Blaze Ward
When a Salonnian spy threatens to publish a tell-all memoir, every spy agency around leaps into action. Some want to capture her. Some want to kill her.
Handsome Rob wants to see how much damage she can cause.
And how he can help.
Another Handsome Rob Gig, full of espionage and action, set in the Jessica Keller universe. Be sure to catch the rest of the series, starting with Can't Shoot Straight Gang.
...The aliens of the Gage Empire rule the galaxy. Humans live as slaves on a single moon of the Gage homeworld, valued for their ability to power starships through warpspace.
Not everyone likes that arrangement.
When a conspiracy of Humans steal an experimental starship, they set in motion the possible overthrow of the entire Empire.
If they can get away with it.
Can Kincaide lead them to freedom?
...Murder. On the Moon.
The aliens in charge need the best to solve this case, so they call in Greyson and Rachel.
The victim? Utterly perfect in every way, but there's a hitch.
Is she even human?
The Hunter Bureau, a series about a cop working in a world fifteen years after aliens make first contact, and bring all their troubles to a world that already had plenty of its own. Be sure to read
...A spree killer in South London that might be this generation's Ripper. Prostitutes missing and forgotten. Magical troubles.
And then someone asks Lady Claudette for help. She turns to Augustus Dexter Derlyth, metaphysician, scoundrel, and killer.
Let the battle begin.
Equal Before The Blade, third in a new Occult Detective series set in 1920s London, where all is not as it seems. Be sure to read Ill Tidings
...5) In Media Res
In Media Res. Latin for 'into the middle of things.'
Not every story has to start with a long, slow brain-dump of world-building to establish setting. Many modern readers will put the book down and walk away when you do that.
Instead, consider starting right in the middle of the action, working forwards as you slowly explain how things got here. Perhaps beginning so simply as somebody knocking on the door.
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...This orc does not fight for glory or treasure. Egon fights because someone has to take up the hammer and the shield, to take a stand against evil.
When a dashing Puck and his unlikely friends recruit him to go into the darkwilds, Egon the Bold will discover what evil really means.
And the personal costs required to stop it from trying to take over the world.
A sword and sorcery fantasy tale about friends, justice,