June 18th Newsletter.
A few navigational notes:
For Chapters of my new Kate Devana Series:
Space 2074 is the new Wild West. Mine machines are glitching, an FBI Agent is looking to avenge the death of his former partner, & Sheriff Kate Devana must wrangle a fugitive con artist who bilked retirees for billions. Bodies are piling up. Again. On the moon, Kate Devana is the law.
While this is the 3rd novel in the series, each is designed to be read independently.
For accessibility, there is a voiceover for each chapter.
For Chapters of my new novel Blackbird:
Chapter 1:
Chapter 9 (flashback):
More here: https://wyattwerne.substack.com/s/blackbird
For everything else Kate Devana related:
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Other items, here: https://wyattwerne.substack.com/s/kate-devana-series
Welcome to the new format for my newsletter.
You are on the list! Some of you, of course, were already on the list, but I have finally merged the lists between Mailerlite and Substack, so now everyone is here. 😊
No need to worry, Substack content will remain free for the near future. I do ask that if you are enjoying the content (and I know some of you are—thank you for the notes 😊), please like, share, and comment on posts. It helps the algorithm find more readers.
Soon after you read this, Chapter 5 of the Kate Devana files will drop, and a few days after that, Chapter 6. Mine machines are glitching, an FBI Agent is looking to avenge the death of his former partner, and Kate must capture a fugitive con artist who bilked retirees for billions. It's 2074. Space is the new Wild West, and the bodies are piling up again.
If you missed earlier chapters, you can find Chapter 1 of the new Kate Devana here. If you missed earlier Chapters of Blackbird, you can find Chapter 1 here. Chapters of Blackbird will resume shortly.
Although The new Chapters are from book 3 in the Kate Devana series, they are designed to be read in any order. Books 1 and 2, The Orionids and Total Eclipse, are available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other ebook and print retainers.
June 18th, 2024.
I love rockets, I love thrillers, and I love thrillers with rockets. I also love something else: LEGOS. This fathers day my daughter and I put together the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander.
The images below do not quite do it justice. The details, even on the inside, are amazing. There are over a thousand pieces in this set. I predicted we would not take that long, but my daughter was right it took much longer than we expected.
We assembled it on our deck (the weather was fantastic), taking a break for dinner. We ended up finishing it with flashlights 🔦🔦 on the deck. What fun! And a terrific way to spend time together!
Schedule (glad you asked):
As I noted above, Chapters 5 and 6 of Kate Devana files will drop soon. Chapters of Blackbird will resume shortly. Everything will remain free while I build out this platform. Please like, share, and comment on posts. It helps the algorithm find more readers.
Happy reading, and stay out of the heat this week. 💙,
Wyatt
As part of my mailers and updates, I suggest and swap with other authors whose content you may enjoy.
Hometown Space Pirate (Viraquin Voyage Book 1)
Ben Roberts hears voices…alien voices.
When word of his abilities spreads through the galactic grapevine, Ben ranks number one on an A.I.’s most wanted list to become their cybernated slave. A bleak prospect, but what if they offered him everything he ever dreamed of in exchange?
A headstrong spaceship, with an intelligence of its own, shows up to help Ben, but he doesn’t know if it can be trusted. When he discovers a powerful alien has taken refuge on Earth, Ben makes it his mission to rescue it from the race of A.I. beings.
If he can’t find a way to survive, the balance of power throughout the universe could be altered forever.
Aliens, robots, and spaceships all rolled up into one hilarious, page-turning story. Get your copy of Hometown Space Pirate to start the adventure.
The Bond Once Broken (The Girl Once Known Book 2).
In the aftermath of Mira's hit-and-run accident, The Girl Once Known takes this dysfunctional family for another spin in its emotional, suspenseful sequel, The Bond Once Broken.
Sherry and Sierra, connected by a troubled childhood, have children who live out their mothers' legacy. While one of Sherry's daughters seems to break free from the cycle of dysfunction, Sherry herself strives to leave behind a past she'd rather forget. Meanwhile, Sierra remains chained to the past, driven by a desperate need to right a deep-seated wrong from her childhood, which leads to a life of emptiness.
The tension between Sherry and Sierra reaches a boiling point when a reunion escalates their animosity. As long-hidden secrets from their shared history erupt, they face a crucial choice: either restore their bond or settle their scores, regardless of the consequences.
Reading The Girl Once Known is strongly recommended before reading The Bond Once Broken.
Sam’s Children. Clayton 5 is risking it all - his dream job, his friends, his entire life. But is it worth it?
Another Sci-Fi/Fantasy series by award-winning Portuguese author, Bruno Martins Soares.
As he always wanted, Clayton 5, Alex 9's first love, was accepted into the elite world of Takahashi-MacNamara's Recon Unit, ready for any assignment on or off the planet Earth. But as the unit arrives at a training site in Australia, Clayton is confronted by his past and has to risk it all to find the remnants of his family. What will he find?
A story from the Alex 9 Saga universe.
It’s the 22nd century and the Corporate Wars rage through our Solar System. Alex 9, an elite commando on a crucial mission, finds herself in Deep Space. Something went wrong with her ship, and she ended up on a planet much like Earth – a world at war where Humanity is still in the Middle Ages. Armies of knights, bowmen, and spearmen clash as empires fight to the death and alliances are stretched to the limit. But is Alex there by accident? A mysterious prophecy seems to have predicted her coming. And why is she in possession of the deadly Japanese Sword of the Dragon, once the prize of the Takahashi-McNamara Corporation? What secret powers are at work? In this new world, she will have to find a new family, a new mission, and her own destiny.
Available at Amazon.
Le Cabaret Rock: Abattoir Lullaby An irreverant horror story in a gothic underground world. A strange musician looking for a new life meets a weird cabaret murderous gang. His life will never be the same. And, if he's not careful, neither will his death.
While running away from his troubled past, a Parisian live performer enters a bizarre and obscure avant-garde theatrical scene and finds himself hunted by the most unsuspected criminals the city has ever seen.
This narrative begins where the more conventional performative arts usually cease, in the Goth domains of the Cabaret Rock aesthetic - a lifestyle subjugated by authenticity, passion and dark psychological shadows.
This irreverent story now appears in its novel version, after its homonymous theatrical show and original soundtrack. In the year of its premiere, this play received the applause of 40,000 spectators, remaining to this day over successive seasons, as the most performed show at the Nirvana Studios.
SIEGE The distance from hero to monster will be counted in corpses
A Dark Action-Packed Military Sci-Fi Thriller
Millicent Cuff leads a regular teenage life. She hikes in the hills, obsesses over boys and is desperate to leave a good impression at her upcoming birthday celebration. When an experimental aircraft crashes close to her village, she recovers a strange broken sphere from the wreckage. The life she knew will be forever changed when an army places her village under siege and comes for her.
Hellinix, a shadowy multinational corporation, wants their artifact back and will stop at nothing to get it, even if that means threatening her friends and family. But they hadn’t counted on the other village secret: that Millicent’s father and his closest friends are some of the hardest men on the planet—retired SAS commandos.
But when Millicent goes to ground to hide the sphere and receives a significant head-wound, Hellinix will wish they had killed her when they had the chance.
She was trained by her dad to survive. She’s used to taking hard knocks. But this battle will leave more than physical scars.
Siege is the dark, action-packed prequel to the Zero-Point Awakening Series: a quirky serialized science-fiction thriller.
Save the World. Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Fix the Planet.
Climate change is no longer a vague future threat. Forests are burning, currents are shifting, and massive storms dump staggering amounts of water in less than 24 hours. Sometimes it’s hard to look ahead and see a hopeful future.
We asked sci-fi writers to send us stories about ways to save the world from climate change. From the myriad of stories we received, we chose the twenty most amazing (and hopefully prescient) tales.
Dive in and find out how we might mitigate climate change via solar mirrors, carbon capture, genetic manipulation, and acts of change both large and small.
The future’s not going to fix itself.
Apache Tomahawk. In the pre-dawn New Mexico desert, Zini, a young Apache girl, awakens to gunshots, and grabs the mystical tomahawk, given to her tribe by men from the stars eons ago.
The Galaxy powers are about to go to war with the earth is in the middle.
In the pre-dawn silence of the New Mexico desert, Zini, a young Apache girl, awakens to gunshots and discovers her home under attack. Her grandfather, a tribal elder, had previously warned her about a vision involving mystical artifacts—the tomahawk and Seeing Stone—passed down through their lineage from visitors once described as "men from the stars." As the assailant nears the house, Zini recalls her grandfather's teachings and the importance of these relics. Armed with the tomahawk, which possesses extraordinary abilities when wielded by the chosen, she bursts from her room to find her grandfather confronting the intruder. Despite her efforts, her grandfather is killed, and Zini uses the tomahawk to avenge him. Overcome with grief yet fueled by purpose, she flees the scene with the artifacts, determined to protect them as her grandfather instructed. As she drives into the uncertain future, she recalls the lore passed down by her ancestors and realizes that more enemies will come. With the Seeing Stone growing warm in her pocket, she sets her sights on a new life in Vermont, determined to honor her grandfather's legacy and stay true to her warrior lineage, knowing the "bad men" will inevitably return.