Tom Stranger audiobook, narrated by Adam Baldwin, available NOW for FREE

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That’s right, Junior Insurance Professionals, today is TOM STRANGER DAY.

The audiobook of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent, narrated by Adam Baldwin, is available NOW for FREE.

http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Free-The-Adventures-of-Tom-Stranger-Interdimensional-Insurance-Agent-Audiobook/B01D0FJOAI/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1464099874&sr=1-1

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Have you ever seen a planet invaded by rampaging space mutants from another dimension or Nazi dinosaurs from the future?

Don’t let this happen to you!

Rifts happen, so you should be ready when universes collide. A policy with Stranger & Stranger can cover all of your interdimensional insurance needs. Rated “Number One in Customer Satisfaction” for three years running, no claim is too big or too weird for Tom Stranger to handle.

But now Tom faces his greatest challenge yet. Despite being assigned the wrong – and woefully inadequate – intern, Tom must still provide quality customer service to multiple alternate Earths, all while battling tentacle monsters, legions of the damned, an evil call center in Nebraska, and his archnemesis, Jeff Conundrum. Armed with his Combat Wombat and a sense of fair play, can Tom survive? And will Jimmy the Intern ever discover his inner insurance agent?

It’s time to kick ass and adjust claims.

Adam Baldwin (Firefly, Chuck) performs Larry Correia’s madcap interdimensional tale of underwriting and space travel, where the only thing scarier than tentacle monsters is a high deductible.

The Adventures of Tom Stranger is free until June 21, 2016.

©2016 Larry Correia (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Member of the Monster Hunter Nation could use our help

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Many of my regular readers here and on Facebook know Chris Byrne.

Please read this  http://anarchangel.blogspot.com/2016/05/god-this-sucks.html

A while ago Chris got cancer, fought it, beat it, and then went several years cancer free. He got to live a whole bunch of life he didn’t expect to get. But unfortunately years later it came back, and now he is going through treatment again. Chris is a fighter, but it has been a huge financial and morale drain on his family.

I’ve known Chris for a long time. He’s one of my favorite people to debate with, both when we’re on the same side, or when we disagree, either way the dude is sharp as a tack. To give you an idea of what kind of person Chris is, many years ago when Mike and I were writing Dead Six, Mike was on active duty and his laptop died. He was deployed, broke, and couldn’t write. Having been Air Force himself, being a computer geek, and knowing how broke Mike was at the time, Chris organized a bunch of his friends, they built a laptop and shipped it to Mike, all to help out another vet.

So this is the kind of guy, who when in a position to help somebody, gladly does so. But right now he could use a hand. So please check out that link. There is a Go Fund Me and Paypal there if you want to kick something in for the Byrnes.

BOOK BOMB! Nethereal by Brian Niemeier

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It is BOOK BOMB time!

Today’s pick is Nethereal by Brian Niemeier.  I read this a couple of months ago and the best way to describe it is Space Pirates Go To Hell, only it is way cooler than that description makes it sound.

Nethereal
by Brian Niemeier
Nethereal

 

For those of you new to Book Bombs, the goal is to get as many people as possible to buy an author’s book on the same day. The more books sell, the higher it gets in the rankings, the more new people see it. If it is something that you would be interested in reading anyway, getting it the same time as a bunch of other folks pushes it up in the ratings, which means more publicity, exposure, and new fans. Success breeds success, and a good Book Bomb can get an author hundreds of new fans. We steer people toward Amazon for this because it is big, has lots of eyes on it, and has an constantly updating sales rank, but if you prefer to purchase somewhere else go for it, because the most important thing is that the author GETS PAID.

So please spread the word and tell your friends. Brian is a relatively new writer, so let’s give his career a boost.

Being an appreciative sort of guy, Brian had this to say:


Thanks Larry, and thanks to the Monster Hunter Nation. You guys have always made me feel welcome in the comments. I’m especially grateful for your hospitality today.
I first came to this blog as a reader, like all of you. I wanted the fun, exciting stories that seem to be in short supply these days.
Larry stands among a new generation of authors who write for a vastly underserved audience. These writers know that the reader is king. They put entertainment first. By their example–and with guidance from stellar authors like John C. Wright and Jeff Duntemann, and my awesome editors L. Jagi Lamplighter and Jason Rennie–I learned that I work for you, the readers.
How’s it working out? My first anniversary as a pro novelist is next month, and for my performance review, my bosses nominated me for a Campbell Award.
You did that. Words are the tools of my trade, but I can’t find any that fully express my gratitude.
So I’ll just say thanks and point you toward my first book, Nethereal. It’s been described as what you’d get if A. Merritt wrote a Dune novel after binge-watching 90s anime. Nevertheless, people dig it.
Already read Nethereal? I haven’t forgotten about you. The thrilling and even better-received sequel, Souldancer, is available now. And in honor of the occasion, it’s on sale.
Thanks again to my esteemed host the International Lord of Hate, and to the readers who support us authors. Buy my books so I can GET PAID and bring you more stories about space pirates in space hell.  
About Nethereal
A woman like no other who longs for acceptance.
A precision killer inspired by the dream of his captain.
The last member of a murdered race, fighting to avenge his people against the might of the Guild…and the dark powers behind it.
The Sublime Brotherhood of Steersmen holds the Middle Stratum in its iron grip. Jaren Peregrine, last of the Gen, raids across fringe space with Nakvin—her captain’s best pilot and only friend, apprentice steersman Deim, and mercenary Teg Cross.
Hunted by the ruthless Master Malachi, Jaren and his crew join a conspiracy to break the Guild’s monopoly with an experimental ship. But when its maiden voyage goes awry, the Exodus flies farther off course than its crew could have imagined.

I will update the stats periodically throughout the day.

Right now it is ranked:

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,367 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,369 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

EDIT: And this is why I started posting the Book Bombs late the night before the actual day. It used to be that Amazon’s rankings started moving up an hour after I started the BB, which made for a wild and crazy day, with the peak usually hit that afternoon while people are still awake. But then Amazon stuck in this LONG delay before sales register, so when I posted BB’s in the morning we wouldn’t see any movement at all until after lunch, which totally killed the momentum, and then we hit the peak really late at night when most people were asleep. That totally defeated the purpose.

So now, I post the BB’s the night before. Here we are 7:00 in the morning my time, and the numbers have started ticking upward. Now let’s spread the word for the morning crowd and build some momentum.

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,392 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #52,516 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

EDIT: 11:00 MST and still ticking up.

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,009 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

EDIT: 2:00 MST, okay, now we’re talking. Once you get into the top 20 of a genre you start getting lots of new eyeballs on a book. We’re almost there. So please, keep on reposting and telling your friends.

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,725 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

EDIT: 4:00 MST, still climbing, and now we’ve cracked the top 20 in space opera.

 

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,109 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

EDIT: 9:30 MST, and I’m off the internet for the night. Still moving right along, and if previous Book Bombs are any indicator, I figure we’ll see the spike sometime tonight, and in the morning is should be hovering around this number here. Top 20 in three genres, so not too shabby. Well done, Monster Hunter Nation.

 

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #523 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Remember, the other thing that you can do to boost new authors, is after you get done reading the book, try and post a review. The more reviews a book has the more likely it is to show up in searches and features.

 

Thanks, everybody!

 

EDIT: And the next morning, this is the nice part where after the initial spike, the BOOK BOMB has the book floating up there in the rankings high enough that more new people see it. From what I’ve seen the author usually gets a few days or a week of increased sales out of it too, which is pretty sweet.

 

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #418 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,200 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

EDIT: And one last edit, 1:00 the next day, because I was just made aware of this.

Amazon Author Rank

(What’s this?)

#28 in Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Horror
#53 in Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction
#76 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction

Boom! 😀

The Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge eARC is available now at Baen.com

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The Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge eARC is available now at Baen.com
http://www.baen.com/monster-hunter-memoirs-grunge-earc.html
For those of you unfamiliar with Baen’s Electronic Advanced Reader Copies, basically this is the early version that would normally be sent out to reviewers. So you can get the book several months early, but because it is an early version not all of the editing is finished. In this case, I believe the only things that will be changing to the final version is the line copy edits for typos and such. eARCs cost more than the regular eBook, but you are basically paying to get it several months early for the readers who don’t want to wait.
Now, if you’re not familiar with these Monster Hunter books, the short version is this is a prequel to my regular MHI series set in the 1980s. John Ringo wrote these set in my MH universe, and then I edited them for continuity and such.
The longer version is that Ringo read the MHI series, was inspired, got on a feverish writing kick as he is known to do, and cranked out these stories. I didn’t know about these until the first two were done. But when one of the most successful sci-fi authors alive wants to play in your universe, you say yes. I went through the first one, enjoyed it, but sent it back with a couple hundred comments, mostly related to the world building, the history, and stuff that I had planned (none of which Ringo could have known about). So at that point they turned into a collaboration. 🙂
I know there has been some concern, and I keep getting worried blog and FB comments, thinking that the regular MH series is over for some reason. No. Not at all. There are several more solo novels planned. Yes, I am still writing the regular Monster Hunter series. Book six of the regular series should be out next year, and is back to Owen’s perspective, written by me. The Ringo novels are a spin off series that take place years before the main timeline. Yes, there are other collaborations in the works, notably with Sarah Hoyt doing a Julie book, and the anthology with twenty different authors in it. No, these are not replacing the regular series, which I will continue to write until it is finished. And that finish is still several books away.