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Welcome to August! Who knows what's still to come this year?   To keep you going, or keep you distracted, or perhaps you're lucky enough to be relaxing on a beach somewhere, check out the plethora of promos and giveaways here. Sci-fi, horror, and cyberpunk.  On the Audible front, Flames of Apathy will shortly be with ACX awaiting for their approval. About a million emails later and STILL waiting on Neon Sands. I'm beyond frustration now, just waiting for them to get their arse into gear. Maybe next week!

Hire A Muse, Get A Nobel Prize Ex Machina meets A Beautiful Mind in this mind-bending sci-fi thriller. On the verge of abandoning his life-long project, an obsessive physicist hires the innovative service of an android Muse to help him finish his work. But when things start to go missing from his life, he must learn that not all is worth sacrificing on the altar of science before he has nothing left to live for.

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Deal of the week: 33% off Plains of Ion - Plus other giveaways

DEAL OF THE WEEK 33% OFF Click here to connect to Goodreads to review. Please also consider Amazon! Why am I watching Guga on YouTube? It just makes me so hungry. Why is he turning Wagyu beef into burgers? Must... stop... now... Another week of ACX not approving Neon Sands for Audible. Sorry, readers! No codes yet :( However, I have enough titles now that I should be able to offer a freebie or discount on at least one of them each week now, so click the cover above to grab Plains of Ion for 33% off, running until the end of Wednesday. And don't forget, all my titles are in Kindle Unlimited. Hope you are all keeping safe and well.  Yaro Anatoly commands the most feared regiment on the continent. His loyalty to the king has seen him wage war in the savage wilderness of Vorgar, the lawless free cities, and in Akasha, the domain of the southern princes. But when the death of a saint triggers a revolution at home, Yaro finds his own loyalties divided. Can he really serve a king who hates his own people? And who are these new gods? 'The Haydock Haunting: A Short Story' is a stand-alone story which also forms a chapter of my novel 'Fitful Head: A Ghost Story'. Imagine you lose your mind... and something’s waiting to take its place. Bereaved Isobel believes she’s haunted and thinks she knows who’s doing it. But if she’s wrong, her mistake could cost more than her life. Listen on Audible Click on your country below to link to this title on Audible. US, UK, FR, DE Explore my worlds, click the banner below

Audible Frustrations!

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Another week, another delay from ACX on the audiobook version of Neon Sands. As soon as available I'll let you know! A few of you have grabbed promo codes for Plains of Ion, so here's a link reminder to apply: https://storyoriginapp.com/audiobookreviewcopies/16ed6a94-a20f-4734-87e1-0784ba6b9f45. Flames of Apathy and The Risen series are also being worked on, but will likely be a few months away. Quiet week all in all. Luckily I can still work from home, so there's that (thanks 3dtotal). I watched Jean Claude Van Johnson on Prime which was pretty funny if you're a JCVD fan and understand all the in-jokes. Guava Island too, with Donald Glover and Rihanna, was a nice, short (1-hour) piece, filled with his music, some nice animation, and an island-set morality tale. Check out the below titles for a new read - there are some group promos coming up too, so stay tuned :) All the best - Adam

Everyone loves a rock star – but can a rock star love you back? Lea Woods wants a relationship. Gary Rock All, singer and guitarist in The Remotes, wants his band to take over the world. An undeniable attraction throws them into an all-consuming, if ultimately thwarted fling. As Gary struggles to cope with the fame success brings him, Lea sees him slipping away from her. He lives for his music - is there any room for her in his life? YOURS REMOTELY is a gritty love story gone wrong for fans of damaged characters, dirty rock 'n' roll and sexy anti-romance.

An anomaly has been detected in space by an artefact from an extinct civilisation. Ciqalo, a machine intelligence from the Wanderer civilisation, is tasked with investigating and weaponizing the anomaly for a galactic war. Tolren, playmate to the heirs of a powerful Roranian family, becomes a hunted fugitive. He finds himself thrust into a dangerous adventure aboard a structure in space that defies understanding. What’s more, he’s not alone. Seremend, a fellow Roranian, has also been ensnared. Why have they been chosen?

He’s the God of Souls. She’s the Goddess of the Moon. In a battle between supernatural siblings, can he save the world… or will they all be doomed? Sailing the treacherous seas, the crew of the Celestial Jewel rescue drowned souls from ravenous sea monsters and ferry them to the After World. Their captain, Rafe Morrow, has dedicated his life to protecting the lost and defending the islands. For years it has been a rugged life, but now, from the shadows, an ancient creature plays a larger game, shifting the tides into looming danger.

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THE BIG ONE! NEON SANDS BOXSET FREE!

As forewarned last week, the Neon Sands trilogy is free from 24-28 February! So what are you waiting for? GRAB IT NOW! Even if you already have it, or have read the books individually, I would love it if you could add the boxset to your list, as it would help bump it up the ranks. The higher it gets, the more eyes see it! And as mentioned before, I'd love to get this boxset into a bookbub advertisement ASAP! And for that, I need reviews. So, how about a little Quid Pro Quo? Eh? Love ya!

!ALL THREE FREE!

What's that? You want more? Well, I don't want to share all the other promos, because only the above one matters this week... BUT, a lot of last week's are still active if you want to check them out.

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On Mars, blood is the same color as dirt. And dirt can hide an awful lot of sins.

When Allison Jiang wins a ticket to be a reality show contestant on the first manned trip to Mars, she’s certain all her dreams have come true. As she steps into the rust bucket spaceship complete with flashing lights and televised social media centers, she suddenly realizes this isn’t quite her dream; but then fear and anxiety are what the drugs in the sleeping compartments are for. In the high-stakes game of reality show TV where never-ending drama is a requirement, it’s possible to pay the ultimate price. Be careful what you wish for. Fame never comes without a cost. NOVELETTE. GENRE: Science Fiction.

Signed copy winner & announcement!

Roll up, roll up. We're about to play Wheeeeeel of Fortuuuuuune. And the winner of a signed copy of Neon Sands is...

Congratulations to Isabella, you have been DM'd. There will be another winner next month!

So what's this announcement I hear you ask? Well, it's a heads up about next week's Big Fat Offer. One of the ways an Indie author can hope to gain some traction is with a BookBub advert, however, they are notoriously difficult to get. My best shot would be with the Neon Sands boxset, but it only has 1 review so far as most people by the books individually. So! For all next week (24-28 Feb), the boxset will be free, and I'd love your help to get it to the top of the #FREE charts. Even if you already have it, please add your download to the ranks - the higher it gets, the more exposure it will get! It's exponential! And any reviews too gratefully received, to give me a better chance of getting the BookBub. 

Book reviews

Now that I have finally finished four of the Song of Ice and Fire books I can begin reading more Indie books again. I began with Erin MacMichael's T'nari Blood Claim, which you can grab for free by signing up to her newsletter at Reality Raiders. It was a 5-star review! Well written and worth diving into. Fellow writers - here's a submit page. 

What else this week?

Well, I completed a poem about parenthood - I don't want these things to become the new norm - and continued with The Risen Part 2. I watched the Director's Cut of Doctor Sleep and enjoyed it more than the theatrical version. The only downside? Out of an extra half hour, there wasn't much more added to the ending, which was where it was needed, after such great build up. I also watched Parasite, which Kermode called the best film he'd seen in 10 years. The details and dialogue in this film were great, though with my writer's hat on, I was hoping for a slightly cleverer ending (and that Morse Code thing was a bit of a MacGuffin). Definitely worth a watch though!

I leave you with Storm Dennis's trail of destruction near by me!

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It's her sixteenth birthday and Kiriai has a big decision to make. Will she fight for her dream to battle in the arena? Or buckle under her grandfather’s pressure to become a healer?

Her best friend Eigo is an outcast from his scrounger family. On a recent expedition into the wastelands, he found a peculiar birthday gift for Kiriai—an AI trainer from a centuries-old, martial arts game. Could it give her the advantage she needs? Will Kiriai win the fight that decides her future?

An impossible deadline, a persuasive mentor, and her own family all stand in Kiriai’s way. If she loses, she’ll be consigned to a mundane life, but more importantly, banned from the arena forever. Kiriai can't let that happen.

Combat Origin is the first book in the World of Combat, young adult, dystopia series. If you like strong heroines, gamelit and a good brawl, buy a copy today.

For most, Transfer Station Zulu is a point on a map, a single stop in a long journey to somewhere else. For Jim Lebbe, Zulu is a snare from which he can't shake free. He’s head of security on this quiet space station at the edge of the galaxy, but all he wants is to get back home and repair the broken relationships that landed him here. But home is 25,000 light years away and he has a contract that says he won’t be going anywhere soon.

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A distress call changes everything.
The ship Dewey’s platoon is on responds to the signal. They jump to another solar system A supposedly unoccupied system. There they find a smuggler’s ship. All its systems are failing. Fortunately, the Hospitallers have arrived in time.

But they are not alone.

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Signed giveaway!

Keeping sober, mind active and sharp, ears listening to whispers of chillwave while the words slip shoddy from mind, hammered and honed by incessant fingerprints. A week of wet and wind in the United Kingdom of Grey. A stack of signed Neon Sands with virgin sentences and paragraphs and worlds. 

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Kickstarter

Most reading this won't be aware that I work for 3dtotal Publishing - a publisher that specialises in high end art books. One of our latest is The Art of Gu Zheng Wei (Guweiz), currently on Kickstarter and sitting around the £160k mark. It will be a beautiful book, and well worth checking out if you like the look of his artwork. This is not so much a plug, as just a little look into what I do for my day job. It's also a hint of my plans to come, where I hope to round off my own Neon series with a Kickstarter for the final book, and with plenty of experience behind me I hope to be able to do it justice!

Giveaways

If you only check out one giveaway, make it this one! The shares on it have been sparse, though there's lots of good books!