Tara Maya's Tales

On a hell-class world where feudal lords joust with mechs and use memetic tech to imprint loyalty onto their vassals and thralls, all Charlie and his people ask is to be left alone, free to think for themselves. Then, on his wedding day, Charlie's bride is kidnapped to be a thrall. As he fights for his life and her freedom, he discovers the war helm of an ancient and powerful lord. He needs the knowledge in the helm to bring the battle to his enemies. But if he uses it, he risks losing himself... and becoming embroiled in a war that will soon span the galaxy. Peek inside the novel: “Whhhhy doeth thou hhhhesitate?” the alien Sulphine queen asked. “Sorry, ma’am.” I shook my head. “I can’t put on the helm. Not even to save my life. It will steal my mind.” With that decision, I felt a deep peace and joy. I wasn’t scared of death no more, I just felt good. “And what of thhy mate?” the Sulphine asked me. “Hhhumans fighhht for many thhhings thhat to us seem worthhless but...

You've seen the draft of the cover art for STRAT , but the real cover art is now complete! Same design, a bit more detail. Ta-dah! You may find this already available on some sites ....If not, keep checking. It will be up soon! We're holding off on the official release announcement until it's live everywhere. The hero stands on Neraka, a hell-class planet. The atmosphere, lake, and ice that you see are all sulfur dioxide. (It is one of the few elements that can exist in all three states at a certain temperature range.) This is where Charlie Cooper was born and grew up. All his life, he's known the importance of wearing a kit'n'breather at all times, because even the smallest leak can result in sulfur dioxide parts per million rising inside your breather.... the result is pulmonary edema , pain and blindness, and eventually, death. As in this excerpt... EXCERPT: Thirteen helmed Lords escorted me out to the center of the caldera: twelve lords from the ...

Rather than drone on about how edits on The Unfinished Song: Sacrifice are going (except to say they are indeed ongoing), I thought I'd let you have a peak at my next project-in-progress. This is going to be a military hard sf series called STRAT. On a hell world where feudal mech lords use memetic tech to imprint loyalty onto their vassals and thralls, all Charlie and his people ask is to be left alone, free to think for themselves. Then, on his wedding day, Charlie's bride is kidnapped to be a thrall. As he fights for his life and her freedom, he discovers the war helm of an ancient and powerful lord. He needs the knowledge in the helm to bring the battle to his enemies. But if he uses it, he risks losing himself... I'm going to release it in novella-lenth episodes of about 25,000-35,000 words each. Charlie is gonna fight in a lot of wars, and each episode will cover one war. I'll start with a trilogy and may expand from there.