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Roadtrip To Ruin, A New Mutants & Masterminds Novel

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Roadtrip To Ruin cover imageRoadtrip To Ruin by Skyler Graye is a new Mutants & Masterminds novel from Nisaba Press, available for preorder and as epub and PDF eBooks, in our Green Ronin Online Store. (Print novel and two-formats-in-one eBook product are sold separately.)

A construct, a shapechanger, a demon, a fighter, and a talking Pomeranian hit the road for the road trip they’ve all dreamed about. But this is Emerald City, and things never go according to plan. A devious supervillain, a protective guard, and a surprising origin story will make this band of misfits work together if they want to survive. Will our heroes get to see their favorite punk band? Will they thwart the sinister scheme endangering their fellow rockers? Find out in Roadtrip to Ruin!

Roadtrip to Ruin follows Height of the Storm. Both novels explore Earth-Prime, the setting of the hit superhero RPG Mutants & Masterminds.

Nisaba Press

Nisaba Press is the fiction imprint of Green Ronin Publishing, under the leadership of Editorial Director Jaym Gates. Nisaba publishes novels, anthologies, and nonfiction tied to the rich and varied worlds of Green Ronin’s tabletop roleplaying properties and the larger world of tabletop gaming. With the release of Joseph D. Carriker’s Shadowtide and Aaron Rosenberg’s Height of the Storm, Nisaba Press brings a new facet to Green Ronin’s award-winning worlds.

Roadtrip to Ruin: a new Mutants & Masterminds novel (Ronin Roundtable)

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I love working on book covers. It’s not my primary skill set, but I’ve done enough now to feel vaguely competent, and I’ve gotten to work with some incredible artists, so I’ve learned a lot.

But this is the first time I’ve written “The Pomeranian is the wrong shade of green. We need him to look more radioactive.”

Thankfully, the artist, Dale Ray Deforest, took it in stride and did, indeed, make the Pomeranian a more radioactive green.

 

This book has been quite a lot of fun to work on in general. I first met Skyler in Austin, Texas, during one of the most memorable weekends of my life – I was at World Horror Convention, got the worst food poisoning of my life, was breaking up with a boyfriend, and had my first book signing for my first anthology (I did that signing half a bottle of Jack Daniels in, because it turns out whiskey can help calm food poisoning). I loved her work, and when I needed an author to write a Mutants & Masterminds novel for Nisaba, she was an immediate choice.

She had a strong concept almost immediately, and turned over a draft that had me laughing as I read it. The basic premise is a familiar one: a girl entering adulthood, trying to find her way into her new responsibilities.

In Roadtrip to Ruin, there’s nothing normal about Hannah’s life. Going to school with a rich social media celebrity, breaking people out of the hospital, trying to make friends with a demon, and embarking on a road trip to find out where she came from, that’s all just Monday for Hannah.

And yes, the dog is green.

Pick up Roadtrip to Ruin¸ a Mutants & Masterminds novel by Skyler Graye, from Nisaba Press/Green Ronin Publishing soon!

Sacred Band: Nisaba Press Acquires “Kirkus’s Best Indie Debuts, 2017” Series

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Nisaba Press Acquires “Kirkus’s Best Indie Debuts, 2017” Series, Sacred Band

The alchemy between the characters’ chemistry, the story’s action, and the world’s pressing—and sometimes painful—similarities to our own make the book nearly impossible to put down.

An engaging story that punches, kicks, and takes flight, just like its heroes. – Kirkus Reviews (https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joseph-d-carriker-jr/sacred-band2/)

Author Joseph Carriker’s LGBTQ+ superhero series has been acquired for 2020 rerelease by Nisaba Press. Originally published through Lethe Press, Sacred Band received much critical acclaim and named one of the “Best Indie Debuts” of 2017 by Kirkus Review, and received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly.

Sacred Band tells the story of a team of LGBTQ+ superpowered individuals set in a post-superheroic world. When no one in charge is taking the disappearance of queer and other marginalized folk from around the world seriously, this team bands together to do it themselves. They find themselves facing down official scrutiny even while racing against the sinister conspiracy that is steps ahead of them and closing in on their goal.

Sacred Band will be released with a new cover, and will be followed by its sequel, Terminal Venture, in 2021. After the very public revelation of the Band’s existence the year before, they’ve found themselves watched carefully, both by suspicious governments and by adoring fans. Struggling with both sides of this scrutiny, the team is about to discover the sinister means that have kept other superhero teams from forming in the past. Are they up to the challenge, and does anyone have their back?

“Nisaba’s dedication to exploring worlds that are not only full of adventure, but also very diverse, makes them an incredible fit for Sacred Band,” author Joseph Carriker said. “I’m very grateful for the faith Nisaba has expressed in Sacred Band, and look forward to working with them to bring these stories of a team of queer superheroes to readers.”

About the Author

Joseph Carriker has been playing roleplaying games for over thirty years now, and making them professionally for almost twenty. He has also written Shadowtide, a tie-in fiction novel set in the world of Green Ronin’s Blue Rose, which follows a band of adventurers rooting out the evil threatening their homeland. Joseph lives in Portland, Oregon with his poly constellation family, and likes to think he does his part in helping to Keep Portland Weird.

https://www.patreon.com/oakthorne

About Nisaba

Nisaba Press is the fiction imprint of industry veteran Green Ronin Publishing. Founded to bring to life fiction set in the vibrant worlds of Green Ronin’s original and licensed IPs, Sacred Band is Nisaba’s debut into non-IP fiction. Current Nisaba titles include Shadowtide, Height of the Storm, Tales of the Lost Citadel, and the short fiction digital quarterly, Nisaba Journal.

Sacred Band Lethe Press edition cover. Right-click to download larger version. [Image Description: Stylized words SACRED BAND above two men, one in blue and silver skin-tight superhero suit, the other in red and black superhero suit with round lens, red glass welding goggles on forehead and spinning small, glowing red spheres around upraised left hand.]

Sacred Band Lethe Press edition cover. Right-click to download larger version. [Image Description: Stylized words SACRED BAND above two men, one in blue and silver skin-tight superhero suit, the other in red and black superhero suit with round lens, red glass welding goggles on forehead and spinning small, glowing red spheres around upraised left hand.]

Height of the Storm, A New Mutants & Masterminds Novel

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Height of the Storm cover imageHeight of the Storm by Aaron Rosenberg is a new Mutants & Masterminds novel from Nisaba Press, available for preorder and in three formats of ebook (epub, mobi, and PDF), in our Green Ronin Online Store.

Lindsey’s life changed the night she saw her beloved grandfather in his superhero guise for the first time. It changed again the day she got caught in a strange storm, and she took up her grandfather’s mantle as a protector. Diagnosed at a young age with a rare chronic illness, she must balance her family’s protectiveness against her desire to carry on their legacy and prevent a bitter genius from taking revenge on those who slighted him.

Height of the Storm is the first novel to explore Earth-Prime, the setting of the hit superhero RPG Mutants & Masterminds.

 

About the Author

Aaron Rosenberg, authorAaron Rosenberg is the author of the best-selling DuckBob SF comedy series, the Dread Remora space-opera series, the Relicant epic fantasy series with Steve Savile, and the O.C.L.T. occult thriller series with David Niall Wilson. Aaron’s tie-in work contains novels for Star Trek, Warhammer, World of WarCraft, Stargate: Atlantis, Shadowrun, Eureka, and more. He has written children’s books (including the original series STEM Squad and Pete and Penny’s Pizza Puzzles, the award-winning Bandslam: The Junior Novel, and the #1 best-selling 42: The Jackie Robinson Story), educational books on a variety of topics, and over seventy roleplaying games (such as the original games Asylum, Spookshow, and Chosen, work for White Wolf, Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight, Pinnacle, and many others, and both the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets and the Gold ENnie-winning Lure of the Lich Lord). He is the co-creator of the ReDeus series, and a founding member of Crazy 8 Press. Aaron lives in New York with his family. You can follow him online at gryphonrose. com, on Facebook at facebook.com/gryphonrose, and on Twitter @gryphonrose.

Nisaba Press

Nisaba Press is the fiction imprint of Green Ronin Publishing, under the leadership of Editorial Director Jaym Gates. Nisaba publishes novels, anthologies, and nonfiction tied to the rich and varied worlds of Green Ronin’s tabletop roleplaying properties and the larger world of tabletop gaming. With the release of Joseph D. Carriker’s Shadowtide and Aaron Rosenberg’s Height of the Storm, Nisaba Press brings a new facet to Green Ronin’s award-winning worlds.