Cover Reveals, Con Season, the READ THIS! Author Q&A, the Yap in Charge, & More!

It's Almost LibertyCon Time! My main con season officially starts in Chattanooga these days, and I'm really looking forward to another fun LibertyCon. This month, due to LibertyCon, the READ THIS! Q&A will be run by longtime Guest Host Hal Bodner, which ensures hilarity, plus the book's another good one you don't want to miss, so I expect all y'all to have a blast while I'm gone. The Summer Solstice is also upon us, I have yet MORE cover reveals, a reminder of an upcoming release later this month, the Yap is once again in charge, PLUS the READ THIS! Author Q&A is happening THIS Thursday, and it's going to be another fun one you don't want to miss. Now, let's get to it, shall we? We shall!

It's Alive! Alien Diplomacy is alive and out in the world! Get your copies from your preferred retailer via Ginger Blue Publishing now!

THE YAP IN CHARGE! It's been a minute, but we've got some new yapping over at ConTinual! Check out Hot Off the Press #132, Hot Off the Press #133, Hot Off the Press #134, Hot Off the Press #135, and Hot Off the Press #138 wherein I yap about Natural Born Outlaws, The Royal Scam/The Martian Alliance Chronicles, Touched by an Alien/Alien Tango and what's all gone and going on with the Alien/Katherine "Kitty" Katt series, Media & Me, and A Cup of Joe, and the other authors (Layla Dorine, J.B. Garner, Ken Lange, Russ Colchamiro, Melissa Olthoff, Ariel Dawn, Elektra Hammond, and Jim Nettles) and I have a lot of fun. And don't miss the other Yaps over at The Yap In Charge.

It's Cover Reveal Time Again!

Fem-Bots & Androids & Superbeings Oh My. It's Kitty vs. the End of the World. The Mastermind may be outed, but Kitty & Company don't get any downtime. In addition to having to recover from Operation Epidemic quickly, the sudden reappearance of a minor adversary long-forgotten turns out to only be the tip of a deadly iceberg that could end up causing World War Three... Coming soon from Ginger Blue Publishing.

When the Galaxy's Invading & It Doesn't Look Good, Who You Gonna Call? Kitty. It's a typical day of bureaucracy and stress for President and First Lady Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini, made more stressful when alien spacecraft are spotted making a beeline for Earth, none of them from the Alpha Centauri system...or, what Kitty calls Wednesday. Coming soon from Ginger Blue Publishing.

Reminder About Preorders... The next two installments of The Martian Alliance Chronicles are available for preorder now! Order your copies so you can fly with the crew of the Hummingbird while they take on the galaxy's most awful crime family, one con, caper, and rescue at a time! Preorder from your preferred retailer via Ginger Blue Publishing.

A risky gamble turns deadly when the galaxy's most feared terrorist arrives to up the ante. When their favorite bookie pulls up stakes from Roulette and moves to Polliworld, the crew of the Hummingbird go to find out why, and hopefully get a cut of the action, but they end up caught in a high stakes game of chance that could destroy them. Coming THIS MONTH on June 24, 2025.

Is the cost of a few innocent lives worth risking everything? When the crew of the Hummingbird discovers a Pilla Colony recently destroyed by the Diamante Families, they’re faced with the smart choice of leaving or the dangerous one of searching for survivors – and Roy and DeeDee aren’t in agreement about their course of action. But the real question is – why would anyone be going out of their way to destroy the most helpless, fragile, and noncombative race in the galaxy? Coming August 12, 2025.

Speaking of Getting Bookie Wookies... All of these are available now from Ginger Blue Publishing and available at your preferred retailer. If you haven't grabbed these yet, now's the time! Welcome to Washington, check your Poofs at the door... The future looks utopian...until you look just a bit closer... And baby makes...the bad guys rue the day they made Mama Kitty angry... Love, engagement, Poofs...and intergalactic war. What happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas...

More Kitty, and don't miss the gators! The Book That Started It All is alive again! Meet Kitty...all over again!

My first book of movie and TV reviews, and, as I may have mentioned a few times, it's an Amazon #1 bestseller, too! (Hey, a girl likes to share the coolness when she can!) The re-release of the first book in The Martian Alliance Chronicles. Things aren't what they seem when Princess Olivia of Andromeda jumps aboard a spaceship to escape a loveless marriage.

A group of mystery-solving grandmothers, a daring granddaughter, a surf bum, homeless men, and a mysterious stranger all involved in a series of brutal murders in a sleepy seaside town... The re-release of my first humor collection, now with bonus funny! Despite what you may have heard or believe, all the stories are true...well, almost all...

The story of the Old West's most notorious female outlaw, the infamous Belladonna. Available in Hardback, trade paperback, and ebook. Read the story that started it all... Stacey Weir didn't mean to become an amateur sleuth. But when her adoptive father's accused of murder, there was only one thing for her to do...

Friends to lovers romantic suspense set in and around New Orleans, now with an (extended) epilogue! (Re-release.) Mosaic post-apocalyptic novel set in the far future that's reverted to Old West ways, where love, friends, and family are what get you through.

A collection of paranormal tales, with new bonus stories and an introduction from the author of BITE CLUB. (Re-release.) A collection of all my humorous SF/F/P (non-Alien series) stories, together in one place for the first time!

June 2025 READ THIS! Author Q&A

June's READ THIS! author Q&A with Guest Host Hal Bodner featuring  Author Dawn Major will be on Thursday, June 19, 2025 from 9pm-10pm Eastern. Access to Discord is available worldwide, and everyone is invited to attend! You do not need to be a Discord member/user to attend: Use this link https://discord.gg/GYpzD25JvW to go directly to the chat room! (You also don't need to have finished the book to join in the fun. We authors know that everyone reads at their own pace and we just want to hang out with you guys and have some good times!) Once in, you'll get to join in the fun of asking authors about their "process" and more. PLUS, one lucky winner will get July's READ THIS! selection for FREE! I know! It's too happy to be true! But true it is, so don't miss out! (You must be present in the chat to win. Physical copies U.S. only; ebook copies worldwide.)

June 2025 READ THIS! Selection

The READ THIS! Selection for June 2025 is:  The Bystanders by Dawn Major Gini's Take: Retro-Modern Southern Gothic at its finest in this ambiance-drenched mosaic novel. About the Author: Dawn Major’s novel, The Bystanders, was the finalist for 2024 Georgia Author of the Year for Best First Novel. Major is an associate editor at Southern Literary Review and a co-editor at WELL READ Magazine where she writes a column called “TripLit with D. Major.” She lives in Atlanta, GA with her family and is currently working on a horror novella called Chronicles in Dandy Land. For publications and more visit: www.dawnmajor.com

July's READ THIS! Selection   And Remember: One Lucky Q&A Participant can win it early!

The READ THIS! Selection for July 2025 is:        AJ Torres and the Treasure of Captain Grayshark By Jose Pablo Iriarte

Con Season Continues Somehow, my con season is already literally here. Keep checking this space for where I'll be and all the different ways and places where you can see the me! LibertyCon June 20-22 Chattanooga, TN Friday, June 20 5:00-6:00pm - Opening Ceremonies, CC Ballroom E (Main Event Programming) 8:00-11:00pm - Selling the Bookie Wookies and handing out Hugs in Artists/Authors Alley, M Plaza Ballroom Mezzanine Saturday, June 21 3:00-4:00pm - Westerns vs. Science Fiction: Is Weird Wild West the Best of Both Worlds?, M - Plaza Ballroom C 5:00-6:00pm - Ohhhh, the Life of a Pirate for Me!, CC - Mtg Room 3 (Workshop Track) 6:00-7:00pm - What's New in Paranormal Romance?, M - Plaza Ballroom C 8:00-9:00pm - Reading: Gini Koch and Michael LaVoice, M - Signal Mountain Room (Readings 3) Sunday, June 22 1:00-2:00pm - Autograph Session: Charles E. Gannon, Daniel Allen Butler, Gini Koch, CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside San Diego Comic-Con July 23-27 San Diego, CA Gen Con Writers Symposium July 31-August 3 Indianapolis, IN I'm featured at the Gen Con Blog! Take a look and read my interview and check out the other awesome authors who were also interviewed! DragonCon August 28-September 1 Atlanta, GA Bouchercon September 3-7 New Orleans, LA

A Big-Little FYI... Due to all the things happening with the Alien Series, Deck the Falls is going to be a little late. Not too terribly late (I hope and pray) but it's probably going to slip into later this month, or early July, for release. But Book 3 (Cruise the Falls) should be right back on schedule for March 2026. And, as soon as Deck the Falls is finalized, all y'all will, as always, be the first to know!

Read Out Loud! Do you have your copy of the Touched by an Alien audiobook yet? If not, don't wait! Grab yours today and start your year right!

Speaking of Reading Out Loud... Graphic Audio has renewed the contract for The Legend of Belladonna, Part 1: Natural Born Outlaws, by moi writing as A.E. Stanton. If you haven't grabbed this fantastic audiobook, don't delay, grab it today!

So many bookie wookies, so much time to catch up on all of them while waiting for The Alien Collection, Aliens Like Us, Aliens Like Them, and the next READ THIS! selection. Check out my Bookstore for all the things!

That's it for today, but, never fear, another Update, including details for the next READ THIS! selection, will be arriving in a couple of weeks! In the meantime, stay safe and healthy, remember we're all in this together, be kind to one another, give love and support to all those who are on the front lines in any capacity, hope this year continues to give all of you much joy and goodness, and let's be readers out there. Peace out, my li'l gangstas, and I'll catch all y'all on the flip side! Love, Gini