Tuscany Bay Books

Starting on September 8th, five new releases will drop - The Collected Works of Rob Jones; Ignite The Wings of Dawn, featuring the works of Josh Griffing; Holmes by Tuscany Bay, a collection of six Sherlock Holmes pastiches by Richard Paolinelli; and the two-volume set of Dreams of the Storyteller, a collection of all short stories, some never-before published, by Richard Paolinelli.

On September 15th, a five-volume collection encompassing all 12 books, all four short stories, and some new short stories in the St. Tommy NYPD universe by Declan Finn will be released.

And finally, on September 22nd, its Space Opera Day at TBB. The first three volumes of the Starquest Omnibus releases, encompassing the first nine Starquest stories by John C. Wright. Also, the complete Starquest 4th Age collection by Richard Paolinelli and the first of a two-volume White Ops omnibus by Declan Finn will also be released.

Pre-orders for all of the above titles as e-books are currently live on Amazon. Links to download epub editions directly from our store will be online about one week prior to the posted release dates.

Also, mass market-sized (4.3” x 6.9”) print editions of all of the above releases will be available exclusively through Tuscany Bay Books via our partnership with Books.by and Lulu.

In addition, some of our standalone titles, but not all of our catalog, will also be available in mass market size. Purchase links for these books will be made available soon.

Four TBB Books part of an EPIC Indie sale

Richard Paolinelli — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:00:30 GMT

As part of a special sale via epicindie.net, Tuscany Bay Books has four of its titles on sale on Amazon for just $4.99 each. That’s a discount of $2-$4 depending on the title.

Here are the four books and the links to go cash in on the sale:

Of All The Gin Joints in the Universe ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F98C56KY )

Galen’s Way ( https://www.amazon.com/Galens-Way-Starquest-4th-Adventure-ebook/dp/B08V6KR4CR ),

White Ops ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09LJ2762Q )

Space Pirates of Andromeda ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DGYX8QPR )

New Starquest Release

Richard Paolinelli — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:23:26 GMT

The next chapter of John C. Wright’s epic Starquest saga has arrived.

The e-book is available for pre-order, with a July 21st release date, on Amazon for $8.99 here: STARQUEST: SPACE PRINCESS OF ARCADIA

And you can order the paperback and/or hardcover print editions via the same link on July 21st.

However, if you’d rather not wait, and would like to save yourself $2.00 at the same time, as a subscriber to our newsletter, you can download an epub copy of Space Princess of Arcadia direct from our online store for just $6.99. Just click this link here: Space Princess of Arcadia

See, it pays to be a subscriber to our newsletter, doesn’t it?

And stay tuned for some big news coming up regarding brand-new print editions of our books.

REMINDER: Help us net a Dragon

Richard Paolinelli — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:01:34 GMT

Nominations remain open through July 12th for the 2026 Dragon Awards. Anyone with a computer, or a smartphone, and an e-mail address can nominate and even vote for the award connected to the annual DragonCon in Atlanta, GA.

Tuscany Bay Books has two novels that are eligible for nomination in the Best Science Fiction and Best Fantasy categories.

Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe has been very well received by readers and reviewers alike. It is also slated to be the last sci-fi novel from Richard Paolinelli for the foreseeable future as he takes on several screenplay projects over the next few years.

As he was a 2017 Dragon Award Finalist for his first sci-fi novel, Escaping Infinity, we’d like to send him off on his new writing adventure as at least a Dragon Award Finalist in 2026.

John C. Wright won the very first-ever Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2016. His novel, Starquest: Spaceman in the Iron Mask, released in November, is eligible to be nominated in the Best Fantasy Novel category for the 2026 Dragon Awards.

We think, after a decade, its high time John picked up another one of these for his mantle.

And here’s how you can help both Richard and John out the best.

The 2026 Dragon Awards nominations are now open through July 12, 2026 and we’d like to ask you to consider nominating Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe for Best Science Fiction Novel and Starquest: Spaceman in the Iron Mask for Best Fantasy Novel.

It is free to nominate and you can even check a box under where you enter your e-mail address to sign up to receive a ballot a few weeks later in August. It will also be free to fill out and submit your ballot.

Please go to this link and fill out your nominations when you can: Dragon Award Nominations

Thank you for helping out!

The 1-week book sale you cannot miss!!!

Richard Paolinelli — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:21:06 GMT

Starting right now and through Monday night, the first three books of all three of these series are available to download on Amazon for $0.99 each.

That's nine full-length novels for less than $9. Get'em while you can.

John C Wright's Starquest: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHSWLFJ7

Declan Finn's White Ops:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LJSTXHP

and Richard Paolinelli's Starquest 4th Age:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7G2LWPY

The Starquest Epic Continues

Richard Paolinelli — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:09:06 GMT

The eighth book of John C. Wright’s epic Starquest series is now available for download here in the official Tuscany Bay Book’s online store. You can get it directly from TBB today and for only $5.99. Amazon Kindle users can pre-order for $6.99 for the official release day of Tuesday, March 17th.

Here’s what’s in store in Book #8:

Special Agent Athos is now King of Pirates! Blood Moon is his! When will his corsairs turn on him?
Ahab is gone, but the Faceless Man remains! How will the Syndicate of Felony Worlds retaliate?
Nightshadow and Ancient Mariner meet! But neither brother knows the secret identity of the other!
Must Andromeda’s foremost Lawman arrest the most feared Lawless Vigilante?
Has Lirazel found her long-lost robot father at last? Or does hateful fate hold more woe in store?
Where is Arcadia?

MASTERMINDS of CRIME and OVERLORDS of EVIL OCCULT ARTS COMBINE!
TO BE CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT EXCITING INSTALLMENT:

Starquest: Sinister Syndicate of Space!

E-BOOK DOWNLOAD PURCHASE LINK: Sinister Syndicate of Space

AMAZON PURCHASE LINK: Sinister Syndicate of Space

RELEASE DAY: Starquest: Pirate King of Star Patrol

Richard Paolinelli — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:15:34 GMT

NEW RELEASE DAY!

Book 7 of @johncwright2001 's epic Starquest series is live!

Athos Lone, Ace of the Star Patrol, has been summoned by the King of Pirates!

What doom awaits him in the Court of Ahab?

War erupts at the Walrus World!

An unknown fleet, flying no flag, appears from deep space! Who are these new foes?

Hidden among his enemies, masked as Captain Blackjack Rackstraw, Athos Lone must take up arms against the Law he is sworn to serve!

And open fire on his own family!

Nightshadow approaches the war zone in secret. What new intrigue is near?

Where is Arcadia?

WARFARE, AWE, SUPERWEAPONS AND UNEARTHLY DEEDS AWAIT!
TO BE CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT EXCITING INSTALLMENT!

PIRATE KING of STAR PATROL

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0GJCK9PX4

Or head over to the TBB Store and buy a Kindle-friendly copy to download for $1 less than the Amazon price: https://tuscanybaybooks.net/starquest-pirate-king-of-star-patrol

Starquest Book #7: Pirate King of Star Patrol

Richard Paolinelli — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 03:00:33 GMT

Pre-orders for the e-book edition of the seventh book of John C. Wright’s Starquest saga: Pirate King of Star Patrol is now live for Tuesday’s release.

You can get your pre-order in, and order print copies in paperback or hardcover right here:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0GJCK9PX4

And if you’re in a particularly big hurry, and want to save a dollar, you can down load a Kindle-friendly EPUB edition from our website for just $5.99 (Amazon is $6.99) right here:

https://tuscanybaybooks.net/starquest-pirate-king-of-star-patrol

Athos Lone, Ace of the Star Patrol, has been summoned by the King of Pirates!
What doom awaits him in the Court of Ahab?

War erupts at the Walrus World!

An unknown fleet, flying no flag, appears from deep space! Who are these new foes?

Hidden among his enemies, masked as Captain Blackjack Rackstraw, Athos Lone must take up arms against the Law he is sworn to serve!

And open fire on his own family!

Nightshadow approaches the war zone in secret. What new intrigue is near?
Where is Arcadia?

WARFARE, AWE, SUPERWEAPONS AND UNEARTHLY DEEDS AWAIT!
TO BE CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT EXCITING INSTALLMENT!

STARQUEST: PIRATE KING OF STAR PATROL

Get those Amazon gift cards out!

Richard Paolinelli — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:37:03 GMT

Starting Dec. 21st and through Jan. 1st you can get the e-book copies of our two best sci-fi/fantasy novels of 2025 for $0.99 each.

Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F98C56KY

Spaceman in the Iron Mask: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0G36MPFSX

And you can also help us nominate both books for a Dragon Award. Nominations are now open here: https://applyto.dragoncon.org/fan_awards/dc_fan_awards_nominations.php

Help us net a Dragon

Richard Paolinelli — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:04:32 GMT

Nominations are now open through July 12, 2026 for the 2026 Dragon Awards. Anyone with a computer, or a smartphone, and an e-mail address can nominate and even vote for the award connected to the annual DragonCon in Atlanta, GA.

Tuscany Bay Books has two novels that are eligible for nomination in the Best Science Fiction and Best Fantasy categories.

As he was a 2017 Dragon Award Finalist for his first sci-fi novel, Escaping Infinity, we’d like to send him off on his new writing adventure as at least a Dragon Award Finalist in 2026.

We think, after a decade, its high time John picked up another one of these for his mantle.

And here’s how you can help both Richard and John out the best.

Please go to this link and fill out your nominations when you can: Dragon Award Nominations

Thank you for helping out!

Edward Willett Joins TBB Family

Richard Paolinelli — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:00:55 GMT

Award-winning Canadian author, and host of The Worldshapers podcast, Edward Willett, is joining the Tuscany Bay Books family in 2026 with his The Helix War series.

Tuscany Bay Books will be re-releasing new editions of the first two books of the series, Marseguro, which won the 2009 Aurora Award, honoring Canadian science fiction and fantasy, for Best Long-Form Work in English, and Terra Insegura, which was a finalist for the same award the following year, in the Fall/Winter of 2026/2027.

The brand-new third book of the series, which currently has the working title of Vingança, will be released one month later.

Tuscany Bay Book’s is thrilled to welcome Edward into our growing list of award-winning authors and talented story-tellers. He is Tuscany Bay’s first internationally-based novelist and we hope he will be the first of many more to come.

Starquest Book #6 is out on Amazon today, Book #1 is on sale!

Richard Paolinelli — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 06:23:34 GMT

John C. Wright’s newest Starquest epic, Spaceman in the Iron Mask, is officially out on Amazon and already in the Top 20 of new releases in Galactic Empire novels.

Amazon e-book link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0G36MPFSX

A paperback and a hardcover edition will be ready for orders on Black Friday.

You can even save a buck, and these days every dollar matters, right?, by directly downloading an epub copy from us right here: https://tuscanybaybooks.net/starquest-spaceman-in-the-iron-mask

But wait, there’s more!

The first Starquest book: Space Pirates of Andromeda is on sale as an ebook on Amazon until Tues. Dec. 2nd for just $0.99.

There are three other sci-fi title from Tuscany Bay Books that are also on sale right now as $0.99 ebooks on Amazon:

Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe, by Richard Paolinelli, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F98C56KY

White Ops, by Declan Finn, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09LJ2762Q

Phoenix, by Lori Janeski, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN9WFSN9

Be sure to load up your reading device with some solid sci-fi action from across the universe.

The Sixth Starquest Book Is Out Now

Richard Paolinelli — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:52:08 GMT

The sixth book in John C. Wright’s Starquest series: Spaceman in the Iron Mask is available for preorder for its Nov. 25th release here. You’ll be able to order a paperback or hardcover copy on Amazon on Nov. 28th, Black Friday.

But, if you’d rather not wait, and save yourself a dollar at the same time, you can go to the Tuscany Bay Books store and download a Kindle-compatible, e-pub copy right now: https://tuscanybaybooks.net/starquest-spaceman-in-the-iron-mask

While you’re there, check out our other books and some gift items for a favorite reader. You know what day is coming up fast, right?

We Have A Store!

Richard Paolinelli — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:20:38 GMT

Tuscany Bay Books has just opened its official online store. For now, you can download every book in our catalog as an epub file. That is the format for most ebook readers, including devices for Kindle.

The even better news is that you can buy our books directly from us at a discounted price from its listed price on Amazon. Win-win!

Check out the store here: Tuscany Bay Books Store. The books are organized in several categories: by genre, by series, and by author.

We have 84 novels, non-fiction books, novellas, and short stories ranging in price from $2.49 up to $7.99. We even have books that you can download for free.

But wait, there’s more!

In the coming weeks we’ll be adding a special print edition of our books in the old 1970s pulp paperback size. We’ll even be looking at special new 70s-style pulp covers for these new editions and they’ll only be available for order through our website.

We’ll also be adding other merch, hats, t-shirts, mugs, etc. So be sure to keep an eye out for these additions as they become available.

A Letter to the Judge Regarding Bartz v. Anthropic

Richard Paolinelli — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:16:06 GMT

TUSCANY BAY BOOKS

PO BOX 466 STEELE, ND 58482-0466

October 6, 2025

Hon. District Judge William H. Alsup

c/o Clerk’s Office

Phillip Burton Federal Building

450 Golden Gate Avenue, 16th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94102

RE: Bartz vs. Anthropic, No. C 24-05417 WHA

Your Honor,

We are aware that the court has tentatively approved a settlement of this case. However, there is a fatal flaw in the settlement and we ask the court to reconsider its final decision and make a necessary adjustment as to who may join in this settlement. The court has indicated that any publisher and/or author who wishes to be a part of the settlement, must provide not only the title of the pirated work, but the ASIN/ISBN number AND the U.S. Copyright number for each work.

It is this final requirement that is at issue. Filing with the U.S. Copyright office is an antiquated method in the publishing industry that predates the internet and online publishing. Only the larger publishing houses for the most part still do this. A vast majority of small houses, like Tuscany Bay Books, and independently published authors do not bother with this registration as it is no longer needed.

Every work that is published and sold online shows up on Amazon with its ASIN/ISBN numbers as well as the date of publication, which serves as the copyright date in every court of law across the globe. I have attached examples for your review.

We ask that the court remove the U.S. Copyright Number as a requirement and allow only the title and ASIN/ISBN number to serve as the criteria. To do otherwise would severely damage thousands of authors and publishers and deny them compensation for the works that were stolen by LibraryGenesis and other sources that Anthropic wrongfully used without permission to train its AI.

It is not fair to them as they have suffered far more harm than the larger houses to which a few thousand dollars is a pittance. For many of those currently shut out of this settlement these funds literally could mean the end of their endeavors if they are denied this compensation.

We respectfully ask, on our behalf as well as all of the other small publishers and independent authors, that you make this change and open this settlement to every victim of Anthropic’s misconduct.

We are also attaching a list of the 24 titles that we found on LibraryGenesis. We have good reason to suspect that most, if not all, of our 80+ titles at Tuscany Bay Books will show up as wrongfully being used by the other sources involved in this case.

Sincerely,

Richard Paolinelli

Publisher, Tuscany Bay Books

NEW RELEASE DAY

Richard Paolinelli — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:55:44 GMT

Ever wondered what might happen in the classic 1940 Detective Noir ever collided with Space Opera?

Wonder no more.

“Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe” by Richard Paolinelli does just that. And its an early hit with reviewers too.

An excerpt from a reviewer of "Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe":

"The action is intense. It was very hard to put the book down. It is a mystery, wrapped in a conspiracy, with a love story at the heart. It reminds me of a lot of old shows I watched with my father including, Mike Hammer, Dirty Harry, and Spencer for Hire to name but a few. And Paolinelli makes homage to several detectives and the whole noir genre through out the work. This is an excellent novel from Paolinelli’s pen. It took me by surprise. A great addition to his complete works. I can easily recommend this story for what an excellent piece of Science fiction mashed up with mystery Noir!"

And here’s another:

"This book is for lovers of pulp detective noir, lovers of traditional space opera, and anyone who wants to see the two put together, done well."

And a here’s quick excerpt from the book for you to enjoy:

“Natasha!” I said firmly, taking her head in my hands and forcing her to look right at me. Her eyes were unfocused, still darting wildly back and forth.

“Natasha Carter! It’s me. It’s Sam Spade, Angel Eyes.”

That stopped her cold. Her eyes suddenly became sharp, clear, and focused. The eyes I was now looking into were the eyes that I had seen that first day on Norma.

Natasha Carter was back.

And she was packing a wallop. Her open palm slammed into the side of my head. A quick roll of the tongue on that side of my mouth revealed one loose tooth. I suppose I had that coming. Along with the second slap that she delivered a second later.

I got the hint and let go of her, stepping back out of range of that express train she called a hand. She stood up and violently started swiping off the Halo and all the leads, sending them clattering to the floor.

Pete was smart enough to stay out of harm’s way. I was dumb enough not to follow his lead.

****

Get your copy right now, in e-book, paperback, and hardcover editions.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F98C56KY

Release Day Change For Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe

Richard Paolinelli — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:25:11 GMT

The original release date for Of All The Gin Joints in the Universe was October 30th. Primarily this was to allow for a magazine back east to consider reviewing it and timing their review around the release date. For whatever reason, they require a 3-4 month lead.

Today we were informed that they were passing on a review. So, why make my readers wait another 2.5 months to read this novel, right?

Which is why Tuscany Bay Books has moved the release date up to Aug. 26th. Here’s the pre-order link, and the book will also be available for paperback and hardcover edition orders on that day too.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F98C56KY

So go ahead and get your pre-orders in on the Space Detective Noir mystery-thriller today.