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September 4, 2024 · 12:35 pm

🐈 Book Art – An Infuriating Trinket

Today’s book art features a cat! Though
Starless Night certainly has its dark, horror-influenced moments, there’s also a cat. And cats like to make everything… cute?



🐈 * An Infuriating Trinket * 🐈
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Underneath a metal table on a floor with short blue carpet, a fluffy calico cat glares at someone off camera. She holds a brown teddy bear keychain defensively in her paws.

Featuring: Little Beastie and the Teddy Bear Keychain
Book: Starless Night (Distant Horizon #2)
Medium: Daz Studio 4.15 with Iray, and Photoshop CS5
Description: Though the plushie keychain was never intended to be a cat toy, Little Beastie usurped the teddy bear as her own. Unfortunately, she doesn’t get to keep it, as it seems the the brain seed has an odd dislike for anything bear-related…

Unveil the brain seed’s fondness for cats in Starless Night . . .
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August 21, 2024 · 9:43 am

🌱 Book Art – Influence

Today’s book art is a little more abstract…


🌱 * Influence * 🌱
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An abstract, psychedelic image. A woman in a tank top appears maybe old, maybe young, differentiated by where a transparent cloak covers part of her face. The sky is filled with pink and purple auroras, and behind her a twisted, gnarled tree rises.

Featuring: Jenna / Brain Seed
Book: Starless Night (Distant Horizon #2)
Medium: Daz Studio 4.15 with Iray, and Photoshop CS5
Description: Before Brainmaster’s death, Brainmaster planted a brain seed in Jenna’s mind—a telepathic seed which has slowly latched onto Jenna’s thoughts, changing her personality and twisting it into that of the late telepath.

Here we see a glimpse of Jenna’s corrupted mindscape during a moment when the brain seed has taken hold…

Beware the brain seed’s influence in Starless Night . . .
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August 7, 2024 · 7:50 am

🔎 Book Art – Lily: Private Eye

Today I’m featuring one of our characters (who starts off as a secondary character, but becomes more important as the story progresses. (Hint… turns out she has more chemistry with Jenna than the character who was supposed to be the love interest).


🔎 * Lily: Private Eye * 🔍
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Featuring: Lily Sánchez
Book: Fractured Skies (Distant Horizon #2)
Medium: Daz Studio 4.15 with Iray, and Photoshop CS5
Description: Lily joins the Coalition after a botched mission to collect on a bounty leads to more favorable job benefits with the rebels (and a slightly less guilty conscience).
Originally from Mexico, she spent most of her time as a freelance private eye and mercenary. Her psychic tracking ability allows her to touch an object and see the memories, emotions, and intentions of the people who touched it recently. It’s particularly handy when conducting an investigation or trying to find someone.
Here, she’s on the case…

Use psychic tracking for investigations in Fractured Skies . . .
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July 25, 2024 · 9:51 pm

Read Distant Horizon free with Hoopla!

Awesome news! Our Distant Horizon series and The Glitch Saga (Books 1-3) are now available on Hoopla! (Other books are still pending).

But if your library has access, you should now be able to read those books for free! 😃

Book Cover for Distant Horizon, with a gold title. A young woman faces a sterile white hallway with faces in the doors. She has vines around her arms.
Book cover for Fractured Skies with gold text. A young woman in a coat faces a wintery, pink-tinted forest. She has vines around her arms.
Book Cover for the Glitch Saga. Orange and red. A beautiful woman with black hair faces the viewer, there's an airship in the shape of a Portuguese Man'O'War

Happy reading! 📚

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July 24, 2024 · 6:02 am

👻 Book Art – Whispers from the Ghosts

Today’s book art leans into the horror of the Glitch Saga…

👻 * Whispers from the Ghosts * 👻
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A young man in a black uniform stands straight against a wall made of exposed muscle. His eyes glow red, as if possessed. Distressed faces stretch from the wall, and a body from the wall has grabbed him by the shoulder and the arm, and whispers into his ear.

Featuring: Tim and the (glitching) Legion Spore
Book: Whispers in the Code (Glitch #1)
Medium: Daz Studio 4.15 with Iray, and Photoshop CS5
Description: The Legion Spore is a horrifying monstrosity of technology created by the Camaraderie of Evil, which blends humans (specifically people with powers) and machine to create a living airship.
But it wasn’t a smooth merge, and the people forced to link into the mainframe (and with each other) didn’t want to be there. A few of the human components remembered fragments of who they had been before, and whenever the Legion Spore glitches, their “ghosts” take over. Their faces and forms appear in its walls, and Tim must fight to control the ship, and his sanity, because those whispers in the code can also whisper in his mind using telepathy.

The madness begins in Whispers in the Code . . .
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(Side note… Whispers in the Code, the first ebook in the Glitch saga, is free! (Though sometimes Amazon raises the price again, it should be free on most retailers). If you like diving directly into the action of a story, have a go at it. But be warned… if you like a slower build up to what’s going on, I’d recommend starting with Distant Horizon or Deceived first.)

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July 14, 2024 · 8:14 am

💀 – Book Quote – Winter Growth

Today I’m starting a weekly book quote based on the previous book art image!

Which means we get a taste of Ivy Man from Fractured Skies (Distant Horizon #2) . . .

💀

The human-plant monster popped its shoulders, and then stretched its vine-and-bone arm toward a snowy mound. A wooden staff flew into the monster’s hand. It paused and examined the weapon: a long, straight piece of wood with a bleached skull strapped to its top.

I have been following your progress for some time now, Sapling.


Beware the lure of Ivy Man in Fractured Skies . . .
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July 10, 2024 · 11:07 am

💀 Book Art – Winter Growth

Book art time! 📚


💀 Winter Growth 🍃
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A monster made from vines kneels in a wintery forestscape with a staff topped with a skull.

Featuring: Ivy Man
Book: Fractured Skies (Distant Horizon #2)
Medium: Daz Studio 4.15 with Iray, and Photoshop CS5
Description: A portrait of Ivy Man, a monster who keeps himself alive (sort of) with his life-spirit powers and the use of his plant manipulation powers. After dying in a particularly dangerous mercenary mission, he created himself a body of vines, roots, and bones. Though a spirit now, he’s attached himself to the vines, which makes him rather difficult to kill. He makes his first appearance toward the end of Fractured Skies, when he uses telepathy powers to wreak havoc on Jenna’s team and try luring Jenna into his clutches. He has an unhealthy obsession with her after witnessing one of her first missions, and he continues to be a thorn in her (and pretty much everyone’s) side.
Here, we see him growing ivy in the dead of winter, carrying his staff with a human skull on top.

He is most definitely not a people person.

Beware the lure of Ivy Man in Fractured Skies . . .
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June 26, 2024 · 9:46 pm

🌱 Book Art – Sunrise in the Garden

Today I’m starting to feature art Isaac and I have created based on our books! Most of these will have been featured in our newsletters previously at some point, but I haven’t really shown them elsewhere online.

I’m starting with:

🌱 “Sunrise in the Garden” 🌄
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Sunrise in the Garden

Featuring: Jenna Nickleson
Book: Distant Horizon series
Medium: Daz Studio 4.15 with Iray, and Photoshop CS5
Description: Given how much trouble Jenna (the protagonist) runs into throughout the series (especially in Starless Night), we thought it might be nice to give her a moment of peace surrounded by plant life. She’s a plant elemental, and wanted to be a biologist before discovering she had super powers and getting dragged into a rebellion.

Read Jenna’s story in Distant Horizon . . .
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September 6, 2023 · 11:58 am

Preparing for GeekUP 2023!

Hey there! Just wanted to give a shout out that we’re preparing for Geek UP 2023!

If you’re going to be in the Houghton, Michigan area on September 9th, come check out some awesome vendors, a fun cosplay contest, and three celebrity guests (Hint… if you like Sonic the Hedgehog or Legend of Zelda go peek at the link above for more info on the voice actors who are going to be there!).

Plus, it’s a charity event, and this year is benefiting Unite Mental Health and Wellness. 🙂

Isaac and I plan to be there as well with our books and art (and stickers!), and we’ll have Starless Night available in paperback for the first time!

Come stop by our booth, and don’t miss our new interactive element this year… find out what kind of Wishing Blade Universe magic you would have! (Let’s just say you’ll get to choose a ribbon, place it in our handy little “revealing light” box to see what color it glows, and then match that to one of the characters who uses the same kind of ribbon magic. We’ve been enjoying the arts and crafts element a bit too much this year.) 😉

Overall, we’re really looking forward to the event, and I’m happy to report that we actually have almost everything ready to go this time (no staying up until 3am on Friday night frantically trying to finish organizing stuff).

Meanwhile, here’s a sneak peek of the stickers we’re going to have available (if you haven’t seen them debut at Black Ice Comics and Books).

Looking forward to seeing everybody there. 😁

(( P.S. I know I’m overdue on the monthly status report for Infinitas Publishing… by a couple months now. Hopefully I’ll get that written up after the event as well. And send out a couple of newsletters. All is well! Just been trying to get everything organized. 😃 ))

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September 22, 2019 · 10:38 am

Deceived – Now Available!

Deceived by the government. Exposed by her powers.

Will she drown in the Community’s deception?

This prequel novella to the Distant Horizon series is now available as an ebook! 😀

Deceived takes place about two years before the main events of Distant Horizon, and follows Galina, a character who was mentioned early in the Distant Horizon as having never returned after taking the Health Scan.

It’s the first book in a series of novellas, and takes a closer look at what happens to the students who fail.

Long story short?

When Galina turns herself over to the health clinic after believing she’s infected by a hallucinogenic plague, she discovers the truth might not be what it seems. Will she drown in the deceptions?

Read Deceived to find out!

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Note: Deceived serves as a good introduction to the Distant Horizon universe if you want to test the waters and get a feel for how the world works before diving into full-length books like Distant Horizon, or jumping head-first into the commotion with the Glitch saga. ;-D

Deceived is only 99 cents until October 1st, after which it will go to full price.

Grab it on sale while you can! 😀

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Deceived

YA Dystopian Novella

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Deceived by the government. Exposed by her powers.

The Community concocted a lie to conceal the truth about her—and students like her.

She’s in their grasp.

But she’s not going to sit back and let them hurt her or her friends.

Can she escape?

Or will she drown in the Community’s deception?

Begin your dystopian journey into the Community’s dark secret… read this thrilling novella today!

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Begin your dystopian journey into the Community’s dark secret…

And explore one young woman’s determination to protect her friends.

Read Deceived today!

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