Minivandians
Rimworld- Into the Green
By JL Curtis
On sale for $1.99 1-3 September.
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After a chance encounter with Dragoons and Traders turns a routine planet exploration into a rout that kills his team and his career, Lieutenant Ethan Fargo, medically retired, wants nothing more than to hole up in the backwater Rimworld he’d explored and enjoy a quiet retirement far from people or problems.
Unfortunately, he’s about to find out that he’s not as retired as he wants to be, and that his new home system comes with dangers, politics, and Dragoon sightings of its own. What promised to be a boring retirement will turn out to be anything but.
Take the Star Road
by Peter Grant
$0.99 Sep 1- Sep 4
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Nineteen-year-old Steve Maxwell just wants to get his feet on the star road to find a better homeworld. By facing down Lotus Tong thugs, he earns an opportunity to become a spacer apprentice on a merchant spaceship, leaving the corruption and crime of Earth behind. Sure, he needs to prove himself to an older, tight-knit crew, but how bad can it be if he keeps his head down and the decks clean?
He never counted on the interstellar trade routes having their own problems, from local wars to plagues of pirates – and the jade in his luggage is hotter than a neutron star. Steve’s left a world of troubles behind, only to find a galaxy of them ahead…
Scaling the Rim
By Dorothy Grant
On sale for $0.99
Sept 1 – 4
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Never underestimate the power of a competent tech.
When Annika Danilova arrived at the edge of the colony’s crater to install a weather station, she knew the mission had been sabotaged from the start. The powers that be sent the wrong people, underequipped, and antagonized their supporting sometimes-allies. The mission was already slated for unmarked graves and an excuse for war…
But they hadn’t counted on Annika allying with the support staff, or the sheer determination of their leader, Captain Restin, to accomplish the mission. Together, they will overcome killing weather above and traitors within to fight for the control of the planet itself!
Carpathian Campaign
By Alma Boykin
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It is on sale today through Wednesday, September 6 for $1.99. The sequel, Grasping for the Crowns will be out in November.
War rumors stalk Europe, but István Eszterházy has other concerns. Or so he thinks. The Powers—ancient creatures living on the very energy of the land. Allied with the Houses, together the Powers and Houses have guided parts of Europe for a thousand years and more, humans, HalfDragons, and True-dragons working as one. But other forces shift, movements of peoples and of pride. István ignores them, intent on his military duties and his forthcoming wedding. War waits for no man, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand turns rumor into red war, setting Power against Power and House against House. And war is not what István imagined. How can he survive this new world and protect his new family and his House? He must find a way, even as he begins a delicate dance with the Powers, that of his House and some far older and much more dangerous. István’s world is changing. He will survive this new campaign, or die trying.
Jade Star
By Cedar Sanderson
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Free from Sept 2-4
Jade is determined to die. She is old, and useless, when she points her tiny subspace craft at the cold stars. She wakes up in the care of others who refuse to grant her death, and instead give her a new mission in life.
Jade isn’t happy, and she only gets angrier when she learns that her mysterious new home hides a horrible secret. It’s time for this old lady to kick butt and take names. Aliens, death, destruction… nothing trumps the fierce old woman who is protecting her family.
Dragon Blood: A Collection of Short Stories
By Sarah Hoyt
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From the trenches of WWI where the Red Baron just can’t help turning into a dragon, to the desert sands of a future world where humans have become something else, from a coffee shop between worlds where magicians gather, to a place where your worst nightmare can love you, let Dragon Blood take you on a series of fantastic adventures.
Lucky Number 7: A Rats, Bats, and Vats Story
By Dave Freer
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John Norway is an alcoholic, a double amputee combat veteran, a street beggar with nothing much to live for. But once — before conscription – he’d been a rally driver. One of the best, at the wheel of Lucky Number 7. Now… Ariel the rat wants to have him drive in a desperate race against death, and the ‘magh.
The only question: does Norway want to win that race?
And will it solve Fat Fal’s inflatable rattess problem?
Directorate School
by Pam Uphoff
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Free through Wednesday
First Book of The Directorate Series
Ebsa “Kitchen” Clostuone invades the sacred precincts of the High Oners! The School of Directorate Studies has a wide variety of students, including the president’s daughter Paer, this strange Ra’d fellow, and Nighthawk, the first foreign student from Comet Fall. Ebsa wants to explore across the dimensions. And all he has to do is keep his grades up, learn how to shoot every kind of gun imaginable, and not get pounded by the Action Team trainees.
Lt. Col. USAF (Ret.): During the Vietnam War Jim flew the Skyraider out of NKP Thailand from Apr 69 – Apr 70 as a 1st Lt in the 602nd Fighter Squadron. He flew 212 Combat missions, over 700 combat hours; Flight Lead, FCF pilot, Instructor Pilot, and Sandy 1. Jim led or was a major participant in several historic SARs; Most people recovered: “Knife 61/62.” (54 out of 60 survivors recovered); Boxer 22: largest single rescue effort in Air Force history (2 1/2 days); Participated in 14 Rescue Efforts; was a major participant in 8; Led SARs 5 times as Sandy 1 (Sandy Low Lead.); (Led two multi-day SARs twice, on successive days) (Boxer 22 and Wolf 06.); Sandy Lead for the rescue of Nail 10; Silver Star; 6 Distinguished Flying Crosses; 13 Air Medals (1 “single-mission” air medal.); Shot up twice in Mu Gia Pass on SAR missions. One was “just a bunch of holes” and the other was a 37mm hit to the engine, followed eventually by a dead-stick landing back at NKP. Jim had a 20-Year Air Force career, selected early for Lt. Col., commanded an F-16 Fighter Squadron (the 429th TFS at Nellis), attended Army War College after that followed by a tour at the Pentagon. Jim became one of the first retired military pilots hired by Delta Air Lines. Line Check Airman and Lead Line Check Airman at Delta, as well as LAX R&I Chairman; retired from Delta on 9/1/2004.
Cdr. U.S.N. (Ret.) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from St. Josephs University. After working for two years in the Defense Industry on the Atomic Powered Bomber at Patuxent River, Maryland he got the urge to fly and Jim Lovell convinced him to become a Navy carrier pilot. Chuck’s first tour was flying S-2E aircraft from the USS Yorktown. He received his MS in Aeronautical Engineering at Monterey, and since they were looking for cannon fodder in Vietnam he transitioned to jets, ultimately flying the A-4F with VA-22 on the USS Bon Homme Richard in the Tonkin Gulf. A shore duty tour with VA-127 was shortened 18 months by a quick reaction (10 day notice) deployment with VA-212 as Executive Officer where he was awarded three DFCs in one week while flying strikes in the A-4F against North Vietnam from the USS Hancock. He ended up with 200 combat missions with his very last mission being a large scale attack against the very heavily defended Than Hoa Bridge which had extracted a heavy toll on aviators.
joined the Army in 1968 shortly after graduating High School. He expressed interest in flying helicopters to the recruiter, and was allowed into the program after passing a battery of tests and a pretty rough interview process. After basic infantry training, Fuentes attended primary helicopter school and went on to the Army Aviation School at Fort Rucker Alabama. Flight School was a very intense and rigorous nine month experience. The drop out rate was almost 50%. After completion of his training, his entire flight school class was shipped out to South Viet Nam, where he was assigned to the 187th Assault Helicopter Company, (Crusaders), flying out of a base camp in Tay Ninh province. Fuentes’ primary mission was to provide Airlift and gunship support to elements of the 25th Infantry Division, MACV, Special Forces, Long Range Patrols and other units operating in his area. In a short period of time Fuentes accumulated more flight hours than his entire time in flight school. The flying was especially intense during combat assaults. This was what he did many times a day with a flight of at least 9 assault helicopters, (Slicks). Artillery, air to ground rockets and heavy machine gun fire would accompany approaches into landing zones. With the help of some of the finest aviators that Fuentes had the privilege of serving with, he became an Aircraft Commander just before his 20th birthday. Fuentes was wounded during a mortar attack on his base camp, but he was able to complete his tour after a short stay in a hospital. Upon his return to the states, he was assigned to the Army Aviation School at Fort Rucker as a UH-1 tactics instructor. Among Fuentes’ honors and awards are the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 42 oak leaf clusters, the Purple Heart, the National Defense Medal, the Viet Nam Service Medal, and the Viet Nam Campaign Medal.
(WSO) in US and Europe. Howard flew 66 Vietnam B-52 combat missions including Operation Linebacker II – the Presidentially ordered air strikes on Hanoi and Haiphong in December 1972. He served on the Hqtrs Tactical Air Command Staff at Langley AFB, Virginia as well as on the Joint/ Combined Staff in Seoul, Korea as Chief of the Commander’s Briefing Team in 1985-86. Howard was a Squadron Commander and Deputy Base Commander at Osan Air Base, Korea. He retired in October 1993. In private industry since 1994, Howard established his own company, EAST ASIA ASSOCIATES, Inc. providing project management engineering services for Procter & Gamble Manufacturing in Asia, primarily in Korea, Japan and Thailand from 1994 to 2002. Additionally, Howard was a Project Manager for PAE – A Lockheed Martin Company, in Honduras for Joint Task Force – Bravo for 3 years and at PAE Hqtrs in Los Angeles until 2010. Returning to P&G in 2011, his latest assignments have been in Utah (2011 & 2013) and in North Carolina (2012). Howard and his wife, Astrid, reside in Redlands, California.
one of which was depicted in the true Vietnam War Motion Picture titled ‘We Were Soldiers’ Starring Mel Gibson as Ronnie’s Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Hal G. Moore. Ronnie was one of Moore’s Radioman/Driver/Orderlies in Vietnam. Moore Commanded the renowned 1st Battalion, U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment (Custer’s) of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) and is now considered the Best Infantry Battalion Commander of the 20th Century. Ronnie was awarded a Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Purple Heart and Presidential Unit Citation for his Service in Vietnam. Ronnie’s Vietnam War Rank was Specialist 4th Class. Various duty functions Ihe performed there, besides serving as a Radioman/Driver/Orderly to his Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Hal G. Moore, were Battalion S-1 Personnel Clerk (Ia Drang Valley Battle’s advanced Firebase Falcon), Battalion S-2/3 Operations Clerk, Battalion Combat Photographer, and Battalion Chaplain’s Assistant. Some of Ronnie’s Vietnam War Photos will soon appear in PBS Director Ken Burns’ upcoming 10-Part PBS-TV Documentary Series titled ‘The Vietnam War’ that starts this coming Sunday, September 17th, 2017. Ronnie is now Retired from 33 Years Service to Matson Lines Steamship Company that ships Container Freight and Autos to Hawaii from our Mainland West Coast, including Autos of Military Families whose Military Members went off to fight new wars or to repeat tours in Vietnam. Ronnie personally supported those families over the years in a loving “Aloha Spirit” manner that earned him the Company’s Official Title of ‘Mr. Matson.’ The first and only such Honor ever awarded in the Company’s nearly 200 year History. Ronnie is also now retired from the California State Legislature, having represented Members of the California State Assembly in this Century for 8 years, including the 1st Vietnamese-American State Legislator in United States History. Ronnie is now closely tied to the Little Saigon Community’s focus in returning Freedom to a now Communist enslaved Vietnam. He recently served on the City of Irvine, California’s ‘Great Park ad hoc Committee for Veterans Affordable Housing,’ bringing much needed future housing relief programs for Veterans and their families. Ronnie often speaks his ‘Living History’ Story to Students in School, Preserving Freedom for future Generations, as a War Veteran member of the Freedom Committee of Orange County. He is also active in Freedom events as ‘Aloha Ronnie’ online and in Talk Radio/Television, Books and Freedom Demonstrations throughout Southern California.
