ShadowTech Book 5 is now available for pre-order

Excision Verdict, the fifth ShadowTech book, is now available for pre-order, at a special low price. It’ll be published on 18th October.

The Ancients have returned. But are they allies or adversaries?

Piran, captive of the company, plunges into their technology, seeking answers in their code. Deva, with the Heralds, is drawn into Haven’s Deep, unsure if she’ll be accepted as a guest or killed as an enemy. Ryann, sheltering with the Collective as the company closes in, fears their sanctuary will become their grave. Keelin seeks answers with Tallia, but the shadows from her past could be her end. And Brice is abducted by the Ancients, to a place unknown, for reasons he can’t fathom.

Alliances will shatter and loyalties will be tested as humanity races towards either salvation or annihilation.

Dominions is on YouTube

Now that I’ve released all the Dominions novels as AI-generated audiobooks on Google Books, I’m expanding their availability. The first major part of this is putting them up on YouTube.

Rather than release each book as a single video, I’m splitting them into chapters, and releasing a chapter a day.

And it all starts today. The first chapter of Dark Glass is now available on YouTube.

(If you want to head straight to the playlist, where subsequent chapters will appear each day, then click here.)

And a quick note about the narration. I know AI voices can’t (yet) compete with well-produced human narration, but using multiple voices helps. Each character in the book has its own voice (okay, some of the minor characters are doubled-up, down to limitations with the available voices on Google Book’s system), used for their lines of dialogue and point-of-view chapters (so, in later books, where a chapter follows Paskia, the prose is read in ‘Paskia’s’ voice). This hopefully makes the listening experience more engaging.

What do you think? I’d love to hear your comments.