READ THIS! BotM Announced, a Plethora of Cover Reveals, & More!

Happy June! My con season revs up this month, as does everything else, so wheee, it's summertime and the writing is fast and furious! The next READ THIS! Book of the Month is here, along with new cover reveals - SO MANY new covers to reveal - my LibertyCon schedule, and more! So let's get to it, shall we? We shall!

It's Alive! A Cup of Joe, by moi writing as Anita Ensal, is live now from Ginger Blue Publishing! When Emily smiles at David, it changes his safe, predictable world in ways neither one of them can anticipate. When your eyes are finally opened, when the choice is everything you think you want versus what it might be you truly need, what will you be willing to risk for love? Get you copy today from your distributor of choice!

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!

READ THIS! A Book Club by Moi for All Y'all Welcome to READ THIS! A Book Club by Gini Koch. This is my chance to introduce you to some great authors that I love and know you will, too. Every month I'll spotlight a book and, even better...every month I'll host a live discussion with the author, that all y'all can join! I know, it's too happy to be true, but true it is!

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

June 2025 READ THIS! Author Q&A

So, you've read the READ THIS! selection and you want to share what you thought with the author, hang out with them and Gini, and generally talk books for an hour. Well, guess what? You can! The third Thursday of every month will be READ THIS! Author Q&A time. The event will be held utilizing Discord, and the invitation to Gini's READ THIS! room will come out in the week prior to the chat. And that's not all! Near the end of each Q&A session, we'll be doing a raffle and one lucky winner will get a copy of the next month's READ THIS! selection! (You must be present in the Q&A to win. Physical book prizes will be U.S. only. Ebook prizes will be worldwide.)

June's READ THIS! author Q&A  with Guest Host Hal Bodner featuring Author Dawn Major will be on Thursday, June 19, 2024 from 9pm-10pm Eastern. Access to Discord is available worldwide, and everyone is invited to attend!

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

The Royal Scam is Live...and an Amazon Top 100 Bestseller! Thanks to everyone who preordered this release! If you didn't get your copy, don't delay, order from your preferred retailer via Ginger Blue Publishing today!

And don't forget to pre-order the next books in the series!

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. Preorder from your preferred retailer via Ginger Blue Publishing.

Is the cost of a few innocent lives worth risking everything? When the crew of the Hummingbird discovers 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? Preorder from your preferred retailer via Ginger Blue Publishing.

In case you missed it, Touched by an Alien, Alien Tango, Alien in the Family, and Alien Proliferation are now available from Ginger Blue Publishing in ebook, trade paperback, hardback, and trophy hardback!

For those keeping score at home, apparently someone at Amazon is on Hook Me Up! because literally the day after I sent the fast blast explaing how we had no idea when the 'Zon would fix things up with Alien in the Family than lo and behold it was live everywhere. The situation with how the hardbacks go out is still the same - you can get the new versions in ebook, trade paperback, hardback, and trophy hardback complete with a snazzy dust cover! The trophy hardback is from B&N.com only, as a reminder, and the regular hardback is from Amazon only. The searching via Amazon and B&N.com remains spotty, in no small part because those two distributors still have some mass market copies they're determined to sell. So, as suggested for Touched and Tango, and as recommended for every book coming through 16/Aliens Abroad, go to the Ginger Blue Releases page, click on the cover of your choosing, and choose which option or options you want. The links on GBP's website will take you to the right spots at B&N and Amazon to get the version you want. Confusing? Yes. Ultimately manageable? Sure. It's only adding a step to what you'd normally do. Now for the old reviews status. On B&N all the reviews seem to have stuck, though they're locked to the ebooks (meaning that they don't necessarily show the reviews if you're on the trade paperback or hardback selections). For Amazon, the reviews for Touched and Proliferation stuck. The reviews for Tango and Family did not. SO, please review early and often on either site, since, as we well know, reviews matter, especially at Amazon, B&N, and Goodreads. So, officially, the first four books are live everywhere! Huzzah!

And now it's time for MORE COVER REVEALS!

New Jobs. New Home. Same New Kitty. Kitty's brand of diplomacy isn't quite as smooth as Jeff's – parties, lobbyists of all stripes, and politicians from all over present challenges a well-stocked iPod and quirky sense of humor aren't up to handling. But when a shadowy assassination plot and new anti-alien conspirators are identified, Kitty's the diplomat for the job – in between Mommy and Me, Diplomacy for Beginner', and The Washington Wife classes. Coming soon from Ginger Blue Publishing.

New scandals. Old enemies. New kick-butt pets for Kitty. Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini and the rest of the American Centaurion Diplomatic Corps are still recovering from their introduction to Washington D.C. politics, parties, and conspiracies. So when compromising pictures arrive, no one's too surprised. They're also the least of anyone's worries. Coming soon from Ginger Blue Publishing.

Parties. Murder. Mayhem. Kitty to the Rescue. When a newly elected Representative is murdered while at the Centaurion Embassy, it's up to Kitty and Company to find out how and why and stop the killer, before the rest of the U.S. House of Representatives become casualties, particularly the replacement Representative - Jeff Martini. Coming soon from Ginger Blue Publishing.

New Family. New Powers. Same Kick-Butt Kitty. When rumors of a new super-drug surface, the FBI comes to Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini for help. But when the inconceivable happens, Kitty's focused on two things only: reviving the ACE entity before their enemies realize Earth's best protection isn't actually active...and revenge. Coming soon from Ginger Blue Publishing.

Kitty, and Nightcrawler, and Prince. Oh My! Despite not having run for office, nor wanting to remain in office, Rep. Jeff Martini is being wooed as the Vice Presidential running mate for a charismatic senator who seems likely to win the campaign. While the Diplomatic Corps has to deal with the pressures of a political campaign sure to uncover secrets they don't want shared with the world, Ambassador Kitty Katt-Martini has other worries: a Battle Royale that's going to determine the fate of the world...and possibly the galaxy. Coming soon from Ginger Blue Publishing.

Double the Kitty. Double the Fun... and Mayhem. Issues with Australia need to be straigthened out, so the White House sends the Vice President and his wife, aka Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini, over to handle the situation, but before Kitty can make things worse, she's suddenly in another world - one where she's been married to Charles Reynolds for years and aliens don't exist. Kitty's not the only one confused, because the Kitty from that world has taken her place in this one. Can they both save their respective days before it's too late to go home to the universes they belong to, or will one Kitty decide to keep the other's life...forever? Coming soon from Ginger Blue Publishing.

Planets, Power Plays, and Pets. Kitty's Got This. The Mastermind has finally been identified, but before Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini can take him down, they, their daughter, Jamie, Charles Reynolds, Paul Gower, Christopher White, and several others are zapped out of their solar system and into another. Landing them on an alien planet - and not together... Coming soon from Ginger Blue Publishing.

Mastermind vs. Kitty & Company. Place Your Bets. It's not another Operation As Usual. This time, the Mastermind's made it very personal and either he's going down...or Kitty is. Coming soon from Ginger Blue Publishing.

Con Season Continues My con season is in full swing. 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 DragonCon August 28-September 1 Atlanta, GA Bouchercon September 3-7 New Orleans, LA

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 the Discord Q&A chat invitation, 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, and let's be readers out there. Peace out, my li'l gangstas, and I'll catch you on the flip side! Love, Gini