Small Publishing in a Big Universe Marketplace
A Marketplace for Independent Authors and Publishers
J. L. Doty is a full-time SF&F writer, scientist (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, specialty laser physics), and former running-dog-lackey for the bourgeois capitalist establishment.
With 15 published books, he writes hard SF, epic fantasy and urban fantasy, frequently with strong, YA themes. He’s been successful with self-publishing and with traditional publishers like Open Road Media and Harper Collins, and his books are a mix of traditional and self-published.
He lives in Tucson, AZ with his wife Karen, and a little being who claims to be a cat: Julia. But Jim is certain she’s really an extra-terrestrial alien in disguise.
As a lifer in the Imperial Navy, fighting in a war that has lasted for generations, York Ballin’s only hope at an honorable discharge is the grave.
Born the half-breed son of a Scairn bondservant and an unknown Duchies man, to young Ket, the birthmark on his arm is just a smear of discolored skin.
At sixteen years of age, Mathius’s life is focused on scrounging bits of food in the midst of a five-way civil war on the planet Novalis III.
Nikaela Vreekande joins Kristdokar’s clandestine operation to identify those responsible for the tragedy on Novalis III, and the incident on Reisenar.
After John and Nikaela are rescued from the rogue warship Sycorax, Katrine Primatov has only a lone hunter-killer to back her in the remote Sarkovie system, and she is faced with a Kelk force of overwhelming firepower superiority.
The diplomatic mission has arrived at Viktorkinde. Palmutter is getting more unstable and unreliable each day.
Rat is no ordinary thief.
Paul Conklin is sharing his rather ordinary, present-day San Francisco apartment with the ghosts of his dead wife and daughter.