Takeovers, Storefronts, and Cosmic Horror!

The publication of Moonlight and Margaritas is coming up at the end of this month! I’m really jazzed, actually. There’s going to be a Takeover event on Facebook on June 30th, with a bunch of the authors taking a half-hour slot. Because we’re on Pacific Standard Time and I want the Valkyrie fam to be able to participate, I signed up for the latest slot, and I’ll be offering prizes there as well as a bunch of fun highlights. You can meet some of the old Valkyrie players and hang out. I’d love to chat with you!

Rob and I made a big push to get the new Starship Valkyrie: Fleet Battle ruleset live to post on our new Starship Valkyrie storefront, since we want people to be able to experience SSV even if they can’t make it to Strategicon or another live event. The really exciting thing is that it includes a full game scenario for the 2151 Battle of Ross, which is featured in dramatic prose form in my short story, “All Hands.” Bonus: we’ve made it a bundle on the storefront, so you can read “All Hands” and then play the battle out yourself in SSV: Fleet Battle with your friends. I’m really proud of the collection there as well, which is print to order, meaning we always have your size. I personally love the moto jacket, which bears the ERSN logo and can be worn in-character on an officer. I’m thinking of getting myself one for when I play Sora or Teli.

Speaking of Teli Kuromoto, I’m working hard on Hybrid Vigor, which should release along with the other Odyssey interludes! I’m trying to release it for my birthday. It’s straight-up social science fiction, though of course Teli is always a romantic character at heart. Even for those of you who joined up looking for romance, I hope it will be an exciting and rewarding read. Hybrid Vigor should straddle the word count line between a novella and a short novel, following Teli Kuromoto and a small subset of her crew from the Odyssey, as she travels to the new Skelow Pleasure Center near the Tardek homeworld of Itona. Her mission: follow up on an asset of her father’s who’s gone rogue, his last message being, “Send Kuromoto.” With Admiral Kuromoto unable to travel and Sora telling them to pound sand, that just leaves Teli to clean up her father’s messes… but she’s about to come face-to-face with a very old cosmic enemy. Combining social science fiction, space horror and space opera elements, Hybrid Vigor is a fast-moving investigation with moments both dramatic and comedic, and I’m excited to share it with you.