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The Millennium Trilogy Anthology

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n solidarity of our Stay At Home Order in Washington state due to the SARS COVID-19 virus, I’ve had my assistant create for you an anthology with all 3 Millennium Trilogy books in it: First Dawn, Second Fire, and Lost Days. Also part of the collection is the lost-for-over-a-decade prequel called Lost Dawns.

Look for it at your favorite book distributor. Due to prohibitive costs, this will only be available in ebook format and not print. However, print books of all four books are available on Amazon and through Ingram Spark.

Thank you for reading! Now those of you who are getting itchy feet being home will have the entire series to blow through!

Enjoy!

Mike

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Longknifes Defend the Legation!

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I’m so pleased to announce that mid-April, there will be a new book for your reading pleasure!

This book is set during Stalwart. It features Grandma and Grandpa Trouble watching Kris’s kids while she and her troops go off to fight. Kris thought it would be a good thing to have her grandparents, both veterans from the old Iteeche Wars, on hand in her absence. It’s the start of a separate series from Kris, called Longknifes Defend the Legation.

Here’s the advertisement for the book:

Grand Admiral Kris Longknife is rampaging across the stars, kicking butt and taking planets away from the Iteeche rebels. She asks her grandparents, Gramma and Grampa Trouble, to came out to spend time with her kids while she is gone.

Meanwhile, back on the Iteeche Imperial Capitol planet, intrigue and power plays continue. Within fifty kilometers of the Imperial Palace are a dozen clan factions who dream of seizing the purple from the hand of the young Emperor.

The Human Embassy once more comes under siege. This time, however, the entire Legation District, all thirty-six blocks and three million Iteeche must be protected.

Meanwhile, the kids are left on their own. Sneaky parents should not be surprised to discover that their kids are just as sly as they are. Before too long, Little Ruth and Johnny, along with thirty of their Human and Iteeche friends, are in way over their heads.

Can Little Ruth keep her friends alive long enough for Gramma Trouble to race to their rescue?

Can Little Ruth, not yet eight, learn the hard lesson of being a Longknife?

This action-packed adventure of just under 100,000 words is a great parallel story for Kris Longknife Stalwart that shows just what measures need to be taken to keep the home fires burning, because – Longknifes do what they have to do . . . no matter the cost.

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It’s currently available for pre-order through all your favorite retailers, currently for e-book at $5.99. Print will hopefully be released on April 15 with the ebook.

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New Relase – Kris Longknife: Stalwart

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I’m so happy to be able to post Kris Longknife: Stalwart for pre-sale! Look for it over the next few days from Amazon and your other favorite eBook retailers.

Here is the temporary cover and the ad copy:

The foolish Iteeche clans that hauled Grand Admiral Kris Longknife back to the Iteeche Capital and interrupted her campaign against the rebels, are dead. Very dead. Their clans are disgraced and their palaces in ruin.

However, while Kris was
handling that noise, the rebels took back one of the planets she had
recently captured, Arteccia, and are planning to take more. Now it’s
time once more again for Kris to kick butts and take names.

However, life is never easy for a Human in the Iteeche Empire.

The Clan Chiefs expect Kris to retake what the rebels took from the loyalists because that is the Iteeche Way. That is a tune she will not dance to. So, the Clan Chiefs play their ace: Do what we want, or we won’t give you command of our ships.

To their consternation,
Kris does not give in. She gives them a literal middle digit salute and
invites every minor clan to join the fun and games of capturing planets
and gaining plunder.

Not surprisingly, the rebels have used their
time well and they have their own plans for Kris, plans that should
leave her fleet in ruins and the young Iteeche on the throne dead.

Unfortunately for them, their plans can’t really hold back Grand Admiral, the Stalwart Kris Longknife.

Note to Readers: Stalwart is the longest Kris Longknife book yet, with approximately 155,000 words. This is half-again longer than the books I wrote for ACE 20 years ago. Consequently, the price has increased by $1 for the ebook – $7.99 up from $6.99.

Those of you lovely readers that love to blow through my books in one night might want to allow for two, or a weekend. Also, we also have acquired the services of an outstanding artist, Lee Moyer, for our covers. All your pre-orders will have the final cover in early December for purchase!

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Boot Recruit!

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This month, in the Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers Anthology, I’m sharing some character history – the very beginning of how Kris gets started in the Navy. I chose the form of a short story and called it Boot Recruit, because that is what all beginning Navy are called, regardless of where they come from.

In this short story, we see a different side of Kris – the young college graduate who experiences a pivotal moment and decides what she wants to do with her life. We see her parents and the privilege she comes from; the very beginning of the woman we now know to be Commander Kris Longknife.

Enjoy the story! I’d love to hear your comments. I will get the rights back in 2020, so I will be posting it for individual sale then. Until then, here is the Amazon link:

https://www.amazon.com/INFINITE-STARS-Bryan-Thomas-Schmidt-ebook/dp/B07PWT1XSZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dark+frontiers&qid=1572712066&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&fbclid=IwAR1deTvqMRae3_oWCsi9pH3Fkr_FMAewE7TrYQCBK_I6cGS7fUZ6vjv-7g8

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Vicky Peterwald: Dominator is available for purchase!

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This summer, I wrote the fourth book in the Vicky Peterwald series – Dominator.  It is now available for purchase and will be available from Audible late this summer.

Here is the cover copy:

Grand Duchess Vicky Peterwald has everything. A loving fiance who’s soon to be her husband, adoring crowds, and she gets to share her golden wedding carriage with Kris Longknife. What more could a girl want?

Well, the Emperor, her father, could have showed up to walk her down the aisle, but she’s not really bothered about that. Then suddenly, she is. It turns out that he didn’t make the wedding because he’s broke and living nearly homeless in an abandoned half-built palace. How’d that happen?

News isn’t coming out of Dad’s side of the Empire, so it looks like Vicky may need a battle fleet to go pay Daddy dear a visit. Oh, and four or six brigades of infantry and tanks. Somebody should have known better than piss Vicky Peterwald off. Now they have, and she won’t let anything get in her way of being Vicky Peterwald: Dominator.

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Vicky and all of Kris Longknife’s stories are available from your favorite book distributor!

Look for Kris Longknife: Indomitable this November!