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?
š * An Infuriating Trinket * š Distant Horizon Universe
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…
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 mindāa 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…
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).
Featuring:Lily SĆ”nchez 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…
Today’s book art leans into the horror of the Glitch Saga…
š» * Whispers from the Ghosts * š» Distant Horizon Universe
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.
(Also available in paperback!) Amazon (US)Ā |Ā Amazon (UK) (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.)
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) . . .
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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 monsterās 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.
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.
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:
š± “Sunrise in the Garden” š Distant Horizon Universe
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.
Too bad reprogramming a haunted airship doesnāt come with an instruction manual.
Halloween is almost here, and now,Ā Whispers in the CodeĀ is back! And it’s free. š
As a way to try introducing more readers to the Glitch series I’ve made the first book perma-free (free for the forseeable future).
It’s available on most major retailers, too. That was one of the big things I’d been wanting to do for a while… pull it out of Kindle Unlimited and offer it wide again.
(The current exception to the wide retailer list is BN.com, where it hasn’t reuploaded yet, but I think they might still be dealing with the hacking that messed up their system. Unfortunately, that one’s out of my hands.)
(If it’s not showing up free in your region, please let me know)
The next two books are also available at the same retailers for $2.99 (and hopefully equivalent prices in other currencies) each.
That said, if you readĀ Whispers in the CodeĀ and like it, the price on the complete collection is only $4.99, meaning you can get the complete story for less than if you buy the last two books separately. š
And, in case you’re not as familiar with the Glitch saga…
Here’s the blurb for the first book!
Too bad reprogramming a haunted airship doesnāt come with an instruction manual.
Blinded by love, Tim helps his girlfriend steal a valuable artifact from the rebellionāan artifact used by its rightful owners to create a monstrous, living airship that will end the war and restore world order.
Thanks to his ability to mentally control computers, his new allies bring him into their highest ranks…
With a catch.
They need his powers to complete what they started. The airship should have been devastatingāa marvel of technology enhanced with super-human powers from the memory-wiped people they hooked into the vesselās computer.
Instead, it has glitches.
Fragments of human memories wreak havoc in the airshipās internal code. Their tormented whispers invade Tim’s thoughts.
His superiors need him to figure out why.
To impress them, and thus secure his place at his girlfriend’s side, Tim needs to remove those “ghosts…”
Before one of the airship’s glitches traps his mind as just another whisper in the code.
Descend into the madness…
If this sounds like your kind of read, go grab a copy! It’s free. š
Stephanie Flint - Author and Artist 