Tag: action and adventure

Spin Trap Kickstarter – Live and funded and going strong

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So the Kickstarter has kicked off so well that I’m humbled and grateful to all my supporters who’ve backed the campaign so far. 125% funded already.

I have a new story out this weekend – “Mars Borer 13B” and it kind of fits with the hard sci-fi action-adventure tone of Spin Trap, so I’m offering it at a 60% discount on the main website for the duration of the Kickstarter campaign. As a little temptation, the story includes an excerpt – Chapter One – from Spin Trap.

Mars Borer 13B – Blurb

Cunning and devious, Sean Monaghan’s stories deliver thrills and shocks and the occasional laugh.

Weary astronaut, Dan Foldern traipses the Martian surface in his busted old spacesuit. It stinks. It pinches. It threatens to burst open.

But bigger threats loom. Routine inspections reveal hidden menaces in an unforgiving environment.

Life or death menaces.

Both spellbinding and confronting, Sean Monaghan’s impactful Mars stories confront the future right on our doorstep.

Click here or on the image to go straight to the discount. If it doesn’t show up – enter the discount code SpinonMars to get $2 off the $2.99 cover price. The QR code below will take you right on over there too.

 

 

Oh, and go check out the Spin Trap Kickstarter too. There’s a bunch of rewards, meaning a whole bunch of great reading.

Thanks for reading.

Sean

Spin Trap – gripping new sci-fi novel launching with a Kickstarter on September 1st

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Well, all the rewards and add-ons and details are in place now for the next Kickstarter release. Spin Trap is a high-octane deep space adventure.

Mastermind storyteller, Sean Monaghan delivers another astonishing tale of deep space with a deft human touch.

Astronaut Deacon Winchler loves his easy life shunting Pallets around Luna Orbit, dining on greasy pizza and even indulging in the occasional beer.

When an offer comes in to go investigate a whirling interstellar visitor plunging into the solar system, Deacon barely hesitates.

After all, what could go wrong?

A compelling Novel of disaster and destruction with a touch of humor and maybe even a hint of romance from award-winning writer Sean Monaghan, author of the “Wildest Skies” series.

The rewards start out with an electronic copy of the novel, which all backers will receive, and include other standalone novels and novellas with a bunch of different combinations.

Tower Gambit – see the sidebar on the right – is one of the bonus rewards.

The novel won’t be out on general release until late December, so this is a great way to get it early, and to grab a bunch of other reading at the same time.

Check it out now.

Cheers

Sean

 

 

 

 

Spin Trap – New novel coming with a Kickstarter in September

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I have been writing furiously, as always, and trying to keep up with the publishing. Following my successful Wildest Skies Kickstarter campaign, I’m ramping up now for another campaign, for my new standalone kick-butt action sci-fi novel Spin Trap.

Stay tuned. Details coming.

Sign up to receive updates. Prelaunch page coming sooooooon.

Spin Trap

 

 

Mastermind storyteller, Sean Monaghan delivers another astonishing tale of deep space with a deft human touch.

Astronaut Deacon Winchler loves his easy life shunting Pallets around Lunar Orbit, dining on greasy pizza and even indulging in the occasional beer.

When an offer comes in to go investigate a whirling interstellar visitor plunging into the solar system, Deacon barely hesitates.

After all, what could go wrong?

A compelling novel of disaster and destruction with a touch of humor and maybe even a hint of romance from award-winning writer Sean Monaghan, author of the “Wildest Skies” series.

Cover image copyright Philcold | Dreamstime

 

Yesterday’s Ziggurat – Twelfth and final book of the Karnish River Navigations series

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Around about a decade since Arlchip Burnout, the first book in my Karnish River Navigations series arrived, the final book, Yesterday’s Ziggurat is here.

It’s an intriguing feeling, reaching the end of a project like this. I mean, at first, I didn’t even know it was a project. I was just writing a fun novel, I thought.

When I realized that I had on my hands characters I enjoyed hanging out with, and a title sequence that lent itself to a sequence of books, I began working with a little more focus toward creating a finite series.

The twelve books can be read in any order, so if you’ve not read any yet, Yesterday’s Ziggurat is as good a place to jump in as any. I might even say it’s the best place to jump in, since it was the last book I wrote, and mostly the last book I wrote is my favorite.

Available as a preorder from the usual places, Amazon for both print and ebook, and the other major retailers for ebooks. $5.99 for the ebook, $19.99 for the paperback. Release date is April 20th.

If you want it now (of course you do!) it’s available directly from me on the website – www.seanmonaghan.com. Use the code YZFriend25 to get 50% discount, valid through until April 21st (the link there should automatically apply the discount).

Oh, I guess I should mention what the book is about, right? This is the back cover blurb:

Yesterday’s Ziggurat

Decades after the diaspora, the vast canal lands of Karnth still support struggling farms.

When a sinkhole chews up Dallas Saldon’s soil-tuner, and almost takes him too, he knows he needs to rethink his plans. Tough and resilient, Dallas faces challenges with a stoicism born of the land.

But the sinkhole proves just the beginning. Placing Dallas and a new arrival in more danger than he knows.

Called in to help, Flis Kupe and Grae Sinder face challenges beyond anything from before.

Challenges that might just change everything they know about the canal lands.

And beyond.

A Karnish River Navigations novel that pits the investigators against an unimaginable foe.

My next task is updating most of the covers of the series – you’ll see that Waxing Xebec and Yesterday’s Ziggurat are the only ones with my name at the top. Fixing that now.

Thanks for reading and being a friend to the site. Most appreciated.