This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Voice of Mars is out now! Get it on Amazon. YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME When accusations of piracy and mass murder are laid against his homeworld, Damien Montgomery is sent to resolve the crisis. As counter-accusations fly and an old flame re-enters his life, the newest Hand of the Mage-King of Mars finds himself in the midst of a bloody interstellar shadow ... Read more »
Starship's Mage
Amazon Exclusivity
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Over the course of the first month of 2016, I experimented with removing the Amazon exclusivity from Hand of Mars (Starship's Mage Omnibus had never been exclusive with Amazon) and running promotions to see if I could get the non-Amazon retailer sales of both books to equal, at least, the December Kindle Unlimited royalties for Hand of Mars alone. I ... Read more »
Starship’s Mage: Episodes come down
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. One year and eighteen days ago, the Omnibus of all five Episodes of the original Starship's Mage went up. Since then, I've been wondering at what point to take the individual episodes down. Someone buying all five of them actually paid me less than someone buying the cheaper Omnibus. We went through a number of hoops trying to make clear the ... Read more »
Two Years On
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Two years ago today, I launched Starship's Mage: Episode 1 on Amazon. I had high hopes for its success - I quite liked the novella and was very pleased with it. Over the course of it's first three months, however, it sold less than 100 copies. The general fate, so far as I can tell, of any stand-alone e-novella from a new author. I was disappointed ... Read more »
Hand of Mars at Two Weeks
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Hand of Mars has been out for two weeks (well, tomorrow) and has been doing very nicely. It's currently hanging out in top ten for Space Opera on most Amazon sites, and some of the top twenties for Urban Fantasy. It even has a whole bunch of positive reviews (21 total so far. Not that I'm counting or anything!). It's nice to see people returning to ... Read more »
Hand of Mars OUT NOW
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Hand of Mars (originally titled Mage-King's Hand) is now out! Check it out on Amazon here. (this is currently only available via KDP Select. A paperback will follow within the next week or two, but the ebook will remain exclusive with Amazon until December) ROGUE MAGE TURNED INTERPLANETARY ENVOY Three years ago, as Ship’s Mage of the ... Read more »