As soon as it has been approved for the premium list, Smashwords will forward to all the other sites, but until then, you may download the sample from Smashwords in the format you require.

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Still editing the third Galaxy Freight Novelette, but hope to have it completed this week, cover done next week, and up on Amazon and Smashwords by 23rd Decembr, 2011.

After that, relaxing over Christmas break. Hope you all have a wonderful end of year holiday.

Captain Alana Black owns a freighting company called Galaxy Freight and pilots her space ship between earth and colonized planets at the edge of settled space.

She has an android to help called Sam, and an artificial intelligence program called Ship.

In Crash Landing, Captain Alana Black uncovers new information on illegal mining on a remote colony in the Cassiopeia system, so she sets course for the closest Peace Keeper base in her spaceship S.S Escape to report what she discovered, but things go downhill from there.

In Altien Rescue, Captain Alana Black agrees to observe an unauthorised human mining operation on the unmapped planet while waiting for her ship to be repaired so she can include the information in her report to the Peace Keepers.

Her alien guide points out a captured local held by the unauthorised mining company, but Captain Black refuses to rescue the captive. When she wakes alone in the middle of the night, Alana has to decide if she will follow the guide and help rescue the captive or return to her ship.

I am working on the third in the series and hope to have it up in December, or early January.

Second, a big thank you to those who read the samples and then purchased a copy. I do appreciate it. Without readers, this Indie Publishing merry-go-round, is rather dull.

Finally, I am plotting my next series of stories, with all new characters, set in a whole different part of the solar system.

If you are interested, the stories are set near Cassiopeia, which is 19 light years from earth. I have to write the first one before I know if they are Novella length or longer.

The main character is Captain Alana Black, an retired Peace Keeper, earning a living carrying low weight, high value, goods between the fringe of human colonies back to earth, while monitoring her section of space and reporting to the Peace Keepers when in range, and yes, her ship has FTL engines.

In the first story, I introduce her sidekick, a robot that likes to experiament with its personality chip, which annoys Alana, then I plan on Alana crashing on an, as yet, unmapped planet similar to earth and meeting a new race of humanoid beings who have both gills and lungs.

As always, events may change as I write, but as soon as I complete the first story and prepare it for publishing on Smashwords, I will announce it here.

I also added new covers to the other two Broken novels, and hope you like them.

Broken Agreement is a 79,000 word Science Fiction novel that continues from where Broken Land ended.

To preview the cover and blurb, click here.

To open the Smashwords page, click here.

Once it is approved it will be distributed to all the other sites.

You may preview the cover and blurb here.

I will add the Smashword link as soon as I have it.

The link to the Smashwords page is here.

I have not done this before, and am not sure how it works, but the instructions on Smashwords say “Once you enroll, customers will obtain your books using one of special coupon codes, which they’ll at checkout to receive the discount.”

I have now enrolled.

So, if you want 50% discount on my two novels, visit my Smashwords Author page,  select the novel you want, and, I believe, the discount will apply at the checkout.

Mark Coker has created a presentation on Introducing Smashwords and even if you are not ready to put your own novels up on Smashwords yet it is well worth taking the time to watch, and if you need to, click the links for further information on getting published the Indie way.

Click on Smashwords for a free sample or to purchase.

I hope you enjoy the second novel of one group of psychic humans.

Blurb:

Thirty years after Broken Faith, genetically enhanced humans, lead by Casi, finally undertake the task of returning the Jlaantei to their home world. Will the devastation of drought, hunger and oppressive leadership help to overthrow the leaders? And is the hidden spaceship spying on the planet friend or enemy?