Thursday, September 25, 2014

Stars and Empire # 104 on USA Today Bestseller List

The Last Marine
I will be doing a serialized novel called The Last Marine.  It is a Crimson Worlds spinoff, and it will be available ONLY on my mailing list (free).  The first installment will be sent out at the end of September, so if you want it, sign up at Crimsonworlds.com or just email me directly and I will add you to the list.  I only email the list about new releases, free stuff I'm giving away, or occasionally some kind of sale I'm running, so you won't get spammed with lots of BS.

104!

I want to take a moment thank all of you who purchased Stars and Empire for your awesome response.  Because of you, the collection has debuted number 104 on the USA Today bestsellers list.  I hope those of you who purchased the book are enjoying the ten space opera novels (including my Marines) by many of the top selling authors in the genre today, plus all the bonus content (including The Gates of Hell, my highest rated work at 4.8 stars).  You guys are the best.

Stars and Empire at Amazon

Stars and Empire at Barnes and Noble


While I'm at it, I'd like to add my thanks for the early response to The Ten Thousand.  The second Portal Wars book is off to a great start, and the reviews have been enormously positive.  I've also gotten a ton of emails from you guys telling me how much you enjoyed the book (as always, I reply to all emails).

Gehenna Dawn (Portal Worlds I) is seeing a burst of sales too, and I hope all of you trying Portal Wars for the first time enjoy the books.  Because of the response, the $2.99 discount price (reg. $4.99) has been extended.

Thanks again!  You guys are the best!

The Ten Thousand Kindle Edition at Amazon
The Ten Thousand Nook Edition at BN
The Ten Thousand Print Edition at Amazon

Gehenna Dawn at Amazon
Gehenna Dawn at Barnes and Noble
Gehenna Dawn Print Edition at Amazon

Saturday, September 20, 2014

The Ten Thousand Now Out in Print

The Last Marine 

I will be doing a serialized novel called The Last Marine.  It is a Crimson Worlds spinoff, and it will be available ONLY on my mailing list (free).  The first installment will be sent out at the end of September, so if you want it, sign up at Crimsonworlds.com or just email me directly and I will add you to the list.  I only email the list about new releases, free stuff I'm giving away, or occasionally some kind of sale I'm running, so you won't get spammed with lots of BS.

Portal Wars II: The Ten Thousand Now Available in Print

The Ten Thousand Print Edition at Amazon
The Ten Thousand Kindle Edition at Amazon
The Ten Thousand Nook Edition at BN

General Jake Taylor and his army of cyborg soldiers are veterans of Erastus, a planet so brutal, so hellish, it is called Gehenna by the men sent to fight and die there.  He and his comrades battled for years in the most appalling conditions human beings have ever endured, believing the entire time they were protecting Earth from bloodthirsty alien monsters.  But it was all a lie, the cynical propaganda of the totalitarian regime that rules over all mankind.


The alien Tegeri, and their bio-mechanical soldiers Taylor’s men call the Machines, were the victims, targeted by a regime that needed an enemy to consolidate its absolute rule over mankind.  For decades, men like Taylor and his soldiers were the aggressors, unwittingly fighting an unjust war.  But when the Tegeri chose Taylor as their contact and finally told him the horrible truth, he rallied the veterans of Erastus for a new battle, one to free Earth from its self-appointed masters.


Taylor’s soldiers begin the long campaign back to Earth, toward a reckoning with the brutal government they are sworn to destroy.  The heart of this force is the Ten Thousand, surgically-altered Supersoldiers, products of an experimental enhancement program, and the first of their kind.  But they are not the last, and on the planet Juno they will meet their counterparts, the Black Corps, a force created by Earth’s government specifically to destroy them.  The Black Corps outnumbers Taylor’s soldiers 2-1, and they have a vast advantage in supply and logistical support.  But Taylor’s men are veterans of the furnace of Gehenna, and they don’t die easily.


But there is more at stake than the freedom of humanity, greater consequences to their fight than even Taylor can imagine.  For there is another alien race, one shrouded in legend and myth, known to the Tegeri only as the Darkness.  Long ago the Darkness made war on the Ancients, the mighty beings that built the interstellar Portals.  The Ancients are remembered in Tegeri lore as wise and powerful…almost as gods.  But they fell ages past, destroyed utterly by the Darkness.


Now that great evil is returning, and this time it will destroy not only mankind and the Tegeri, but all the fledgling races the Ancients planted, hundreds of young sentient species, only now grasping for civilization. 


The Ancients long ago foretold that an alliance of men and Tegeri would stand and defeat the Darkness and save the galaxy from destruction.  But if this prophecy is to come to pass, Taylor and his men must destroy Earth’s totalitarian government and bring the dark truth to mankind, that there is another war to fight, one vaster and more terrible than any in human history or legend.


 

Also By Jay Allan:



Gehenna Dawn (Portal Worlds I)


Marines (Crimson Worlds I)
The Cost of Victory (Crimson Worlds II)
A Little Rebellion (Crimson Worlds III)
The First Imperium (Crimson Worlds IV)
The Line Must Hold (Crimson Worlds V)
To Hell’s Heart (Crimson Worlds VI)
The Shadow Legions (Crimson Worlds VII)
Even Legends Die (Crimson Worlds VIII)
War Stories (3 Crimson Worlds Prequels)


The Dragon’s Banner (Pendragon Chronicles I)

Monday, September 15, 2014

Portal Wars II: The Ten Thousand Released

 I will be doing a serialized novel called The Last Marine.  It is a Crimson Worlds spinoff, and it will be available ONLY on my mailing list (free).  The first installment will be sent out in mid-September, so if you want it, sign up at Crimsonworlds.com or just email me directly and I will add you to the list.  I only email the list about new releases, free stuff I'm giving away, or occasionally some kind of sale I'm running, so you won't get spammed with lots of BS.

Portal Wars II: The Ten Thousand Released

The Ten Thousand at Amazon
The Ten Thousand at BN

General Jake Taylor and his army of cyborg soldiers are veterans of Erastus, a planet so brutal, so hellish, it is called Gehenna by the men sent to fight and die there.  He and his comrades battled for years in the most appalling conditions human beings have ever endured, believing the entire time they were protecting Earth from bloodthirsty alien monsters.  But it was all a lie, the cynical propaganda of the totalitarian regime that rules over all mankind.

The alien Tegeri, and their bio-mechanical soldiers Taylor’s men call the Machines, were the victims, targeted by a regime that needed an enemy to consolidate its absolute rule over mankind.  For decades, men like Taylor and his soldiers were the aggressors, unwittingly fighting an unjust war.  But when the Tegeri chose Taylor as their contact and finally told him the horrible truth, he rallied the veterans of Erastus for a new battle, one to free Earth from its self-appointed masters.

Taylor’s soldiers begin the long campaign back to Earth, toward a reckoning with the brutal government they are sworn to destroy.  The heart of this force is the Ten Thousand, surgically-altered Supersoldiers, products of an experimental enhancement program, and the first of their kind.  But they are not the last, and on the planet Juno they will meet their counterparts, the Black Corps, a force created by Earth’s government specifically to destroy them.  The Black Corps outnumbers Taylor’s soldiers 2-1, and they have a vast advantage in supply and logistical support.  But Taylor’s men are veterans of the furnace of Gehenna, and they don’t die easily.

But there is more at stake than the freedom of humanity, greater consequences to their fight than even Taylor can imagine.  For there is another alien race, one shrouded in legend and myth, known to the Tegeri only as the Darkness.  Long ago the Darkness made war on the Ancients, the mighty beings that built the interstellar Portals.  The Ancients are remembered in Tegeri lore as wise and powerful…almost as gods.  But they fell ages past, destroyed utterly by the Darkness.

Now that great evil is returning, and this time it will destroy not only mankind and the Tegeri, but all the fledgling races the Ancients planted, hundreds of young sentient species, only now grasping for civilization. 

The Ancients long ago foretold that an alliance of men and Tegeri would stand and defeat the Darkness and save the galaxy from destruction.  But if this prophecy is to come to pass, Taylor and his men must destroy Earth’s totalitarian government and bring the dark truth to mankind, that there is another war to fight, one vaster and more terrible than any in human history or legend.

 

Also By Jay Allan:


Gehenna Dawn (Portal Worlds I)

Marines (Crimson Worlds I)
The Cost of Victory (Crimson Worlds II)
A Little Rebellion (Crimson Worlds III)
The First Imperium (Crimson Worlds IV)
The Line Must Hold (Crimson Worlds V)
To Hell’s Heart (Crimson Worlds VI)
The Shadow Legions (Crimson Worlds VII)
Even Legends Die (Crimson Worlds VIII)
War Stories (3 Crimson Worlds Prequels)

The Dragon’s Banner (Pendragon Chronicles I)

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Stars and Empire

Before I get into Stars and Empire, if any of you are not on my mailing list, I will be doing a serialized novel called The Last Marine.  It is a Crimson Worlds spinoff, and it will be available ONLY on my mailing list (free).  The first installment will be sent out in mid-September, so if you want it, sign up at Crimsonworlds.com or just email me directly and I will add you to the list.  I only email the list about new releases, free stuff I'm giving away, or occasionally some kind of sale I'm running, so you won't get spammed with lots of BS.

Stars and Empire

I was invited to participate in a new collection called Stars and Empire, which is being released on September 16 and is currently available on all retailers for pre-order at a special price of 99 cents.  I don't know how long the 99 cent price will last, so if you're interested, you may want to pre-order to guarantee the low price. 

My book Marines is part of the collection.  I know most of you here have probably read Marines, but I have also included The Gates of Hell, which is a Crimson Worlds prequel novella about General Holm.  It is currently the highest rated thing I have written, with an average of 4.8 stars on Amazon.  If you haven't read it, here's your chance to get it for 99 cents, along with a ton of other books.

In addition to my stuff, Stars and Empire has novels and brand new bonus content from some of the biggest names in Space Opera, including Chris Nuttall, Ed Robertson, Endi Webb, Michael Bunker, and a bunch of other bestsellers.  There are ten full novels as well as new stories from many of the authors as bonus content.

Stars and Empire at Amazon

Stars and Empire at Barnes and Noble



Thursday, September 4, 2014

Upcoming Books

Future Books

I've been getting a lot of emails, blog posts, etc., asking about various future projects, so I thought I'd just do a blog post on what I'm working on, and what you can expect to see from me in the months ahead.

Before I get into releases, if any of you are not on my mailing list, I will be doing a serialized novel called The Last Marine.  It is a Crimson Worlds spinoff, and it will be available ONLY on my mailing list (free).  The first installment will be sent out in mid-September, so if you want it, sign up at Crimsonworlds.com or just email me directly and I will add you to the list.  I only email the list about new releases, free stuff I'm giving away, or occasionally some kind of sale I'm running, so you won't get spammed with lots of BS.
The next book to be released is the Ten Thousand, which is the sequel to Gehenna Dawn (book 2 of the Portal Wars series).  It will be out sometime in the first half of this month.  After that, I will be releasing The Fall, the final book of the Crimson Worlds series, later this autumn.

Although the Fall completes the original CW storyline, there will be two additional series, Crimson Worlds: Refugees and Crimson Worlds: Successors. 

The Refugees series will probably be a trilogy, and it will follow the fleet that was trapped at the end of To Hell's Heart.  I always intended to pursue this storyline, and many of you have emailed and asked if I planned something like that, so I know a lot of you are interested.  The first book will be called Into the Darkness, and it will be out sometime early next year probably.  I should have a firmer timeframe soon.

The Successors series takes place about 30 years after The Fall and continues the storyline from there.  There will be lots of new characters as well as some old ones.  I don't want to say too much, because I don't want to give out book 9 spoilers, but I am excited about this series.  Book 1 will be called MERCS, and it should be out right around the end of this year or January 2015.

Looking a little farther into 2015, I have a lot planned.  I expect to have considerably more releases in 2015 as various projects reach completion.  Sometime during the year I will be releasing the first book in a new series called The Last War.  It's my take on a near-future WW3 situation.  I will also be (finally) releasing the second book in the Pendragon Chronicles, my Arthurian fantasy series.  Many of you have read the Dragon's Banner, which is about Uther Pendragon.  Book 2 will be about a young Arthur and the struggle to reunited Britannia. 

I have a few more books I'm expecting to release next year as well.  The Empire Chronicles will be a fantasy trilogy loosely based on events in Roman/Byzantine history.  I also have a few more things I'll talk about when they've come together a bit more.  Meanwhile, I'll be posting some sample chapters of things on this blog. 

It should be a busy next 18 months, with lots of new books coming out.

Monday, September 1, 2014

Hey, I'm back posting.  I know it's been a while, and I hope you have all had a nice summer.  I just wanted to catch up on a few things.

First, Portal Wars II:  The Ten Thousand will be out very shortly.  I originally intended to release it in August, but I held it back to do some tinkering.  As always, I'd rather get it to all of you as the best book I can make it, and if that means letting a deadline slip, that's what I'm going to do.  You all deserve the highest quality I can manage, and I will always do all I can to ensure you get it.  I will, of course, announce here (and on the email list) when it is available.

Second, I was invited to participate in a big collection along with some very successful space opera writers.  A lot of you have probably read some of their stuff, but if you haven't, there are some good books in there.  I've contributed Marines, which I suspect most of you have already read, but there are nine other books in the collection, plus tons of bonus material.  My bonus is The Gates of Hell, one of my prequel novellas.  If you haven't read it, this is a chance to pick it up along with 2,200 pages of great space opera.  Gates of Hell is the highest rated thing I've written (4.8 stars on Amazon).

The Collection is called Stars and Empire, and it is available for pre-sale now at a hugely discounted price of just 99 cents (the book comes out September 16).  If you're interested in taking a closer look, it's live on all the retailers.

Amazon
Barnes and Noble

Third, if any of you are not on my mailing list, I will be releasing a serialized novel called The Last Marine.  It is a Crimson Worlds spinoff, and it will be available ONLY on my mailing list (free).  The first installment will be sent out in mid-September, so if you want it, sign up at Crimsonworlds.com or just email me directly and I will add you.

I'm going to be more disciplined about posting on this blog, so you should see a lot more of me here.  Also, if you email me and don't get a reply, resend your email.  I try to answer everything, but it is possible that one or two slip by when the volume is high.  I DO want to answer, so if you haven't gotten an answer in a day or two, feel free to resend.

I've got lots of other news coming up, including something I can't discuss quite yet, and the future of the Crimson Worlds saga after book 9 comes out later this fall.  So stay tuned.