Glynn Stewart

Science Fiction & Fantasy Author

Castle Federation

Admiral’s Oath, The Return of Castle Federation, Available Now

The Castle Federation universe returns with a brand-new adventure starring Commonwealth Admiral James Tecumseh.

After a crushing defeat of the Commonwealth that cuts off communication with Earth, Tecumseh finds himself with power he didn’t ask for.

Get Admiral’s Oath, the next book in the Castle Federation universe and book #1 of the Dakotan Confederacy, on Amazon now! Click here for the paperback and here for the audiobook.

Here’s more about the book:

An empire broken by hubris
An officer raised by chance
Oaths that must be honored
Oaths that must be betrayed

Rear Admiral James Tecumseh barely survived his last mission against the Alliance of Free Stars with his reputation and life intact. Under a cloud of suspicion, he has been assigned to a quiet sector far from the front of the Terran Commonwealth’s war with the Castle Federation and its allies.

But when the Federation’s Operation Medusa cripples his nation’s communications and plummets an interstellar empire into silence, Admiral Tecumseh finds himself thrust into command of an entire fleet—and responsible for the safety of billions of innocent souls.

Enemies internal and external alike challenge the nation he is sworn to serve. Duty and honor call him to action to protect the innocent, and the Admiral and his new fleet are called to war once more.

But the darkest treason lurks where no one expects it…

The Universe of Castle Federation

The Castle Federation series is a far-future transhumanist space opera where the Terran Commonwealth, driven by their vision of Unification, are determined to bring all of human space under the rule of Earth.

They were stymied for thirty years by the forces of the Alliance of Free Stars, a multi-national force led by the Castle Federation and the Coraline Imperium.

Now, after three decades of cold war, the Commonwealth is moving again…

The series began in 2015 with Space Carrier Avalon, and ran until 2017 with Operation Medusa.

Now, Glynn Stewart’s beloved transhumanist space opera returns with Admiral’s Oath as of January 11, 2022.

When we begin…

The series focuses on the development of Kyle Roberts from a relatively low-ranking Commander, Air Group, to the architect of the operation that turns the tide of the war and the choices and sacrifices he and his comrades make along the way.

Roberts didn’t expect that a job on the decommissioned Avalon would result in both the end of peacetime and his career as a starfighter pilot. Now he has a new position in the Navy, impossible expectations to live up to, and finds himself on the losing side of a war.

Will he live up to the name of Stellar Fox, or will the Commonwealth conquer the Alliance of the Free Stars?

And when we return…

Admiral’s Oath launches the Dakotan Confederacy series and begins a brand-new adventure starring Commonwealth Admiral James Tecumseh.

After a crushing defeat of the Commonwealth that cuts off communication with Earth, Tecumseh finds himself with power he didn’t ask for.

The Admiral is forced to choose between upholding the principles of democracy, or to turn warlord in the name of stability.

 

Preorder Admiral’s Oath now, or start your Castle Federation adventure with Space Carrier Avalon.

Admiral’s Oath, the Return of Castle Federation, Available for Preorder

The Castle Federation universe returns with a brand-new adventure starring Commonwealth Admiral James Tecumseh.

After a crushing defeat of the Commonwealth that cuts off communication with Earth, Tecumseh finds himself with power he didn’t ask for.

Preorder Admiral’s Oath, the next book in the Castle Federation universe and book #1 of the Dakotan Confederacy, on Amazon now! Coming January 11th. Preorder the audiobook by clicking here.

Here’s more about the book:
An empire broken by hubris
An officer raised by chance
Oaths that must be honored
Oaths that must be betrayed

Rear Admiral James Tecumseh barely survived his last mission against the Alliance of Free Stars with his reputation and life intact. Under a cloud of suspicion, he has been assigned to a quiet sector far from the front of the Terran Commonwealth’s war with the Castle Federation and its allies.
But when the Federation’s Operation Medusa cripples his nation’s communications and plummets an interstellar empire into silence, Admiral Tecumseh finds himself thrust into command of an entire fleet—and responsible for the safety of billions of innocent souls.

Enemies internal and external alike challenge the nation he is sworn to serve. Duty and honor call him to action to protect the innocent, and the Admiral and his new fleet are called to war once more.

But the darkest treason lurks where no one expects it…

2019 Roundup – I DIDN’T DIE

That headline is necessary after last year 😀  No cardiac incidents at all, in fact. (The follow up to my supraventricular tachycardia incident last year was “yup, you’ll eventually have this recur and we’ll deal with it then”).

On the other hand, I tore my Achilles tendon in June and spent three months in a cast, including WorldCon 2019.

I don’t recommend conventions in an aircast and I most definitely do not recommend relying on Heathrow airport’s disability services to get you to a plane on time.

 

WorldCon 2019 itself was a blast and I loved Dublin, but being laid up in the cast was a major limitation for, well, everything.  Got to see some interesting panels, met some authors I’ve loved for a while, had dinner with CE Murphy.  It was a great trip.  Unfortunately, we eventually concluded that New Zealand was just too far for us to haul a team of three-to-four people and we’ll be skipping WorldCon 2020. Have a blast for us if you’re going!

The other con we went to last year was the 2019 Nebulas in LA. That’s a much smaller and more pro-focused event than the WorldCon and was probably more useful for me in terms of networking and so forth. We’ll be back in 2020 and I’m trying to puppy-dog-eye my way onto the programming.  We’ll see how that goes 😀

 

2019 was a middling-along year in a lot of ways. We published eight books and since you might want to know what they are, here’s the links:

  • Noble’s Honor (February 2019) – this wrapped up the Changeling Blood trilogy, which I’m a bit sad to see go!
  • Shield of Terra (March 2019)
  • Bound By Blood (April 2019) – this one wrapped up my co-writing project with Terry Mixon, which was a lot of fun.
  • Sword of Mars (June 2019)
  • Refuge (July 2019)
  • Imperium Defiant (September 2019) – this wrapped up the second Duchy of Terra trilogy. Sensing a theme to the year yet? 😀
  • Raven’s Peace (November 2019) – first book in a new series
  • Crusade (December 2019) – this wrapped up the Exile trilogy

Along with the novels, we re-released two of the novellas from Spaceships and Spellcasters as stand-alone e-books and turned Spaceships and Spellcasters into a print-only collection. The novellas:

 

We also launched our Patreon, a new endeavor for me. By signing up for the Patreon, you get access to all of my books one to two weeks before they go live. We’re using Bookfunnel for this, which means the process for loading onto your device should be relatively straightforward (or at least well-explained. Bookfunnel are fantastic at supporting this process).

Currently, the only exclusive Patreon content is a single short story I wrote during 2019 that didn’t really fit anywhere else. It’s free if you sign up though!  Next up for the e-ARCS is Conviction, the first book in another new series.

 

The general theme of 2019 was wrapping up earlier experiments. By my math, I permanently closed off three universes and ended a trilogy in a fourth.  We also brought our long-running experiment in keeping certain series out of our exclusivity deal with Amazon to a close. We were simply leaving too much money on the table by not being in Kindle Unlimited—it’s the unfortunate truth that the KU market alone is now larger than all non-Amazon e-book vendors combined. Keeping future books available to that audience is one of the reasons for the existence of the Patreon, as those books are universal (but also of limited availability. Once the book launches on Amazon, it is no longer available through the Patreon).

 

I launched the Peacekeepers of Sol series in 2019, which I’m looking forward to sharing with you guys going forward, and wrote the first book in the Scattered Stars: Conviction series as well.  Those will join Starship’s Mage and the Shadow of Terra trilogy as my four ongoing series in 2020.

 

Some things changed in the background and in November of 2019 we welcomed our newest employee aboard. If you’re in the Facebook reader group you’ll have seen her posting there. Robin comes to us from a Canadian publisher  and brings our little publishing house up to four people and a small army of contractors 😀

 

As of writing this, the first two launches of 2020 are already complete (the Conviction novel for January and a Castle Federation novella for February) and I’m elbows-deep in the next Starship’s Mage novel, targeted for March. We have eight novels targeted for release again next year, including more Peacekeepers, more Conviction, the first two books of the Shadow of Terra trilogy and two Starship’s Mage novels.

I like the plans I have for all four series and look forward to you guys getting to read them and enjoy them.

 

For now, I wish everyone the happiest of holidays with your loved ones and a happy new year.

(And note that paperback copies of the Exile trilogy would make a great Yule gift ;))

 

Happy Reading!

 

-Glynn Stewart

Rimward Stars is out now!

The fifth novel in the Castle Federation series, Rimward Stars, is now out!

A helpless ally calls for aid
A ruthless enemy strikes without mercy
The fate of empires turns on even the smallest actions

When a minor trade partner sends the Castle Federation a desperate call for aid, they have few resources to spare from their all-consuming war against the Terran Commonwealth. Unwilling to be seen failing their allies but able to spare only a tiny force, Castle sends a hero to command the task group: Captain Kyle Roberts, the Stellar Fox.

Beyond the Rimward frontier of the Federation and its allies, little is as it seems. The pirates are being armed by an outside force, and the politics of these worlds is made deadlier by their poverty. When the Coraline Imperium—the Federation’s oft-difficult ally—sends forces as well, it risks a conflict that could undermine the Alliance protecting them both.

There are deeper games afoot as local schemes play the great powers against each other. Captain Roberts is caught in the chaos as fire and blood explode across the region. There is only one certainty: these Rimward Stars must not fall.