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For our ‘Shameless Marketing’ post of the month, we’d like to invite all Tweeters (Twits?) to follow us on Twitter.

Our Twitter ID is: @SterlingGate (named after our publishing co., Sterling Gate Books).

Here’s samples of our latest Tweets posted today:

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Historical adventure Fiji: A Novel has lust & violence befitting of the era. http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=210035 …#FijiTimes #Fiji #Amazon #kindle #Suva

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Coming-of-age spy thriller novel The Orphan Factory is one of the highest rated books on Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15757228-the-orphan-factory …#weblit

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The Best Trilogies/Book Series ever as voted by Goodreads members http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/10685.Best_Trilogies_Book_Series_EVER_#17377036 …#GoodReads #books #Listopia

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The Best Conspiracy Novels ever written as voted by Goodreads members http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2407.Conspiracy_Fiction#17377036 …#Goodreads #conspiracytheories #books

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Best violent action novels…Books that have a whole lot of bloody good action! http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8941.Best_violent_action_novels#17372919 …#novels #books #goodreads

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Best Action-Adventure Books as voted by Goodreads members books http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/514.Best_Action_Adventure_books#17372919 …

 

Feel free to join us on Twitter -Lance & James @SterlingGate

 

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Copies of The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy #1) and Fiji: A Novel trade paperbacks will be posted out to the winners of a competition underway now on the global literary site Goodreads.com

Competition for The Ninth Orphan giveaway ends April 6 PST.

The Ninth Orphan by James Morcan

The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1) byJames Morcan, Lance Morcan

How do you catch a man who is never the same man twice?
That is the question posed in The Ninth Orphan, a top-rated international thriller novel and the first book in The Orphan Trilogy.

An orphan grows up to become an assassin for a highly secretive organization. When he tries to break free and live a normal life, he is hunted by his mentor and father figure, and by a female orphan he spent his childhood with. On the run, the mysterious man’s life becomes entwined with his beautiful French-African hostage and a shocking past riddled with the darkest of conspiracies is revealed.

Enter to win via this link: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/47606-the-ninth-orphan

Competition for the Fiji: A Novel giveaway ends April 15 PST.

Fiji by Lance Morcan

Fiji: A Novel byLance Morcan, James Morcan

Fiji is a spellbinding novel of adventure, cultural misunderstandings, religious conflict and sexual tension set in one of the most exotic and isolated places on earth.

By the mid-1800’s, Fiji has become a melting pot of cannibals, warring native tribes, sailors, traders, prostitutes, escaped convicts and all manner of foreign undesirables. It’s in this hostile environment an innocent young Englishwoman and a worldly American adventurer find themselves.

Enter to win via this link: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/47608-fiji-a-novel

 

Be in to win!

 

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The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1)

The Ninth Orphan resonates with reviewers

Our conspiracy thriller, The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1), has passed another milestone, notching up its 30th 5-star review on Amazon.

The reviewer describes this novel as “Very exciting reading…leaves you sitting on the edge of your seat.”

To see the full review – and all Amazon reviews of The Ninth Orphan – go to:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056I4FKC

Fast-paced, totally fresh and original, filled with deep and complex characters, The Ninth Orphan is a controversial, high-octane thriller with an edge. Merging fact with fiction, it illuminates shadow organizations rumored to actually exist in our world. The novel explores a plethora of conspiracies involving real organizations like the CIA, MI6, and the UN, and public figures such as President Obama, Queen Elizabeth II as well as the Clinton, Marcos and Bush families.

Tackling genetic selection, mind control and secret societies, The Ninth Orphan exposes a global agenda designed to keep the power in the hands of a select few. The novel’s antagonists are members of a shadow government acting above and beyond the likes of the White House, the FBI, the Pentagon and the NSA. Could something like this ever take place? Or, is it already taking place right now?

 

The Ninth Orphan is available as a kindle ebook and trade paperback via Amazon. (Visit the link above).

All three books in The Orphan Trilogy (The Ninth Orphan, The Orphan Factory / The Orphan Uprising) can be purchased as a kindle box set via Amazon. Go to:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BGGM05U/

 

 

Happy reading! –Lance & James

 

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Up to your ears in marketing, social media, tweeting, blogging, networking etc. etc. when what you really want to be doing is write? Tell me about it!

I’ve found an excellent article online – at http://bookpromotion.weebly.com – that may help you and me both. Its author rightly points out that “Authors who don’t plan their pre & post-launch marketing can end up spending a lot of time and money trying to play catch up after publishing their books”.

The author also estimates authors spend 70 per cent of their time marketing, leaving only 30% for writing.

Here’s the (abridged) article:

The 10 Tools Every Self-Published Author Needs To Save Time

Authors who don’t plan their pre- and post-launch marketing can end up spending a lot of time and money trying to play catch up after publishing their books.  If you don’t plan properly, marketing can take twice as long as the writing and publishing process.  Feeling late to the game?  Don’t fret. The following list of resources will help save yourself from considerable frustration that most authors encounter along their literary journeys.  Both new and veteran authors alike can benefit from these online marketing platform building techniques.
The article lays out a list of marketing strategies for authors to follow. It offers “a set of goals to achieve when building out your online marketing platform.  This is not meant to be an exhaustive list.  However, we have focused on the channels that most authors pursue in their journey.”

The 10 tools offered cover the gamut of marketing options at you disposal, ranging from social media, website and email to traffic, press releases and book clubs. They allow for the pre-launch of your book, pre/post launch and post launch.

An excellent article! Again, here’s the link:  http://bookpromotion.weebly.com -Lance

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“The three novels explore a plethora of conspiracies involving real organizations like the CIA, MI6, and the UN, and public figures such as President Obama, Queen Elizabeth II as well as the Clinton, Marcos and Bush families.”

THE ORPHAN TRILOGY – THREE NOVELS SPANNING OVER 1,000 PAGES

Twenty-three orphans with numbers for names from 1 to 23.
Number Nine wants to escape from ‘the orphanage’.

Read the highly-rated international conspiracy thriller series in full and at a discounted price. Three novels spanning over 1,000 pages in total…

The Orphan Trilogy (The Ninth Orphan / The Orphan Factory / The Orphan Uprising)
Book One: THE NINTH ORPHAN
Book Two: THE ORPHAN FACTORY
Book Three: THE ORPHAN UPRISING

Meet Number Nine – an orphan, a spy, a lover…a master of disguise, an assassin, a shapeshifter…a freedom fighter, a human chameleon, a reformed contract killer.

He’s all of the above. He’s none of the above.

Nine is enslaved by the Omega Agency, a shadowy organization seeking to create a New World Order.
When he tries to break free and live a normal life, Nine is hunted by his mentor and father figure, and by a female orphan he spent his childhood with. On the run, his life becomes entwined with his beautiful French-African hostage and a shocking past is revealed…A past that involves the mysterious Pedemont
Orphanage in Chicago, Illinois.

Standing in the way of Nine’s freedom are his fellow orphans – all elite operatives like himself – who are under orders to terminate him. Nine finds himself in a seemingly infinite maze of cloak and dagger deception. Time and again, he must call on all his advanced training to survive.

But can the ninth-born orphan ever get off the grid?

To find out you’ll need to go on a tumultuous journey around the world to such far-flung locations as the Arctic, Asia, Europe, the Amazon, Africa and South Pacific islands. The frenetic cat-and-mouse chase moves from airports to train stations and hidden torture prisons, taking the reader on a page turning, frightening non-stop action ride into the world of corrupted power that goes  beyond conspiracy theories to painful reality.

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Books 1, 2 & 3 in The Orphan Trilogy…now available as a box set.

Fast-paced, totally fresh and original, filled with deep and complex characters, The Orphan Trilogy is a controversial, high-octane thriller series with an edge. Merging fact with fiction, it illuminates shadow organizations rumored to actually exist in our world.

The three novels explore a plethora of conspiracies involving real organizations like the CIA, MI6, and the UN, and public figures such as President Obama, Queen Elizabeth II as well as the Clinton, Marcos and Bush families.

The Orphan Trilogy exposes a global agenda designed to keep the power in the hands of a select few. Nine’s oppressors are a shadow government acting above and beyond the likes of the White House, the FBI, the Pentagon and the NSA.

One of the Omega Agency’s black ops employs MK-Ultra mind control technology on genetically engineered agents to facilitate the agendas of those in power. When Nine successfully deprograms himself from MK-Ultra, all hell breaks loose. But to gain his freedom he must bust out of the Pedemont Orphanage and break into Omega’s other orphanages and underground medical laboratories around the world. In the process he uncovers chilling scientific experiments taking place on children.

Could something like this ever take place? Or, is it already taking place somewhere in the world right now?

The trilogy also has a poignant, romantic sub-plot. It contains the kind of intimate character portraits usually associated with psychological thrillers.

Book/Film/TV references: The Manchurian Candidate, The Saint, The Da Vinci Code, Bond, Dark Angel, The Jackal, Mission Impossible, Salt, The Pretender, Bourne, The Island, Taken.

This unique, unpredictable and epic spy thriller series covers everything from political assassinations and
suppressed science to young adult romance and accelerated learning techniques.

Buckle up for a nail-biter to the very end.

The Amazon link for The Orphan Trilogy is: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BGGM05U/

Happy reading! -Lance & James

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In Amazon’s latest 5-star review of our conspiracy thriller, The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1), Louisiana book reviewer, I.A.Wilhite, Ph.D, says:

Brilliantly conceived! The authors manage to weave political intrigue, espionage, and eugenics into an exciting fabric of mystery and entertainment. The reader can’t but believe that the novel may not be only a work of fiction.

The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1)

The Ninth Orphan merges fact with fiction.

The Ninth Orphan (above) still tops Goodreads.com’s list of ‘Best Technothrillers Ever’ and remains eighth on its list of ‘Best Spy Stories’. The kindle and trade paperback versions of this novel can be ordered via Amazon at:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056I4FKC

The Orphan Trilogy (The Ninth Orphan / The Orphan Factory / The Orphan Uprising) is now complete following last week’s release of the trilogy box set (below)…

The Orphan Trilogy (The Ninth Orphan / The Orphan Factory / The Orphan Uprising)

Three explosive novels spanning over 1,000 pages in total.

The kindle version of the complete Orphan Trilogy can be ordered at:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BGGM05U/

 

Happy Reading! -Lance & James

 

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Our international thriller, The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1) retains first place on Goodreads.com’s list of ‘Best Technothrillers Ever’ and – as the list below shows – now ranks eighth on Goodreads.com’s list of ‘Best Spy Novels’.

Nonofficial Asset by William SewellThe Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancyTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré

Best Spy Novels

    8th out of 425 books    —    339 voters
Closed Doors, a Trilogy by Rich WeatherlyThe Ninth Orphan by James MorcanErasure by A.T.H. WebberThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonMiami Spy Games by Armand Rosamilia

Best Technothrillers Ever

    1st out of 265 books    —    115 voters

Click on the links above for full details of these and other top rating novels.

For the Top 100 in Goodreads’ Best Technothrillers Ever list go to: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/24177.Best_Technothrillers_Ever#12257650

 

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The first reviews are in for The Orphan Uprising, our third novel in The Orphan Trilogy, and they are real doozies! All 5-star reviews.

It’s early days yet, but the reviews confirm our belief this is a worthy finale to the series.

Here’s a sample of what reviewers are saying about The Orphan Uprising on Amazon:

Nine’s caught in a living nightmare. Instead of being present for the impending birth of his second child, he’s on a mission to find his firstborn. The Omega Agency has found his family…When the remaining Orphans are deprogrammed all hell breaks loose. The Law and Order like twists keep you on the edge of your seat. An extreme roller coaster ride of emotions awaits the reader. You won’t be able to put it down. –Examiner.com reviewer Wandalyn Thomas

Nine’s persona is fully realized in this sequel and there are unexpected character developments within the ranks of the other orphans that turned out to be very touching…This trilogy was just plain well worth the read. I was glad to find out that this book was ready and I was able to get closure about the orphans as the table turns on Omega Corporation. -Amazon book reviewer Kim Rhym

The books contained in this trilogy are great reads that requires one to re-discipline one’s self because once one starts reading anyone of the trilogies, it cannot be put down…you will not be able to put this book down until you finish it…That is how addictive and enjoyable this book is. It is truly a triller! –Amazon book reviewer Oluremilekun Cole

For the full reviews and more go to: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BFC66DM/

Happy reading! -Lance & James

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Here’s what Susan M. Heim, acclaimed American author and editor of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul books, has to say on her ‘Susan Heim on Writing’ blog about our new release thriller The Orphan Uprising (The Orphan Trilogy, #3)…

 

The Third Book in The Orphan Trilogy Has Been Published!

Back in November, I told you about an exciting thriller by James and Lance Morcan — The Ninth Orphan. (CLICK HERE to see my review.) So, I was pleased to hear that The Orphan Uprising, the third book in The Orphan Trilogy, has just been released as a Kindle eBook on Amazon, courtesy of Sterling Gate Books.
About this book: In this explosive conclusion to The Orphan Trilogy, the ninth-born orphan’s dramatic story resumes five years after book one, The Ninth Orphan, ends. Having eluded his former masters at the Omega Agency and escaped his past life as an operative, Nine has married his soul mate, Isabelle. They’ve carved out a new life for themselves, off the grid, in the remote islands of French Polynesia. The contented couple has a five-year-old son, Francis, who is a chip off the old block and who has inherited his father’s unique DNA. Francis will soon have a sister as Isabelle is about to give birth to a baby girl. Their idyllic lifestyle is shattered when Francis is abducted by operatives in the employ of the Omega Agency, the shadowy organization that brought Nine into the world and once controlled every aspect of his life. The terrified boy with the unique DNA is dispatched to one of Omega’s underground medical laboratories for scientific testing and experimentation. Nine is desperate to find Francis before Omega can harm him. He soon finds he’s up against his fellow orphans — all elite operatives as he once was — who are under orders to kill him on sight. To overcome them, he must call on all his former training and skills. His search takes him around the world — from Tahiti to America, Germany, Greenland and the Congo. To add to Nine’s worries, he has a serious heart condition that requires immediate surgery. The clock is ticking and he knows he’s on borrowed time. It’s a race against the clock to find his son before Omega can harm the boy — and before his heart gives out.
Written by father-and-son writing team Lance and James Morcan (authors of The Ninth Orphan, The Orphan Factory and Fiji: A Novel), The Orphan Uprising is the third book in The Orphan Trilogy. A feature film adaptation of The Ninth Orphan is currently being developed.
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Susan M. Heim is a writer and editor, specializing in parenting, multiples, Christian and women’s issues. Her books include It’s Twins! Parent-to-Parent Advice from Infancy Through Adolescence; Boosting Your Baby’s Brain Power; Oh, Baby! 7 Ways a Baby Will Change Your Life the First Year; Twice the Love: Stories of Inspiration for Families with Twins, Multiples and Singletons; and numerous Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Her articles have appeared in many books, magazines and websites. Visit her author site at www.susanheim.com.

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Our thanks to Susan for this wonderful endorsement for our novels! -Lance & James
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The Orphan Trilogy (The Ninth Orphan / The Orphan Factory / The Orphan Uprising)

The Orphan Trilogy (The Ninth Orphan / The Orphan Factory /
The Orphan Uprising)

A box set of our international thriller series, The Orphan Trilogy, is out now and available on Amazon at a discounted price.

The set includes:

Book One: The Ninth Orphan
Book Two: The Orphan Factory (prequel to The Ninth Orphan)
Book Three: The Orphan Uprising (sequel to The Ninth Orphan)
Plus a free bonus chapter of our historical adventure, Fiji: A Novel

The Amazon link for The Orphan Trilogy is: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BGGM05U/

For more background info on this series go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/SterlingGateBooks

 

Happy reading! -Lance & James

 

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