The Royal Scam: Book One of the Martian Alliance Chronicles

By Gini Koch

Join the crew of the Hummingbird as they take on the rich, famous and sleazy of the galaxy. They're also on a long-term secret mission, so it's a good thing they're the best con artists, spacers, and roughnecks in the Milky Way, because they need all their skills to pull off this particular Royal Scam.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gini Koch
• Release date: Jul 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311618825

Gini Koch

Gini Koch writes the fast, fresh and funny Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series for DAW Books, the Necropolis Enforcement Files series, and the Martian Alliance Chronicles series. Touched by an Alien, Book 1 in the Alien series, was named by Booklist as one of the Top Ten Adult SF/F novels of 2010. Alien in the House, Book 7 in her long-running Alien series, won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award as the Best Futuristic Romance of 2013.As G.J. Koch she writes the Alexander Outland series and she’s made the most of multiple personality disorder by writing under a variety of other pen names as well, including Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A.E. Stanton, and J.C. Koch.Gini also has stories featured in a variety of anthologies, including the Unidentified Funny Objects 3, Clockwork Universe: Steampunk vs. Aliens, and Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets anthologies, writing as Anita Ensal, in The Book of Exodi, Love and Rockets, and Boondocks Fantasy anthologies, and, writing as J.C. Koch, in Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters, The Madness of Cthulhu, Vol. 1, and A Darke Phantastique anthologies, and, coming in 2016, The Mammoth Book of Kaiju. Gini will also be featured in the first book in an X-Files anthology series, X-Files: Trust No One, as well as in the Temporally Out of Order, Timeless Tales, MECH: Age of Steel, Unidentified Funny Objects 4, and Out of Tune 2 anthologies, all coming in 2015.All the ways to reach Gini:Website - http://www.ginikoch.com/The Blah, Blah, Blah Blog - http://ginikoch.blogspot.com/Twitter - @GiniKochFacebook - facebook.com/Gini.KochFacebook Fan Page: Hairspray & Rock ‘n’ Roll – https://www.facebook.com/GiniKochAuthorPinterest – http://www.pinterest.com/ginikoch/The Official Fan Site of the Alien Collective - http://thealiencollectivevirtualhq.blogspot.com/E-mail - [e-mail]

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Praise for Royal Scam

…The Royal Scam is a short, fast-paced, and entertaining read that hints at great things to come in future installments of the Martian Alliance series…

Fictitious Musings

I consider it to be a must have short story for Space Opera/SFR Fans.

Mixed Book Bag

The author left me reeling with how much she packed into 27 pages. Well done Ms. Koch.

Long and Short Reviews

Gini Koch is one of my favorite authors out there, and The Royal Scam is a perfect example of why.

Bitten By Books

When it started, I thought I knew what was happening, but I was wrong.

boeklogboek

There is more than meets the eye and Gini Koch does a great job entertaining the reader with the storyline in the book.

Hanging with Bells

Also by Gini Koch:

The Alien/Katherine Kitty Katt Series

TOUCHED BY AN ALIEN

ALIEN TANGO

ALIEN IN THE FAMILY

ALIEN PROLIFERATION

ALIEN DIPLOMACY

ALIEN VS. ALIEN

ALIEN IN THE HOUSE

ALIEN RESEARCH

ALIEN COLLECTIVE

UNIVERSAL ALIEN

ALIEN SEPARATION

ALIEN IN CHIEF (coming December 2015)

CAMP ALIEN (coming May 2016)

ALIEN NATION (coming December 2016)

ALIENS ABROAD (coming May 2017)

The Necropolis Enforcement Files Series

THE NIGHT BEAT

NIGHT MUSIC (coming 2015)

The Martian Alliance Chronicles Series

THE ROYAL SCAM

THREE CARD MONTE (coming 2015)

A BUG’S LIFE (coming 2015)

RANDOM MUSINGS FROM THE FUNNY GIRL

THE HAPPY ACRES HAUNTED HOTEL FOR ACTIVE SENIORS

Anthologies

CLOCKWORK UNIVERSE: STEAMPUNK VS. ALIENS –

A Clockwork Alien

TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE BAKER STREETS –

All The Single Ladies

UNIDENTIFIED FUNNY OBJECTS 3 – Live at the Scene

TEMPORALLY OUT OF ORDER – Alien Time Warp (coming 2015)

THE X-FILES: TRUST NO ONE – Sewers (coming 2015)

UNIDENTIFIED FUNNY OBJECTS 4 – Support Your Local Alien (coming 2015)

The Royal Scam

Book 1 of the Martian Alliance Chronicles

GINI KOCH

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, incidents, and dialogues in this book are of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

The Royal Scam

Published by Gini Koch at Smashwords

Copyright 20101 2015 Jeanne Cook

First published by Musa Publishing October 2011

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