Two New Books by Steven Harper

[harfner]

I'd like to announce that Dreamer and Nightmare, the first two novels of my Silent Empire series have come to the Kindle. 

Both are science fiction.  Dreamer is adventure and space opera.  Nightmare is a hunt for a serial killer.  Although they're in a series, both books stand entirely alone.  I put the cover blurbs below, for those who want to look.  Price: $1.79.



DREAMER
It is through first contact with an alien species that humanity learns of the Dream. It is a plane of mental existence where people are able to communicate by their thoughts alone--over distances of thousands of light-years. To ensure that future generations will have this ability, human genetic engineering produces newborns capable of finding and navigating the Dream.

They become known as the Silent.

Rust is just one planet among many in the Empire of Human Unity. It's nothing special, nothing unusual...except for the fact that it is home to an unknown boy who may be the most powerful Silent telepath ever born--a Silent with the ability to possess the bodies of others against their will. This mysterious child may be causing tremors within the Dream itself.

For now, only the Children of Irfan know about him. A monastic-like order of the Silent, the Children protect their members even as they barter their services with the governments and corporations that control known space. But power like that cannot be hidden, and soon every Silent in the universe will know about the boy--and every government will be willing to go to war to control him.

And if the Children of Irfan cannot find him first, the Dream itself may be shattered...

NIGHTMARE
In the future, dreams keep the universe running. Dreamers, known as "Silent," are able to look into other people's dreams, communicate with other Silent across the galaxy, and speak to aliens. Silent construct dreams for themselves more vivid than reality.

But some dreams have become nightmares...

Kendi Weaver doesn't know he's Silent. Hijacked into slavery, he has resigned himself to a life of servitude. Then the discovery of his innate gift for dream communication changes everything. Suddenly Kendi is a very valuable commodity. He is rescued by the Children of Irfan--a society dedicated to freeing enslaved Silent--and taken to their planet, Bellerophon.

But Bellerophon is hardly a safe refuge. A brutal serial killer is murdering Silent in their telepathic dreams, and Kendi is soon embroiled in a world of madness and murder. To catch the killer, he must enter the victims' dreams...

[liannallama]

Oh, darn you Steven Harper!  You are a cruel and evil man!  I got your books this weekend and blew through them both in a day and a half.  I read them in the wrong order but they still were the most engaging books I have read in a while!  I'm desperate for #3 and then yesterday I found out it is not on Kindle yet!  How can you do that to your loyal fans!  I was ready to pay full price to grab them and then I had to figure out something else to read!  Please get 3 & 4 up soon and then you can hurry and finish writing more, LOL!  you do a great job with your characters and your interesting world and I can't wait to know what happens to them next!

hurry--I'm dying!  If you need someone to pre-read the kindle copies for small typos and errors, please let me know!  I'd love to read them and report back to you (especially if it gets me reading them any sooner, LOL!)

[CS]

Not the Canadian Prime Minister, I take it?

[harfner]

Thanks for the wonderful review!  And sorry the others weren't there yet.    The books were really fun to write.

TRICKSTER should be up within a week, and OFFSPRING soon after that.  I'll definitely post a notice here to let everyone know.

Oh, darn you Steven Harper!  You are a cruel and evil man!  I got your books this weekend and blew through them both in a day and a half.  I read them in the wrong order but they still were the most engaging books I have read in a while!  I'm desperate for #3 and then yesterday I found out it is not on Kindle yet!  How can you do that to your loyal fans!  I was ready to pay full price to grab them and then I had to figure out something else to read!  Please get 3 & 4 up soon and then you can hurry and finish writing more, LOL!  you do a great job with your characters and your interesting world and I can't wait to know what happens to them next!

hurry--I'm dying!  If you need someone to pre-read the kindle copies for small typos and errors, please let me know!  I'd love to read them and report back to you (especially if it gets me reading them any sooner, LOL!)

[harfner]

Ha!  No, and I'd known someone with that name (even though he spells it with a ph) was going to be elected up in Canada, I would have chosen a different pen name.  It's kind of a problem--when people type "Steven Harper" into Google, the search engine asks if they meant "Stephen Harper"  instead.  But the reverse isn't true.  So searches for my name can direct people to Canada, but searches on the Canadian PM don't bring people to me.   

Not the Canadian Prime Minister, I take it?

[harfner]

Just to let everyone know, I interviewed fellow author Pearl North (aka Anne Harris) here at my blog: http://spiziks.livejournal.com/ .  For years she and I were in the same writers group, but then Pearl took on a professorship and something had to give.

[harfner]

Wow!  My LiveJournal hits have climbed lately, and I think it's because of you guys over here.  That's so cool!    TRICKSTER, the third Silent Empire book, should be Kindle-ready soon.  I'll definitely announce it.  The people over here are so great.  I love the general nice tone and the complete lack of flame wars like I see in so many other forums.

[liannallama]

Steven:
HURRY!  I want the new books, LOL!  And don't skimp on the price--anyone who's read the first two will happily pay $6 for the next two, LOL!

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[harfner]

Heh heh.  You say that, and dollar signs replace my pupils.