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Cradle Robbers – Captain Arlon Stoddard Adventures book 11 – out now

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Finally, finally, we have Cradle Robbers out in the world. Book number 11 in the series. That even surprises me, really. I have such fun writing these books, that I seem to have just continued writing more. As I post this, the 12th book – Margin Dwellers –  has already been written and will soon enter the editing-proofing-preparation machine and should be out later in the year.

Cradle Robbers

Royd Melgrave slams himself into an emergency vacuum suit as klaxons blast around him. The refinery station seems doomed.

When Authority investigators Captain Arlon Stoddard and his crew arrive, the refinery wreck follows an erratic orbit and little evidence remains.

What they do find only raises more questions. Questions that might turn things inside out.

Can they figure it out before more the destruction of more installations?

 

All of the books are space adventures, but this one might just be the most space opera of them all.

Releasing on March 20th, Cradle Robbers is available for preorder from your favorite retailer through the Universal Book Link here. ebook $5.99, print $16.99.

But, as I’m working on developing direct sales through my own store, the ebook is available right now, directly from me through Shopify/Bookfunnel for the same price – $5.99.

Catch up with the rest of the series here on the Captain Arlon Stoddard page. The first three books, Asteroid Jumpers, Ice Hunters and Ship Tracers, remain at the special price of $3.99 to help readers get started. Eventually they will show up on the Sean Monaghan store as well.

You’ll notice that there are layout changes to the covers of the last two books. I’m working back through the inventory to update the look, but with several series, numerous standalone novels, and a whole bunch of short stories and novellas, this is taking a while. I’ll get to them as the process progresses.

Thanks for reading. More news soon. Yes, soon. I’ve neglected posting here, but plans are afoot to put something up on a more regular basis. Did you say weekly? Sure, why not?

Cheers, Sean

 

 

Dead Ringers – Captain Arlon Stoddard book 9

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Dead Ringers, book 9 in my Captain Arlon Stoddard series is available on pre order with an April 20th release – universal book link here

More will come closer to the time (though I will be away from the net on a research trip on the lead up to release day).

I will say now, though, that I’m excited about this one. Nine books now in the series. Who’d have thought, huh?

And, as I type this, I’m working on Tramp Steamers, the tenth book.

I also wanted to mention briefly the wonderful cover by Algol (licensed through Dreamstime) – I actually licensed this years back for a different story. A story I hadn’t written at the time. I loved the image and I grabbed it, and wrote a story based on it, thinking just to indie publish it. But then, I sold the story to a magazine, so that locked it up for a while (generally when you sell – license – a story, part of that is a period of time when it’s exclusive to the magazine, fair enough, they paid for that).

Anyway, in the interim, I’ve just never got around to publishing the story as a standalone (goofing off, I guess, since, you know, apparently I’m a slouch when it comes to putting stories and novels up indie and really should be getting more of them out), but I still hold the license on the image.

Then I wrote Dead Ringers and it was really different and high-concept and stuff like that and ultimately I was struggling to find cover art that fitted the story. Then I remembered I had this. It fits this story well, it’s dynamic and energetic and conveys the action. So here it is.

More soon – a blurb and other details on price and so on. But you know, we do have until April 20th until it’s out.

Thanks for reading.

More soon.

Sean