Queen & Commander

Hive Queen Saga #1

by Janine A. Southard

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Pub Date Mar 09 2013 | Archive Date Sep 01 2014

Description

Spaceships. Blackmail. Anywhere but here.

On a world where high school test scores determine your future, six students rebel. They’ll outrun society as fast as their questionably obtained spaceship will take them.

Rhiannon doesn’t technically cheat the Test. She’s smarter than the computers that administer it, and she uses that to her advantage. She emerges from Test Day with the most prestigious future career possible: Hive Queen.

Gwyn & Victor are madly in love, but their Test results will tear them apart. Good thing Rhiannon is Gwyn’s best friend. Rhiannon can fix this. Queens can do anything.

Gavin is the wild card. Raised off-planet, he can’t wait to leave again… and he’s heard of an empty ship in orbit. The Ceridwen’s Cauldron.

Both Luciano and Alan fit in the system. They don’t need to leave. Only their devotion to Rhiannon spurs them to join the Cauldron’s crew.

Spaceships. Blackmail. Anywhere but here.

On a world where high school test scores determine your future, six students rebel. They’ll outrun society as fast as their questionably obtained spaceship...

A Note From the Publisher

Also available on Kindle - ASIN: B00BRM2XVE
Also available in paperback ($9.99) - ISBN: 978-0988646858

Janine A. Southard writes speculative fiction and videogame dialogue from her home in Seattle, WA. She sings with a Celtic band and is working on the next book in her award-winning Hive Queen series. She's also been known to read aloud to her cat.

The cat appreciates all of these things. Maybe.

Also available on Kindle - ASIN: B00BRM2XVE
Also available in paperback ($9.99) - ISBN: 978-0988646858

Janine A. Southard writes speculative fiction and videogame dialogue from her home in...

Advance Praise

WINNER 2013 IPPY AWARD -- Silver Medal for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror E-Book

Marketing Plan

Making this book available on NetGalley (and putting it on sale for $0.99 from April 15 - May 15) is part of my marketing plan for ANOTHER book. The sequel is coming out in May. Hopefully, there will be some crossover into the sequel audience: Hive & Heist. (I'm also doing a blog tour in early May/mid-June, with friends and with Xpressso Book Tours, but that's all for Hive & Heist. It ought to push interest in Q&C too, I hope.)