New Release
I have a new book releasing today. This was my “super secret” co-writing effort that I finished last month. The title is Superdreadnought 6 and the author is listed as CH Gideon. But yours truly wrote the story with direction, tweaking, and editing by my co-author, Craig Martelle.
Finishing a series
Superdreadnought is a six-book spin-off series from the very popular Kurtherian Gambit Universe. The KGU is the brainchild of Michael Anderle, one of the big names in the Indie author world, and a perennial member of Amazon's top 100 authors list. The KGU now includes over 150 books by I don't know how many authors. Seriously, I have no idea how many there are.
Last spring, I submitted a story to the anthology The Expanding Universe 5. I've mentioned that book before–23 awesome science fiction stories. If you haven't taken a look at it, I highly recommend you do!
Well, it seems the beta readers for that anthology read my story and recommended to the editor, Craig Martelle, that he hire me to write Superdreadnought 6. They needed the series wrapped up, and the original co-author was not available. My TEU5 story had the right voice.
Craig is big stuff in the world of Science Fiction, and in the Indie author world. He's the man behind the 20Books50K Facebook group and the largest independent authors' conference in the world: 20BooksVegas. So I was very flattered when he emailed me this summer and asked if I'd write the sixth book in the series. I wasn't sure I was the right choice, so I dithered a bit, but eventually, I said yes.
Now, I need to warn you–this book has swearing. I don't normally have any foul language in my stories, as you've no doubt noticed, and I hope, appreciated. But to stay true to the SD series and the KGU style, I had to add some bad words. I tried to keep it to a minimum, but if you don't like swearing, please don't read the book!
Superdreadnought 6
The superdreadnought is run by an artificial intelligence who goes by the name Reynolds. There's some backstory there, but I'm not sure which of the 150 books you'd have to read to learn it! Anyway, the Reynolds was mothballed, and while in solitary, the AI developed split personalities to deal with his loneliness. The first five books take up the story after the Reynolds is brought out of retirement and sent to another galaxy to hunt down Kurtherians.
Once the bad guys have been brought to justice, it was time to head home and have his alternate personalities fixed. But nothing is ever that easy in fiction. At the beginning of SD 6, the Reynolds accidentally gets hurled 10 billion light-years away. My book is all about getting the ship home, and Reynolds coming to terms with his other identities.
It's a fun book, and I think you could read it as a stand-alone. You'd miss out on some of the jokes and references, but the story makes sense. You can definitely read it without having sampled the KGU–I still haven't read anywhere near all 150 books!
If you want to read Superdreadnought 6, here's a link. It's free in Kindle Unlimited.
If you want to read the rest of the series, check it out here. Or wait until December, and you can get all 6 ebooks in a single low-priced set.
