Mushroom eBooks News

Book number 16 in the Saga of Dray Prescot, that most thrilling of planetary adventure series, is now published. Savage Scorpio by Kenneth Bulmer writing as Alan Burt Akers, is available from all good ebookstores, including eBooks.com, fictionwise.com, ereader.com and others too numerous to mention. Look out for early-bird special offers — for example, fictionwise.com offer 15% discount off all new titles in the first week.

Here is the blurb:

Somewhere in the unmapped regions of Kregen, beneath the two suns of Antares, alpha star of the Constellation Scorpio, lies the hidden city of the Savanti. The Savanti were the ones responsible for tearing Dray Prescot away from his native Earth for their struggle against the Star Lords. And Dray had long sought the locale of his original landing because it would help solve the mystery of his transition. Now the time had come when the search must be completed without delay, for the father of his beloved Delia was a victim of assassins, and only the Savanti could undo the evil that could shatter all that Dray held dear in his second planetary homeland.

Savage Scorpio is the thrilling novel of a mission that would involve powerful forces far beyond all Prescot’s personal desires.

The latest title from Moyra Caldecott, The Green Lady and the King of Shadows, is now (or soon will be) available from all good ebook stores wherever you are on the Internet. Originally published in 1989, this fantasy novel, based on myths and legends of Glastonbury, is also available in paperback from Amazon (ISBN 978-1-84319-450-7).

Here is the blurb:

Drawing on folklore, myth and legend, Moyra Caldecott tells the story of the struggle between good and evil, St. Collen and the mighty Gwyn ap Nudd, a confrontation involving the Earth Goddess and, ultimately, the highest powers in the universe.

Secret Scorpio, the fifteenth book in the Dray Prescot series and the first title in the Vallian Cycle by Alan Burt Akers, is now available from mobipocket.com and cyberread.com. It will be available at fictionwise.com and the rest of the best bookstores in the next few days.

Here is the blurb:

The brightest star in the Constellation Scorpio is the brilliant double sun Antares, around which orbits the inhabited planet called Kregen. Kregen is an Earthlike world, but strange, far stranger, than ours. For it is the scene of a conflict between galactic powers who utilize its many human nations and its astonishing variety of humanoid peoples as their battleground. Dray Prescot of Earth had been a tool of those powers, but courage and ingenuity had won him a high role in the Vallian Empire and a certain independence of his own. Thus when a mysterious monster cult began to undermine the empire and when his own beloved princess became a victim of those secret schemers, Prescot had to go into action.
Secret Scorpio launches a new cycle in the magnificent history of Kregen and brings Prescot at long last into direct confrontation with the forces that had once dared make him their pawn.

The latest book in the saga of Dray Prescot is now available from all the best online bookstores, though it may take a few days for it to arrive everywhere. At the time of writing, it is available from mobipocket.com and cyberread.com (in multiple formats).

Krozair of Kregen is book 14 in the excellent science fiction adventure series by Alan Burt Akers (aka Kenneth Bulmer) and is one of my personal favorites. Very intense, and, I admit, it had me weeping at the end. Enjoy!

Here is the blurb:

Never before in his fantastic career on Kregen, planet of the twin suns of Antares, had Dray Prescot been in such a desperate predicament. A despised outcast by his friends who wore the red of Zair, he had now been condemned by his old enemies whose battle color was the green of the sun Grodno. For while among these slavers and conquerors of the green, searching for a way to turn the tide of war to his own redemption and his friends’ advantage, he had personally encountered the deadly animosity of Grodno’s king, had betrayed his champion, and had shattered all he had so carefully worked for. But continue he must, for now, in addition to the enormous feat that alone would restore his honor, he had a blood vengeance to achieve that overrode everything.

We are very pleased to have concluded an agreement with Moyra Caldecott to publish two new books and to republish two books that have been out of print for a while.

The new books are:

The Breathless Pause – thoughts and poems

Multi-dimensional Life – A writer on the process of writing

Adventures by Leaf Light and Other Stories

The new editions are:

The Green Lady and the King of Shadows

Mythical Journeys, Legendary Quests – The Spiritual Search

All of these titles will become available through April and May, and I will post more details as they are published.

After a long wait, the thirteenth title in the long-running saga of Dray Prescot, of Earth and of Kregen, is now available. Renegade of Kregen by Alan Burt Akers continues the “Krozair Cycle” begun in Book 12, The Tides of Kregen. It will be available from all good eBookstores over the next few days, but it is already available at Mobipocket.com and at Cyberread.com.

Here is the blurb:

Never before in his adventurous career under the double suns of Antares had Dray Prescot been in as desperate a situation as he found himself on his second entry into the city of Magdag. Magdag had been the scene of one of Prescot’s earliest experiences on Kregen and he recalled it with loathing as a city of power-lusting slavers, of decadent worshippers of the Green Sun. As one who had been initiated into the chivalric order of Krozairs, he despised all that that city stood for. But now Prescot was an outcast. Any Krozair, any follower of the Red Sun of his former friends, would slay him on sight. For him there was only one way to recover his home, his children, his self-respect. He would have to perform an act of valor so extreme, so fabulous, that its glory would wash away all that now stained his name. Only by reaching to the very heart of mighty Magdag could he hope to achieve such a suicidal triumph.

More good news about Alan Burt Akers’ Dray Prescot books…

We have concluded an agreement with Kenneth Bulmer’s agent, Pamela Buckmaster, to publish omnibus editions of the first 18 Kregen novels. The current plan is to publish the following books:

The Saga of Dray Prescot: The Delian Cycle

The Saga of Dray Prescot: The Havilfar Cycle I

The Saga of Dray Prescot: The Havilfar Cycle II

The Saga of Dray Prescot: The Krozair Cycle

The Saga of Dray Prescot: The Vallian Cycle

This will take us up to book 18, and if they are reasonably successful we will consider publishing the remainder of the series in paperback also. Also, if there is enough interest and demand, we may be able to publish hardback editions, too. We expect the books to be available during April and May.

A lot has been happening behind the scenes over the last few weeks, and I am pleased to announce that we have concluded an agreement with Kenneth Bulmer’s estate to publish the remainder of the Dray Prescot novels as eBooks. This includes all titles from number 13 to number 52 inclusive. Books 42 to 52 have never been published in English, so this is quite a coup. We have already published books 1 to 12 and book 13 should be out next week. The plan is to publish three titles per month up to book 37, and then one per month thereafter.
The titles are:

13. Renegade of Kregen
14. Krozair of Kregen
15. Secret Scorpio
16. Savage Scorpio
17. Captive Scorpio
18. Golden Scorpio
19. A Life for Kregen
20. A Sword for Kregen
21. A Fortune for Kregen
22. A Victory for Kregen
23. Beasts of Antares
24. Rebel of Antares
25. Legions of Antares
26. Allies of Antares
27. Mazes of Scorpio
28. Delia of Vallia
29. Fires of Scorpio
30. Talons of Scorpio
31. Masks of Scorpio
32. Seg the Bowman
33. Werewolves of Kregen
34. Witches of Kregen
35. Storm over Vallia
36. Omens of Kregen
37. Warlord of Antares
38. Scorpio Reborn
39. Scorpio Assassin
40. Scorpio Invasion
41. Scorpio Ablaze
42. Scorpio Drums
43. Scorpio Triumph
44. Intrigue of Antares
45. Gangs of Antares
46. Demons of Antares
47. Scourge of Antares
48. Challenge of Antares
49. Wrath of Antares
50. Shadows over Kregen
51. Murder on Kregen
52. Turmoil on Kregen

Foo Fighters by Daniel Wyatt, the third and final title in the Second Word War espionage series, The Falcon File is now available in all the usual ebook formats and from all the usual eBookstores immediately. Or you can buy it from the Mushroom eBooks Store.

Here is the blurb…

It is early 1945 and Germany is losing the war. The Russians, the Americans, and the British are closing in on Berlin and Hitler’s bunker.

In this startling end-of-the-war tale two high-ranking Nazi officials–Martin Bormann and Hermann Goering–are collaborating with Wesley Hollinger and the American OSS for free passage out of Germany in exchange for blueprints to advanced German technology–jet fighters, rockets, missiles and early flying saucers, nicknamed “Foo Fighters”. The Americans are desperate to keep the Foo Fighter blueprints from reaching Russian and British hands.

Wesley Hollinger of the OSS soon realizes what World War Two is really all about–power, money, and politics.

The third book of the Guardians of the Tall Stones series is now available from Mobipocket.com and cyberread.com. Shadow on the Stones will also be available from the rest of the best ebookstores over the next few days. The first two titles in the series, The Tall Stones and The Temple of the Sun are already available at all the usual ebookstores, as is the sequel to the Guardians of the Tall Stones, The Silver Vortex.

Here is the blurb…

Shadow on the Stones continues the story of Kyra, priest of the Temple of the Sun, who, with her husband the Lord Khu-ren, has guided their civilisation to a time of spiritual strength, psychic energy, and communal peace.

But there is a shadow on the Stones — the spreading influence of the terrible god Groth, dark god of chaos and barbarity. Only the priests of the Temple have the means to resist the tides of destruction…

A World to Win is the second title from the author of the acclaimed An Endless Exile. It is available immediately from Mobipocket.com and Cyberread.com, and will be available at all the best ebook retailers over the next few days.

Here is the blurb:

Set in Hungary and Transylvania during the turbulence of the 1848 revolutions, this is the love story of an independent-minded Scottish governess, Katie Kettles, and Lajos Lazar, a peasant-born lawyer and revolutionary determined to change the world by any means possible.

In 1847, with Europe on the verge of revolution, Katie becomes governess to the family of Count Istvan Szelenyi and accompanies them to Hungary. On the journey, she first encounters Lajos making illegal speeches from a Viennese café table, and is drawn to him in spite of his incendiary politics. But Lajos is not her only distraction from her duties. Katie has her own vengeful agenda which begins to stutter as she reluctantly becomes involved with the family’s lives and loves, and assists in the illicit romance of Istvan’s sister Katalin with a penniless Romanian officer. While Hungary plunges into political upheaval, and Lajos leads his radical followers in ever more dangerous agitation, Katie faces her own personal revolution of moral values to resolve both her family issues and her passionate relationship with Lajos.

Through Katie’s eyes, we see the euphoria of a bloodless revolution victorious over an unjust and stagnant Imperial regime. But even the revolution cannot overcome some deep-seated prejudices, and the war fought to defend the gains of the revolution makes enemies of those who should have been allies. As the forces of repression sweep back into power across Europe, Katie’s tragedy becomes personal.