Rampant Loon Media LLC is a small, privately owned Midwestern company dedicated to the seemingly radical proposition that if we produce high-quality work, conduct our business dealings in an open and ethical manner, and always treat authors and artists as we ourselves would wish to be treated, we can successfully bootstrap a new publishing company from the ground up. Rampant Loon Media LLC is the parent corporation that publishes a variety of media products, mostly under the Rampant Loon Press (RLP) imprint.
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07/01/2017 • Book Release: THE RECOGNITION RUN, by Henry Vogel
Rampant Loon Press is excited to announce the release of THE RECOGNITION RUN, a thrilling new novel by Henry Vogel. Rather than dish up our usual marketing copy, though, we’ll just start quoting reader reviews.
THE RECOGNITION RUN is now available exclusively for Amazon Kindle and Kindle Reader Apps at these links, and FREE for Kindle Unlimited subscribers! United States | United Kingdom | Canada | Australia | India | Japan | Mexico | Brazil | Spain | Germany | France | Italy | Netherlands Trade paperback edition coming soon! |
05/01/2017 • Book Release: THE FUGITIVE SNARE, by Henry Vogel
Rampant Loon Press is delighted to announce the release of THE FUGITIVE SNARE, the third book in Henry Vogel’s best-selling Fugitive Heir series. Rather than try to sell you the entire series in one short paragraph, though, we’ll just cite clips from the rave reviews of THE FUGITIVE HEIR and THE FUGITIVE PAIR.
THE FUGITIVE SNARE is available in both trade paperback and Amazon Kindle/Kindle Reader App editions at these links, and it’s FREE for Kindle Unlimited Subscribers! United States | United Kingdom | Canada | Australia | India | Japan | Mexico | Brazil | Spain | Germany | France | Italy | Netherlands |
But wait, there's more!
In case you missed it, here’s the bestseller that began it all: THE FUGITIVE HEIR. This is the story of Matt Connaught: a young man on the verge of adulthood, who stands to inherit a massive fortune because his parents are missing and presumed dead, and yet he knows they aren’t, because he has a special psychic gift he must forever keep secret. It’s a story of intrigue, betrayal, hair’s-breadth escapes, Matt’s search for his parents—but most of all it’s about Michelle, Matt’s best friend, bodyguard, and—I don’t say this lightly—a kick-ass female character of whom Robert Heinlein would have approved. THE FUGITIVE HEIR is available at these links in trade paperback, audio book, and Amazon Kindle/Kindle Reader App editions, and it’s FREE for Kindle Unlimited Subscribers or with an Audible.com trial subscription. United States | United Kingdom | Canada | Australia | India | Japan | Mexico | Brazil | Spain | Germany | France | Italy | Netherlands |
From the latest reader review on Amazon:
THE FUGITIVE PAIR is available at these links in trade paperback, audio book, and Amazon Kindle/Kindle Reader App editions, and it’s FREE for Kindle Unlimited Subscribers or with an Audible.com trial subscription. United States | United Kingdom | Canada | Australia | India | Japan | Mexico | Brazil | Spain | Germany | France | Italy | Netherlands |
06/25/2017 • Book Release: THE SCOUT SERIES, by Henry Vogel
Rampant Loon Press is excited to announce the release of Henry Vogel’s best-selling Scout Series on six new publishing platforms: Apple iTunes, Barnes and Noble Nook, Google Play, Kobo, and the Bibliotheca and OverDrive e-book lending libraries. What exactly is the Scout Series? Rather than throw our usual bombastic marketing copy at you, we’ll just quote this reader review, which was posted recently on Amazon:
» “Adventure, romance, royalty, fast-paced action, humor, space, solid plots, great writing—this series has it all. Most especially, it has a great hero in David Rice, Terran Scout First Class, and a great heroine in the Princess Callan. What a fun ride! I’d never heard of Henry Vogel or this series until a couple of weeks ago. Now I’m going to snap up the fourth Scout book and others by the same author. Space operas are not my regular reading, but these are special.”
Book One: SCOUT’S HONOR Print Edition (Trade Paperback) now available worldwide through the Amazon Kindle links below, except for some inexplicable reason in Australia or the Netherlands. E-book editions now available for: » Amazon Kindle and Kindle Reader apps: United States | United Kingdom | Canada | Australia | India | Japan | Mexico | Brazil | Spain | Germany | France | Italy | Netherlands » Apple iBooks: Apple iTunes » Barnes & Noble Nook: Barnes & Noble » Google Play: Google Play » Kobo: Kobo Bibliotheca and OverDrive do not have unique product pages for specific books. Instead, you must search for the book through your local library’s web portal. |
Book Two: SCOUT’S OATH Print Edition (Trade Paperback) now available worldwide through the Amazon Kindle links below, except in Australia and the Netherlands. E-book editions now available for: » Amazon Kindle and Kindle Reader apps: United States | United Kingdom | Canada | Australia | India | Japan | Mexico | Brazil | Spain | Germany | France | Italy | Netherlands » Apple iBooks: Apple iTunes » Barnes & Noble Nook: Barnes & Noble » Google Play: Google Play » Kobo: Kobo Bibliotheca and OverDrive do not have unique product pages for specific books. Instead, you must search for the book through your local library’s web portal. |
Book Three: SCOUT’S DUTY Print Edition (Trade Paperback) now available worldwide through the Amazon Kindle links below, except in Australia and the Netherlands. E-book editions now available for: » Amazon Kindle and Kindle Reader apps: United States | United Kingdom | Canada | Australia | India | Japan | Mexico | Brazil | Spain | Germany | France | Italy | Netherlands » Apple iBooks: Apple iTunes » Barnes & Noble Nook: Barnes & Noble » Google Play: Google Play » Kobo: Kobo Bibliotheca and OverDrive do not have unique product pages for specific books. Instead, you must search for the book through your local library’s web portal. |
Book Four: SCOUT’S LAW Print Edition (Trade Paperback) now available worldwide through the Amazon Kindle links below, except in Australia and the Netherlands. E-book editions now available for: » Amazon Kindle and Kindle Reader apps: United States | United Kingdom | Canada | Australia | India | Japan | Mexico | Brazil | Spain | Germany | France | Italy | Netherlands » Apple iBooks: Apple iTunes » Barnes & Noble Nook: Barnes & Noble » Google Play: Google Play » Kobo: Kobo Bibliotheca and OverDrive do not have unique product pages for specific books. Instead, you must search for the book through your local library’s web portal. |
THE SCOUT OMNIBUS Special value-priced ebook-only edition: the complete and unabridged Scout’s Honor, Scout’s Oath, and Scout’s Duty in a single volume. Now available for: » Amazon Kindle and Kindle Reader apps: United States | United Kingdom | Canada | Australia | India | Japan | Mexico | Brazil | Spain | Germany | France | Italy | Netherlands » Apple iBooks: Apple iTunes » Barnes & Noble Nook: Barnes & Noble » Google Play: Google Play » Kobo: Kobo Bibliotheca and OverDrive do not have unique product pages for specific books. Instead, you must search for the book through your local library’s web portal. |
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Note: Some platforms won’t let us use the “boxed set” cover art. On these sites, you’ll find the alternate cover at left instead. |
Stupefying Stories is the name under which Rampant Loon Press (the imprint) publishes a variety of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and we-don’t-know-what-to-call-it-but-we-like-it short story collections. Since 2013 RLP has also published a free webzine, Stupefying Stories SHOWCASE, so the second-best way to get a sense of what Stupefying Stories is all about is to click this link and go read SHOWCASE: StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com
The best way, of course, is to buy and read a few issues of the magazine. The following issues are currently available on Amazon.com, in a mix of print and ebook editions. Most are available free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
Stupefying Stories has an official website at StupefyingStories.com, but you’ll probably learn more from StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com or facebook.com/StupefyingStories. See the Stupefying Stories or SHOWCASE web sites for the latest information about reading periods, submission guidelines, submission email addresses, and so. We do not consider paper submissions, so please do not send stories to the Rampant Loon Media mailing address. Submissions sent to the mailing address will be rejected unread.
From the Amazon.co.uk product page. Inexplicably, reviews posted by UK readers don’t show up on Amazon’s North American sites. “Judith Field celebrates the extraordinary. It lives in every line of her stories alongside Magic. friendly ghosts and paranormal entities. Each tale also contains Human Beings who are warm, full of sentience and often conflicting emotions. Allow yourself to be whisked away to ordinary suburbs where incredible things happen all the time.” “This is an excellent read. Entertaining short stories with memorable characters. Highly recommended.” “A smashing read. A mix of styles, sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving but always entertaining. More please!” “A collection of tales of the fantastic that manage to be sweet, poignant and laugh out loud funny all at the same time.” “Judith Field's talent, or rather one of her talents, for she has many, is the ability to come up with an idea that's almost laughably simple, then plonk that idea in the most prosaic of settings, and somehow end up with a tale so unique and so eldritch that it stays with you long after you've finished reading it.” “These stories present a refreshing fusion of styles. Life, wonder, and magic, sums it up—often the fantastic and magical meets the reality of everyday life in a way that I’d imagine fans of Pratchett and Gaiman might appreciate. There are also hints of magic realism and a depth of characterisation that makes the writing truly engaging and a pleasure to read. The fact that some characters make repeated appearances across the stories is very welcome because they are so well drawn that they stay with you. This collection is by turns funny, absurd, and poignant, and never less than thoroughly entertaining. Highly recommended.” |
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When Terran Scout David Rice climbs from the wreckage of his starship’s escape pod, he finds himself transported from the space age to the steam age in the blink of an eye. Now, marooned without hope of rescue, he is swept into a world of steam-powered airships, treacherous pirates, brutal savages, bloodthirsty monsters, royal machinations, and plots within plots, where matters of strength and honor are most often settled with the clash of swords. Told in a relentlessly fast-paced style, the best-selling Scout series is an exciting modern homage to the classic tales of planetary romance made famous by writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett, as well as the cliffhanger-driven energy of the early science fiction movie serials. If you like your heroes unabashedly heroic, your heroines feisty and true, and your plots filled with dangers, twists, turns, and double-crosses upon triple-crosses, you’ll love the Scout series. But don’t take our word for it. Read the reader reviews! “Pulp fiction in the best meaning of the term. The story moves along at a cracking pace and you care about the characters. If you like your heroes heroic, your heroines beautiful and strong-willed, and your villains villainous, this is the book for you!” “This is the kind of scifi story that made me fall in love with science fiction long ago. It’s got space ships, extraterrestrial people and animals, lots of action, bits that make you laugh out loud, and a satisfying ending. Not that nothing bad happens, but in general good triumphs over evil and the hero gets the girl.” “Clive Cussler meets Edgar Rice Burroughs...” “This is a fun ride similar to John Carter of Mars. The characters are well developed and easy to relate to.” “Very crisp and well-paced, I can understand and agree with the comparisons to Burroughs and Brackett. I'll go out on a limb and take it one step further... I could extend the comparison to E. E. "Doc" Smith and the Lensman series as well” “Scout's Honor is exactly what I wanted: short chapters detonating like bombs, relentless pacing, far future action on alien worlds. Scout's Honor is a distillation of all the reasons why I started reading science fiction to begin with.” “It’s not lip service to say that Henry’s books have proven that I’m not broken as a fan of speculative fiction, which is what I was starting to believe before I read Scout’s Honor. I just needed something that reminded me of why I love the genres. His books are glorious love letters to the fun and optimism that draws us in when we're young.” “I thoroughly enjoyed this very well written story. How can you go wrong with a story containing blood thirsty barbarians, dastardly villains, pirates, a rascally rogue, heroes and fierce marines, and for good measure a beautiful princess?” “A great YA adventure, but it’s not childish. Buy it, read it, and give it to a kid!” “Scout’s Law finishes answering the questions left hanging with the other books of the series, and does so enjoyably. New characters are introduced and their stories are told, and how their stories entwine with everyone else’s And especially, the conundrum of what makes a hero: doing what needs to be done, regardless of the cost to yourself. Scout’s Honor
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The Counterfeit Captain - Audio Book. Complete and unabridged, and narrated by Heidi Cox, star of the web series, Stalking LeVar. Free with Audible.com trial subscription. |
The Fugitive Heir - Audio Book. Complete and unabridged, narrated by Daniel Halley. Free with Audible.com trial subscription. |
The Fugitive Pair - Audio Book. Complete and unabridged, narrated by Daniel Halley. Free with Audible.com trial subscription. |
The Campbellian Anthology series was a noble idea that moved an enormous number of free e-books for us, but it also consumed equally enormous amounts of time, money, and other resources. Therefore, while in the future there may be a similar anthology of works by prospective Campbell Award nominees made available to the public, absent major corporate sponsorship this is a project best handled by a non-profit.
In short, Rampant Loon Media LLC has discontinued publishing the annual Campbellian Anthology series and will not resume publishing it, so please stop sending us email asking either a.) where to get this year’s edition, or b.) how to get your story into it.
All domain names and such related to the Campbellian Anthology series are for sale, by the way, if anyone is interested.
Fiction Submissions and Queries about the Status of Current Fiction Submissions
To submit a story to Stupefying Stories or SHOWCASE, or to query about the status
of a current fiction submission:
submissions [at] rampantloonmedia [dot] com
To submit a story to STRAEON, or to query about the status of a STRAEON submission:
submissions [at] vintageseason [dot] com
Note: Before sending a submission, please read the submission guidelines for the publication in question. Many of our publications have limited reading periods, so please confirm that the publication is open to submissions before sending anything.
General Queries
For general business matters and queries not related to specific submissions:
queries [at] rampantloonmedia [dot] com
Mailing Address
Rampant Loon Media LLC
P. O. Box 111
Lake Elmo, MN 55042
USA
Please note that we accept submissions by email only. We no longer accept printed submissions sent by mail.
While we’re on the subject...
Rampant Loon Media LLC is a virtual company, which means that while we have a mailing address and a tendency to make jokes about our palatial offices in the mighty Rampant Loon Media Corporate Headquarters building, the truth is our staff is spread out over three thousand miles and four time zones. We have never all been in the same place at the same time.
What this means to you, then, is don’t expect to pop into our office for a friendly chat and a cup of coffee, or to impress us by hand-delivering your manuscript in person, or to drop off your résumé and apply for an internship. We work almost exclusively by email. Email is good. Email is your friend.
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