Episode 4: Death of an Unglok
Episode 5: Grandfather
Episode 6: SAGCON
Episode 7: Race to the Finish
Episode 8: TBD
Episode 9: TBD
Episode 10: TBD
Episode 11 TBD
Episode 12: TBD
The Chronicles of Kin Roland
Book 1 – Enemy of Man (also available on audiobook) Book 2 – Son of Orlan (also available on audiobook)
Book 3 – Weapons of Earth (also available on audiobook)
SMC Marauders
Book 1 – Bayonet Dawn
Book 2 – Burning Sun
Grendel Uprising
Episode 1: Proof of Death
Episode 2: Blood Royal
Episode 3: Heavy Weapons
Son of a Dragonslayer
Book 1 – Dragon Badge (also available on audiobook)
Book 2 – Dragon Attack (also available on audiobook)
Book 3 – Dragon Land
Other Books by Craig Martelle
The Terry Henry Walton Chronicles, a Kurtherian Gambit Series, co-written with Michael Anderle
World’s Worst Day Ever (a short prequel of sorts)
Book 1 – Nomad Found (also available on audiobook)
Book 2 – Nomad Redeemed (also available on audiobook)
Book 3 - Nomad Unleashed (also available on audiobook)
Book 4 - Nomad Supreme (also available on audiobook)
Book 5 – Nomad’s Fury (also available on audiobook)
Book 6 – Nomad’s Justice (also available on audiobook)
Book 7 – Nomad Avenged (also available on audiobook)
Book 8 – Nomad Mortis (also available on audiobook)
Book 9 – Nomad’s Force (also available on audiobook)
Book 10 – Nomad’s Galaxy (also available on audiobook)
Nomad’s Journal – A Terry Henry Walton Short Story Collection
The Bad Company (with Michael Anderle)
Book 0 – Gateway to the Universe (with Justin Sloan)
Book 1 – The Bad Company
Book 2 – Blockade
Book 3 – The Price of Freedom (Coming in 2018)
Books 4-8 - TBD
Free Trader Series
Book 1 – The Free Trader of Warren Deep
Book 2 – The Free Trader of Planet Vii
Book 3 – Adventures on RV Traveler
Book 4 – Battle for the Amazon
Book 5 – Free the North!
Book 6 – Free Trader on the High Seas
Book 7 – Southern Discontent
Book 8 – The Great ‘Cat Rebellion (2018)
Book 9 – Return to the Traveler (2018)
Outpost of the Ancients – a Free Trader short story published in the Apocalyptic Space Collection, Volume 1
Cygnus Space Opera – set in the Free Trader Universe
Book 1 – Cygnus Rising
Book 2 – Cygnus Expanding
Book 3 – Cygnus Arrives
Cygnus Omnibus – Books 1 to 3 under one cover and also as an audiobook
Darklanding with Scott Moon
See above
End Times Alaska Series, a Winlock Press publication
Book 1: Endure (also available on audiobook)
Book 2: Run (also available on audiobook)
Book 3: Return (also available on audiobook)
Book 4: Fury (also available on audiobook)
Rick Banik Thrillers
People Raged and the Sky Was on Fire (also available on audiobook)
The Heart Raged (Coming)
Paranoid in Paradise – a short story within the Close to Bones Anthology
Short Stories (and where you can find them)
Just One More Fight (published as a novella standalone)
Wisdom’s Journey (published as a novella standalone)
Fear Peace (published as a short story standalone)
The Trenches of Centauri Prime
The Outcast (published as a short story standalone)
Defense of the Deep Space Denali (published as a short story standalone)
Mystically Engineered (published as a short story standalone)
A Language Barrier (in The Expanding Universe Vol 3)
The Misadventures of Jacob Wild McKilljoy (with Michael-Scott Earle) (Always FREE)
Box Sets & Anthologies
Trader, Cygnus, & People Raged – Martelle Starter Library
Close to the Bones, a Thriller Anthology (edited by Martha Carr)
The Expanding Universe, Volume 1 (edited by Craig Martelle)
The Expanding Universe, Volume 2 (edited by Craig Martelle)
The Expanding Universe, Volume 3 (edited by Craig Martelle)
Earth Prime Anthology, Volume 1 (Stephen Lee & James M. Ward)
Apocalyptic Space Short Story Collection (Stephen Lee & James M. Ward)
Lunar Resorts Anthology, Volume 2 (Stephen Lee & James M. Ward)
Metamorphosis Alpha – Chronicles from the Warden Vol 1 (with James M. Ward, edited by Craig Martelle)
Metamorphosis Alpha – Chronicles from the Warden Vol 2 (with James M. Ward, edited by Craig Martelle) (Dec 2017)
Author Notes: Scott Moon
Are you having as much fun in Darklanding as I am? Sound strange? Like I might actually be living there?
Well, it is what it is.
Writing a series of standalone but linked stories that add up to over 300,000 words creates a rather large sandbox to play in. Especially when your collaborator introduces the back story of a character like Shaunte Plastes and her father. (I loved episode 6!) Bringing the TerroCom forces to Darklanding is like having that fort full of soldiers just far enough away to forget about until there is a war. The lid is about to blow off the quiet little mining planet at the ass end of nowhere. I hope Sheriff fry and his friends are ready.
I am chronic daydreamer. Shocker, right?
I have totally fallen for these characters. I cheer for the ones I like and shake my fist at the ones I hate. There are some nasty villains taking the stage in future episodes. Real slime-bags. Trust me, you’ll want to punch a certain Low Altitude Racing (LAR) pilot in episode seven.
When Craig explained to me the direction Darklanding 6 was going, I was really excited. First of all, I’m huge fan of the military and the Marine Corps specifically. Craig's knowledge and experience can’t be over appreciated. His second career as a lawyer brings his curriculum vitae for writing this episode full circle. (Please don’t ask me to use any more big words. Took me three minutes to spell curriculum vitae and double-check the definition!)
Things are getting real in Darklanding. The characters are coming alive, mysteries are being discovered, unraveled, and replaced with new mysteries. But most of all, I’m being welcomed into the world of Craig Martelle and his fantastic fans.
In all my years of writing and storytelling, which is basically my entire life, I never been welcomed with such enthusiasm. These author notes are my cornball-attempt to say thanks to try and express my amazement. Recently I had a long discussion with a prominent editor in the business who agreed with me. Good beta readers and stalwart fans are pure gold. As a writer, it means everything when someone enjoys what I’ve done.
Each time I write a story and send it off to Craig I know it's going to his team and will get all the loving care any artist could dream of for his or her work. So without listing everyone by name, thank you and please know that you are the world to this writer.
Author Notes: Craig Martelle
Written on 3/1/18
Look at you (if you’re reading this, I’m looking at you) and I’m thanking you for still reading! Not only did you read this episode of Darklanding, you are still reading! That makes you my all-time favorite human being.
If you’ve read any of my stuff, you know that this isn’t about me, but you. I want to make sure that you’ve had a great experience reading the installments of the Darklanding serials.
Today is my wife’s birthday and for half the year, I’m not egregiously older, but then my birthday happens and I become the old guy once again.
We have an obscene amount of snow on the ground. It’s up to the bottom of the windows around the house and I have to set the snowblower to a seventy-degree angle to get the new stuff launched over the walls of snow that outline our driveway and parking pad. We have to have our water and fuel oil delivered so I need to clean out a large area. There’s no way to do it by hand, so have a big ol’ tractor with a snowblower attachment up front (40” wide), but it’s been giving me fits this year. I’m on my third belt, and each time it takes longer and longer for Amazon Prime to deliver a new belt. I bought a three-pack with my last purchase.
I have a walk-behind snowblower, but it’s only 24” wide and I have to walk. It’s self-propelled, but there’s so much snow I have to walk at about half a mile an hour so the augur doesn’t choke on the piles of white stuff I’m ramming into it. In any case, It’s now March 2nd, UPS delivered my new belts last night, I installed one this morning (I am now an expert at doing this and can get it done in under three minutes), and I’m ready to head out momentarily and finish what I’ve been hacking at for the past week. Because the next big snowstorm is two days away. If I don’t get what we have cleaned up now, even my tractor won’t be able to plow through it. Then we’d be in a real pickle because we need water and fuel oil. They are important to survival in the middle of Alaska.
Follow up – the new belt for my tractor worked perfectly. It was also the least expensive belt I could buy. Weird, but the expensive ones were torn up in a hurry. The cheap rubber one stayed on the guides without issue and powered through the heaviest snow.
Before I bail out, I want to thank Scott Moon again for his support and work on Darklanding. He is making it what it is and is a complete pleasure to work with. I will be incredibly pleased to let him buy me a beer when we meet in Las Vegas in November.
I'm a lifelong daydreamer and student of human interaction. I have some degrees, but those don't matter when it comes to telling the story. Engaging characters within a believable narrative—that's what it’s all about. I live in the interior of Alaska, far away from an awful lot, but I love it here. It is natural beauty at its finest.
Peace, fellow humans.
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We’d like to thank the following beta readers who make sure that this story goes to you as error free as humanly possible. They also keep us on track with the stories. What a great group of people we have helping us to tell better stories.
Micky Cocker
Kelly O’Donnell
James Caplan
Diane Velasquez
Dorene Johnson
Scott and I would both like to thank our families for putting up with us as we share the stories in our heads. We type slowly and it takes time to capture the words. Thank you for taking care of us while we’re doing our thing.
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