As the editor of Cannon I am super stoked to tell you that Shane Gries has been announced as a finalist in the prestigious Dragon Awards in the Best Horror Novel category. His novel, "Dead Storm Rising", is set in my own Irregular Scout Team One universes, but it’s part of his own outstanding stand alone series, “The Line”.
So what happens next? Well, if you already voted in his nomination, you’ll get an email from Dragoncon to vote for a winner. If you haven’t, you can go to the link below and register to vote. Although being on the finalist list is a great achievement, over the last few years the Dragons have come to be dominated by the big trade pubs. What I’d really like to do is stick in the trade pubs’ eye and have an indie author win. So if you can help us out by voting, and because it really is a great book, please do so!

Now, on to other things, namely great books and great stories! Military Thriller, Post Apocalypse, Space Adventure and Urban Fantasy by brand new authors who are knocking it out of the woods with their reviews.

HELL'S BELLES
Two souls collide in the middle of a deadly war.
Sergeant Sylvie Lyons of Her Majesty’s Royal Engineers wishes she’d listened to her grandda’s advice and stayed away from the military.
USMC Sergeant Hondo Cassidy wants nothing more in life than being a Marine and fighting.
Hondo and Sylvie find themselves thrown together when his artillerymen are assigned to provide security for her engineers deep in the desert of Afghanistan.. Amidst death, destruction, cultural misunderstanding and the inevitable that happens when you mix an all male unit of Marines with an engineer unit that is mostly female, Sylvie and Hondo find in each other a reason to live.
That is, if they can survive.
When nine out of ten people in the world have died in a brutal plague, what do those who remain do to pick up the pieces? Does the creed, "Duty, Honor, Country" have a place any more if there's no country left?
On his way across the devastated remains of Texas, Marine Corps veteran and survivor Eric Marten rescues a young woman from a vicious attack by men who have turned into savages. As Dani slowly learns to trust him, they try to stay alive in the deathlands that America has become, using all their wits to survive a post-apocalyptic nightmare.
A thrilling new post apocalyptic series from author Al Hagan and Cannon Publishing.
Nearly broken and at the end of his rope, former decorated scout pilot and prisoner of war, Red has finally accepted the inevitable. He and his kin have no future in the Human Confederation of Worlds, being gene mods and barely human themselves. With the help of his friend he flees Terra for adventure and fortune out in the reaches of the galaxy. Along the way he’s dragged back into conflict that calls on all his piloting skills and he learns the deeper meaning of Kin, as his crew becomes his family.
Path to Freedom is a new series in the tradition of Firefly and Guardians of the Galaxy, a space faring adventure with a crew you’ll come to love!

There are some things a PhD doesn’t prepare you for, like running two feet of steel through the guts of a flesh-eating monster straight out of a nightmare, while ducking razor sharp claws. Or having the sword critique your fighting style while you do it.
Dave Howard had a problem. Last week, he was out looking for a teaching job in the middle of a wrecked job market. This week he was neck deep in green blood and hellfire. Dragged into it by the very sword, his grandfathers’ mysterious possessed blade, that was now walking him through hacking up a ghoul without getting his own head cut off. This wasn’t exactly what he had gone to school for, and the University he had just taken a job with seemed to be anything BUT an academic institution. More like some kind of monster hunting bunch of weirdo nerds. Maybe his degree in Personality Psychology might be useful there, at least. The fighting though … as he dodged another swipe of claws and awkwardly tried to follow the instructions the sword was screaming at him, he shot back at it, "Hell, I'm Canadian! Swordplay isn't in my cultural DNA!"
An exciting new series that dives into a hidden supernatural world that lies just outside our own.
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