So my friend and fellow Baen author Patrick Chiles has a new book. Whenever this happens, a top secret, coded signal is broadcast which summons other Baen authors from central Ohio to his aid. Thus, I will join Pat and another Baen author, Joelle Presby, for a book signing event Friday, April 14th at 7:00 pm at The Book Loft of German Village (map).
Thanks to Joelle for this sweet graphic
About The Authors
Patrick Chiles began his writing career with the self-published novels Perigee and Farside, which were acquired by Baen Books in 2016. His subsequent Baen novels, Frozen Orbit, Frontier, and Escape Orbit, have established him as a rising talent in the genre of realistic, near-future science fiction. His short stories have been featured in the Baen anthologies World Breakers, Worlds Long Lost, and The Ross 248 Project.
Joelle Presby is a former U.S. Navy nuclear engineering officer turned corporate consultant turned writer who grew up in West Africa. Her first-reader husband works for NASA. They live in Ohio with their two children.
Dan Koboldt is the author of the Gateways to Alissia trilogy (Harper Voyager), the editor of Putting the Science in Fiction ( Writers Digest, 2018), and the creator of the sci-fi adventure serial The Triangle ( Serial Box, 2019). He is also the author of The Build-A-Dragon Sequence with Baen Books.
Our Latest Books
Escape Orbit by Patrick Chiles
THRILLING SPACE ADVENTURE FROM A MARINE VET!IN A RACE AGAINST TIME, A GATEWAY TO THE UNKNOWN AWAITS
A Thrilling New Space AdventureFive years ago, astronaut Jack Templeton took the spacecraft Magellan to the farthest reaches of our solar system, never to be heard from again.
Until now.
When the Magellan suddenly reappears where an undiscovered planet was suspected to be, it poses more questions than answers. How did Jack survive all this time? Can he make it back to Earth before his life support runs out? And what is the object long thought to be the elusive “Planet Nine”?In a race against time, Jack’s former crewmate Traci Keene spearheads a desperate effort to outfit a rescue mission. But she has competition. Agencies of both American and foreign governments have their own agendas, and saving rogue astronauts isn’t among them.
And at the edge of all that is known, a gateway to the unknown awaits.
The Dabare Snake Launcher by Joelle Presby
New money, old tribes, and international megacorps race to build the first space elevator.
The Sadous, a nouveau riche West African family, are handed a plum contract as repayment for a decades-old favor that could make them all rich-if the family doesn’t tear itself apart first. Two engineer daughters of the Sadou family, Pascaline and Maurie, upon whom the burden of success rests, have troubles of their own. One wants nothing more than to leave and make her own name as an engineering prodigy, while the other is troubled by fever dreams and snakes.
Ethan Schmidt-Li is an ambitious megacorp executive with eyes on a big promotion-only to get more than he bargained for when put in charge of the company’s make-or-break project. Endeley Adamou is the powerful nephew of a Bakweri chieftain walking the fine line between modernization and tribal tradition. These are some of the people that Tchami “Chummy” Fabrice has brought together to an ambitious end: constructing the world’s first space elevator in Africa and ensuring the space industry that it catapults will enrich the continent and all involved. The hard part will be getting all these different people working together long enough to see it built.
Deploying Dragons by Dan Koboldt
Genetic engineer Noah Parker has at last landed the job he’s long coveted: director of dragon design for the Build-A-Dragon Company. With a combination of genetic engineering and a cryptic device known as the Redwood Codex, he and his team can produce living, breathing dragons made-to-order. But sales of dragons have plummeted, and the Build-A-Dragon Company will have to find new revenue streams if it hopes to stay in business.
A contract to develop dragons for the U.S. military promises a much-needed lifeline. Yet the specs are more challenging than anything Noah has ever designed. Worse, he learns that a shadow company headed by former CEO Robert Greaves has stolen the dragon-making technology to make a competing bid. Noah’s dragons will face off against those of his old adversary. It’s a head-to-head design competition, with the ethical future of domesticated dragons hanging in the balance.
About the Bookstore
This event is free and open to the public. It also takes place at one of the coolest independent bookstores I’ve ever seen. The Book Loft is an old historic building with 32 rooms filled with books. It’s a casual event and everyone is welcome. We’re going to talk about books, science fiction, dragons, rescue missions, and space elevators. We might even talk about The Baen Books Road Show, which is slated to roll into MarCon 2023 next month.
If you can’t make the signing, no worries — you can order autographed copies of our books from The Book Loft.
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I kinda wish my son was still attending Cedarville University, I could have him swing by and pick up some signed books.
I hope the event goes off swimmingly for y’all.