Kate MacLeod

Writer of science fiction and fantasy

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Who likes audiobooks?

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I’ve been working on audiobook versions of my novels for a few months now. It’s been such a fun experience, hearing professional narrators read my dialogue giving each character a distinct voice; I’m in awe of their talent. MITWA and THE WHOLE WORLD FOR EACH are available (links below), with UNDER FALLING SKIES beginning the slow trickle out into the markets now. THE MARS OF MALCONTENTS is about to start production, with IN QUAKING HILLS the next up. If you like audiobooks, here are links to where you can pick these up:

Amazon:
Audible:
Audiobooks.com:
LibroFM:
eStories:
Scribd:
Nook:

These are also available in other venues that I can’t give links to, like Apple/iBooks for instance. And my distributor also works with public libraries, so your local library can get a copy for you to check out if you request it (the same is true of all my electronic books and also of the print versions of my novels and 10-story collections).

This week only: a free novel and a free novella!

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I’m just dropping you all a quick note to let you know I’m part of the Read an EBook Week celebration over at Smashwords. From now until March 10 you can pick up a free copy of Under Falling Skies or my novella I Rise into a Daybreak, and because it’s Smashwords you will get it in any format for any reader. There are a ton of other books either on discount or for free in all sorts of genres so be sure to check it out!

Story Bundle: Sword Wielders

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Sword Wielders

 

My short story “In the Waste Places” is in a story bundle featuring all tales of swords and sword wielders. Cool! There are a lot of terrific writers in this collection, be sure to check it out.

Here’s the back copy description for my contribution, “In the Waste Places”:

Ku-Aya drives her goats towards home, but danger follows close at their heels. Hungry hyenas desperate for food, sure, but something worse that drives the hyenas on.

The fog. It rolls in from the mountains at sunset. The cities built walls to protect them, but Ku-Aya’s village lies bare, only standing stones marking the graves of her ancestors keep her safe. If she reaches them in time.

A stranger fights the hyenas but stands in motionless terror at the fog. Ku-Aya knows a citydweller when she sees one, but why so far from the cities?

“In the Waste Places”, a high fantasy set in the “Goddess-Bereft World”, continues the story of Enanatuma from the story “Oil Fire”.

Check it out here!

Short Story Bundle!

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BIG BUNDLE OF SHORTS...STORIES!

 

My short story “Gardens of Wind” is part of a short story bundle that goes on sale today! There is a wide variety of tales in this bundle from a bunch of terrific writers, such a great way to sample a bunch of great fiction. You can check it out here.

And here’s the sales copy for my contribution:

Akeli lives in a village of tethered balloons and airships far above the unlivable surface of the Earth, but under the cruel thumb of her uncle.

Her baby girl fell down to Earth a year ago. An airship full of sailors docks and her uncle demands Akeli get a new baby for the good of the clan.

Her cousins know all about wooing men. They always outshine quiet Akeli. But not today.

A familiar story of village life in a most unfamiliar village.

My latest novella I Rise into a Daybreak available for preorder.

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Second bit of writing news this week: my novella I RISE INTO A DAYBREAK is coming out next Tuesday, September 26 and is already available for preorder.

This is my “what if Alien had been a rite of passage movie?” novella.

Here’s the back of the book sales copy:

When a cosmic monstrosity swallowed the Earth, the survivors fled to hide among the stars. The scars on Kara’s mind linger from infancy to adolescence. The monster follows them wherever they go. Kara knows this whatever the others say.
Then Kara and her family crash land near an empty mining town on an abandoned world. The pilot utters not a word, lost speechless in a terror Kara knows all too well.
No functional pilot? No escape. And something lurks in the rainy fog, watching them.
“I Rise into a Daybreak”, a sci-fi horror novella where rite de passage meets cosmic terror.

It will be available everywhere, digital and print, on September 26, or you can preorder now at Amazon, Smashwords and Apple.

Publication day for The Whole World for Each

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My latest novel The Whole World for Each is out now in eBook and print! Here’s the back cover copy:

After humankind fled Earth for space they discovered one inescapable truth. People die in space. And lots of dead people means lots of ghosts. April Nguyen earns a nice living getting rid of those ghosts. People all over the Solar System clamor for her aid.
April’s only problem? Never actually seeing a ghost. She pretends, she feigns, she completely convinces her clients, but she fears her inevitable exposure as a fraud.
And then comes Hakim, the ultimate suspicious sceptic watching her every move. And yet April feels herself drawn to him. He knows a whole other world.
“The Whole World for Each”, a story about belief and disbelief and how we jump between the two. Humankind escaped Earth, but not death and what comes after.

You can pick it up now in eBook or print from:
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074RMNRXP…
Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-whole-worl…/1126968221…
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-whole-world-for-each
Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/741953…
And other places books2read.com/u/bWZ9PW