New New Releases

[AK Dawson]

Hi everyone, 

I thought I'd take the initiative and create a new 'new releases' discussion. Anyone's welcome to add work, obviously! I don't intend for this to replace any existing threads, but to be used as a kind of supplement. Use this one to show off your new covers, tell us about release dates, announce different formats, or anything else you can think off. 

I'll kick off. My story is called Poison Oak Summer and is available on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk as three separate novellas for Kindle. I would really love for the book to be reviewed and can send a file of the first novella or all three. I'm also willing to do interviews, guest blog posts, etc. Just get in touch through this site, leave a comment on www.akdawson.co.uk or email [e-mail] 

Eighteen-year-old Lucy came to California to have fun. But within hours of arriving at the summer camp where she is supposed to work, she discovers the body of a boy floating in a nearby river. At least that’s what she thinks she sees. The body disappears down a waterfall and no-one will believe her that it existed in the first place – not even the police. Lucy decides to find out the truth for herself. Along the way, she discovers that life is stranger than she thought possible and death stranger still.

[Amelia Wright]

I can review your book and also may I do an author interview with you contact me at [e-mail]

[Chris Stevenson]

Planet Janitor Custodian of the Stars

Captain Zachary Crowe, owner of Planet Janitor, is in love with his busted down Russian ore freighter Shenandoah, and fancies himself an entrepreneur. He’s only been in business for four years, trying to wrangle planetary job assignments that deal with cleaning up the environment and making close solar system jumps to pick up precious ores and space trash. His crew consists of seven less than stellar professionals. Their problem is they’ve destroyed biological ecosystems and habitats through neglect, and incompetence. They’ve had bad press, bad luck, and bad breath…

That’s until the slick vice president of Orion Industries Real Estate Development hires Planet Janitor for a clandestine operation that entails a 26-light-year trip out to a newly found habitable planet in the Tau Ceti system.

Planet Janitor finds out too late that they’ve been suckered into a job that entails disposing of millions of skeletons—a genocidal graveyard. They soon discover what killed this indigenous species and, being ill prepared and unarmed, are caught up in a fever-pitched battle for their lives. They must contend with genetically engineered marsupial lions, drop-shipped on the planet by an alien species. These crewmembers, who’ve been failures and outcasts all of their lives, transform into a fighting unit that refuses to go quietly into the night. When it appears that they have vanquished the vicious creatures, they are faced with the arrival of the aliens who created these pet animal soldiers…then the real fight begins.

I think this story combines some of the elements of Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, with a breathless fight to the finish, along with the inconceivable measures used to survive on a hostile planet that can be likened to the perils of Robinson Crusoe on Mars. The action is gritty and visual, while the characters discover that heroism and self-esteem is a trait that is best achieved via cooperative teamwork, self-worth, sacrifice and love for each other.

 

[Amelia Wright]

Sorry, i do not have a kindle