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August 18, 2019:  Uploading to Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Amazon and Smashwords in September, with the paperback due around a month later
-- at last! A "Golden Age" SF romp in the Keegan style ...
Human. Alone. Hunted. Tony Saviano's only ally is the unlikely love of his life. When a lowly engine tech from a rust-bucket freighter finds himself the target for multiple assassination attempts, the race is on -- to find out who's after him, and why. To keep of out harm's way, fighting for his own life as well as thousands of people on a distant colony world. Luck never favored Tony before the Dorellan cargo-hauler Ursago came to a half-forgotten rural spaceport on Amelos. In this galaxy, mankind is marginalized, disdained, often used. Now, Tony has one stroke of incredible good fortune: the love of his life -- brawny, beautiful, tech savvy, and as half-barbarian as his forefathers, Kenzana Emetral Betru. Tru for short. Together, they're a single jump ahead of sudden death, while the reason lies buried in Tony's wilful human memory. When the facts are winkled out, it's "game on" for a survival run among alien races, through alien systems, where time becomes the toughest enemy, friends are scarce ... and old-fashioned love is one of the keys to victory. A knock-down, drag-out, planet-hopping romp in the spirit of Science Fiction's Golden Age. November 16, 2018:  Uploading to Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Amazon and Smashwords around the end of the month -- a contemporary, supernatural mystery-romance set in England's wild northeast, where the past is close at hand and the future is uncertain.
When Scott Lennox finds himself the sole heir to the estate of his recently deceased Uncle Hector, he thinks his luck has finally turned. What he's inherited was the worst kind of trouble: a neglected mansion on a bleak moor, with an unseasonal blizzard coming in from Scandinavia ... and ancient Falconstone is hiding a terrible secret. Its thousand-year history is blood-soaked. By night, its halls murmur with the voices of those who perished there. For Scott, Falconstone presents the greatest challenge of his young life -- but the dangerous riddle of this house brings antiquarian Adam Harding to the moor, and Scott knows in a moment, this is the one. Together, they unravel the mystery of Falconstone. Together they'll face the threat of the shadowy Covenant of Shedim, while the moor whitens with premature winter and they discover themselves trapped. Outside, killing cold. Inside ... the ancient, desperate madness that is Falconstone. November 3, 2018:  A new book -- the first of several omnibus editions -- is out in ebook and paperback. This edition features the three "damaged Earth" stories, and the ebook edition offers the bonus of Aquamarine, bundled here as a freebie! More...
And also I've done some more "rational repricing," bringing the older paperbacks into line with the industry standard, which may come as a relief to many readers. If you're like me, you'll be counting the cost of your reading these days, and ... frankly, every little helps. Have been meaning to do this for some time: it makes sense. So you'll find that many titles, from Fortunes or War to Mindspace, The Deceivers to Storm Tide, Nocturne to The Lords of Harbendane, are now priced between $15.99 and $18.99 ... something like fourteen of the full-size novels have been repriced -- in good time for Christmas! July 2018: The big news is that (pardon us for shouting it from a rooftop here) THE NARC SERIES IS COMPLETE. So if anybody is growling at you about the Jarrat and Stone series being unfinished, tell 'em they're wrong! The final trilogy comprising SCIMITAR, BASILISK and ENDGAME is already available at Amazon Kindle, and inside of the next week will be on Smashwords, and filtering through to B&N, iBooks, Kobo and so forth, as fast as Mr. Mark Coker's engine can feed the files through the system. Note that the whole trilogy finishing out the NARC series has been made available under one cover ... yes, you can get the whole thing for $9.99 at Kindle (other stores soon), in other words, "three for the price of one." Mel's way of saying "Sorry for the delay, guys." The other item that's new is the revamp of this website, and in particular the shopping links for the EPUB and PDF files, which have been showing "404 error" message since the collapse of the ARe online store. That was a major bummer, since ARe was a very poweful platform via which to sell ... it also landed Mel with something like 150 dead links across this site. These needed to be fixed to make Mel Keegan Online functional -- and this has been done. (Jade to the rescue, with a phenomenal amount of work: thanks, kiddo.) Mel wishes he could promise new books in the works, but his health remains fragile (though stable enough at this point). The whole ENDGAME project -- the three books in one -- came in at a whisker under 400,000 words (no, that ain't a typo), and was exhausting. The first time on MK's agenda is a long rest. After that, who knows? It's not impossible for new books to happen. But it won't happen in the next few months, so ... as someone very wise once said, "Patience, grasshopper." Worth mentoning here (as on the "What's Due" page) that the whole backlist is about to have a revamp in terms of covers. The books are still wearing jackets they've had on for many years now, and it's way past time they had a change to freshen them up. Indeed, a new edition was recently issued at Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Kobo and so forth:      
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