Read an e-book week

This week is the annual Smashwords' Read an e-book week, so you can pick up any of my longer titles for 50% off, now through Saturday. Simply go to https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/jaerwine and you can start downloading and reading immediately
 

The Solar Federation: The First Four Stories

 

The first four stories of my Solar Federation series are now available in one collection.

The first four stories of J Alan Erwine's Solar Federation series are now available in one collection. Tag along with a crew sent on a desperate mission. Meet up with the newest graduate who is going to face some tough challenges. Get inside the mind of a captain who has lost his ship and is at risk of losing his entire crew. And finally, spend a night at Sharon's Bar and meet Sharon, the most popular character in the series...so far...

Order from Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1356346

Order from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXG15V6G

There's still time to Taste the Madness

 

The first volume of my limited edition A Taste of the Madness series is still available at Amazon, but only for a limited time...and if you're a Kindle Unlimited member, it's available for free.

So, what are you waiting for? Head over to https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTV39CCB and start reading right now!

Have you been to The Other Side?

 

From the Nomadic Delirium Press blog:

Have you played Rocks on the Other Side yet? No??? Why not?

Download your copy today from DriveThruRPG, and you can be playing in no time. Download it now at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/417789

And there will soon be a new supplement for the game as well...

Only for a limited time

 

Remember, you only have a limited time to read my collection, A Taste of the Madness Vol. 1, and if you're a KindleUnlimited member, you can read it for free.

So, what are you waiting for...start reading today at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTV39CCB

 

A Taste of the Madness Vol. 1

 

I've created a six story collection that I've titled A Taste of the Madness Vol. 1. Why volume 1? Because this is a special collection that will only be available for a limited time, and the good news is that if you're a Kindle Unlimited member, you can read it for free! After a bit of time, this collection will disappear, and I will release A Taste of the Madness Vol. 2, which will again be free for Kindle Unlimited members. I think you can see where this process is going.

So, if you'd like to read six of my stories for either $2.99 or for free, please visit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTV39CCB and download your copy today. But remember, this collection is only available for a limited time!

It's time to play some Ephemeris!

 

From the Nomadic Delirium Press blog:

Looking for a new RPG to play? Have you tried Ephemeris yet? No???

Head over to DriveThruRPG and you can download a starter bundle for just $7. Go to: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/64002 and start playing right away.

If you’d like to completely dive into the game, you can get the Complete Ephemeris Bundle for just $35.45. Head over to https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/364674 and download everything today.

The year is 2185. The human race has gone to the stars, and found that they’re not alone. Local space is teeming with civilizations, some hostile, some friendly, and some indifferent. This is the universe of Ephemeris.

Ephemeris is a game of galactic trade and galactic conquest; of inter-species conflict and cooperation. Ephemeris is a science fiction role playing game. Here you will be able to take on the role of your favorite alien species and your favorite class. You will be able to trade, fight, negotiate, conquer, whatever you’d like to do with your fellow players. You can play the role of an Althani Trader, or maybe an Arbonix Cyber Wizard, or maybe even a Human Nanist. You can create a party made up entirely of one species and set out to upset the trade routes of a rival species. Or maybe you want to create a party with a variety of species that preys upon the trading routes of the various civilizations. Or maybe you want to explore the ancient ruins on long dead planets, ruins that clearly show that there were other species roaming the spaceways in the past…but where are they now? You can fight in great wars, negotiate grand peace treaties, and explore sections of the galaxy that no sentient has ever explored. Or maybe your party has joined with one of the interplanetary corporations; corporations whose motives are never entirely clear. These are just some of the possibilities open to you.
The universe of Ephemeris is yours to do with as you please. What you now hold in your hands are the basic guidelines for the games. Here you’ll find the races, classes, abilities, skills, weapons, and ships that allow you to create your own Ephemeris universe.

Now, step inside for the greatest science fiction adventure you’ve ever been on…

There's still time to save 25%

 

From the Nomadic Delirium Press blog:

Many of our titles are still available from Smashwords for 25% off. You can download novels, collections, anthologies, RPGs, RPG supplements, even a few short stories. So, head over to https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/nomadicdelirium and you can start reading many of our great titles in just a few minutes.

 

There's still time to save 50% at Smashwords

 

My novels and short story collections are still on sale for 50% off at Smashwords. So, what are you waiting for? Head over to https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/jaerwine and order today.

When did you last visit The Divided States of America?

 

From the Nomadic Delirium Press blog:

Has it been a while since you've visited The Divided States of America? Or maybe you've never visited...

Imagine an America that has been divided by political turmoil and civil war...not really hard to imagine anymore. Check out the stories in this series of stories. Many are disturbing, some are optimistic, but all of them will have you thinking that we should be able to create a better future for ourselves...

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLWYBT9

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/28436

DriveThruFiction: https://www.drivethrufiction.com/browse.php?keywords=The+Divided+States+of+America&x=0&y=0&author=&artist=&pfrom=&pto=

Smashwords 25% off sale

 

From the Nomadic Delirium Press blog:

For the next month, you can save 25% off of a wide variety of our titles. Novels, anthologies, short story collections, RPGS, RPG supplements, even a few short stories...they're all available for 25% off.

Head over to https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/nomadicdelirium and order today.

 

Important websites

 

In case you're new to my writing and editing, or in case you just need a refresher, here are some important websites to learn more about my work...

My website: http://www.jalanerwine.com

My Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/J-Alan-Erwine/author/B0035AMA0A

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jalanerwine

DriveThruFiction: https://www.drivethrufiction.com/browse/pub/16618/J-Alan-Erwine

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/jaerwine

Gumroad: https://jalanerwine.gumroad.com/

 

E-book a month

 For just $2 a month, you can receive an e-book delivered to your e-mail. This could be a short story collection or novel I've written. Or it could be an RPG I've created, or maybe even an anthology that I've edited. So, what are you waiting for? Subscribe today at https://jalanerwine.gumroad.com/l/bsdkq

 

The Nomadic Delirium Press Core Rulebook Bundle

 

From the Nomadic Delirium Press blog:

We’ve made all of our core rulebooks available in one bundle at DriveThruRPG. For just $10, you get Rocks on the Other Side, The Battle for Turtle Island, Ephemeris, and The Ephemeris RPG Rule Changes. You can pickup three games for just $10…that’s a hard deal to beat. Head over to https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/422488 and order today.

 

Smashwords sale

 

To celebrate the new year, my novels and short story collections are available for 50% off through Smashwords. This sale will last for the next month.

And to make things even more fun, I've added a few short stories to the sale that you can download for free. All I ask is that if you enjoy the stories, please review them, since reviews are the best way for an author to grow their audience.

Hope you enjoy the downloads. I'm looking forward to releasing several new titles in the new year.

75% off sale

From the Nomadic Delirium Press blog:

Happy New Year from everyone at Nomadic Delirium Press. To help you start out the new year, we're offering 75% off of all of our RPG titles at DriveThruRPG. You can download and play any of our games...Ephemeris, The Battle for Turtle Island, or Rocks on the Other Side for the next week at the huge discount of 75% off, so head over to https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/2805 and download everything you'd like and start playing today.

 

New Year, New Sale

 

Now that we've arrived in 2023, you get an opportunity to save 50% off of my work at DriveThruFiction for the first week of the new year.

This includes novels, short story collections, and even individual short stories, which you can download for just 50 cents.

So, head over to DriveThruFiction and start reading today.

I've updated my Amazon page

Many of you use Amazon's Author Central to follow author's you like, and I know a few of you even keep track of my page. Well, I've updated it, so go ahead and check it out at https://www.amazon.com/author/jalanerwine.

And while we're talking about pages to visit, please feel free to visit my Patreon page as well at https://www.patreon.com/jalanerwine

Hope you all have a great holiday season!

 

Meet the Twisted Tree

 

From the Nomadic Delirium Press blog:

Last week we introduced you to the Walking Tree from the Rocks on the Other Side RPG. This week, we introduce you to its evil cousin, a tree that will do everything it can to kill everyone...

TWISTED TREE

INT: 20

CS: 16

CHA: 10

STR: 28

AGIL: 12

END: 26

AB: +37 (+26 hand to hand combat skill, +6 Str, +1 mutation, +4 bark)

DB: +34 (-1 Agil, +1 mutation, +10 bark, +24 level

Health: 10d8+50

Type of Att: Limbs X2, Hurled fruit X2

Damage: 3d10+6/1d6 + contamination

Skills: Animal Handling 10, Appraise 5, Bluff 9, Concentration 18, Direction Sense 16, Etiquette 4, Gather Information 12, Herbalism 10, Hide 8, Interrogation 6, Intimidate 12, Listen 14, Negotiation 8, Search 3, Sense Motive 10, Spot 5, Tracking 11

Special Abilities: Hold, stun

Experience: 1750

Description: The twisted tree is a horrible mutation of a normal tree. Unlike the walking tree, the twisted tree is angry about its mutation, and they want to mutate the rest of the world. A twisted tree is normally about the size of a fruit tree, but its trunk and branches are twisted and full of knots and are often oozing sap. Twisted trees love to fight, and they will look to attack anything that they think they can destroy or mutate. In combat, the twisted tree attacks with two limbs trying to strike opponents. At the same time, it hurls radioactive fruit at other opponents. Although the fruit doesn’t do much damage, getting hit by it or by the branches will require a character to make a check against a severe radiation exposure.

Twisted trees are often not encountered alone. They don’t associate with other trees, but they are able to exert a mild mind control over other contaminated creatures. When encountered, there is a 50% chance that they will be encountered with other contaminated creatures. These creatures could be mutated animals, mutated ants, giant centipedes, giant spiders, giant flying spiders, strangle vines, mutated wasps, or even skeletons or zombies. These creatures will fight to the death to protect the twisted tree.

Twisted trees are highly susceptible to fire based attacks, and suffer triple damage from any attacks using fire.

Order your copy of the game today at:

DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/417789

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1184819

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMSP4RHZ

Meet the Walking Tree

 

From the Nomadic Delirium Press blog:

It’s time to meet another creature you might meet in the Rocks on the Other Side game, the Walking Tree

WALKING TREE

INT: 22

CS: 20

CHA: 20

STR: 28

AGIL: 10

END: 28

AB: +41 (+30 hand to hand combat skill, +6 Str, +1 mutation, +4 bark)

DB: +34 (-1 Agil, +1 mutation, +10 bark, +24 level

Health: 12d8+72

Type of Att: Limbs X2

Damage: 4d10+6

Skills: Animal Handling 10, Appraise 5, Bluff 9, Concentration 18, Diplomacy 8, Direction Sense 16, Etiquette 4, Gather Information 12, Herbalism 20, Hide 8, Interrogation 6, Intimidate 12, Listen 14, Negotiation 8, Search 3, Sense Motive 10, Spot 5, Tracking 11

Special Abilities: Hold, stun

Experience: 2200

Description: The nuclear mutations caused some trees to gain sentience and the ability to move. These trees normally won’t be aggressive, preferring to tend to other plants and animals in an effort to restore the Earth to what it used to be. However, if attacked, or if they see someone damaging the planet, they will fight. It is important to note, however, that they will not attack characters that they see attacking mutated plants or animals, because they see these as an abomination, and they want to rid the world of them.

If forced into combat, the walking tree will try to attack with two of its limbs. If their attack roll beats the character’s defense roll by 10, the tree has stunned the character for a number of rounds equal to the difference between the attack and defense rolls. If the tree’s attack roll exceeds a character’s defense roll by 15, the tree has grabbed the character and immobilized them. If this stops the attacks, the tree will then lecture the character on its mistakes and then set it free. If combat continues, then on the next round the tree will raise the character high into the air and drop it, causing 4d10 damage. There is no risk of contamination from an attack by a walking tree.

Walking trees are highly susceptible to fire based attacks, and suffer triple damage from any attacks using fire. However, if the walking tree survives the attack, the characters have made a lifetime enemy, and the tree will plot their downfall until they or it die.

Order your copy of the game today at:

DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/417789

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1184819

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMSP4RHZ