Hey listeners, if you've been listening to our recent episodes, you've been hearing about the

epic sci-fi book series Shadowed Stars by author Stephen Coutes.

We're so excited to have Stephen as a partner of Real Talk a Movie podcast because Shadowed

Stars incorporates all the aspects of storytelling that most of us movie fans love.

As the movie buddy always says, he likes when the story transports the audience to a

different world, and that's exactly what Stephen is doing with the book series.

Shadowed Stars is an epic science fiction series, but as we learned on our recent

interview series episode with Stephen, he likes to incorporate other genres into his books,

such as romance, horror, action, and even westerns, which I love that approach.

Now, I do want to caution that Shadowed Stars is for a mature audience, so I don't recommend

tucking the kids into bed while reading chapters from the book. It being for a mature audience

is another aspect

that I think is very unique as we normally don't get that with other sci-fi epics.

Stephen has eight numbered books planned in the series. The odd number of books will focus on

one line of characters, the even-numbered books will focus on another line of characters

with some cameos mixed in.

This helps to keep the stories fresh and the character arcs forming over the entire series.

Listeners, I can't encourage you enough to check out Shadowed Stars.

Book 1 is available now, and so is Book 2, Shadowed Stars, the Rain of the Black Guard.

Stephen is hopeful that Book 3 will be available by the end of 2021.

Now, where can you purchase these books?

Book 1 and 2, again, available now.

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