Now I know why I was so down n out yesterday, like I couldn’t find the energy or strength to do anything. I literally stayed in bed all day “reading,” but mostly sleeping-not-sleeping-what-am-I-doing-with-my-life-I-have-shit-to-do-GET-UP.
A sad, sad day. 😦 RIP Terry. May you find peace.
I’m excited to announce and reveal the cover for this truly stellar anthology of Olympian proportions! Polaris Awakening is a Sci-Fi anthology by a group of very talented authors who have reinvented classic and iconic characters from ancient Greek mythos.
If you’d like to add this to your wishlist or watchlist, check out GoodReads for more information.
But for now, here’s the blurb:
DESCRIPTION
There’s trouble brewing on Polaris. Under the watchful eye of the space station’s supercomputer, Zeus, the lower classes are awakening to the corruption of their wealthy, privileged, and protected leaders. When the quiet voices of protest get louder and alliances form, change dawns on the horizon. But the small acts of resistance won’t be enough to subvert the system for long. Zeus is alert to the growing threat level, and he will do whatever’s necessary—including purging the lower levels of Polaris—to preserve stability for all.
Inspired by the mythology of the constellations hung around Polaris, the seven stories in Polaris Awakening reimagine the classic characters in a futuristic world where alien creatures are commonplace, combat arenas are used for entertaining foreign dignitaries, slaves and soldiers stand side by side, and music orchestrates a revolution. And their first acts of defiance are just the beginning. Polaris will never be the same.
There are seven stories contributing to the anthology. And our authors (in order of appearance) are: Kellie Sheridan, Erin Latimer, Erica Crouch, Janna Jennings, Hannah Davies, Terra Harmony, and Meghan Jashinsky.
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FYI This post is more for me than for you. XD You can totally skip this if it has no baring to your life whatsoever. I just frequently stalk certain people or books for updates, even if they’re unconfirmed ones. XD Recently, Kirby Crow has had my attention for several reasons, but I’ve been trying not to get my hopes up too much as I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting for what seems like forever.
So imagine my surprise when I took a little peak on Kirby Crow’s website, and wouldn’t you know? There were a couple changes there — first and foremost being a new book listing! WITH PUBLICATION DATE!! AND A COVER!
THAT’S news, ain’t it?
‘Course the only thing that really matters to me at this point is TKOF, but y’know. >_____> Still waiting on the fourth book in the Scarlet and the White Wolf series, but here’s to hoping another month won’t go by without news or at least an official release date.
In other KC news, Hammer and Bone seems to be doing well. If you didn’t already know, the book is finally out! You can purchase it as an e-book and in print from Riptide Publishing and Amazon. I haven’t read it yet – which is really, REALLY sad – but I’m probably going to soon. I think I really wanted to read it in print form or something…. not digital, so that’s why I’ve been hanging back on it for so long. 
Either way, I hope to correct that little situation soon. Maybe this weekend. Who knows? 🙂
Final update: (According to the author’s website)
Malachite (Book 1: Crossbones) is set to be released/published June of this year! I’m hoping the publication date won’t be pushed back because this one sounds REALLY interesting to me.
For those who haven’t even heard of this upcoming KC title, check out the description below:
DESCRIPTION
Marion Casterline is the newly-appointed highwarden of Malachite, an ancient island city floating in a shallow part of the Lion Sea. Over the past five millennia, Malachite has at different eras in its history been destroyed, rebuilt, reviled, founded, glorified, forgotten, reinvented, and besieged. Now, in the aftermath of a brutal gang war that endured for decades, there is a new Peace. There is trade in Malachite, a busy harbor, and new life every year from the ritual of Aequora, which brings in expelled male citizens from the powerful and female-dominated mainland of Cwen.
The Aequora is vital, because Malachite is a city populated only by men. Without it, Malachite dies by inches.
Marion expects nothing more than the usual influx of exiles during Aequora, but the ritual goes terribly wrong and a plot is uncovered. Now Marion and his estranged partner, Jean Rivard, must return to their childhood home of the Zanzare slums to confront the ghosts of their past, and in doing so stir up a hornet’s nest of rebellion that threatens to destroy the fragile serenity that Marion has dedicated his life to preserve. . .
If you don’t know and love this song, then I am sorry for you.
So very, very sorry.
LYRICS:
Reckless Indulgence 