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Earlier today, I asked if anyone knew which of the characters in the Hidden Institute was originally born in the school. I’d left clues, but I was apparently too subtle, because no one guessed the answer. Rather than spelling out all the clues, I’ll tell you a bit of the backstory. If you’re still interested, you can go back and look up the clues in the book, once you know a bit about the characters.
Allie and I are perfect for each other. We’ve always known that. Recently, however, we decided to make it official.
A wedding has basically two parts. One is for the legal side, with government papers, health insurance, name changes, etc. The other is a celebration of the event, a party to introduce the new couple to friends and family as husband and wife.
Our problem is that, being heavy into social media, our friends are scattered across the nation. We decided that the best way to have a wedding that included our various friends and family was to have it around Balticon, when most of them are coming out here anyway.
For the next seven days (May 29 – June 5) I’ll be giving away a free copy of my Kindle e-book “Tumbler”. If you’d like to be added to the list of giveaway recipients, e-mail me at BrandG@Gmail.com
The giveaway works on a first-come, first-served basis, so get in quick!
And if you’d like to hear the free audiobook, you can find it here.
***UPDATE***
Due to massive response, I’ve decided to send two copies a day.
***UPDATE***
From Amazon:
Libby Carter wanted to get away from it all, so she took a job mining asteroids as far out into the inky blackness as possible. However, her escape turned into a trap, leaving her stuck in indentured servitude, living on a tiny rock in space. As she tries to dig herself out, she gains friends and finds adventure. Cave-in rescues, planetary collisions, and other mishaps keep her new family fighting to stay alive.
2010 Parsec Award Finalist for Best Speculative Fiction story (Novella form)
The crew of the space salvage ship JNE-0518 (the Jenny) have crashed on a planet that has lost its link to civilization. Surrounded by kindoms stuck in the dark ages, the crew decides to hire themselves out as wizards, available to make any prophecy come true.
But the latest job goes bad when they find themselves transporting a deified prince. Can the team get away from two different nations before they are caught and burned as royal kidnappers and witches? Even if they can escape the two armies, can they escape the iron grip of prophecy itself?
Rising above your station can be deadly.
Cliffy is a child born on the streets of a Neo-Victorian world. Witnesses to a murder, he blackmails a nobleman, receiving a unique bribe. In exchange for his silence, the nobleman introduces him to the Malcolm Rutherford Holden Institute of Regentrification. There, Cliffy learns to walk, talk, and act like a nobleman, so that he may infiltrate high society. But that type of fraud is punishable by death, and when Cliffy uncovers a plot to assassinate a head of state, he’s hunted by more than just the aristocracy.
A short story collection by Brand Gamblin. The Danny is unstuck, bouncing between dimensions and viewing “cusps” of powerful moments and decisions in other’s lives. The Danny remembers being human once, and searches through other worlds, looking for the way home. Along the way, it encounters zombies, time travelers, nanites, alien invasion, mechanized infantry, and magical heroes.
The Danny is a collection of seven short stories, some previously published in Flagship magazine. Others have never been seen before. There are stories of high fantasy and low, as well as hardcore and contemporary sci-fi. The perfect book for short shots of intense storytelling.
“You’re surprised, my lord?” The prime minister was nearly shouting. “You’re surprised? You put a nineteen-year-old sovereign on a pitch with half naked women dancing on the sidelines, while sixteen slavering beasts run at each other, carrying men holding giant mallets. Then, when he’s mortally wounded, you’re surprised!”
The old man shook with rage, “How could I be the only person who saw this coming?”
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BTW, did you know “The Hidden Institute” is available for free at Amazon this weekend? Click on the image to check it out.
I just finished the last round of edits, and I’ve published my Faustian short “Give the Devil his Due” on Smashwords (Amazon is still processing it).
Michael was given the best deal one could imagine. Fame, riches, and no strings attached. The contract laid it out plainly. He would get everything he wanted, along with a “Get out of Hell Free” card. What could possibly go wrong?
Along with this story are two of my most popular short stories: “Worse than the Disease” and “Snake Skin”.
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DING It’s just past midnight on my birthday, which means I’ve leveled up. I am now a lvl 39 Neutral Good Paladin.
In honor of my birthday, I’m using my last day of KDP select free promotion to give all of you wickedly handsome people (and you are looking particularly good today. How do you do that?) a free copy of my most successful book “Tumbler”.
And what can you do for me? Tell you what. Buy a copy of “The Hidden Institute”, and give it to someone you love. Or, if you didn’t much like the book, give it to someone you hate. Throw it at them. Either way, I’ll thank you.
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