I'm producing a free monthly newsletter to attract new readers and as a thank-you for my existing readers.

Here's the signup link:

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The newsletter will mainly be episodes of two serial novels I'm writing, one Science Fiction space opera adventure (The Long Way Home), and one Urban Fantasy paranormal romance (Stand Up). These episodes aren't going to be available from anywhere else, except the first episode of The Long Way Home, which has to be obtained from purchasing The Great Beyond Anthology where it's the lead story.

The Long Way Home (Think of Firefly with a mission arc):
Their war has just ended. Their struggles have just begun.
A pair of ex-soldiers, weary of a war that went on too long, and desperate to take essential technology back to save their remote colony planet, have to overcome treachery, injustice, corruption, greed... and pirates...
on The Long Way Home.

(The Long Way Home is set in the same universe as my Among the Stars series, but several hundred years before, and does not require those books to be read)

Stand Up
Carla is a young standup comedienne with a dying act in New York's tough gig circuit, and a personal life that's coming to pieces. She needs some new inspiration, something edgy, something she can really get into. Something different...
Katja is a world-weary vampire, presenting herself as a bright, shining lie to the world, but struggling to overcome crippling grief, and in potentially lethal trouble with her community for her unorthodox behavior. She needs something safe for her fragile heart, something ordinary, something her community will regard as unexceptional...

They are both absolutely the last thing the other needs or wants.

(Stand Up is part of my Athanate paranormal world, and integrates into the Bite Back series, but does not require any of the other books to be read)