Just a quick note to let you know that The Lohvian Cycle I by Kenneth Bulmer, writing as Alan Burt Akers, is now available in paperback as well as hardcover. You will find it on Amazon and at all other good bookstores.

The Lohvian Cycle II by Alan Burt Akers is now available from all good bookstores in the hardback edition.

This volume in The Dray Prescot Saga contains books 41 to 43  in the epic series, and a glossary to the Lohvian Cycle.

Available now from Amazon.com and all other good bookstores.

The back cover blurb…

Scorpio Ablaze:
Under the twin sun, Antares, the planet Kregen is a world of wonder and terror, of beauty and horror. Now, in the streaming mingled lights of the Suns of Scorpio, Prescot takes up the Krozair brand to save his friends who are about to be killed by the vicious Shank lord. Then he must rally the coalition of forces from Vallia, Hamel and Tsungfaril, to expel the Shanks from Tarankar. But things rarely go according to plan on Kregen…

Scorpio Drums:
Dray Prescot has recently given up the job of being Emperor of Vallia, only to be pitchforked into the task of uniting all the varied continents and islands of Paz to resist the reiving onslaughts of the Shanks. People are beginning to call him the Emperor of Emperors, the Emperor of Paz. During the battle, to his horror, he sees Delia being carried off by a group of the whiptailed Kataki slavers, galloping off astride zorcas. Frenziedly he charges after them…

Scorpio Triumph:
Down in the continent of Loh expeditions have ventured below the City of Eternal Twilight into the Realm of the Drums in search of one of the rubies. A Wizard of Loh, Na-Si-Fantong, has been collecting the rubies, and it is believed he wants them for no good purposes. He has succeeded in obtaining a ruby and vanishes into the maze of tunnels under the city. Not really convinced of the importance of the Skantiklar, Prescot has to go in pursuit. Alone, he threads his way through the labyrinth, already feeling he will never catch Na-Si-Fantong…

This edition also includes a Glossary to the entire Lohvian Cycle.

A new edition of the paperback and hardback of The Krozair Cycle by Alan Burt Akers is now available. The new edition includes the short story “Wizard of Scorpio” in addition to the three books of the Krozair cycle: The Tides of Kregen, Renegades of Kregen and Krozair of Kregen.

The old edition is now out of print.

Fans of the Dray Prescot series of planetary adventures by Alan Burt Akers may be interested in a very good and informative article on Sword and Planet Fiction on ERBzine. Written by two stalwart fans and supporters of the Dray Prescot series — Charles Gramlich and Stephen Servello. Well worth the read!

New from Renee Angers, the author of Ice and a Curious Man, is The Garden, a strong and emotional story from a great storyteller.

The Garden is available from all good ebookstores in various ebook formats, including at Amazon for the Kindle, wowio.com, scribd.com, fictionwise.com and ebooks.com. Now also on Smashwords.com, iTunes and at B&N.com for the Nook.

The Garden is also available in paperback from all good bookstores (ISBN 9781843198291), such as Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, or B&N.com.

The blurb:

With their school friends residing miles away in neighboring Ponoka, two kids are seemingly trapped in the expansive isolation of rural Alberta, Canada to spend the summer vacation in each other’s company.

Thirteen-year-old Cameron Keller finds welcome relief from his boozing father’s physical beatings in classmate Ani Sauvé’s presence. The summer heat spreading across the acres of prairies and grasslands only feed the curiosities, heartbeats, fireflies and unexplained feelings that blossom between the two.

As they grow into adults, a dark cloud of ill luck follows Cam around mercilessly, as does his unconditional love for Ani. Unable to shake the first and not willing to shake the latter, he fights to survive.

Alcoholism, abandonment, abuse, betrayal, and murder cannot keep Ani and Cam apart. The Garden is their refuge, and its memory pushes them past whatever penance they must endure to find each other again.

The first part of the Lohvian Cycle, The Lohvian Cycle I, by Alan Burt Akers, is now available in hard cover from Bladud Books. You can find it at Amazon.com and all other good bookstores.

The Lohvian Cycle I is the eleventh omnibus and contains Scorpio Reborn, Scorpio Assassin and Scorpio Invasion (all available separately in ebook editions).

Here is the blurb:

Scorpio Reborn:

Sent by the Star Lords to save a life from a fire, Dray Prescot finds himself utterly helpless in a strange land. Confused and unable to move, he is cared for by Mevancy, a woman with a strange and wonderful secret.

But why have the Star Lords left him there? Who is he expected to protect, and how is he supposed to do it? Flying a kite one moment, battling through an inferno the next, Prescot is flung headlong into fresh adventures under the mingled streaming lights of the Suns of Scorpio.

Scorpio Assassin:

Down in the southern half of the continent of Loh, in an isolated desert land where the belief in reincarnation as a punishment is firmly accepted, Prescot and his new comrade battle intrigue and assassins and attempt to follow the desires of the Star Lords. This new kregoinya is Mevancy nal Chardaz, a most spirited lady who means to keep Prescot thoroughly in his place. Not completely sure if the guardian Tuong Mishuro is the man the Star Lords wished protected, Prescot and the guards have been hoodwinked. Prescot races to Mishuro’s assistance, to arrive too late. Thus continues the tale begun in Scorpio Reborn.

Scorpio Invasion:

In Scorpio Assassin, Dray Prescot defied the Star Lords by saving Queen Leone from a grizzly death, and now he must answer for his disobedience. But the Star Lords argue over him and Dray is dropped accidentally in a walled garden. He is lost. Even the Star Lords don’t know where he is. He knows he is on the splendid if horrific planet of Kregen, and in the continent of Loh, but nothing is familiar. He must find his way back to Makilorn, and from there to Tarankar to train an army to fight the Shanks…

The Lohvian Cycle I by Alan Burt Akers (ISBN 9781843198901, 390 pages).

To keep the volume numbering consistent between the ebooks and the printed books, I have split The Havilfar Cycle ebook into two volumes, The Havilfar Cycle I and The Havilfar Cycle II. They are volumes 2 and 3 respectively of the Saga of Dray Prescot omnibus editions. The original single volume ebook, The Havilfar Cycle, will be withdrawn from book stores over the next couple of weeks.

The Havilfar Cycle I contains books 6 to 8: Manhounds of Antares, Arena of Antares and Fliers of Antares.

The Havilfar Cycle II contains books 9 to 11: Bladesman of Antares, Avenger of Antares and Armada of Antares.

Roger Taylor, author of the bestselling “The Chronicles of Hawklan” has returned with possibly the most original fantasy novel you will have read in years. The Keep is set in an imaginary world, not too dissimilar to our own. Josyff, a surveyor, is sent to the Keep by the mysterious authoritarian regime in control of the country to measure it. He doesn’t know why they are so interested in it, but soon discovers that the Keep is a very strange building with many secrets and what appear to be paranormal happenings.

The Keep by Roger Taylor is available from all good ebookstores in various ebook formats, including at Amazon for the Kindle, wowio.com, scribd.com, fictionwise.com and ebooks.com.

The blurb:

Isolated and deep in the mountains, the Keep is a disturbing place. Why would the New Order want it, and for what? But you didn’t ask questions the way things were. You kept your head down and did as you were told. Just do your job, Josyff kept reminding himself.

Yet there were strange problems with his work… and dreams… and him… and the building itself — massive, yet, somehow, changing.

And when the authoritarian Adroyan arrived at the Keep, together with his nemesis, Esyal, things became even stranger, pushing Josyff to the edge of his sanity…

The latest omnibus ebook edition title is now available. The Witch War Cycle is the tenth omnibus from Alan Burt Akers and contains volumes 33 to 37 in the epic Saga of Dray Prescot: Werewolves of Kregen,  Witches of Kregen, Storm over Vallia,  Omens of Kregen and Warlord of Antares.

The Witch War Cycle is available now for the Kindle from Amazon, and in various formats from all the usual ebook retailers online, or via your reading device.

The blurb:

On the magnificent and mysterious, beautiful and terrible world of Kregen, a planet orbiting Antares four-hundred light-years from Earth, much may be achieved and much lost. Far more than merely a strong sword arm is required for victory. Far more than a cunning and devious brain is needed to secure success.

The island Empire of Vallia, sundered by internal dissension and invasion, is gradually reestablishing itself after the Times of Troubles, but the grouping of continents and islands called Paz are threatened by the Shanks, fish-headed reivers from over the curve of the world. Dray Prescot’s task is to unite all of Paz in alliance against the aggressors, but not all the people of Paz are willing to forget their old enmities. And there is Csitra, the Witch of Loh, who lusts after Prescot and would drag down all of Vallia to ruin for his sake. But in the passionate, shrewd, charismatic figure of Delia of Delphond, and his family and blade comrades, Prescot possesses riches past the mundane dreams of empire.

The Witch War Cycle is also available in hardback and paperback from all good booksellers, or from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

Our latest cartoon book is now available! Less Than A Full Deck by Doug Pike and Harry Margulies is a collection of 100 hilarious gambling cartoons. Doug Pike has created three previous ebooks with Mushroom: The Grapes of Laugh, Splattered on the Road to Wealth, and Pukka & Fremd. Doug is a long-time member of  The National Cartoonists Society. Harry Margulies has been writing and drawing cartoons for fifteen years.

The Blurb:

Gambling is a wonderfully engaging diversion thoroughly enjoyed by everyone – at least everyone that owns a wonderfully successful casino. For the rest of us, it is an occasionally maddening, sometimes exhilarating, and frequently humor-filled misuse of time.

Craps, blackjack, poker, bingo, keno – roll these words slowly about your head for a bit. There’s something funny about them, isn’t there? Now try the phrase “slot machine”, or better yet, “slot player”… The whole gaming experience is awash in chortles and titters, and that’s where we come in.

Less Than a Full Deck is a somewhat-twisted take on the quirky (let’s face it, there’s some pretty curious stuff going on here) world of gambling. Doug Pike and Harry Margulies have assembled 100 of their most comical wager-inspired doodles to keep you amused for hours – or at least to keep you well stocked on high quality E-toilet paper!

Less Than a Full Deck is available in PDF (Adobe Digital Editions) from Wowio.com, eBooks.com and Scribd.com (among many others), Mobipocket from mobipocket.com and eBooks.com, and for the Kindle from Amazon.com.