It’s December 1st, which means I can share the reason why the official release date for SCORPIO was moved back a month and a half:
SCORPIO is an Amazon First Reads selection for the month of December. If you’re a Prime member, you can download one of the month’s First Reads offerings for free, so here’s your chance to grab a copy for your Kindelmaschine and get to read SCORPIO a month before its official release.
If you’re not a Prime member, you can buy the Kindle book at a discounted price of $1.99.
Amazon First Reads is only available to US-based customers, but you international readers aren’t going to be left out. I’ll do my usual giveaway of signed books this week, and I’ll give priority to international readers this time.
If you end up getting your copy of SCORPIO on Amazon First Reads this month, I hope you enjoy it. And if you leave a review after you’re done, it’ll keep my editor happy, which means they’ll be paying me to write more books, a win-win scenario for everyone.
Just finished it. Loved it and look forward to more.
I’ve ordered the audible version.
So happy to jump back into this universe! I love the new perspective….can’t wait to see where you take us from here! Thanks for creating this for all of us.
Where does Scorpio fit into the timeline? I’m wondering about that because the colonists knew that the Lankies can sense EM emissions; my recollection is that it wasn’t widely known that they could sense EM emissions until the NAC went after the Arcadian renegades.
SCORPIO takes place about a year after CENTERS OF GRAVITY. The Lanky invasion of Scorpio happened after Fields of Fire and just before Points of Impact.
Hi, I loved this story, great fun, good characters, look forward to reading more. I did, on the strength of reading Scorpio, start on Terms of Enlistment (also very entertaining), but I was a bit nonplussed to encounter a paragraph near the start of that book, which is almost word for word the same as a paragraph in Scorpio near the end (both occur on a bus). Was this deliberate?
It was a deliberate callback to Terms of Enlistment, yes. I suppose it could be a little jarring to read those two passages in close proximity to each other without the seven books in between. It’s the start of a new career for a new character but I wanted to have the drill instructors still use the same ritual and language for new recruit arrivals.
For all of you not living in the US, UK or Austraila. If you switch your standard amazon adress to a random house in the US and use the amazon.com domaine you can still get the frist readers kindle edition even when youre from the rest of the world
Ok, these ‘side’ stories certainly have legs. It’s not just Andrew and company who had daily Lanky problems.
I can confirm that’s available in the UK as a part of December First Reads.
Downloaded it from First Reads at 11:51, just finished it less than 12 hours later.
Another excellent addition to the Frontlines Universe- looking forward to many more (will leave a five star review in Amazon tomorrow) – I especially liked the description of ex-military displacement; it rung so true (ex-Royal Air Force, 70s and 80s, spent a lot of time in Teufelsberg, (ex-West) Berlin.
Thanks, once again.
Enjoyed this so much, I am re-reading the series – now on book 7 of 8.
Congratulations on the early release! Can’t wait to read your latest creation 🙂
– Alex from snowy Canada
Looking forward to reading! Will there be a hardcover release?
Unfortunately not. It’ll only be in paperback, Kindle, and Audible formats.
I got the kindle version, can’t wait to still buy the paperback and audible versions!
Congratulations on the release! I’m in Canada so I will have to wait a bit…would love to be in the running for a signed copy 🙂 – but will pre-order anyway. Can hardly wait!
Christmas has come early this year!!
Woo Hoo! Downloaded and pre-ordered the paperback. Thanks for sending more adventures our way!
Just pre-purchased through Audible, I can’t wait for New Years Day!
would love to get a signed copy in Germany
Well congratulations on being in the spotlight, and thank you for the book. Downloaded for my enjoyment when I get home from work this evening.
Well, congrats! (Of course, I pre-ordered this when you first announced it….)
Awesome! I think I will get the Kindle ebook as I’m not in the US.
Congratulations for that new release. 🙂
“Amazon First Reads on Amazon.com is available to US customers only.”
So we wait, for some reason we are only second rate for Amazon. :/
Tom, I got it today from Amazon U.K. First Reads.
I’m very excited to start reading! I’m in the UK and was able to get it on first reads, it also appeared to be available in Australia (I’m on holiday there atm!).