• Skip to main content

Patrick O'Sullivan

Author's Personal Site

  • News
  • Books
    • FREE Books
    • Novels
      • Science Fiction
      • Fantasy
    • Novellas
      • Science Fiction
      • Fantasy
    • Short Stories
      • Science Fiction
      • Fantasy
      • Adventure
      • Detective
      • Romance
      • World War II
      • Ireland
  • About
  • Free Books
  • Shop (Publisher’s Site)

Writing

Quite Possibly True – Available Now


This book is available free to my readers. It’s a special gift for those of you who enjoyed book one and want to know more about Ciarán mac Diarmuid and the crew of Quite Possibly Alien.


To save the living he must wake the dead.


Seanscéal means ‘old story.’ Like a parable, or a fable, but generally more long-winded. It’s like… entertainment, but often with something meant to be learned hidden inside. Not only is it good fun, but sharing a seanscéal is also a way of getting around the not-waking-the-dead custom.

And that’s exactly what Ciarán does, three times, skirting custom to explain:

How he won a posting to the Freeman Merchant Academy.

How he and his cat, the mong hu Wisp, first met.

How he learned the Iron Rule and the enduring cost of that lesson.

It’s no small thing, breaking with custom. But when the price of ignorance is measured in lives?

Someone has to speak up.

Note: The events of this story take place between books one and two of the Freeman Universe series. (There are spoilers.)

Book one, Quite Possibly Alien, is available in print and Kindle Unlimited.



Get My FREE Book

Quite Possibly Heroes – Available Now


He was born bent. He refuses to die broken.


Raised a merchant prince and heir to the family business, Seamus mac Donnacha expects to follow in his crime lord father’s footsteps, profiting from the indiscretions of saints and sinners alike. But when Seamus returns from his apprentice cruise maimed, disgraced, and branded a slaver he discovers he’s no longer needed. Disowned and tossed down the Trinity system gravity well, Seamus wants to do as his father demands. 

Crawl away and die.

Maybe he will, once he’s kept his word, and helped his friends defeat the evil spreading from star to star. He knows more about that evil than any man alive. It’s been inside him.

Seamus doesn’t want to defy his father. And he doesn’t want to war with his family. Only a dead man would dare to cross them. Only a man who deserved to pay for his sins. Crawl away and die. Seamus doesn’t know what to think about that. But he knows exactly what to say.

“Make me.”


Quite Possibly Heroes Cover Image

Available Now


Kindle Unlimited

Quite Possibly Alien – Available Now


One human. Six legs. All hero.

Merchant Academy grad Ciarán mac Diarmuid wants to do well by doing good. But when he rescues a mysterious stranger from foreign assassins no respectable merchant captain will hire him.

On a superluminal mission of epic proportions. 

Now Ciarán must apprentice himself to the black sheep of the powerful nic Cartaí clan, a young woman who is almost certainly a pirate, aboard a sentient starship that is almost certainly insane, on a mission that will almost certainly get both him and his cat killed.

Across a galaxy more dangerous than anyone imagines.

Ciarán has no idea he has been chosen. Any competent human may win a merchant’s license. And any interstellar vessel will do. But it will take more than two legs and a pair of opposable thumbs to liberate the galaxy and see justice done.

It will take the heart of a tiger. And of the champion who walks beside her.


Support Your Local Bookstore

The print book is available everywhere in the universe. Your local bookseller can order Quite Possibly Alien from Ingram using ISBN 9781625600202.

Available in Kindle eBook, Kindle Unlimited, and print.


Quite Possibly Alien eBook Cover - a Science Fiction Space Opera Novel by Patrick O'Sullivan - the cover shows an alien looking space ship approaching a space station.

Available Now


Kindle Unlimited
Barnes and Noble

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy

© 2023–2025 Patrick O'Sullivan
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.