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Yes, it’s finally happened… drum roll… after a few years battling various things and a serious case of “this book doesn’t meet my standards,” I am please to announce that Nebula will launch on August 30, 2023!

At the time of writing this post, Nebula is available for preorder here:

https://robertscanlon.com/nebula

Keep an eye out for the upcoming launch of Orion, the third book in the Blood Empire space opera trilogy.

Good grief, it’s been a terrible five years for me, writing-wise. Though I’ve been writing (and even attempting drafts of Nebula, the second book in the Blood Empire space opera series), I was so dissatisfied with some aspects of the plot that I kept getting stuck.

But thanks to good friends, my author peers, and a very enthusiastic and supportive spouse, I am pleased to say after working on the plot, I have now finished the first draft of Nebula… and I think it’s better off for it.

If you read Constellation (and liked it!), I’d be happy to offer you an Advance Review Copy (ARC) of Nebula, just by clicking the image above, or following this link: Nebula ARC readers join here

But fair warning: spots are limited!

Keep an eye out for the preorder which will be up soon – and for a quick synopsis, here is a link to the current book description: Nebula – Coming Soon!

Thank you for your immense patience…

Robert

Here’s a question I get a lot! “When is Book 2 of the Blood Empire trilogy coming out?“

Whew, it’s been a long time since I published Constellation, the first book in the Blood Empire Space Opera series. If you’ve already read Constellation, I’d like to thank you for your patience while I finish Nebula, the second book in the trilogy.

Without listing listing my excuses, suffice to say life’s circumstances have interfered with my usual speedy production!

(And if you haven’t yet read Constellation, you can pick up a copy here, and also get a free taster of the story by reading the free novella, A Bar Room Brawl On Ganymede, here)

Indy Jackson, the heroine of the Blood Empire series is thrown into a quest with a double-edged sword: find more information about her father as well as collect intelligence on the Blood Empire’s – the Sector’s enemy – intentions. Can she do both and stay alive?

Find out in the thrilling second installment of the Blood Empire Space Opera series!

If you’d like an advance review copy of Nebula then please let me know by entering your email address here.

Thank you for your patience! Nebula is almost done and I hope to release it in the second half of 2018.

All the best,

Robert

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It’s the perfect party for introverts!

If you love to read, love sci-fi and would happily chat with an author about their latest work … but you’d rather stay at home with a good book, then this Facebook Party to launch my friend Nathan Van Coops’ latest novel, “Faster Than Falling” is made for you!

Over 9 hours, various sci fi others (including myself at 7.30pm US EDT) will be dropping by to chat and offer giveaways to anyone who joins the party.

And if you love speculative fiction with a great literary voice; a ripping adventure yarn filled with skypirates and steampunk-style tech, I highly recommend Nathan’s book – I devoured it!

Get Faster Than Falling here.

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I’m delighted with the work the fine folks at Podium Publishing and awesome narrator Hillary Huber have made with bringing both Constellation AND A Bar Room Brawl on Ganymede to life!

Now you can hear Indy Jackson fight and persuade her way through a seriously twisty galactic adventure of piracy, betrayal and surprise.

And there’s a war brewing in the Sector …

A Bar Room Brawl on Ganymede is a FREE Audiobook! Grab it here (you will have to join AUDFANS – which is free – to access the audio):

http://audfans.com/category/bonus-giveaways/

Constellation is also available on Audible, here:

https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Constellation-Audiobook/B073VVG99W?qid=1499862822&sr=1-4

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Here’s an amazing array of FREE Science Fiction books, novellas and stories for you!

I’m a member of a group of authors who occasionally put together giant free sci fi giveaways (this one is run by Dean Wilson), and your luck is in, as we have one starting today! (I counted 59 free books!)

Here’s the link (just click on any cover to “claim” that book):

http://deanfwilson.com/promo/

It ends November 20, so you have a few days to get in.

Here’s to discovering new authors – I’ll also be grabbing some myself. One can never have enough sci-fi

It’s a bit of a delicate question really, isn’t it?

But one I had to address due to certain scenes in the latest book of the Dreamer Chronicles, Moon Zero.

To explain why would be to spoil the story, so rather than do that, lets cut straight to the point: Astronauts do not have to “hold it”, nor have bizarre tubes leading from their suits at all times (eww!).

Two things people:

1. Giant nappies / diapers (or whatever you call them in your neck of the woods)

2. Cleverly designed toilets with … ahem … vacuum functionality to stop … “things” floating around.

Here’s a snippet I wrote in the Author’s Notes for Moon Zero.

One of the most-asked questions of astronauts is apparently bathroom-related.

Just exactly how do you … ahem … use the little boy’s/girl’s room in zero-gravity, or when you are trapped in a spacesuit?

Obviously any liquids and … other things … need to be contained.

The answer is incredibly simple. They wear nappies (diapers for the Americans). Or more strictly speaking, a “Maximum Absorbency Garment”.

Giant astronaut-sized ones.

However, I’m being a little cheeky, since they only where these when they are involved in a long operation where the usual bathroom facilities are not available. In the ISS (see below), and even in the Space Shuttle, there are toilets, which use suction fittings to avoid any mishaps. The YouTube video shows the type of toilet used – and the special training needed, and the NASA link below has a good summary of “a day in the life of an astronaut”!

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/dayinthelife/morning-routine-adil-index.html#.VJEdwnuP7Ms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_toilet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Absorbency_Garment

The next book in the Dreamer Chronicles Trilogy is well underway – with a tentative release date in the next 3 months.

(And no, it won’t be the last you will read of Sarina and Nathan. Just the last in this trilogy! :))

So what’s the story about?

Well if I told you that … you know how the saying goes.

Let’s just say there are gravitational implications. Which is the least of their problems.

But that got me thinking – as I researched ‘gravity’ – the physical force, not the movie – why haven’t scientists yet confirmed the existence of a ‘graviton’? And if they do, will they be able to find or create an ‘anti-graviton’?

What do you think? Does gravity help keep our feet on the ground? What would happen to us if there were no gravity? What do you think makes up gravity? Do you think we will ever discover how to manipulate it?

Let me know in the comments!

Anyone think that paying $9.99+ for ebooks for is a bit rich?

The big publishers seem to think that ebooks should be the same price OR MORE than an ebook.

But us independent publishers know that the readers and buyers are not so easily fooled.

Which is why, we will occasionally offer special deals, just to entice new readers.

(Hence my week-long 99c Countdown Deal for both of my books – I & II – in the Dreamer Chronicles Series. Book III coming soon …)

But once the deal is over, for most ‘indies’, full-price is $2.99-$5.99 (most are $2.99).

Why pay $9.99 for an ebook, when there are now sooo many great books from indie publishers?

Your thoughts?

Robert

If you love a good tweens (middle-grade) thriller, throw in some sci-fi and some magic, a parallel world … the ‘Sarina’s Nightmare’ and ‘The Dream Killer’ might be just your thing!

Readers and reviewers have made favourable comparisons to Percy Jackson, Ranger’s Apprentice – even Harry Potter and the ‘His Dark Materials‘ books got a mention. *blush*

Anyway. Both books are featured in a ‘Kindle Countdown Deal’, which means if you live in the US or the UK (or can ‘arrange’ to live in the US or the UK for Amazon’s purposes hehe), then you can pick up the Kindle version of BOTH books for a mere 99c each.

From Feb 20 – Feb 26 (midnight US-time)

If you have any issues find the books, let me know – here are the links: