Hi, readers. See this book?
This is my debut novel, Moro’s Price, a male/male erotic romance space opera published by Loose Id, LLC in July 2012. And again, apparently, two days ago. Due to an amusing conflict between Amazon and a product description, the e-book got blocked for several hours.
It’s available again at this new Amazon link. I am so sorry, in case readers thought this was the sequel. (That’s in progress. I promise.) On the plus side, the last time I checked, the book was hovering around 27,000 sales rank for all paid Kindle sales, and at #89 for Science Fiction Romance.
I hope my previous reviews get ported over to the new Amazon link. Since I can’t rely on that, I’m humbly asking my old and new readers for honest reviews. In over a year and a half, I’ve had some decent sales – but only two reviews on Amazon, and around ten reviews on Goodreads. Your help now will get the word out, and lay groundwork for me to promote the sequel, Moro’s Shield.
So, have you bought Moro’s Price from Amazon.com? Even if you didn’t get it from Amazon (hell, even if you pirated it), did you read it? Could you finish it? Tell me what you really feel about the book. You loved it, hated it, think I should can the M.C. Hana pen name and stick to bad poetry in artists’ books?
I am the first to admit this is an odd book: an explicit erotic male/male romance alongside a political space opera about three interstellar empires on the cusp of massive change. It’s sort of Firefly meets Dune meets Spartacus meets Torchwood’s 52nd Century. It’s very loosely set within my larger Lonhra Sequence universe, but is separate in time frame and characters. It’s the sixth novel I’ve written and the first published. I’m grateful Loose Id saw fit to publish it without dialing back the heat level or the plot twists.
Some romance readers disliked it because it was too long and complicated, and the main characters were not in bed all the time. Some science fiction and fantasy readers didn’t like it because there was all that gay sex derailing a big space opera. But happily enough, I got feedback from readers who loved both genres equally – and they liked my book along with things by Catherine Asaro and Lynn Flewelling. (Which kind of made me say ‘Squee!’ like a little fangirl.)
I’m a veteran of scathing commercial art critiques, so I won’t get PTSD from a one-star review. In fact, any review will be welcomed in the spirit it is given. I’ve read such hilariously bad reviews of other books that I had to look them up, just to make my own decision.
Here is what people have already said about this book:
One reviewer has called Moro’s Price a “…vast political intrigue, manipulations everywhere and a tender, gentle and ruthlessly sexy love story.”
Others have praised its intricate plot, gritty mileu, and the insane romance between suicidal ex-gladiator Moro and his literally poisonous prince/techhead/genius Valier.
Here’s a sample of the reviews I’ve had, from the 2012 publication date up to last week:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/381595991
https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-moro039sprice-891333-145.html
http://mmgoodbookreviews.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/moros-price-by-mc-hana-2/
http://www.loose-id.com/moro-s-price.html#product_tabs_reviews