CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

  As you may already know, I'm a member of the International Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors (IASFA), which supports SFF authors, regardless of where in their career, they're at.   This month, we have a boatload of science-fiction titles either discounted to 99c or for Free - and you can check out their authors and see if your next favorite is among them. One of those titles is A Planet's Ransom , the first book in my Ransomeer's series. You can find it in this month's IASFA Science Fiction Promotion at https://iasfa.org/may24 .  It's a reading smorgasbord. If you don't mind signing up for the IASFA newsletter, there's buffet of books waiting .  And as you also might already know, the IASFA runs a promotion of free or 99c books every month, where they ask for a reader's first name and email address so they can add that reader to their newsletter mailing list. As an additional bonus for signing up to the IASFA newsletter as p...

On the writing front, we have today's reading. With the arrival of the Heritage, things get serious, and Laurie discovers the truth about her computer mentor. The ebook from which this reading is taken is currently free over at the Smashwords 2023 Summer/Winter Sale. You can find it most easily on my Smashwords author page, which is here:  https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/cmsimpsonwriter

Yay! A Planet's Ransom written under my young-adult fiction pen-name, Carlie Simonsen is now out in the wild in both ebook and paperbook. You can get it from Smashwords , Amazon, and DriveThruFiction or via Draft2Digital distribution. So excited!!! Made hostages for a world whose international leaders didn’t know how to behave, we ended up on a new world, one we have to make our own, where every step of civilisation has to be earned, all over again. It’s meant to be a world to hide the secret of our survival—but not all the aliens believe we have a right to survive. Torn between two rival factions of an alien race, we have to save our keepers, defeat our hunters, and get a message to the stars. And that’s just if we want to live. Making a place for humanity, is another task altogether. A Planet’s Ransom is the second book in the Space Adventures series, a series of science fiction adventures set in space, or on the colonies of newly discovered worlds. Each...

Over the last, few days, I’ve been reviewing my pricing, and I decided to make a few changes: In preparation for bundling my existing chapter books into collections, I have repriced all individual chapter book titles from $3.99 to $2.99 U.S. This will allow existing readers to choose whether or not they want to buy individual titles, or wait the two years for the first bundle of any series to come out. It will also give new readers a way to catch up, more easily, on an existing series. Collections will be priced at $4.99, and will contain a minimum of 4 individual chapter book titles. I also repriced all my novels to $5.99 U.S., and all collections and anthologies to $4.99. And, finally, all pre-orders will be priced at $2.99 until the day of their release, when they will be repriced to their usual sales price, whatever it may be. This means that A Planet’s Ransom is currently priced at $2.99, but will go back up to $4.99 on, or shortly after January 13th (U.S. EST). And th...

The ebook for A Planet's Ransom my latest young-adult, science-fiction novel as Carlie Simonsen , is now available for pre-order from Smashwords – and it will soon be available from Amazon for pre-order. It’s ready for its release on January 13, 2018. It’s another one I thoroughly enjoyed writing. Made hostages for a world whose international leaders didn’t know how to behave, we ended up on a new world, one we have to make our own, where every step of civilisation has to be earned, all over again. It’s meant to be a world to hide the secret of our survival—but not all the aliens believe we have a right to survive. Torn between two rival factions of an alien race, we have to save our keepers, defeat our hunters, and get a message to the stars. And that’s just if we want to live. Making a place for humanity, is another task altogether. A Planet’s Ransom is the second book in the Space Adventures series, a series of science fiction adventures set in space, or on...

The cover for A Planet's Ransom   came through on Sunday. This is the second book in the Space Adventures series that I'm writing as Carlie Simonsen. I love the neon affect! Made hostages for a world whose international leaders didn’t know how to behave, we ended up on a new world, one we have to make our own, where every step of civilisation has to be earned, all over again. It’s meant to be a world to hide the secret of our survival—but not all the aliens believe we have a right to survive. Torn between two rival factions of an alien race, we have to save our keepers, defeat our hunters, and get a message to the stars. And that’s just if we want to live. Making a place for humanity, is another task altogether. A Planet’s Ransom is the second book in the Space Adventures series, a series of science fiction adventures set in space, or on the colonies of newly discovered worlds. Each book is a stand-alone story that can be read without needing to read o...