BOOK LAUNCH TUESDAY
Maxor the Slayer
Super Reader,
Maxor the Slayer hits the digital shelves today. The paperback should be available on Amazon very soon. Why is this a big deal for me?
Well, Tall Boys has been my most successful solo series. No one expected it to sell. I was actually told that launching it could ruin my author career because of the novellas (Salvager, Alien Salvager, and Maxor the Slayer). Sci-fi fans don’t read short fiction, the experts said, not even if it’s a long novella (144 to 160 pages).
The marketing logic went something like this. Readers will click on the book, then not purchase or read it in KU. Then Amazon will decide you, Scott Moon, are a losing bet and will suppress you in the algorithm.
Smart, successful authors and publishers gave me this warning. People I respect. People who have launched careers to the highest level.
But I loved writing Salvager and Boots Down, which I wrote as part of the same overlapping process. Tall Boys has been a passion project from day one.
You might say I take after my characters: I don’t listen to good advice, I charge forward when it would be wiser to select an easier path, and use sarcasm to shield me from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
But surprise, surprise, a lot of people loved Salvager.
Because they are smart, intelligent consumers of only the best science fiction who deserve the absolute best life has to offer. Just saying.
I loved writing tall boys, and Maxor the Salyer is a diamond.
Why was it such a blast to write?
Maxor is a true anti-hero. He’s violent, unlovable, selfish, and arrogant. But he’s also willing to give everything he has to protect those who can’t stand up for themselves.
But wait, that’s not the only reason Tall Boys fans should read Maxor the Slayer. This is the first time I have shown the ROV6 perspective of Yorp. They’ve been made out to be disgusting, barbaric villains who wear skulls on their battle armor and maintain questionable hygiene practices.
Maybe they are all of that. Okay, they probably are. I mean, skulls and barbed wire? Really?
Please give Maxor the Slayer a shot and post a review on Amazon and Goodreads. Spread the word. Authors like me need all the help we can get to compete against TikTok and the fifty billion other distractions out there these days.
Thanks in advance!
Stay safe,
– Scott
The Republic of Vaux VI needed a levelheaded leader to save it from ruin. Unfortunately, all it had was Maxor.
When a rival boss moves into the dystopian streets of Yorp, and the Capian Fleet withdraws its ships from orbit, one man must break apart old alliances, form new ones, and set his people free.
The war-torn city is being abandoned by the Capian Alliance of Terran Systems. That doesn’t mean the fighting will stop.
Everyone wants a piece of what is left, no matter who gets hurt when the plundering begins. Maxor has seen enough. It’s time to fight fire with fire, and to embrace the cybernetic curse a life at war has thrust upon him.
Fans of Salvager and the Tall Boys series, The Last Reaper, and Homeworld Lost will love this fast-paced novella about a man too tough for his own good.