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August 21, 2024 · 9:43 am

🌱 Book Art – Influence

Today’s book art is a little more abstract…

🌱 * Influence * 🌱
Distant Horizon Universe

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.

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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.

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 * 👻
Distant Horizon Universe

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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(Also available in paperback!)
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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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May 20, 2020 · 7:26 pm

Weekly Book Promotion Highlight

For this week’s ebook promotion highlight, I’m featuring the Horror on KU ebook fair!

Looking for a good horror story or book with horror elements? Check out this book fair (all available with a Kindle Unlimited subscription!):

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I hope you find a good book! 😀

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October 25, 2018 · 12:44 pm

Weekly Book Promotion Highlight

For this week’s ebook promotion highlight, I’m featuring the Halloween Shifters giveaway and the Halloween Spooktacular giveaway!

Looking for books with various kinds of shapeshifting? Check out this giveaway!

Looking for Halloween themed reads? Try this spooky giveaway!

(Note: These giveaways are hosted through Book Funnel. Authors will usually ask for your email address, and in many cases, the author will collect these addresses for their newsletters.)

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I hope you find a good book! 😀

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March 31, 2018 · 9:55 am

Spirits of a Glitch – Launch Day

Woot! Spirits of a Glitch is now available! 😀

This is the final book in Tim’s story, following what happens when a second terrifying airship made from shapeshifters and technology is created… only this one isn’t as obedient as the first.

With Spirits of a Glitch, the Glitch Saga is now complete, I’m off to work on other books in the Distant Horizon Universe. But, seeing as how those books still need editing before I can release them, why not check out Tim’s story in the meantime?

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Upper YA Science Fiction

“We are legion. But you, Master Zaytsev, are only one…”

Nineteen-year-old council member, Tim Zaytsev, is tasked with removing glitches from the council’s newest living airship, the CLS Manticore. Like its predecessor, the Manticore is formed from living shapeshifters. Their minds were wiped and their memories erased, but the occasional “ghost” of their personalities remain.

Removing the “ghosts” should be simple after dealing with the first vessel. But the task descends into madness when the Manticore traps Tim within its fleshy walls and attempts to force him to join the shapeshifters who made the merge.

Determined to undermine the ship’s dangerous, telepathic games and convince the other council members that the ship is manipulating them, Tim must summon a courage he’s never had, the courage to stay and fight. But doing so would force him to confront the vessel alone—a path that can only end in his destruction.

Buy now!

Haven’t read the first book yet? Sign up for the Distant Horizon Universe newsletter to read the first book, Whispers in the Code, for free!

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Enjoy! 😀

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March 13, 2018 · 6:00 am

Weekly Book Promotion Highlight

Continuing with the weekly book promotion highlight, I’m featuring two giveaways where you can download free ebooks from a variety of authors. 🙂

This week we have the Speculative YA Giveaway and the Spring Break Fantasy Giveaway!

For our first giveaway, we have a wide range of young adult books with speculative elements. Science fiction… fantasy… horror… If you’re looking for speculative YA, give this giveaway a look.

The second giveaway has a variety of fantasy ebooks, so if you want fantasy, this is a good place to start.

(Note: These giveaways are hosted through Book Funnel. They will usually ask for your email address. In most cases, the author will collect these addresses for their newsletters.)

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I hope you find yourself a good book. Let me know if you would like to see more of these posts. 🙂

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March 6, 2018 · 7:00 am

Weekly Book Promotion Highlight

You guys seemed to like these posts from last month, so I decided to go ahead and continue these for now. Today I’m highlighting two giveaways where you can download free ebooks from a variety of authors. 🙂

This week we have the Amazing SciFi & Fantasy Giveaway, as well as the March Mayhem Giveaway.

The first giveaway contains a wide range of both science fiction and fantasy books.

The second giveaway contains books with horror elements underlying them.

(Note: These giveaways are hosted through Book Funnel. They will usually ask for your email address. In most cases, the author will collect these addresses for their newsletters.)

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Good luck finding a book you enjoy, and let me know if you would like to see more of these posts. 🙂

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February 26, 2018 · 8:47 am

Ghost of a Memory – Launch Day!

Hey, everybody! Today’s the launch day for Ghost of a Memory! 😀

Ghost of a Memory is the second book in The Glitch Saga, and continues the story of Tim Zaytsev as he attempts to reprogram a living airship made from shapeshifters. But the glitches are getting worse, and the Legion Spore’s rogue personality is threatening Tim’s sanity with a series of nightmares that are more real than Tim wants to believe.

Ghost of a Memory

Upper YA Science Fiction

Some ghosts refuse to be forgotten.

Nineteen-year-old council member, Tim Zaytsev, oversees the Legion Spore—a living airship made from shapeshifters. He’s tasked with removing glitches, fragments of the shapeshifters’ memories that reside as “ghosts” in the ship’s code.

But as he removes each glitch, the ship shows an alarming trend toward developing its own personality. It clearly prefers to work with Tim instead of his superiors, and its haunting dreams invade Tim’s sleep, filling his mind with false memories of an affair with the alluring Lady Black, a council member known for her seductive advances. As the dreams intensify, he can’t even look at his loving girlfriend without remembering Lady Black’s touch.

Determined to perform his duties to the council while remaining faithful, Tim searches for the source of the Legion Spore’s rogue personality. But as the dreams descend into nightmares, Tim begins to suspect they aren’t random glitches; they’re warnings from the “ghost” of Lady Black’s lover.

To ensure a lifetime with the woman he loves, Tim must find the source of the Legion Spore’s rogue personality before the vessel usurps his mind, trapping him like all the other “ghosts” in the code.

Purchase Today!

Haven’t read the first book yet? Sign up for the Distant Horizon Universe newsletter to read the first book, Whispers in the Code, for free!

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Enjoy! 🙂

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January 12, 2018 · 1:19 pm

Cover Reveal! — Glitch: Whispers in the Code

Guess what!

Today is the reveal for the cover of Glitch: Whispers in the Code!

*Squee!*

There’s several things that coincide with its release (new newsletter specifically for the Distant Horizon universe, updating the cover for Distant Horizon, and the new website for the Distant Horizon universe), so I’m trying to get everything organized. We’ve finished the read-aloud for Whispers in the Code, so all that’s left is formatting. Yay!

In the meantime, I’m proud to present the cover for the first book of the Glitch saga.

Upper YA/NA Sci-Fi with Horror Elements

SBibb - Glitch: Whispers in the Code Book Cover

Blurb:

A haunted airship made from living people…

Nineteen-year-old hacker Tim Zaytsev is a traitor, but he never expected his betrayal would earn him the highest honor among the international community—a place among the Camaraderie’s elite council.

Ushered into a glamorous lifestyle of fancy airships and a chance to use his programming skills to better the world, Tim is assigned the task of finishing their secret Legion Spore project—a living airship made from shapeshifters.

Inside the Legion Spore, dozens of humans have been forcibly hooked to the vessel’s computer, but fragments of their memories reside in the airship’s internal code as glitches. Their faces appear in the walls, and their whispers invade the code of the Camaraderie’s base. Tim’s ability to telepathically connect with computers means that he’s the only one who can make the ship fully functional.

But programming a computer is one thing. Dealing with a haunted, living airship will not only test Tim’s wit, but his sanity. If he can’t learn to trust himself and his abilities, his mind will be trapped in the Legion Spore as just another whisper in the code.

I don’t have store links yet, but in the meantime you can add it to your Goodreads shelf. 🙂