Saying goodbye

Oh, and Never War's finished!

Apr 27, 2023

I’m not ashamed to admit I had a little weep earlier in the week. You see, I finished the final chapter of Never War, the final book of the Star Mage Saga. I’ve been writing Carina Lin’s story for five years, from her days as a slum brat on ass-end-of nowhere planet, through her time as a young space mercenary, and on, and on, as she tries to end her loneliness and achieve her dreams.

The ship’s cat wasn’t at all sympathetic to my sorrow. He was too busy enjoying the spring sunshine, as you can see in the pic at the bottom of this bulletin.

If you’re new to Carina’s story you can begin it in the free prequel Daughter of Discord.

Offworld raiders test a young girl's courage

Carina Lin’s life has never been easy. Forced to hide her true identity as a star mage, she and her grandmother barely get by, scraping a living on a poor, backwater planet.

But things are about to get a whole lot harder.

Her slum settlement is attacked, and she faces a terrible dilemma: help her neighbors and risk revealing her powers, or do nothing and leave them to die?

Daughter of Discord is the prequel to the dark space fantasy, Star Mage Saga.

Download your free copy here. You’ll receive a Bookfunnel link to download the book to your ebook reader.

Star Mage Saga

Paid Substack subscribers and supporters at Patreon will receive their copies of Never War in a couple of days, and the book will be available to the public in about a month.

I like to offer something special for shipmates, and doing it this way means I can circumvent Amazon’s strict exclusivity policy for books in Kindle Unlimited.

The Star Mage Saga series is in KU but Never War isn’t - yet!

KU readers will get a couple of months to read the complete series before I remove it from the programme and publish it at Apple, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play etc.

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