Mushroom eBooks News

The following ebooks are free to download from wowio.com (you will need to login to see the freebies):

The Anxiety Relief Program by Dennis Radha Rose

Herbs for Healthy Skin by Cindy L A Jones

Ice and a Curious Man by Renee Angers

The Spikatur Cycle, the sixth omnibus of “The Saga of Dray Prescot”, by Kenneth Bulmer writing as Alan Burt Akers, is now published in ebook format.

eBook formats include Kindle, Sony Reader, PDF, eReader, Mobipocket, Rocket eBook, Microsoft Reader, and others, and can be obtained from all good ebook stores, including Fictionwise.com, eBooks.com, Scribd, Wowio Sony Connect, and on Amazon.com for the Kindle.

The Spikatur Cycle ebook omnibus edition contains the four books, Beasts of Antares, Rebel of Antares, Legions of Antares and Allies of Antares.

Here is the “back cover copy”:

Four hundred light years from Earth, Kregen is a marvelous world, peopled by wonderful beings, filled with light and clamor and furor of life lived to the hilt. But Kregen has its darker side, where horror and terror batten on innocent people, where sorceries rend reason, where injustice denies light.

The Spikatur Cycle brings Prescot closer to the realization of many of his dreams. He is determined to do what he feels is laid upon him; but he finds it is not so easy, particularly when the Empress Delia and his comrades are determined to keep him out of trouble. But, he is Dray Prescot, Lord of Strombor and Krozair of Zy, and that canny old leem hunter will not be prevented from buckling up the brave old scarlet breechclout and with a sword in his fist hurtling off beneath the Moons of Kregen into fresh headlong adventure.

For more details about Alan Burt Akers, The Spikatur Cycle, and links to available ebook formats, please see The Spikatur Cycle page on mushroom-eBooks.com

For an unusual take on the vampire story, why not give Anthony Burns‘ new novel, Lucille and the Healers, a go. Set in the 1920s, the story follows a young girl, Lucille, as she is introduced to the world of the vampires, and to the group of scientists who are determined to “heal” the world of this disease, while at the same time performing experiments to produce the ultimate military weapon.

eBook formats include Kindle, Sony Reader, PDF, eReader, Mobipocket, Rocket eBook, Microsoft Reader, and others, and can be obtained from all good ebook stores, including Fictionwise.com, eBooks.com, Scribd, Wowio Sony Connect, and on Amazon.com for the Kindle.

The blurb:

London, 1929 – It isn’t easy being a fashionable flapper and emulating your silver screen heroines when you live in a poky East End terrace with your poor, widowed mother, your over-achieving sister, and such disreputable and drunken lodgers as you can find to help pay the bills, as sixteen-year-old Lucy “Lucille” Kitson can testify. However, their newest lodger – a young writer from the jazzy metropolis of New York – is far more to her liking, and it’s only a shame that he has to be concealing a secret that makes him a marked man, and endangers all who befriend him.

Pulled inexorably into a dark supernatural world, and into an even darker scientific one, Lucy Kitson finds her priorities and her survival equally challenged – hard lessons that she must endure if she is to help put an end to the “Healers”, their murderous nocturnal predations, and their sinister designs that threaten the lives and souls of thousands.

The Jikaida Cycle, the fifth omnibus of “The Saga of Dray Prescot”, by Kenneth Bulmer writing as Alan Burt Akers, is now published in ebook format.

eBook formats include Kindle, Sony Reader, PDF, eReader, Mobipocket, Rocket eBook, Microsoft Reader, and others, and can be obtained from all good ebook stores, including Fictionwise.com, eBooks.com, Scribd, Wowio Sony Connect, and on Amazon.com for the Kindle.

The Jikaida Cycle omnibus contains the four books, A Life for Kregen, A Sword for Kregen, A Fortune for Kregen and A Victory for Kregen.

Here is the “back cover copy”:

Four hundred light years from Earth, Kregen is a marvelous world, peopled by wonderful beings, filled with light and clamor and furor of life lived to the hilt. But Kregen has its darker side, where horror and terror batten on innocent people, where sorceries rend reason, where injustice denies light.

Here, in the unforgiving yet rewarding world of Kregen, struggling through disaster and triumph, Dray Prescot has made his home. He has acquired a number of titles and estates but now the people of the island empire of Vallia, which has been ripped into shreds by ambitious and mercenary invaders, have called on him to lead them to freedom as their emperor. Reluctant to accept the imperium, he shoulders the burden because, rightly or wrongly, he sees this as the lesser evil…

For more details about Alan Burt Akers, The Jikaida Cycle, and links to available ebook formats, please see The Jikaida Cycle page on mushroom-eBooks.com

Here are the top 20 bestselling titles published by Mushroom eBooks, sold from 1st July 2010 to 31st December 2010:

1    Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra by Moyra Caldecott
2    Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun by Moyra Caldecott
3    The Call of the Sword by Roger Taylor
4    The Fall of Fyorlund by Roger Taylor
5    The Waking of Orthlund by Roger Taylor
6    Into Narsindal by Roger Taylor
7    Akhenaten: Son of the Sun by Moyra Caldecott
8    The Delian Cycle by Alan Burt Akers
9    The Return of the Sword by Roger Taylor
10    Farnor by Roger Taylor
11    Valderen by Roger Taylor
12    Dream Finder by Roger Taylor
13    The Mary Jane Mission by Daniel Wyatt
14    Scorpio Invasion by Alan Burt Akers
15    Intrigue of Antares by Alan Burt Akers
16    Scorpio Assassin by Alan Burt Akers
17    Scorpio Ablaze by Alan Burt Akers
18    Scorpio Reborn by Alan Burt Akers
19    Whistler by Roger Taylor
20    Scorpio Triumph by Alan Burt Akers

Many thanks to everyone who has supported Mushroom eBooks and our authors by buying the books and writing reviews. We couldn’t do it without you. Please keep up the good work!

Please welcome a new author to Mushroom eBooks: Doug Pike. Doug is a syndicated cartoonist, and a 17-year member of the National Cartoonists Society. For the past six years, he has focused on wine cartoons. They have been featured on world-famous wine critic Robert Parker’s web site, www.eRobertParker.com and formed the basis for his first book, Gone With The Wine, which won the 2009 US Gourmand World Cookbook Award for wine illustration.

The Grapes of Laugh is a new collection of 100 wine cartoons, available now from Amazon for the Kindle, Mobipocket, and in PDF format from numerous ebook stores including Fictionwise, Scribd.com and WOWIO.

Please note that although the cartoons are presented in full glorious colour, the cartoons will appear in grayscale/black and white on non-colour reading devices.

The blurb:

The Grapes of Laugh is the second collection of wine cartoons by syndicated cartoonist Doug Pike. It contains one hundred laugh-out-loud cartoons portraying situations from the vineyard, to the retailer, to the consumer. Doug’s wry sense of humor bursts through loud and clear in every one, not unlike the Champagne cork he put through his neighbor’s stained-glass window last New Year’s Eve.

The Sony Reader Store is currently offering 20% discount on most ebooks until Sunday February 27.  Just enter the promo code 20OFFFEB11 at checkout.

What better reason to get your fix of Mushroom eBooks titles for your Sony Reader.

The Vallian Cycle ebook will now not appear on Fictionwise until 28th February, due to an error on my part when uploading the files. It is available now on the other ebook stores listed on the right.

This will have a knock on effect for The Jikaida Cycle ebook, which will not appear on Fictionwise until 7th March. The Jikaida Cycle should be available on all other ebook stores on its publication date of 28th February.

All subsequent titles will appear on Fictionwise on their publication dates.

I am sorry for the inconvenience.

Martyn

Following on from the excellent Wintermoon Ice, Suzanne Francis gives us the second book of the “Sons of the Mariner” series — Summermoon Fire. This is a fascinating and intriguing novel, difficult to characterize, set in alternative worlds and shifting timelines, and a must read for all Suzanne Francis fans.

We meet again some of the characters first encountered in Suzanne Francis’s earlier series, “Song of the Arkafina” — consisting of Heart of Hythea, Ketha’s Daughter, Dawnmaid and Beyond the Gyre.

Summermoon Fire is available now from all good ebook stores, including Fictionwise, eBooks.com, Scribd, Wowio Sony Connect, and on Amazon.com for the Kindle.

Here is the “back cover copy”:

In the second book of the “Sons of the Mariner” series, a powerful new threat appears in Cloudy Bay, searching once again for the mirror left to Tessa Kivelson by her grandmother.

Tessa and her best friend Jane are cast into an alternative time line. Jakob, Tessa’s lover, succumbs to madness, leaving Lut to navigate this confusing new world single-handedly. Will Lut condemn his brother to life in a mental institution while Tessa helplessly floats in the twilight between life and death?

It is Suvi Markku, Tessa’s grandmother, who holds the key that will stitch together the ruptured worlds and mend Tessa’s broken heart.

For more details about Suzanne Francis, Summermoon Fire, and links to available ebook formats, please see the Summermoon Fire page on mushroom-ebooks.com

Here are the dates for new publications during 2011. It is very likely to change, especially if when the missing Alan Burt Akers manuscripts turn up!

07-Feb-2011    Vallian Cycle by Alan Burt Akers (ebook)
14-Feb-2011    Summermoon Fire by Suzanne Francis (ebook)
21-Feb-2011    Grapes of Laugh by Doug Pike (ebook)
28-Feb-2011    Jikaida Cycle by Alan Burt Akers (ebook)
14-Mar-2011    Lucille and the Healers by Anthony Burns (ebook)
28-Mar-2011    Spikatur Cycle by Alan Burt Akers (ebook)
11-Apr-2011    Splattered on the Road to Wealth by Doug Pike (ebook)
26-Apr-2011    Pandahem Cycle I by Alan Burt Akers (hardback)
10-May-2011    Pandahem Cycle II by Alan Burt Akers (hardback)
24-May-2011    Pandahem Cycle I by Alan Burt Akers (paperback)
07-Jun-2011    Pandahem Cycle II by Alan Burt Akers (paperback)
20-Jun-2011    Pandahem Cycle by Alan Burt Akers (ebook)
04-Jul-2011    Pukka and Fremd by Doug Pike (ebook)
18-Jul-2011    The Keep by Roger Taylor (ebook)
02-Aug-2011    Witch War Cycle by Alan Burt Akers (hardback)
30-Aug-2011    Witch War Cycle by Alan Burt Akers (paperback)
12-Sep-2011    Witch War Cycle by Alan Burt Akers (ebook)
27-Sep-2011    Lohvian Cycle I by Alan Burt Akers (hardback)
11-Oct-2011    Lohvian Cycle II by Alan Burt Akers (hardback)
25-Oct-2011    Lohvian Cycle I by Alan Burt Akers (paperback)
08-Nov-2011    Lohvian Cycle II by Alan Burt Akers (paperback)
21-Nov-2011    Lohvian Cycle by Alan Burt Akers (ebook)