COVER REVEAL AND PRE-ORDER: Ambasadora: Marked by Light by Heidi Ruby Miller

Finally, the much-anticipated re-release of the book that gave us the Ambasadora-verse, reworked with a new beginning, cover and foreword.

If everyone told you love wasn’t real, would you still be willing to die for it?

Sara Mendoza and Sean Cryer are.

In their multi-partner, caste-ruled society, love and jealousy are considered emotional fallacies, nothing more than fleeting moods and sentiments biased by hormones. Relationships and conceptions in this world obsessed with celebrity, beauty, and power are based on DNA and lineages…or should be. But not everyone believes in the ruling traditions of the all-powerful Embassy. A quiet rebellion prowls the dark underground of this shiny world where techno-militants calling themselves fraggers grow in numbers and bravado. The Embassy intends to silence the fragger movement before the heresy of equality spreads throughout the system.

Sara Mendoza is part of the Embassy’s plan. Captured, tortured, and falsely accused of treason, she is given a chance to win back her freedom. She only needs to charm information from one of the fragger leaders, then kill him. But by the time she figures out the Embassy’s intel is flawed and that Sean Cryer is her true mark, she’s already in love with him.

Sean knows why Sara is on his ship from the start, but as a lonely, anti-social doser, he doesn’t value his life, only his ideology within the fragger organization. Against his better judgment, he becomes her protector, each day caring more about a future he was always afraid to hope for.

Ambasadora: Marked by Light by Heidi Ruby Miller

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp

Foreword by Jenna Bennett

Space Opera Paperback coming from Dog Star Books in April 2014

PRE-ORDER NOW FOR A SIGNED COPY, A FREE EBOOK, AND TO BE IN THE RUNNING FOR A BASKET FULL OF HEIDI'S FAVORITE THINGS

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What They’re Saying About Ambasadora: Marked by Light
"Ambasadora has a lot to say about the human spirit and it says it well."
—Mike Resnick, Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author

"With an anthropologist’s eye for world building and an engaging fast-paced style, Heidi Ruby Miller hurtles her characters through a dystopian labyrinth in which hollow beauty is revered and love a virtual crime."
—Christopher Paul Carey, author of Exiles From Kho

"Beautifully vibrant and intricately textured, Heidi Ruby Miller’s Ambasadora explores the value of true humanity, the limitless power of desire and the triumph of the individual soul. Amidst edge-of-the-seat action, Miller effortlessly incorporates the conflicts of the modern woman inherent in upholding feminist sensibility. Ambasadora is a banquet of sumptuous words, a truly exciting adventure that fans of science fiction are sure to enjoy."
—Mary SanGiovanni, author of The Hollower series

"[Sara]’s a heroine for the ages, and living proof...that sacrifice for love is more honorable than sacrifice for duty. She risks it all, and wins it all, and in the process, helps to change her world for the better."
--Jenna Bennett, NYT Bestselling author of Fortune's Hero and lots of mysteries

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Also from The World of Ambasadora and Dog Star Books:
Greenshift
Starrie (coming July 2014)

AUTHOR NEWS: Heidi Ruby Miller in Galaxy's Edge

AUTHOR NEWS

Dog Star Books editor and author, Heidi Ruby Miller, has a short fantasy story in the July 2013 issue of Galaxy's Edge magazine, edited by Mike Resnick.

"The Islands of Hope" was originally published in the Fantasist Enterprises anthology Sails and Sorcery: Tales of Nautical Fantasy.

Dog Star Books Author: Mike Resnick

Mike Resnick
Locus, the trade journal of science fiction, keeps a list of the winners of major science fiction awards on its web page. In the short fiction category, Mike Resnick is currently the leading award winner, living or dead, in the all-time standings. When novels are added, he is fourth on the all-time list, ahead of Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick.

Mike was born on March 5, 1942. He sold his first article in 1957, his first short story in 1959, and his first book in 1962. He attended the University of Chicago from 1959 through 1961, won 3 letters on the fencing team, and met and married Carol. Their daughter, Laura, was born in 1962, and has since become a writer herself, winning 2 awards for her romance novels and the 1993 Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer.

Mike's first novel in this "second career" was The Soul Eater, which was followed shortly by Birthright: The Book of Man, Walpurgis III, the 4-book Tales of the Galactic Midway series, The Branch, the 4-book Tales of the Velvet Comet series, and Adventures , all from Signet. His breakthrough novel was the international bestseller Santiago, published by Tor in 1986. The number of books he has had published, as both writer and editor, is staggering.

He has been a prolific writer of non-fiction as well. He wrote a 4-part series, "Forgotten Treasures", to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, produced 59 installments of the how-to column, "Ask Bwana" for Speculations, has (with Barry Malzberg) produced 60 installments of "The Resnick/Malzberg Dialogues" to date for the SFWA Bulletin, wrote a bi-weekly column for the late, lamented GalaxyOnline.com, and will now be writing editorials and columns for Jim Baen's Universe.

Carol has always been Mike's uncredited collaborator on his science fiction, but in the past few years they have sold two movie scripts -- SANTIAGO and THE WIDOWMAKER, both based on Mike's books -- and Carol -is- listed as his collaborator on those. Readers of Mike's works are aware of his fascination with Africa, and the many uses to which he has put it in his science fiction. Mike and Carol have taken numerous safaris, visiting Kenya (4 times), Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Botswana, and Uganda, and have two more planned for the next four years. Mike edited the Library of African Adventure series for St. Martin's Press, and is currently editing The Resnick Library of African Adventure, and, with Carol as co-editor, The Resnick Library of Worldwide Adventure, for Alexander Books.

Read more about Mike at http://mikeresnick.com.

EVENT: Mike Resnick and Matt Betts at Millennicon 27

Dog Star Books authors Mike Resnick and Matt Betts were guests at Millennicon 27 in Cincinnati last month. Here are some of the fun things they did:



Panel with Tim Waggonner, Eric Flint, and Mike Resnick



Steampunk panel with Matt Betts, Sally Van Eycke, and Sarah Hans



Mike Resnick reading

AUTHOR NEWS: Mike Resnick Edits Galaxy's Edge

AUTHOR NEWS

Mike Resnick is the editor of the new bi-monthly Science Fiction magazine, Galaxy's Edge.

The first issue is online at http://www.galaxysedge.com. Below is the table of contents:


The Editor's Word, by Mike Resnick

FICTION
The Shoulders of Giants, by Robert J. Sawyer
Schrödinger’s Cathouse, by Kij Johnson
Creator of the Cosmos Job Interview Today, by Nick DiChario
Just a Second, by Lou J. Berger
Act of God, by Jack McDevitt
Requiem for a Druid, by Alex Shvartsman
The Bright Seas of Venus, by Stephen Leigh
The Spinach Can's Son, by Robert T. Jeschonek
Think Like a Dinosaur, by James Patrick Kelly

SERIALIZATION
Dark Universe (Part 1), by Daniel F. Galouye

COLUMNS
From the Heart's Basement, by Barry N. Malzberg
Something Different, by Horace Cocroft
Book Reviews, by Paul Cook

Winner: Maria Hammarblad Gets a Dog Star Books T-shirt

WINNERS

Congratulations to Maria Hammarblad!

She was the random blogger to win the Dog Star Books T-shirt (as modeled by Matt Duvall of Really Cranky Dad fame) for blogging about the cover reveal for Mike Resnick's A Miracle of Rare Design. This makes Maria a new member of the Dog Squad! Maria is also an author. Check out her novel Kidnapped.

Cover Reveal: A Miracle of Rare Design by Mike Resnick

COVERS

The best way to learn about an alien species is not only to live among them, but to become them in both physical form and function, but could a human really learn to think like an alien, and at what cost to his humanity?

A Miracle of Rare Design by Mike Resnick

Anthropological Science Fiction coming from Dog Star Books in Summer 2013

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp
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Many thanks to the following supporters who participated in the Cover Reveal for A Miracle of Rare Design:

The Barking Lot
Chris Stout
D. A. Bale
D. Harlan Wilson
Heidi Ruby Miller
Jason Jack Miller
JC Cassels
John Edward Lawson
K. Ceres Wright
Lee Allen Howard

Maria Hammarblad
Matt Betts
Michael A. Arnzen
Michael Mehalek
Mike Resnick
Novel d'Tales
Patrick Stutzman
The Write Way

Author: Mike Resnick

AUTHORS

Dog Star Books welcomes Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Mike Resnick to the pack! DSB just acquired the trade paperback rights to Mike's Social/Anthropological Science Fiction novel A Miracle of Rare Design. Look for its release in Summer 2013.

Heidi Ruby Miller and Mike Resnick at PulpFest/Farmercon 2012