Amplifier 6: release day postcard & bookplate giveaway

GIVEAWAY CLOSED (I’ve removed the signup form/link and deleted all the addresses, etc). I stuffed 100 envelopes, and I’ll drop them all in the mail on Monday. Remember I’m in Canada, so it might take some time for you to see if you get one!

Happy Release Day, Endings and Empathy (Amplifier 6)

Those of you might remember this same giveaway for Amplifier 5. I thought that it was crazy fun – over 75 winners – so I’m doing it again! And I’ve even managed to design/print the proper bookplates this time – sorry to everyone who got Amplifier 0 paired with the sunflower and not the ginger, as well as Amplifier 1 paired with the ginger and not the rose. I’ll set up a swap in the reader-run Facebook fan group for anyone who gets doubles from this round (or wants to swap for the proper bookplate/postcard pairing).

Okay!

If you want to win a random Amplifier Series postcard and an autographed bookplate* please fill out the Google Form linked below. I will randomly send out postcards, etc, until I either run out of energy, stamps, or postcards. You won’t know if you’ve won until you get mail!

CLICK HERE FOR THE GOOGLE FORM

Caveats: addresses collected on the Google form will all be deleted once the giveaways have all been mailed out. Forms filled out improperly will be disregarded. Open internationally. Up to 75+ winners will be selected randomly. OPEN INTERNATIONALLY.

*Postcards will not be autographed (so they are usable). Bookplates are usually pasted/stuck into paperbacks in lieu of an autograph.


The Amplifier Series is set within the larger Adept Universe but can be read separately. The main series starts with Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1) but there are also two prequel stories (bundled together). Click here for the full/recommended reading order of the Adept Universe.

Amplifier 6: Chapter One

The dark-haired sorcerer swathed in black tactical gear at my side ran his hand down my spine — or as much of it as he could reach while I was wearing my dual blades sheathed across my back. His conflicting emotions filtered through to me even as I peered through the magically enhanced binoculars I had trained on a tiny, rocky island in the middle of nowhere. 

Literally, nowhere. 

Loaded into a heavily armored, magically fortified helicopter, we were hovering over what was practically the midway point between the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea, the southern extents of the Arctic Ocean. Though technically, we were off the northern coast of Norway, we’d left that coast behind two hours ago. I couldn’t see even a shadow of the mainland, not even with the enhanced binoculars.

Five days had passed since we’d been sent the first text message from Samantha and Daniel’s kidnapper, and the sorcerer who’d all but shackled himself to my side was still angry. At the situation, yes. But also at me specifically. That didn’t stop him from reaching out, though, or touching me tenderly in the very brief moments we’d grabbed on our way to finding — and hopefully liberating — my blood-bound teammates.

Aiden had his own pair of binoculars. They cut without difficulty through the gloom of the cloudy night — which wasn’t actual night, because the sun never set in this part of the world in June. But they also somehow highlighted magic, picking up the energy that emanated from the magically inclined as well as magical constructs, then tagging that energy in a medium shade of blue that was slightly lighter than the color of Aiden’s power.

It was closing in on 3:00 a.m. Despite the cloaking on the helicopter and the clouds obscuring the midnight sun, we’d waited until early morning to further minimize our visibility.

Even heavily cloaked in cloud, the sun sliding along the horizon, while never rising or setting, unsettled me. Not that I would ever admit that out loud. We’d been moving too quickly and crossing too many borders to do more than snatch a nap here or there, completely ignoring time zones as we passed through. So I blamed the jet lag for the disconcertion, then ignored it.

To my left, Christopher was outfitted in cool-weather tactical gear like Aiden and me, though with fewer pockets than the sorcerer. He wasn’t bothering to keep watch out his side of the helicopter. His magic was a constant low-grade hum on my upper spine while he shuffled his oracle cards and called out quiet commands to our ground team of two over the comms. Mostly, though, he had been content to allow that team to implement the plan it had taken us three days to cobble together, as they navigated their way to the island, then into the research station that occupied the site’s northern tip.

According to our intel, nine nonmagicals occupied the entirety of Bear Island. Researchers. But I had tuned out what exactly they were researching on a barren rock of an island in the Arctic Ocean, more interested in how we were planning to get them out of our way.

Endings and Empathy (Amplifier 6), Chapter One

COMING MARCH 30, 2023

— PREORDER NOW —

– AMAZON – APPLE BOOKS – BARNES & NOBLE – KOBO – SMASHWORDS –

Endings and Empathy is the sixth and final book in the Amplifier Series, which is set in the same universe as the Dowser, Oracle, Reconstructionist, Archivist, and Misfits of the Adept Universe series. Click here for the reading order of the entire Adept Universe.

Amplifier 6: Destiny and Death Curses

COMING MARCH 30, 2023

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– AMAZON – APPLE BOOKS – BARNES & NOBLE – KOBO – SMASHWORDS –

Aiden glanced at Christopher, whose back was to us — deliberately, I thought — and narrowed his eyes. “Destiny.”

“Yeah, the clairvoyant is a big believer.”

“Enough to …” Aiden trailed off.

“Enough to throw me in front of a death curse.” I hadn’t bothered lowering my voice. Christopher’s shoulders stiffened, but he didn’t turn around.

“More than once?” Aiden asked in a whisper.

– Chapter One, Endings and Empathy (Amplifier 6)


Are you new to the Amplifier Series? The first book in the series is Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1) but there is also a prequel, The Amplifier Protocol. Or click this link for the entire reading order of the Adept Universe (and how the Amplifier fits within it)

Amplifier 6: ‘official’ synopsis

Endings and Empathy (Amplifier 6), the final book in the Amplifier Series releases on March 30, 2023! Paperback and audiobook to follow.

Are you ready for it?

I’m not sure I am!

Cover design by: Gene Mollica Studios Models: Devon Ericksen and Jonathan Cannaux 

Synopsis:

With two of the Five compromised, I had no choice but to go on the offensive. Hiding out — even if I was pretty much in plain sight these days — in the tiny corner of peace we’d carved for ourselves in the Pacific Northwest was no longer an option.

But the person or persons responsible for dragging me away from the life I’d fought to build, to protect? Well, they would regret every moment that I had to divert my attention toward them and away from what I truly wanted. They would regret forcing me to once again become the cold-hearted, sociopathic, genetically constructed magical abomination they’d bred and trained me to be.

The Collective was already done.

I’d destroyed them more than eight years ago.

But apparently, some of those who’d survived now needed a reminder of their demise.

When it was done, I would walk away with everything that was mine to have and to hold. And what I couldn’t outright destroy? I would absorb or claim for myself.

Because Emma Johnson was stronger than Amp5 had ever been.

PREORDER NOW

– AMAZON – APPLE BOOKS – BARNES & NOBLE – KOBO – SMASHWORDS –


Are you new to the Amplifier Series? The first book in the series is Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1) but there is also a prequel, The Amplifier Protocol. Or click this link for the entire reading order of the Adept Universe (and how the Amplifier fits within it)

Amplifier 6: ineffectual murder

*SPOILERS* *SPOILERS* *SPOILERS**SPOILERS**SPOILERS**SPOILERS**SPOILERS*

“Open the other doors,” I demanded of the healer.

“I don’t have the authority,” she said, actually quivering. She didn’t seem to know where to look, flicking her fear-widened eyes between Christopher, Aiden, Daniel, and me.

“Asked and answered, Socks,” Christopher said mildly.

“Yeah, but you’re so pretty clairvoyant,” Becca cooed without looking up. “Emma gives off a more I’ll-rip-out-your-heart-and-eat-it vibe without even trying.”

Christopher snorted.

“That would be a highly ineffectual way to murder someone,” I said stiffly.

Everyone gathered laughed quietly.

Not including the healer.

Which was fine, because I really hadn’t been joking.

– Endings and Empathy (Amplifier 6), fourth draft


Are you new to the Amplifier Series? The first book in the series is Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1) but there is also a prequel, The Amplifier Protocol. Or click this link for the entire reading order of the Adept Universe (and how the Amplifier fits within it).

#QuickFAQByMCD: the preorder will be available just as soon as all the scheduling is confirmed (likely late March 2023). And yes, this is the final book in the Amplifier Series.