Jeffrey Cook

Warlords. Lost fleets. Dragons. Madison Wayward's best laid plan survived contact with the enemy. High on the rush of leading the first successful escape from the hellish nightmare of Rikor Six, she has one mission: find her uncle. The notorious Captain Wayward, the most wanted human in the sector, can protect her from the outrageous bounty on her head. Kirehe Mahono can't decide if she made the right choice. Compared to her sweltering home world, space is...cold. What can dragons even do in the cramped confines of spaceships? At least she knows she can trust Madison and the rest of their ragtag band of fellow escapees. Most of them, anyway. The galaxy's tyrannical, immortal overlords must be stopped. To do it, the team will have to undertake the greatest challenge imaginable. They'll have to convince a bunch of space pirates to work together. Or die trying.

A rather small dragon lives in a rather large castle. The wondrous magic empowering Dwago's clockwork life also charges him with a solemn duty. His mistress needs him. For this child born with a fragile heart, he will brighten her invalid days and protect her darkest nights. When Dwago's master can no longer keep his young daughter safe, Dwago must fulfill his duty and confront his fears before her life ticks away. But he is only a very small dragon.

The tradition of service runs deep. For the Tsukuda men, it comes with telekinesis. The Captain Kinetic codename, a fixture in the Army's 11th Rangers battalion of supersoldiers for over six decades, rests firmly on Benjamin Tsukuda's shoulders. His grandfather fought under the name in World War II and his father fought under the name in Vietnam. On the day Ben retires, his teenage son will inherit their legacy. Until then, he serves his nation as the stalwart leader of a squad dedicated to saving lives and stopping rogue supers. When the team is dispatched to Brazil for a covert mission, dark omens send them crashing into a conspiracy moving swiftly enough to set the world on fire and cast shadows over generations to come. Ben must choose between honor, duty, orders, and family to protect all he holds dear, including his own life.

What happens when the Chosen One dies in chapter 1? For countless years, the people of the four towers that stand between this realm and the Otherrealm have waited for this day. The prophecied moment has come -- and it's about to go horribly wrong. When tragedy strikes, four companions must race against time -- and victorious evil forces -- without a hero to carry their hopes. Even obvious doomed worlds are still worth fighting for.

AliensHostile AIsEchoes of the pastGenetic modifications Four authors offer four unique visions for dragons. Rescue the blueprint. Travel to alien worlds. Discover the universe within. Soar over the remnants of humanity. Clockwork Dragon presents an anthology of curious science fiction stories about dragons for eclectic minds.

Because books won't sell themselves. In these times when it's easy to self-publish but hard to get noticed, conventions offer a solid, feasible option for the independent author to start on a path to financial sustainability. But becoming a professional denizen of the dealer's room has its challenges. In Working the Table, two veteran indie authors spill their secrets to help you not only survive, but thrive in the book-event environment.

School is out for the summer, which will give Megan O'Reilly's friends time to see that she really starts learning something useful. When music is magic and magic is sometimes medicine, it's easy for a menehune BFF, a satyr rock star, and a disabled pixie with a service crow to give a girl information overload. The weekend of the Fremont Solstice Fair is also the weekend of the Goblin Market. Megan's adjusted enough to this Unseelie Princess thing to see some use in all this colorful shopping potential, both real-world and magical, even if she can get ahead of herself sometimes. But someone wants to use the Market for his own destructive purposes. And he knows a guy who's great at ruining other people's Midsummer nights.

1817 sees the first signs of recovery from the Year Without a Summer - and the beginning of the end of the journey of the airship Dame Fortuna. The crew first accept a unique offer from the Shogun of Japan, traveling with the Dutch contingent from the island of Dejima into the isolationist nation. From there, their travels will take them through the English colonies in Australia and India, into darkest Africa, and eventually home to England. Along the way, confrontations loom, and both personal secrets and national conspiracies are uncovered. By the time a future queen is born, nothing less than the fate of England and the direction of world events are at stake. Dawn of Steam: Rising Suns is an alternate-history, emergent Steampunk epistolary novel, following after Dawn of Steam: First Light and Dawn of Steam: Gods of the Sun.