Warp Giants (Sleep Writer Book 4) is published!

Posted on March 30, 2018 (Subscribe to Blog)

I think the Sleep Writer series will be getting a lot of movement in the coming weeks. Not only is the fourth book now out in ebook form (with the print copy to follow shortly), the first book in the series is about to be featured on the giant promotional website BookBub. For a writer, that's a pretty huge deal.

In case you've missed previous posts about my latest release, here's the blurb:

WARP GIANTS
(Sleep Writer Book 4)

Liam, Ant, and Madison have a busy weekend when the sleep writer predicts three separate events -- a flying saucer landing in the woods, a frightening mind-swapping experience, and a trip to a distant planet to save the last of a mysterious species known as the warp giants. The fourth book in the series contains three interconnected novellas full of excitement, terror, and downright weirdness...

WARP GIANTS is the fourth Sleep Writer book.

The first three books in the series are full-length novels, but while the fourth is the same length overall, it's actually three distinct stories linked together and followed by an overall epilogue. I think this format works really well, and each story is told from a different point of view, namely the three main characters.

So what's it all about?

The basic premise is that 15-year-old Madison writes herself messages in her sleep. She scribbles on a notepad and wakes in the morning to find a cryptic message, usually a place and a time. Madison visits that place at the right time to witness something pretty darn spectacular, often the arrival of a traveler from a distant planet. She's had this peculiar gift for a while, but when her family relocates south and moves into Brockridge, she befriends her new neighbor Liam and his friend Ant, a couple of 12-year-old geeks. She shares her unusual gift with them, and naturally they're enthralled. What follows are plenty of crazy adventures in space... and, alarmingly, in their backyard.

There are now four book in the series:

Sleep Writer Robot Blood Caleb's World Warp Giants

I'll be writing a fifth in 2019.

As mentioned above, I have an upcoming feature for Book 1 of the series on BookBub on April 7th. This will most likely mean thousands of downloads of that free book and, hopefully, a spike in sales for the others in the series. I remember the first time BookBub featured Island of Fog. There were five in the series at the time, and while Book 1 was free, I had great sales for Books 2-5 in the following six weeks. So, fingers crossed for a bit of Sleep Writer action!

Here's a quote from a pretty famous author that I'm always proud to show off:

"For my taste this is one of the best novels I've read regardless of genre; it haunted me for several days after I read it. Read this novel regardless of your age; I doubt you'll be disappointed, and your mind may be stretched a bit. The final ten percent blew me away." —Piers Anthony, New York Times bestselling author of the Magic of Xanth (full review at HiPiers.com, July 2015 newsletter)

Remember, Sleep Writer Book 1 is FREE on Amazon, Nook, Kobo, and Apple.

Comment by ROGER ESCHBACHER on Saturday, March 31, 2018...

BookBub is a big deal. Congrats, Keith!

Comment by KEITH ROBINSON on Saturday, March 31, 2018...

It is. Very excited. :-)

Comment by BRIAN B. on Monday, April 2, 2018...

I can't think of a better way of narration than multi-character auto-perspective. ;-)
Did you use it in a continuous or synchronous timeline?

Comment by KEITH ROBINSON on Monday, April 2, 2018...

Brian, haha! You're still hurting from when I "complained" about your dual point of view, but the difference was that yours were both in first person, a technique I'd never seen before.

Warp Giants has three points of view, all in third person, and is a continuous timeline (except for the epilogue).

Comment by BRIAN B on Monday, April 2, 2018...

Ha! I may be tempted to read this! ☺

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