by Sarah Noffke
Why yes, I’ve digressed. Moving on. Nicole Emens was the smarty-pants who gave me the idea for the adorable creature who tried to bite Eddie’s hand off. Love that. Lori Hendricks also encouraged me to finally bring Jules and Eddie together. She also offered up a lot of awesome ideas that I’ve thrown into many of the books. And it was Ron Gailey and Diane Brenner who gave me the ideas for the weapons. So good. Last, but never least it was Alastar Wilson who had the suggestion for the Corvette Stingray which Pip wrecks into a nuclear missile, because we go big or we go home.
I hope I’m not missing anyone, and I’m sure I am. Sorry. I’m so grateful for all the suggestions. You all really encourage me. Thank you to JIT for making each book better. I wished I could spend all day chatting with everyone on Facebook but then there would be no books.
Speaking of butterscotch and dimples, I’ll turn you over to the guy you all came to see. Here’s Michael-Fucking-Anderson.
Author Notes - Michael Anderle
May 15th, 2018
Seriously, Noffke? Anderson?
So, first (or second, depending on how you look at things), THANK YOU for not only reading our stories, but reading all seven in this series, and now reading our Author Notes at the end!
Sarah is already working hard to the next adventures, and I am going to surprise her (eventually) with a logo for a coffee mug. (Editor’s note: Um, MA, maybe not so much of a surprise now?) More on that in her next book!
Now I’m going to give you a little inside scoop and discuss another series we are working on.
More specifically, I’m going to tell you a bit about how collaborating with Sarah worked out to modify the angle of the series.
One of the interesting aspects of collaboration has to do with inspiration. We can often talk back and forth and go down various rabbit trails and holes until we come up with a concept we both like. Me, I often feel out what my collaborator likes and go from there.
Except with Sarah. Sarah’s take makes it a bit different…because she likes the bad guys.
I know it takes a good bad guy to carry a story, but I’m kind of a good guy (or girl) type of author. I like to dream up neat protagonists we get to spend time with and go from there.
Sarah, on the other hand, likes to think of slavering teeth connected to bodies that turn your dreams go upside down and make you want to call your Mom although you’re forty-eight.
Just kidding, I’m not forty-eight.
However, this time she was waxing poetic about a monster type and I was like ‘huh?’ then, “Hey, I have something to show you! Are you near your computer?”
She was.
If you have spent any time in our Kurtherian Gambit series, you have probably come across a monster or alien drawn by Eric Quigley.
Eric is responsible for making my lazy alien descriptions come alive.
A long time ago (well, “long” in Indie Publishing Time, or IPT), Eric was messing around with some drawings for LARGE aliens…and I wanted them. They weren’t based on any of my descriptions, but I liked them and I could afford to purchase four (4) of them and hold them “for later.”
But later never came.
Except…now I pulled them up on the computer and sent them to my monster-loving collaborator to see what she thought of them.
And of course, our little Eat the Humans loved them all!
We spit-balled concepts back and forth for a series that might include LARGE-ASSED MONSTERS (LAMs)—or I guess they could be LARGE-ASSED ALIENS (LAAs)—and be (for me) a lot of fun.
It took us about fourteen minutes to hammer out the bones of the idea, and we are pretty damned excited to move the series along. Unfortunately, it won’t be out in a few weeks like most of our efforts, since we have the aforementioned AOE series starting up soon.
But we WILL get to it…I promise!
Now, back to Michael-fucking-Anderson…
Sarah and I were talking a little yesterday about this new series and she mentioned that she was going to give me a softball toss to help me with my author notes.
How nice that the softball toss was a purposeful mistake with my last name.
There goes the branding.
Here I could say something about Sarah’s (very) slow slide down the slippery slope of her mental faculties for making such a simple mistake (but I won’t.) Or I could discuss my last name as being easily mistaken (it usually isn’t, believe it or not.)
What I will say is that I find my collaborator too damned nice to say anything ugly and leave it at that.
When Sarah and I spoke a couple of months ago, she told me the story that if we die without sharing that song, that music, that story in our mind, then it dies with us. I still think about that to this day.
Because of that little story—and a lot of time thinking about stories dying with us—LMBPN Publishing (my company) is going to do something pretty DAMNED ballsy for a small indie publishing house.
We are going to try and hit four hundred (400!) book releases in 2019.
Four Hundred!
To give this number some context, that is a release every day of the year plus a few more.
There are the “Big Four” trad pub houses, and I believe the fifth largest is Kensington (family-owned) and they have been around for decades (since the 70s, maybe?)
I read yesterday that all five publish seven hundred (700) stories a year.
LMBPN is just two and a half years old, and if we come close to hitting four hundred books in 2019 we will be in the top five percent of all fiction publishing companies (I believe).
Whether we make it, or not, I’m very proud to know that Sarah will be with us, trying like hell to help us hit our numbers!
Please join us in our quest and see just how many LMBPN books YOU can read, and perhaps we will have Jeff Bezos asking…
“Who the HELL is LMBPN Publishing?”
Ad Aeternitatem,
Michael Anderson Anderle
Books by Sarah Noffke
Sarah Noffke, an Amazon Best Seller, writes YA and NA sci-fi fantasy, paranormal and urban fantasy. She is the author of the Lucidites, Reverians, Ren, Vagabond Circus, Olento Research and Soul Stone Mage series. Noffke holds a Masters of Management and teaches college business courses. Most of her students have no idea that she toils away her hours crafting fictional characters. Noffke's books are top rated and best-sellers on Kindle. Currently, she has eighteen novels published. Her books are available in paperback, audio and in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. http://www.sarahnoffke.com
Check out other work by this author here.
The Soul Stone Mage Series:
House of Enchanted #1:
The Kingdom of Virgo has lived in peace for thousands of years…until now.
The humans from Terran have always been real assholes to the witches of Virgo. Now a silent war is brewing, and the timing couldn’t be worse. Princess Azure will soon be crowned queen of the Kingdom of Virgo.
In the Dark Forest a powerful potion-maker has been murdered.
Charmsgood was the only wizard who could stop a deadly virus plaguing Virgo. He also knew about the devastation the people from Terran had done to the forest.
Azure must protect her people. Mend the Dark Forest. Create alliances with savage beasts. No biggie, right?
But on coronation day everything changes. Princess Azure isn’t who she thought she was and that’s a big freaking problem.
Welcome to The Revelations of Oriceran. Check out the entire series here.
The Lucidites Series:
Awoken, #1:
Around the world humans are hallucinating after sleepless nights.
In a sterile, underground institute the forecasters keep reporting the same events.
And in the backwoods of Texas, a sixteen-year-old girl is about to be caught up in a fierce, ethereal battle.
Meet Roya Stark. She drowns every night in her dr
eams, spends her hours reading classic literature to avoid her family’s ridicule, and is prone to premonitions—which are becoming more frequent. And now her dreams are filled with strangers offering to reveal what she has always wanted to know: Who is she? That’s the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out. But will Roya live to regret learning the truth?
Stunned, #2
Revived, #3
The Reverians Series:
Defects, #1:
In the happy, clean community of Austin Valley, everything appears to be perfect. Seventeen-year-old Em Fuller, however, fears something is askew. Em is one of the new generation of Dream Travelers. For some reason, the gods have not seen fit to gift all of them with their expected special abilities. Em is a Defect—one of the unfortunate Dream Travelers not gifted with a psychic power. Desperate to do whatever it takes to earn her gift, she endures painful daily injections along with commands from her overbearing, loveless father. One of the few bright spots in her life is the return of a friend she had thought dead—but with his return comes the knowledge of a shocking, unforgivable truth. The society Em thought was protecting her has actually been betraying her, but she has no idea how to break away from its authority without hurting everyone she loves.
Rebels, #2
Warriors, #3
Vagabond Circus Series:
Suspended, #1:
When a stranger joins the cast of Vagabond Circus—a circus that is run by Dream Travelers and features real magic—mysterious events start happening. The once orderly grounds of the circus become riddled with hidden threats. And the ringmaster realizes not only are his circus and its magic at risk, but also his very life.
Vagabond Circus caters to the skeptics. Without skeptics, it would close its doors. This is because Vagabond Circus runs for two reasons and only two reasons: first and foremost to provide the lost and lonely Dream Travelers a place to be illustrious. And secondly, to show the nonbelievers that there’s still magic in the world. If they believe, then they care, and if they care, then they don’t destroy. They stop the small abuse that day-by-day breaks down humanity’s spirit. If Vagabond Circus makes one skeptic believe in magic, then they halt the cycle, just a little bit. They allow a little more love into this world. That’s Dr. Dave Raydon’s mission. And that’s why this ringmaster recruits. That’s why he directs. That’s why he puts on a show that makes people question their beliefs. He wants the world to believe in magic once again.
Paralyzed, #2
Released, #3
Ren Series:
Ren: The Man Behind the Monster, #1:
Born with the power to control minds, hypnotize others, and read thoughts, Ren Lewis, is certain of one thing: God made a mistake. No one should be born with so much power. A monster awoke in him the same year he received his gifts. At ten years old. A prepubescent boy with the ability to control others might merely abuse his powers, but Ren allowed it to corrupt him. And since he can have and do anything he wants, Ren should be happy. However, his journey teaches him that harboring so much power doesn’t bring happiness, it steals it. Once this realization sets in, Ren makes up his mind to do the one thing that can bring his tortured soul some peace. He must kill the monster.
*Note* This book is NA and has strong language, violence and sexual references.
Ren: God’s Little Monster, #2
Ren: The Monster Inside the Monster, #3
Ren: The Monster’s Adventure, #3.5
Ren: The Monster’s Death
Olento Research Series:
Alpha Wolf, #1:
Twelve men went missing.
Six months later they awake from drug-induced stupors to find themselves locked in a lab.
And on the night of a new moon, eleven of those men, possessed by new—and inhuman—powers, break out of their prison and race through the streets of Los Angeles until they disappear one by one into the night.
Olento Research wants its experiments back. Its CEO, Mika Lenna, will tear every city apart until he has his werewolves imprisoned once again. He didn’t undertake a huge risk just to lose his would-be assassins.
However, the Lucidite Institute’s main mission is to save the world from injustices. Now, it’s Adelaide’s job to find these mutated men and protect them and society, and fast. Already around the nation, wolflike men are being spotted. Attacks on innocent women are happening. And then, Adelaide realizes what her next step must be: She has to find the alpha wolf first. Only once she’s located him can she stop whoever is behind this experiment to create wild beasts out of human beings.
Lone Wolf, #2
Rabid Wolf, #3
Bad Wolf, #4
Books By Michael Anderle
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