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We kept it kind of secret-ish, but with the lovely refresh on the ESTO Universe covers, MCB decided to do an audio for *drumroll**** Prisoner 374215 Ken Teutsch/Bill Hare did a wonderful job on the voice work and we're now just waiting on approval at ACX. I'll certainly let you know when it's up! Hooray! 
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Someone left the door open at the publisher and A Message From The Home Office got out! It's out there at the book vendors running around without supervision! You can grab a net and snag your own copy at the links below :) Mischief Corner Books Amazon Barnes and Noble Kobo Apple  Also - some quick updates on ESTO stories: Prisoner 374215 has a stunning new cover and will be going into audio production soon. More on that later. A Matter of Faces also has a fabulous new cover. Both of these shorter works will be joined by a new ESTO novella in October - By Imperial Decree. Fingers crossed that I don't foul up the deadline. Don't these covers look wonderful together?
  This coming Tuesday, August 25, A Message from the Home Office releases! If you've pre-ordered, thank you, thank you, thank you. :) You still can, of course, or wait until it's live Tuesday.
It will be available in both ebook and paperback, for those readers who like to have something to take to bed...er, to hold on tight to...that is, well, Paperback! The story of a disgraced interstellar diplomat banished to the backwater planet Earth and the new annoying new assistant he positively, absolutely did NOT ask for. Fun tropes include: Forced Proximity ✅ A Grumpy Pants ✅ Why Didn't You Clean That ✅ Age-Gap ✅ Amazon Barnes and Noble Kobo Apple A Message from the Home Office releases 8/25! 12 more days! All the pre-order links are up if you want to snag it beforehand. :D Next up is an ESTO story and takes place in a part of the universe we haven't visited before: a Galactic Hansa station. I'm about halfway into the writing (I think), and there is a blurb now. :D
By Imperial Decree Marsh Kensinger's work as the utility mechanic for Bremen Station keeps his life interesting - but never quite as interesting as finding a pilot still hidden inside a hibernation drawer in what should have been a salvage craft. He knows he shouldn't get involved, but the Altairian Imperial crest on the private craft and the semi-conscious pilot's odd questions pique his always-whirling curiosity. Still unattached at a concerning age for an imperial son, Prince Shiro Shinohara hadn't been running from the endless, mind-numbing rounds of omiai his mother, the Empress, had mandated. Not exactly. He'd just wanted a break from persistent suitors at the family retreat on Ceti Tau. The short respite becomes a panicked flight for his life when one of the suitors stalking him attacks the family compound. Worried for the soldiers he was forced to leave behind, afraid there's a conspiracy to kidnap him, Shiro confides in the handsome mechanic who found him, and in a moment of panic, concocts the fiction of a serious relationship with Marsh. It's only until Shiro's people can reach him and he can press charges back home. Marsh is willing to play along and Shiro's just going to have to keep himself together and not, under any circumstances, fall for the wonderful, generous man who refuses to stop helping him.  The final Brimstone releases in five days!
For all the Brimstone that's fit to Brimstone - including reading order and all the buy links - check out the Brimstone page on this website. For the blog tour posts so far for A Fine Mess: Brimstone 7, take a peek here! Brimstone Questions from Readers pt 1 - at Matt Doyle Media Fluffy's Stray - a brand new ficlet for the blog tour - at Wicked Faerie Reviews Stay tuned for more! Next Tuesday starts the blog tour for A Fine Mess: Brimstone 7. There will be the usual regular tour posts, but there will be treats scattered among them just about every day.
I don't know which blog gets which post, so these will be a fun surprise for me, too. :D Some of the special items will include:
I'll be letting you know what's where every day on FB and Twitter - so look for those starting Tuesday signaled by a special graphic Gus Li made for me! Soon my news posts, etc. are going to be all Brimstone, all the time, but not quite yet. :) A little IMP news first. For those of you not familiar, IMP (Interplanetary Multispecies Pact) is a shared universe I developed and share with Freddy MacKay. The basic premise: Yervath space - where an ancient race of dual-strand genetic beings set up IMP for their own devices. Hey. They had the tech. Everyone else had to go along. While IMP is aware of Earth, Sol system is considered a primitive backwater. They keep an eye on us, but most of the time, we're a footnote beyond the edges of civilized space. The IMP Universe had three stories so far, and while A Christmas Cactus for the General has been available, the other two have not for some time. Until now. All three titles have new covers and all three will soon be back out in the wild.  A Christmas Cactus for the General (available now in ebook, paperback should be up this week) Exiled to Earth for perhaps the worst failure in Irasolan history, General Teer must assimilate or die. Earth is too warm, too wet, too foreign, but he does the best he can even though human males are loud, childish louts whom he can't imitate successfully. When a grieving seaplane pilot strikes up a strange and uneasy friendship with him, he finds he may have been too quick to judge human males. They are strange to look at, but perhaps not as unbearable as he thought.  A Message from the Home Office (release date August 25) Being an OIL (Onsite Inter-species Liaison) for the Interplanetary Multispecies Pact has never been an easy job. In fact it's a crap job when stuck on a backwater nowhere planet like Earth. But cobra Yervath Sissal Naganos manages. The demotion was swift and heavy-handed, but he'll climb back out of this hell eventually. Humans don't meet his social needs, so, yes, it's been lonely and he tells himself he likes the solitude. That is, until IMP sends him an irritating new assistant he never asked for. Now his peace is well and truly disturbed and his paranoid diplomatic reflexes have reawakened. The worst part is the kid didn't have to be so cute.  The Nut Job by Freddy MacKay (coming this fall) Captain Spencer's attempt to complete a simple nut harvest on Earth goes spectacularly wrong. Last but not least, I have an ARC lottery running on my FB group for A Fine Mess: Brimstone 7. You do need to be a group member to enter.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/angelmartinez/ Just a short word about A Message From the Home Office: This is a novella from the IMP Universe, where A Christmas Cactus for the General also lives. But while Christmas Cactus is a serious story, Message is...not as much. The original story was for an April Fool's anthology and involved a number of prompts - and honestly, some of that just didn't work in rewrites. It's been expanded by about 10K, and I hope preserves a gently sarcastic feel to the story of isolated diplomat Sissal, who didn't ask for an assistant, and Richard, who has an AGENDA. ;) Currently with the line editor, on the calendar for an August release.  First, Sub Zero comes out on Tuesday, June 16, don't forget! Come pre-order your anti-colonialism science fiction!  And on to podcasts! I'll be on a couple of shows airing Monday, June 15: Two Gay Geeks - where I get to talk to Ben and Keith about writing and all sorts of geeky things. :D  AND Jeff and Will's Big Gay Fiction Podcast - where Scott and I talk to Jeff about the upcoming Rainbow Space Magic Virtual Convention!  And unlike SpaceX launches, it's not dependent on the weather! A Fine Mess: Brimstone 7, will be set loose in the book wilds July 28, 2020. Mark your calendars. :D It's by far the longest Brimstone story yet, coming in at just over 79K. Content edits are complete - on to the rest of the editing process, cover coming soon. If you are a reviewer on Booksprout, Mischief Corner Books has started making ARC's available there if you're so inclined. (Obviously, A Fine Mess is not up in ARC yet, but the rest of the Brimstone series is.)  Leopold would like to remind you that the series really is about him.
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Angel writes (mostly) Science Fiction and Fantasy centered around queer heroes. Currently living part time in the hectic sprawl of northern Delaware and full time inside her head, she has one husband, one son, two cats, a love of all things beautiful and a terrible addiction to the consumption of both knowledge and chocolate. |
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