Description: Heroes versus villains. Good versus evil. The Hero Squad versus ShadoWorks. Winner takes all. For three years, the Hero Squad has held the line against ShadoWorks, a mysterious underworld cabal working toward a sinister goal: nothing less than the complete subjugation of the United States. With its prize at last within reach, ShadoWorks launches its final assault against the Squad and their allies — and if they fall, America falls with it. America, and then the world. It’s Zero Day — the day everything changes forever in this, the epic final chapter of the Action Figures saga. Available Now on Amazon by Michael Bailey. Cover Art by Patricia Lupien.
Description: After nearly a year on the road, the company returns to Ambride to take a well-deserved and long overdue respite from adventuring. No exploring ancient ruins, no fighting for their lives against bloodthirsty monsters, just a few weeks of rest and relaxation. David, however, cannot wait to return to his duties with the Ambride Academy of Magic, but he finds things have changed in his absence — and not for the better. Armed guards now wander the halls to protect the resident scholars — the academy’s response to a violent invasion by the assassins known as the Summerland sisters. When word of the Summerlands’ capture in distant Fanli reaches the academy’s dean, Orvil Dovetail, he sets out to personally bring the women back to face jus...
Description: Michael Bailey’s smash book series, Action Figures, is now headed your way in omnibus form. Volume One covers Issues 1-3. And with a brand new cover! Five heroes, three adventures, one collection. This is where the action begins! The Action Figures Omnibus Vol. 1 – Stepping Up collects the first three novels in the Amazon best-selling YA superhero series into one bargain-priced omnibus edition, featuring a new foreward by Action Figures super-fan and award-winning indie author Patrick Hodges (the Wielders of Arantha series). In Secret Origins, Carrie Hauser arrives in Kingsport, Massachusetts in time to help a team of superhuman teens fight off Archimedes, a renegade artificial intelligence. In Black Magic Women, Carrie and he...
Description: The Adventures of Strong-arm & Lightfoot - Elfish Motives After surviving an unforgiving winter in the northern city of Além, Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot are eager to lead their friends back to Ambride to enjoy some well-deserved rest and relaxation. That idea goes right out the window when the companions learn about a major gathering of the four elven clans in City Lyth — Winifred Graceword’s home. Ancient tradition demands that Winifred heed the sacred call of her people, and who is she to reject ancient tradition? Winifred immediate regrets her decision upon returning to City Lyth and reuniting with her estranged parents, who have yet to forgive their black sheep daughter for rejecting her birthright to follow her own...
Description: Cheap Thrills Digest is an anthology book only available through Innsmouthlook.com, the home site of Michael Bailey. Inside you'll find sample chapters from his two series, _Action Figures_ and _Strongarm & Lightfoot_, along with a never before seen short story. The cover features one of the leads in _Strongarm & Lightfoot_, Derek Strongarm, in a classic beefcake, sword and sorcery pose, fighting off some tentacle-y beast. And of course, he's shirtless. Listed as mature simple because even though there is no gore, the subject matter could be listed as PG-13.
Description: You’re invited to the wedding of the year! In lieu of gifts, the bride and groom humbly ask that you do not try to murder them. After barely surviving Habbatarr the lich-lord and the Dead City of Hesre, Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot and their companions are ready for some well-deserved rest. All they want now is good food, cold beer, a warm bed, and maybe a few days without someone trying to kill them. And then they encounter a damsel in distress and, well, so much for that idea. The damsel in question is the Lady Alyssa Spendle, a spoiled noble promised to Lord Paradim as part of a brokered political marriage, and the distress comes in the form of a determined group of kidnappers looking to make a quick profit off Alyssa’...
Description: The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot: Sworded Affairs by Michael Bailey. The heroes take a job to dispose of a potentially dangerous magical artifact only to become snowbound in an isolated city besieged by flesh-hungry beasts — and under assault from within by a dark conspiracy. Early 2020 release.
Description: The front cover of Action Figures #2: Black Magic Woman, written by Michael Bailey! Lightstorm in all her radiant glory. (From the back cover) The world is full of magic…and it wants the Hero Squad dead. Winter in Kingsport heats up when the necromancer Black Betty comes to town, on the hunt for the Libris Infernalis, a legendary book of dark magic with the power to raise hell on Earth...literally. Facing power beyond their understanding, the Hero Squad turns to the Protectorate’s resident sorceress for help, but the mysterious Dr. Enigma seems to have an agenda of her own. Is she on the side of angels, or is she a devil in disguise?
Description: The world is full of magic…and it wants the Hero Squad dead. Winter in Kingsport heats up when the necromancer Black Betty comes to town, on the hunt for the Libris Infernalis, a legendary book of dark magic with the power to raise hell on Earth...literally. Facing power beyond their understanding, the Hero Squad turns to the Protectorate’s resident sorceress for help, but the mysterious Dr. Enigma seems to have an agenda of her own. Is she on the side of angels, or is she a devil in disguise? -------------- Go read about Doc Enigma through Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/prc83la and at Michael Bailey's homepage at http://innsmouthlook.com.
Description: The front cover of Action Figures #4: Cruel Summer, written by Michael Bailey! Psyche has lost it. (From the back cover) His name is uttered in terrified whispers. He’s the bad guy the good guys fear. He is the King of Pain, and he’s come to Kingsport to put another hero in the ground. The Hero Squad faces their deadliest foe yet, a mysterious killer who hunts within the superhuman community, leaving dead bodies and broken minds in his wake. The Squad is next on his hit list, and the King of Pain will push the young heroes to their absolute limit — and one of them might not survive the experience. Get ready for the darkest chapter in the Action Figures saga as the Hero Squad prepares for the greatest fight of their lives — a ...
