New Edition of Aetherborne Book 1... And More to Come!

The second edition of Aetherborne Book 1: A Tale from Elsewhere is now available on Amazon. Most obviously, it comes with new (hopefully much nicer) cover art, but I also changed and fixed a couple of details about the book itself.

More importantly, though, this update harbingers the upcoming release of Aetherborne Book 2: The Oblivion Valley Oddity, which I suppose will officially make this a series—as originally intended almost exactly four years ago when I first published Book 1, naively believing I would get around to finish a sequel “soon”. That timeframe alone makes me somewhat reluctant to promise an actual release date for Book 2, but it might or might not drop next weekend(-ish).

I’m also using this opportunity to temporarily make Book 1 Amazon-exclusive… again. Once more, I’d like to try the associated promotion tools, hoping they might be useful to reach a slightly wider audience with this new edition. Honestly, I’m really just messing around when it comes to promotion and marketing strategies, I genuinely have no idea what I’m doing. It will probably be available in other formats again at some point; “soon”, I suppose?

It's Another Writer's Blog!

Ooh, it's a potential reader! Hey there. Bear with me.

I'm Marco Craine, writer of the tongue-in-cheek space fantasy Aetherborne. Pick up the fun, little sci-fi romp Aetherborne Book 1: A Tale from Elsewhere on Smashwords or Amazon and meet small-time space explorers Sar-Shey and Kirido on their first ill-fated mission to stay out of deadly trouble.

Keen observers may already have spotted the subtle tell-tale signs that this is intended as a series starter. Don't panic, though: The first ebook pretty much stands on its own, thanks to my deep and heartfelt contempt for cliffhangers.

While Book 2 is in the making, I may or may not use this blog to post an occasional artwork and keep my imaginary imaginative readership up to date. Quite frankly, I also hope to attract more potential readers by running a blog, because... you know... successful writers have blogs; therefore, it follows that having a blog will make me a successful writer. 😕 I guess there's no cult like a good, old-fashioned cargo cult.

Also, running a blog lets me pretend that I have an audience. It's really a two-in-one feel-good package deal.

So why are you still here? Grab a cup of tea (or a beer, if that's what helps you make an impulse buy), head over to Smashwords or somewhere and buy my stupid book be one of the first to experience this engaging new series by Marco Craine. I promise it's going to be vastly more fun than reading some pointless promotional blog post.

It will also last longer.