[{"content":"I\u0026amp;rsquo;m happy to hear from readers. Please email contact [at] tjmott [dot] com if you have a legitimate question about my works, such as:\nA question about one of my books, stories, or the Thaddeus Marcell universe Where to find a particular title or format A correction or problem with this website Please note: this address only accepts legitimate questions about my works. Offers, solicitations, marketing and promotion pitches, SEO and \u0026amp;ldquo;services\u0026amp;rdquo; proposals, and review-swap or …","date":"2026-10-16","permalink":"/contact/","summary":"How to contact author TJ Mott with questions about his books.","tags":[],"title":"Contact"},{"content":"Welcome to my new website! It\u0026amp;rsquo;s been rebuilt to be faster, more responsive, and more secure.\nThe Works page is still the mainstay of the site, where you can read about my published works and find Amazon purchase links.\nMy old Wordpress site finally got hacked. I was able to clean it up and recover it, but that was the incentive to finally move away from Wordpress. This new site is a static site generated using Hugo. There\u0026amp;rsquo;s no server-side execution environment (PHP, Ruby, CGI, etc.) …","date":"2026-09-25","permalink":"/posts/2026-09-25-new-site/","summary":"Welcome to my new website! It\u0026rsquo;s been rebuilt to be faster, more responsive, and more secure.\nThe Works page is still the mainstay of the site, where you can read about my published works and …","tags":["news"],"title":"Website Relaunch"},{"content":"","date":"2026-09-25","permalink":"/works/","summary":"Novels and short stories by TJ Mott, including the Thaddeus Marcell Chronicles. Read about each book and find Amazon links.","tags":[],"title":"Works"},{"content":"In this prequel to TJ Mott’s science fiction series “The Thaddeus Marcell Chronicles,” Amanda Poulsen is a tough young woman with a troubled history. Raised by a mercenary group called the Hyberian Raiders, orphaned twice by age twenty, and forced into a lifestyle of drifting and petty crime, she’s seen it all. One day, she will become a talented and respected officer in Thaddeus Marcell’s organization, but until then, she must overcome tragedy, deep heartbreak, and impossible circumstances. Any …","date":"2026-09-24","permalink":"/marcell-short-stories/the-hyberian-raider/","summary":"In this character origin story, Amanda Poulsen is a tough but troubled young woman struggling to find her place in the universe after being orphaned twice by age twenty.","tags":["book"],"title":"Amanda Poulsen: The Hyberian Raider (A Short Story in the Thaddeus Marcell Universe)"},{"content":"In this prequel to TJ Mott’s science fiction series “The Thaddeus Marcell Chronicles,” Thaddeus Marcell is a naïve young man from Wyoming. Fresh out of college, he is assigned to a luxury cruise starship called the Lunar Dawn where he works as a junior engineer. But his entire life changes when he’s abducted during a trip to Mars, sold into slavery, and thrust into a huge interstellar civilization he never knew about, one that denies the very existence of his homeworld. One day, he will be the …","date":"2026-09-24","permalink":"/marcell-short-stories/the-terran-engineer/","summary":"In this character origin story, Thaddeus Marcell is a naïve young man from Wyoming freshly assigned to work on a luxury cruise starship. But everything changes when he is suddenly abducted during a …","tags":["book"],"title":"Thaddeus Marcell: The Terran Engineer (A Short Story in the Thaddeus Marcell Universe)"},{"content":"The galaxy is in turmoil. High Prince Saar’s genocidal quest to kill mercenary leader Thaddeus Marcell has left the Independent Regions in a terrible state of unease. In response, Thad has formed the Independent Coalition, a bold new economic and military pact which aims to protect the region from unhinged tyrants such as Saar. Thad, his new wife Adelia, and his top officers now find themselves in charge of an unorthodox quasi-government mainly consisting of outlaws and mercenaries. Meanwhile, …","date":"2026-09-24","permalink":"/thaddeus-marcell-chronicles/mercenary-ascent/","summary":"Thad Marcell forms an interstellar government to help protect the Independent Regions. Meanwhile, Imperial Duke Vardan siezes the throne at Norma and declares himself emperor. Can Marcell protect his …","tags":["book"],"title":"Mercenary Ascent (Book 4 of the Thaddeus Marcell Chronicles)"},{"content":"An old enemy returns. High Prince Saar, the despot of the Tor Regency, has completed his years-long descent into complete madness. Obsessed with finding Thaddeus Marcell, he is wreaking havoc across the Independent Regions, and his goal is simple: To make Thaddeus pay for Saar’s own failures during the Tor-Dravon War. In his quest for vengeance, he will settle for nothing less than the complete destruction of Marcell and his Organization. Now, for the first time ever, Thaddeus and his band of …","date":"2026-09-24","permalink":"/thaddeus-marcell-chronicles/the-princes-revenge/","summary":"High Prince Saar launches a genocidal attack on the Independent Regions. His goal: draw Thad Marcell away from his secret Headquarters, and destroy him.","tags":["book"],"title":"The Prince's Revenge (Book 3 of the Thaddeus Marcell Chronicles)"},{"content":"Ailon is a resource-rich, low-population world in the galaxy’s Independent Regions. Originally a mining colony of the nearby Avennia system, Ailon once tried to break free, resulting in a brutal war which they lost after Thaddeus Marcell pirated a convoy of badly-needed weapons and matériel that was en-route to the Rebels of Ailon. Now, it’s an oppressed and enslaved world, its conquered population forced to work at gunpoint for their Avennian overlords. Still reeling from the wounds he …","date":"2026-09-24","permalink":"/thaddeus-marcell-chronicles/rebellion-at-ailon/","summary":"Thad Marcell joins a medical charity on Ailon, hoping to temporarily escape from a life of violence and contemplate his life while doing some good for once. Instead, he finds a world on the brink of a …","tags":["book"],"title":"Rebellion at Ailon (Book 2 of the Thaddeus Marcell Chronicles)"},{"content":"Thaddeus Marcell is an enigmatic mercenary and the leader of a secretive paramilitary fleet. His group operates in the galaxy’s Independent Regions, taking on contract work for some of the star empires, interstellar corporations, and pirate groups, fighting on their behalf whenever the pay is high enough. But despite his reputation as a skilled and reliable–although very eccentric–fleet commander, he does his work to finance his real mission: To locate and return to his unmapped homeworld, long …","date":"2026-09-24","permalink":"/thaddeus-marcell-chronicles/rescue-at-waverly/","summary":"Enigmatic mercenary admiral Thaddeus Marcell must undergo a dangerous and impulsive rescue mission to free a woman who could be the key to returning home.","tags":["book"],"title":"Rescue at Waverly (Book 1 of the Thaddeus Marcell Chronicles)"},{"content":"TJ Mott is a science fiction author and the writer of the Thaddeus Marcell Chronicles, a series about an eccentric mercenary admiral searching for his lost homeworld. The series also includes short stories set in the same universe.\nTJ Mott was born in Norfolk, Nebraska, but was raised on a small cattle farm near the booming metropolis of Westboro, Missouri. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Northwest Missouri State University. By day he works as a software engineer …","date":"2026-09-24","permalink":"/about/","summary":"About science fiction author TJ Mott.","tags":[],"title":"About"}]