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ONSET

ONSET: My Enemy’s Enemy Out Now

ONSET: My Enemy’s Enemy is the continuation of the ONSET Urban Fantasy series.

Check it out on Amazon and enjoy!

My next project is Duchess of Terra, the sequel to The Terran Privateer.

Happy reading and happy holidays everyone!

-Glynn Stewart

An paranormal agency in tatters
A critical alliance that must not fail
A betrayal in their darkest hour

The demon Ekhmez ripped out the heart of America’s supernatural defenders and strengthened their foes. The agencies of the Omicron branch of the US government face a newly expanded threat with their resources stretched to the breaking point.

To hold the line, newly promoted Commander David White of ONSET is sent to forge an alliance with the Elfin Conclave, a supernatural organization with its own history, grudges and politics.

When violence wracks the Conclave and guts the allies they sought, David White must hunt the Elfin’s foes across the Pacific northwest, taking any help that comes his way—because when the world is on fire, can you turn away your enemy’s enemy?

 

ONSET: To Serve and Protect out now!

ONSET: To Serve and Protect is my venture into the world of Urban Fantasy. The second book, ONSET: My Enemy’s Enemy will be coming later in December.

Check it out on Amazon and I hope you enjoy!

Remember to follow me on Facebook and Twitter for the latest updates.

-Glynn Stewart

A small town cop with an unexpected gift
A shadowy government agency on the side of justice
A call no good man could turn away

When vampires attack David White’s small town, only luck, firepower, and the intervention of an elite government task force save his life. The aftermath of the attack leaves him in the middle of the world’s biggest secret: the existence of government agencies that regulate the supernatural.

They insist that David’s “luck” is actually a supernatural gift, and he’s immediately recruited into ONSET, the most shadowy part of America’s thin blue line of police protectors.

Questioning both his gifts and the agency he now serves, David is drawn
into an escalating battle that threatens all of humanity. If he isn’t what ONSET thinks he is, the entire world may pay the price.

Release plans and Moving

This blog post was published on July 22, 2016 and may be out of date. Visit the books page for up to date links and releases.

As of this writing, The Terran Privateer has been bouncing around the #200s on Amazon.com for a week. Suffice to say, I am extremely pleased with the success of the book and am glad everyone is enjoying it!

Since the question has been asked: yes, there will be an audiobook. I’ve signed a contract, but details are still taking shape.

Since The Terran Privateer was clearly labelled as book one of the Duchy of Terra series, I’ve also been asked when the next one is coming out. Some folks would clearly like the answer to be “tomorrow” but I do have other series to work on.

I intend to have book 4 of both Starship’s Mage and Castle Federation out before I return to Duchess Bond.

 

You may have noticed that the schedule on the main page has undergone some changes, including the dates past Alien Arcana becoming very vague.  For reasons of my wife’s health, it has become necessary for us to move and we are relocating from Alberta to Ontario near the Great Lakes. Our new city is much more temperate and doesn’t have the spectacular weather shifts of our current home, which so far has been very promising for her migraines.

This is a huge endeavor and one we’re putting together with very little time: we made the decision July 10th and we are moving August 15.

Right now, it is impossible for me to judge how long it will take me to get back up to speed after the move so I am hesitant to commit to schedules past the release for Alien Arcana (Alien Arcana is complete, but still needs editing and covers and so forth).

 

My current plan is that I will release Alien Arcana, Q-Ship Chameleon, and then will likely detour back to ONSET, my urban fantasy thriller project, before returning to Duchy of Terra. I want to release two ONSET books close together as I’m trying to break into a notoriously difficult genre.

Once I’m back in the swing of things, I’m  aiming to have four series running: Starship’s Mage, Castle Federation, Duchy of Terra and ONSET; with each receiving a release in each six month period.

Reality may ensue, but that’s the goal. Assuming we survive the move!

-Glynn Stewart

Words: The Importance of

My last story involving the US Government—ONSET—was based around a SWAT-style team who showed up after due process was written off.  This story is about the front-line supernatural cops in the same setting.  The conceit of the story is that every US Government branch has an ‘Omicron Office’ to give supernaturals the same legal process as mundanes.  So now, of course, I have to know what said processes are.

One of the reasons I like the internet: I google “United States procedure for issuing arrest warrant” and get a lawyer’s summary of the process in the first three hits.

Another tweak? I need names for crimes that don’t exist in the real world: Thaumaturgical Murder, for example, being pretty obvious.

But what do you call the pre-meditated influence of someone’s mind with magic?

Twitter and Facebook gave me a bunch of suggestions that I’m still mulling over. “Psyche Invasion” will work as a placeholder, and I’m still considering “Thaumaturgical Influence.” I do want to avoid using ‘Thaumaturgical’ in the description of every supernatural crime.  At the same time, I can see the US Legal System using a consistent naming scheme for supernatural crimes.

 

“We’re talking life and death here.  Life for Psyche Invasion in the First Degree, and the chair for Thaumaturgical Murder.”

 

Glynn Stewart

Where do we go from here?

So, with another year finished (though I’ll admit to not remembering exactly what day I started this blog) I’m spending a bit of time considering on writing and this blog.

Over christmas I was moderately successful with my ‘add horror’ project with ONSET, which I’m hoping to finish by the end of January.  Sadly, reworking the first book like this has led me to the conclusion that I actually dislike my long term plan for the series, so I will be sketching an entirely new, probably much shorter, arc for the ONSET books.  I think at least part of my currently started sequel is salvagable, but I know I’m throwing out most of the intended plot.

I am assured by the lovely young lady acting as my cover artist / PR guru that there will be a cover for Children of the Twain by the end of the month or so.  If that is the case and the ONSET re-write is finished, I will put aside several weeks to go over Children of the Twain again and see if there is any more polishing or tweaking needed.  It will likely be self e-book published (hence PR guru.  I’m an accountant and a writer, not a marketing person) in March.

(The remainder of my books, including the rewritten ONSET and the Changeling sequel sitting in the back of my head complaining about these rewrites of school, will remain with my agent in the hopes of more traditional publishing success)

Flowing from that is that there will likely be some minor and medium changes around here, as we re-consider the purpose of this blog and start ramping it up a bit with the expectation of an available book in the near future.  In the interests of polishing up the right parts, I’m opening the floor to the peanut gallery.  What interests you that you’ve seen here you’d like to see more of?  What do you think I should start doing?

All thoughts and commentary are welcome!

Glynn Stewart

To make up for some of my lapses in posting, here’s an excerpt from my ‘adding horror’ project on ONSET:

 

“This video clip is from late oh seven,” he told them.  “It is camera footage from the commander’s Leopard Tank of Delta Company, Armored Battalion Thirteen of the Swiss Panzerbridge Eleven.  They were carrying out training exercises in the Alps, when, well… watch.”

The teacher hit a button, and the video clip started. 

 

For a moment, all that the gun camera showed was frozen mountainside, and then the camera rotated, the commander reviewing the sixteen tanks as they crunched their way over the frozen field.  The video was completely silent, so it was a complete shock when the tank on the end of the even line suddenly erupted into the air.

The sixty-plus ton vehicle flipped completely end over end, slamming turret first into the ground almost a hundred meters from its launch point with a visible crumpling.

Standing under where the tank had been driving was a monstrosity out of nightmare.  Six or more meters tall, the creature looked like a moss covered stone figure of a man – carved by rough description.  Its rough mouth was open in a silent scream as it charged at the next tank in line.

There was no way the tank driver could have reacted, and the troll ripped the mighty armored vehicle in half with one yank of its immense arms.  The professionalism of the Swiss army was demonstrated, however, in that the first shots hit the monster as it was attacking the second vehicle.

The camera was bouncing and wavering insanely as the tank started backpedalling, the formation rotating as the vehicles tried to open the distance and open fire on the creature.  The first few rounds did nothing, exploding on the troll’s stone skin and stripping off moss.

The second salvo of rounds, however, showed that the Swiss had learned the first salvo’s lessons.  The bright ‘silver arrow’ of discarding sabot anti-tank rounds lit up the cameras view as dozens of machine guns chattered to life as well.

The troll felt the armor piercing rounds, raising its head in a bellow, silent on the film, which shook the trees around it.  Whatever it felt wasn’t enough to kill it, however, and it charged the line of tanks with a speed that left the camera only recording a blur.

David had to shake his head to clear dizziness as the camera spun to catch the troll slamming into two of the tanks simultaneously with the force of a train engine.  Its broad arms crashed clean through the front armor, but got stuck.  For a moment, the troll stood still, a fist buried in each tank.

Shaking its head in confusion, a second salvo of armor piercing rounds slammed into it.  This time, the commander’s tank was close enough to clearly see the rounds punching through the stone of the creatures flesh.  Some kind of black ooze dripped from the wounds, and the creature spun around to face the other tanks.  One of its hands tore free from the tank it had struck.

The other brought the sixty ton tank around with it, only breaking free in time to send it hurtling directly at the camera.

 

The film stopped there, and faded to a still shot of the same field.  The smoldering wreckage of seven of the company’s sixteen tanks littered it, and the photographer had caught six of the remaining tanks, in a carefully aligned circle, training their main guns on the broken stone pieces of the creature.

“That,” Koburn said quietly, “was a Greater Troll.  So far as we can tell, in eras of lower magical activity, they go to sleep like Dragons.  They wake up more readily than dragons, however, and nine have awoken in the European mountains in the last decade.  It is only a matter of time until one wakes up in the Rockies, and they are, as you saw, incredibly hard to kill.

“Worse,” he continued grimly, “is their shared attribute with the type of Empowered we also call a troll.  Both must eat human flesh to survive – nothing else provides nutrition.  Evidence suggests that a Greater Troll requires a lot of human flesh – we have not always been so lucky as to have a tank company literally drive over the troll.”

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