Brandon Sanderson

Mary Robinette Kowal

Dan Wells

Howard Tayler

From the Hugo Award-winning hosts of the Writing Excuses writing advice show comes a collection of all-new stories of the fantastic, with beautiful illustrations and a behind-the-scenes look at each story’s creation. Brandon Sanderson’s “Sixth of the Dusk,” set in his Cosmere universe shared by the Mistborn books and the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, showcases a society on the brink of technological change. On the deadly island of Patji, where predators can sense the thoughts of their prey, a lone trapper discovers that the island is not the only thing out to kill him. Mary Robinette Kowal’s “A Fire in the Heavens” is a powerful tale of a refugee seeking to the near-mythical homeland her oppressed people left centuries ago. When Katin discovers the role the “eternal moon” occupies in the Center Kingdom, and the nature of the society under its constant light, she may find enemies and friends in unexpected places. Dan Wells’s “I.E.Demon” features an Afghanistan field test of a piece of technology that is supposed to handle improvised explosive devices. Or so the engineers have told the EOD team that will be testing it; exactly what it does and how it does it are need-to-know, and the grunts don’t need to know. Until suddenly the need arises. Howard Tayler’s “An Honest Death” stars the security team for the CEO of a biotech firm about to release the cure for old age. When an intruder appears and then vanishes from the CEO’s office, the bodyguards must discover why he is lying to them about his reason for pressing the panic button. For years the hosts of Writing Excuses have been offering tips on brainstorming, drafting, workshopping, and revision, and now they offer an exhaustive look at the entire process. Not only does Shadows Beneath have four beautifully illustrated fantastic works of fiction, but it also includes transcripts of brainstorming and workshopping sessions, early drafts of the stories, essays about the stories’ creation, and details of all the edits made between the first and final drafts. Come for the stories by award-winning authors; stay for the peek behind the creative curtain.

The Writing Excuses Anthology

Shadows Beneath

Welcome to Tagon's Toughs, a mercenary company whose newest recruit is almost as much trouble as the new owners. They want to revolutionize space travel. Schlock just wants to hurt people and break things. This 240-page volume takes the reader back to the very start of Schlock Mercenary, and then some. It opens with nine pages of all-new strips telling the story of how Schlock came to enlist, and then forges onward chronologically from the very first strip. It also includes concept sketches, commentary, excellent guest art, deck plans for the Kitesfear. --From http://store.schlockmercenary.com.

The Tub of Happiness

Schlock Mercenary

Shannon Hale

Aprilynne Pike

Erin Bowman

S. J. Kincaid

Jessica Day George

Sara Zarr

Lauren Oliver

Claudia Gray

Seanan McGuire

Shawn Speakman

Larry Correia

Kiersten White

Brandon Mull

Brodi Ashton

Allyson Braithwaite Condie

Bree Despain

Sarah M. Eden

Josi S. Kilpack

Jacqueline Novak

Nancy Campbell Allen

Annette Lyon

Luisa M. Perkins

Sandra Tayler

Jeffrey Scott Savage

John Charles Wright

Altered Perceptions is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy authors, donating their work to help author Robison Wells, who's crippled by debt, caused by his mental illnesses. This volume contains original short stories as well as deleted scenes and alternate versions of portions of the authors' books. Also included are essays from the contributors about how mental illness has affected their lives and the lives of their loved ones.

Altered Perceptions

Travis Walton

"Tagon's Toughs are on shore leave indefinitely: no ships, no payroll, and no prospects. The godlike A.I. they accidentally installed in the Galactic Core isn't hiring, and has plans they're better off staying out of regardless. Then a ship becomes available at a price that's just too low to pass up, even if it does mean that there might possibly be some strings attached--long, invisible ones trailing right back to the Galactic Core ..."--P. [4] of cover.

Emperor Pius Dei

The Sharp End of the Stick

Janci Patterson

Eric James Stone

Bob Defendi

Keliana Tayler

Steve Campell

Tracy McKinnon

Sergeant Schlock has lost his eyes. However, through a quirk of amorph biology, he needs to steal new ones. While looking for new eyes, Schlock and his companions find themselves involved in a battle for galactic domination.

The Teraport wars

"Captain, I found some numbers that don't add up. They don't do this in a very scary way."Captain Tagon, Sergeant Schlock, and the rest of Tagon's band of mercenaries have finally caught up with their quarry. Now all they need to do is convince them to come along quietly. It may not matter, though, because something ancient, invisible, and very, very powerful has noticed these noisy interlopers.This is the second print collection of Schlock Mercenary, and it is chock-full of new footnotes and sketches, plus 8 pages of never-before-seen bonus story explaining how Schlock got rich escaping from the circus.Order it today, and get access to the exclusive The Blackness Between desktop backgrounds, featuring the full wrap-around cover art!

The Blackness Between

Under New Management

Extraordinary Zoology

Schlock Mercenary Force Multiplication

"Their first job for their new employers is a glorified delivery run, and when things go predictably awry, Tagon's Toughs can honestly point at a mess they did not make and say "this was not our fault." As with any public mess, howeve, it only gets messier as it gets more public, and a celebrity journalist is looking to pin the blame on someone."--Back cover.

Longshoreman of the Apocalypse

Random Access Memorabilia

(Defaced)

Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Nathan Shumate

The cold of interstellar space is again closer than you think as eleven authors -- including New York Times bestseller Larry Correia, Nebula winner Eric James Stone, Amazon #1 bestseller Michaelbrent Collings, and multiple Hugo nominee Howard Tayler -- explore what happens when space opera meets Lovecraftian cosmic horror. Contents: A Darklight Call'd on the Long Last Night of the Soul - Michaelbrent Collings Dead Waits Dreaming - Larry Correia The Implant - Robert J Defendi Plague Ship - Steven L. Peck From Within the Walls - Steven Diamond Space "Opera": Episode Two-The Great Old One Strikes Back - Michael R. Collings The Queen in Shadow - David J. West The Humans in the Walls - Eric James Stone Seed - D.J. Butler Full Dark - Nathan Shumate Fall of the Runewrought - Howard Tayler

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