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The eighteenth book in the thrilling saga of Dray Prescot, Golden Scorpio by Alan Burt Akers, in which Dray must build an army to fight the evil that seeks to overwhelm the empire, is available now from Cyberread.com and Mobipocket.com. It will appear in most other ebookstores over the next few days.

Here is the blurb:

When you’re down there’s no place to go but up. That’s the way the brave think and if there is anyone on two worlds braver than Dray Prescot, he has yet to appear. Prescot, who had been a seaman and soldier on distant Earth, and now, on Golden Scorpio’s fabulous planet, was claiment to the fallen throne of a conquered empire, would never give up. Single-handedly, if need be, he would be a deadly threat to the enemies of Vallia. But as he set out on a liberation mission incomparable in the history of two worlds he knew he would never be alone…

The seventeenth book in the saga of Dray Prescot, Captive Scorpio by Alan Burt Akers, in which he faces his darkest hour, has been published today. Captive Scorpio is available immediately from Cyberread.com and Mobipocket.com, and will appear over the next few days at the many ebookstores dotted around the internet, including Fictionwise.com.

Here is the blurb:

Dray Prescot, Earthman of Kregen, that wonderful world circling the twin suns of Antares, had risen high in the empire of Vallia, but luck could not always sustain him. When, at last, all the forces opposed to his lands, his princess, his emperor, and to him personally, converged, it was to produce the darkest hour of his long career. For treason struck at the court, while rebel armies marched from the backlands, the war fleets of enemy nations were aloft, and the uncanny wizardry of a master scientist launched a spell of doom for all Prescot held dear. With his back to the wall, Dray Prescot faced that time of peril with unflinching will… until the cruelest blow of all was struck: his warrior daughter Dayra rode in the vanguard of his foes!

Mythical Journeys, Legendary Quests by Moyra Caldecott is a book about the “spiritual search” and draws on traditional stories from world mythology. It is now available as an ebook from all the best ebookstores. Mythical Journeys, Legendary Quests will also be available in paperback from Bladud Books (our paperback imprint) on June 1, 2007 from Amazon and in theory from any bookshop in the world (by special order most likely).

Here is the blurb:

One of the most persistent themes in myth and legend from the world’s many cultures is that of the story of the journey — the quest. In Mythical Journeys, Legendary Quests, noted writer on the topic, Moyra Caldecott, shows the connection between the sacred, mythic journeys as found in legend and story and the real journey of the individual soul towards enlightenment.

This perennial quest for reassurance in the face of human mortality is spread as wide as our existence on the planet and throughout history. Indeed Carl Jung and, more recently, Joseph Campbell have shown us that myth and legend are not just fantasy tales for children. They are powerful expressions, in code, of a deep yearning towards an understanding of human existence.

Moyra Caldecott has selected material from many cultures to illustrate this point: from ancient Egypt and Sumeria to aboriginal Australia, pre-Columbian America, Vietnam, India, Africa and Europe. With each legend retold, she provides background on its origin and detailed analysis of its meaning and significance.

Book number 16 in the Saga of Dray Prescot, that most thrilling of planetary adventure series, is now published. Savage Scorpio by Kenneth Bulmer writing as Alan Burt Akers, is available from all good ebookstores, including eBooks.com, fictionwise.com, ereader.com and others too numerous to mention. Look out for early-bird special offers — for example, fictionwise.com offer 15% discount off all new titles in the first week.

Here is the blurb:

Somewhere in the unmapped regions of Kregen, beneath the two suns of Antares, alpha star of the Constellation Scorpio, lies the hidden city of the Savanti. The Savanti were the ones responsible for tearing Dray Prescot away from his native Earth for their struggle against the Star Lords. And Dray had long sought the locale of his original landing because it would help solve the mystery of his transition. Now the time had come when the search must be completed without delay, for the father of his beloved Delia was a victim of assassins, and only the Savanti could undo the evil that could shatter all that Dray held dear in his second planetary homeland.

Savage Scorpio is the thrilling novel of a mission that would involve powerful forces far beyond all Prescot’s personal desires.

The latest title from Moyra Caldecott, The Green Lady and the King of Shadows, is now (or soon will be) available from all good ebook stores wherever you are on the Internet. Originally published in 1989, this fantasy novel, based on myths and legends of Glastonbury, is also available in paperback from Amazon (ISBN 978-1-84319-450-7).

Here is the blurb:

Drawing on folklore, myth and legend, Moyra Caldecott tells the story of the struggle between good and evil, St. Collen and the mighty Gwyn ap Nudd, a confrontation involving the Earth Goddess and, ultimately, the highest powers in the universe.

Secret Scorpio, the fifteenth book in the Dray Prescot series and the first title in the Vallian Cycle by Alan Burt Akers, is now available from mobipocket.com and cyberread.com. It will be available at fictionwise.com and the rest of the best bookstores in the next few days.

Here is the blurb:

The brightest star in the Constellation Scorpio is the brilliant double sun Antares, around which orbits the inhabited planet called Kregen. Kregen is an Earthlike world, but strange, far stranger, than ours. For it is the scene of a conflict between galactic powers who utilize its many human nations and its astonishing variety of humanoid peoples as their battleground. Dray Prescot of Earth had been a tool of those powers, but courage and ingenuity had won him a high role in the Vallian Empire and a certain independence of his own. Thus when a mysterious monster cult began to undermine the empire and when his own beloved princess became a victim of those secret schemers, Prescot had to go into action.
Secret Scorpio launches a new cycle in the magnificent history of Kregen and brings Prescot at long last into direct confrontation with the forces that had once dared make him their pawn.