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Chapter 46 of The Next Horizon is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

Denholm has her day in court, heartbroken to face the many soldiers that bore witness to her actions on the battlefield.

After testifying about her reasoning, Amelia speaks well regarding where the true blame lies: King Stevyn.

In the end, Amelia's words make little difference...

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The last chapter of The Next Horizon is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts

After a long span, as measured on a geologic time scale, the snows and ice of the arctic recede and Krauss wakes, her soul returned to her body by the Gods.

She stands and acts on their behalf, because they have her over a barrel and can demand what they please...

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Ebook 25% off: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1789471
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The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia’s sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…

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(Left) The cover of Starwitch, by Owen Tyme.

In the background is a red, orange and white nebula.

In the foreground is a line drawing of a red spotted newt, in white. The lines of the newt are outlined in black, to help it stand out. The interior is red, with an appearance similar to stained glass.

(Right) In the background is a red and orange galaxy, with a blue core, which bears a resemblance to an eye. It has the following text over it:

“First you turn my dog against me, then you steal my ship’s core? What’s next, pulling my teeth?”

“We didn’t ask for this! You attacked us! Why don’t you just let us go?”

“I might as well cover myself in tartar sauce, then go swimming in shark infested waters! My lieutenants would tear me to shreds, just the same!”

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296d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

Nicole's brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.

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(Left) The cover of Jigsaw City, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a futuristic city of sky scrapers covered in greenery, with water ways in place of some streets. The background has been divided by dark lines that cut it up, into a jigsaw puzzle.

The foreground is a hexagonal coin with an indentation in the center that follows the same shape, with raised lines forming a hexagram in the center, which has a smaller one turned at a ninety-degree angle inside the hexagon at the center of it. The smaller hexagram has another inside it, a pattern that repeats until the lines become so fine and indistinct, they blend together.

(Right) There's a pool of lava at the base of a rocky slope, with some sharp rocks sticking upward out of it and the following text over the top:

“I’m immune to heat and fire. I can easily carry and protect one of you…”

“That’s suicide! Ye’d need to deliver an army to make a difference, not one person!”

“I *am* an army.”

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Chapter 30 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole finds Chalgos at the bottom of the lake Lyra lives beside.

Getting there involves dry suits for Nicole and a dwarf diver, but Ogomid comes with them, because Irkith's life stone is the key to the prison's wards.

Ogomid remembers his time there, weeping for his loneliness...

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290d

finished reading The World We Make 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by NK Jemisin.

New York finishes the job against the Multiverse, despite the conservative reticence of the Old Cities. Clunkier and without the freshness of the original. But fun to see more city avatars. I think Mamdani could easily be a character in these books!

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Chapter 28 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

After some administrative tasks, Nicole learns that the next piece of the Sage is somewhere in a large mountain range, effectively a needle in a haystack.

Using the delay as an opportunity, she trains with Winzon, who focuses on reforging her heart, focusing on non-lethal options...

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292d

Ebook $1 off Nov 21-24: https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.

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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.

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Chapter 29 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole dismisses Winzon and ends her training early, because she's sick of the dwarf's abuse, but discussing the matter with Kazic has her questioning the decision, because he claims she's become a better person.

Kazic meets Cha'da after she docks her ship, who threatens his life...

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294d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TymeStarwitch

The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia's sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…

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293d

New Ebook release: https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon

Amelia and The Book of Newts are in conflict. She wants to explore her feelings. It wants to explore space, taking back the gift for mathematics and piloting it gave her. She’s left unable to plot a direct course home. She’s desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever and The Book is in her way…

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(Left) The cover of The Next Horizon, by Owen Tyme.

The black silhouette of a man and woman hugging and kissing. The woman has lifted one leg, while the man leans toward her. They stand atop the dark side of a planet or moon in space, which has a slim crescent along the right side. The background in the stars of space, but some have been highlighted with a heat shape that surrounds the kissing couple. Everything is in shades of blue.

(Right) Deep space, displaying the edge of an orange and blue gaseous cloud from a nebula, while most of the stars appear golden in color. Floating in space is a square, red leather book with the image of a newt stamped on the cover. Over the top of everything is the following text:

“You can back down and cooperate, right now, or Marta will hit you so hard, you should reach a tenth the speed of light…”

“No one will ever find you again, but even if someone does, there’s no way they’ll have the capacity to safely slow you down, before you’re gone to them!”

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Chapter 21 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Ustrina finally realizes Nicole isn't a dragon and she's completely furious, though she's quite silent as she slowly puzzles through the facts, in plain sight of the bridge crew of Jigsaw City.

Vanu and Lognur give the order for Bevna Protocol, once the dragon leaves the bridge...

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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts

The undead witch that rules the space pirates, known as the Dead Queen, has finally been defeated. That only makes it worse for the witches that pulled it off. She’s livid and coming for them, at least once she gets her star ship back under control…

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(Left) The cover of Legacy of Newts, by Owen Tyme.

In the background dawn, as seen from space, above a blue world.

In the foreground is a line drawing of a red spotted newt, in white. The lines of the newt are outlined in black, to help it stand out. The interior of the line drawing has been filled with the image of a spiral galaxy in red, orange and yellow, with a blue color that shades to white at the center, which lines up with the newt's head. The galaxy almost looks like fire.

(Right) The background is a blue and orange nebula, with the following text over it:

“You gotta be real strong, real bright, real quick, or real lucky to survive drawing *attention*. Which are you?”

“I’m quick, Amelia is bright, Marta is strong and all three of us have been lucky, after a fashion: if we didn’t have bad luck, then I suppose we wouldn’t have any luck at all.”

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Chapter 33 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Since Kazic is busy for the evening, with his mysterious new activities, Nicole looks for a short mission to complete, settling on the matter of the monkeys with crossbows.

It begins with a hike through an alien jungle, but the monkeys turn out to know all about building traps...

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289d

Chapter 31 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Ogomid tries to kill Nicole, forcing her to retreat further into Chalgos, trapping her inside!

He then destroys their radios, allowing Nicole to send only a brief message: Tin Man Protocol.

Vanu releases the golems shaped like Nicole, which arrest every Ulkun in the city...

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286d

Paperback now available: https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon

Amelia and The Book of Newts are in conflict. She wants to explore her feelings. It wants to explore space, taking back the gift for mathematics and piloting it gave her. She’s left unable to plot a direct course home. She’s desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever and The Book is in her way…

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Chapter 39 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

A patient carrying a virus breaks quarantine and literally runs into Eden and Nicole is splashed with his sweat, leaving both of them exposed to the virus...

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269d

A look back at BCS stories of 2025! "Last Stop: Tomb City" by Justin Howe, BCS #433.

"Now, breaking and entering may be a sport in some scapes, but in most it’s an act much frowned upon. When the act is also accompanied by the removal of objects or persons, that frown brings with it severe repercussions. Simpler scapes than Usquayba might call what we planned to do larceny or abduction or, at the very least, breach of contract."

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287d

Chapter 32 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

While Nicole heals her shattered pelvis and legs, she discusses what happened with Ogomid, who apologizes.

Nicole forgives him and suggest he may be dealing with post-traumatic stress.

She takes ownership of the life stones of Ogomid and Irkith, then looks closer at Irkith's...

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269d

50% off @ #Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1795512

Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.

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272d

50% off @ #Smashwords: https://books2read.com/SkyChildren

With a strange virus giving colonists magic powers, they call for government aid, but warships packed to the gills with nuclear ordnance arrive! They run for the hills, totally terrified for their lives as their city is struck down as if by the wrath of an angry God!

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(Left) The cover of Sky Children, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a nuclear explosion and its mushroom cloud, in some distant hills. There's a dirt road along some rocky hills leading away from it.

The foreground is dominated by the dark silhouettes of another hill, some tall grass and a family of five holding hands, going left to right: girl, mother, girl, boy and father. The mother and father look down at the children, while they look up at their mother. The tallest of the children appears to be a boy in shorts, while the other two are girls of the same height, indicating they may be twins. The girls have pony tails and wear dresses. The mother wears a skirt and the father wears pants. The family holds hands.

The silhouettes are highlighted by the orange light of the explosion.

(Right) An explosion is fiery and bright. Someone hold up their left hand to block the light, but the light is so intense, their flesh only tinges the light a pinkish-red shade and their bones are visible, outlined with dark red lines. The following text is laid over that:

He shielded his eyes with his hands, but even with his eyes closed, he could see the shadows of his finger bones, as highlighted by the monstrous, nuclear light!

Temporarily blinded, tears fell from his eyes.

*What more could I have done? Could we have saved more people somehow? How could I have known the consequences of setting up the navigation beacon? Why is this happening?*

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Chapter 33 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole discusses Chalgos with Ogomid and learns along the way that the piece of Kurg in her mind gives her the ability to speak in Ulkun, via radio waves.

They reach the center and Ogomid uses the abandoned husk of Irkith, but curiously find no trace of the Seventh Sage...

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Chapter 34 of Stone Prophet is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Having found what she came for, Nicole reasons out a method to get herself to the surface, which will require her to drown, while in torpor.

She climbs into the chilly water and soon nods off. Ogomid carries her to the surface, while the doll-woman follows...

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50% off @ #smashwords : https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1691775

Zechariah Jacobs has angered a vast empire that spans a third of the galaxy, which is far too much for his planet to stand against, but in a clash of wizards and magic versus technology, it’s hard to say which will win.

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(Left) The cover of Wrath of the Sky, by Owen Tyme.

On a black background, a planet much like earth burns, set aflame. The flames are on the top and sides, but haven't yet reached the bottom.

(Right) An ogre stands on a rocky cliffside path, clearly quite upset, with both his head and arms raised as he cries out! The background is blue sky with white clouds. The following quote is laid over the top of the scene:

Winzon grinned evilly. With great slowness and ceremony, he undid the draw-string of his sack and up-ended it, dropping an ogre skull at the brute’s feet!

The massive ogre’s entire demeanor changed in an instant! He backed away, carefully stepping out of reach of Winzon’s ax, even though it was still strapped to his back!

The brute whispered, “Ogre-slayer!”

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