Free books in the Smashwords July Sale #SWSale2025 #booksky

Free books from me? July Sale? Yes, I know I said I wouldn’t do it again. But if you hadn’t noticed, I have a new book, the Quest for Orichalcum, coming out on 12th August, and it’s a prequel to the Viridian System Series. So you might like to check out the series…

Viridian System July Sale prices

If you haven’t read any of them, then there’s no excuse not to start now, since The Perihelix is FREE. The second and third books are just $1.49 each (75% off). Or you can buy them in a box set, also 75%off.

The Perihelix

Asteroid miners Big Pete and the Swede bring in their latest haul of orichalcum. They need a holiday, just as soon as they’ve had some fun. But someone is giving them strange messages, which leads them and the girls to a new destination.

The Federation await. They need someone to find pieces of orichalcum for them. They know it will form a magical weapon: the Perihelix. But the Imperium has other ideas, including kidnapping Lars. And with the girls left in the spaceship all on their own, how will anyone escape? [buy here]

Curved Space to Corsair

Another year, another holiday. Dolores is piloting, but takes a wrong turn. “Not this wormhole!” Pete screams. They end up in an uncharted part of the galaxy, a very long way from home.

Pete’s destiny awaits him. But how is he going to free the people of Corsair if he can’t even get there? [buy here]

Zanzibar’s Rings

A galactic disaster – all the orichalcum nodes stop working. No comms, no communication between planets, or between ships and the beacons that guide them. Dolores is in a shuttle on her way home with a very dangerous passenger; Pete is in the south of the planet; Lars and Maggie are in the north, where chaos has erupted.

Why are there so many visitors stranded, visitors rumoured to be Federation spies? What is the Federation interest in the fourth planet in the system, Zanzibar, and its ring system? And how is anyone going to get there to find out? [buy here]

Also in the July Sale: Princelings of the East books 7-10

Maybe you got lost somewhere along the way. Maybe you only have the first six books, singly or as their two box sets. If so, here’s a chance to catch up, with the last four in the series on sale for just 99c each.

Yes, they are better read in order. But you can jump in anywhere: they are all complete adventures, save perhaps Book 9, which is a bit of a cliffhanger, left to your own judgement, and clarified at the start of book 10.

Willoughby the Narrator

We met Willoughby, the travelling story-teller with ninja powers, in The Talent Seekers (book 5). But why is he in the Realms, and how did he learn to be a Narrator? Willoughby tells all…including how he became a spy.[buy here]

The Princelings of the North

Dylan and Dougall are princelings at Castle Haunn on Moreisle, an island of the north west coast. When Dylan finds a map inside a washed-up bottle with an X marked on it, they find it marks a castle housing a starving, isolated young prince, locked away by his wicked uncle so he cannot inherit his castle in the far south. Dylan to the rescue; he storms from the north and meets trouble wherever he goes! [buy here]

The Chronicles of Marsh

The opening scene finds Fred officiating at the funeral of his uncle. Fred is the new king of Marsh. He decides to make a history of the events in his reign. It piles anecdote upon adventure, showing the changes in the Realms as they get new energy sources, solve the pirate problem, take to the air, and start to question the establishment. What with spying, refugees, and plane crashes, there’s never a dull moment in Castle Marsh. [buy here]

Princelings Revolution

There is trouble in the Realms. Gangs of people demanding freedom, and riches, and a better way to live. There is trouble in Castle Marsh, especially when a particularly dangerous jar of liquid for George’s planes goes missing. What is the connection between the explosions at Jasmine’s birthday party, and the latest version of the plane being destroyed? How can Fred and George fulfill the promise that they made in the very first book of the series: to deliver some bottles of Vex across the great western ocean and bring back that prized Wozna Cola that hasn’t been seen since book 1? [buy here]

Sale runs from 1st July midnight local time to 31st July, midnight local time.