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SOLVED: _When Heaven Fell_ by William Barton

Author's last name probably starts with a B, could be A, could be C, but probably end of As or B.

Yellow/Orange/Red cover.

Humanity fought against the aliens, who're all slaves of an over-ruling alien-race (communal, telepathic, small-minded frogs who made AI). Who own a lot of alien races, most notably a warrior-race, who fought and conquered humanity.

Humanity did well however, and thus was brought in as enforcers/cops/slave warriors.

Humanity has held rebellious thoughts, and squirreled away tech and is bent on acquiring more, and attempts (or thinks about attempting) a rebellion.

The enforcer dudes stop them from this (ie: putting down one human rebellion/or advising against it), and tell them that they can't... (view spoiler)[because enforcer dudes have tried this route before - or want to. But that the overlords still haven't revealed all of their tech. For example, during the book the frogs reveal the capability that FTL-engaged ships can be boarded during flight - up to that point had been thought to be impossible by the enforcer-race. And counsel the humans to wait. (hide spoiler)]

The frogs are fighting another set of enemies, which none of their slave races have seen. (this book reminds me of the Damned trilogy, but is not).

- I think frogs gave off/had sulfur atmosphere.
- Frogs were not independently sentient, needed to be in a group. Almost always around a computer.
- Warrior/Enforcer race was big and powerful.
- Humans had stashed away battle-armor and nukes in the asteroid belt.

What year did you read it or about when was it published? Author male or female? Standalone or series?

Just possibly Starhammer by Christopher Rowley? I never read it, but it does have frog-like aliens who own a lot of other races and who conquer the earth.

Nope, not Starhammer.

I believe it was a standalone (but I'm not sure), as I never saw anything else in-universe.

Ummm, not sure when published - but it is definitely at least 10ish years old, and could be closer to 20 - I think 40 would be too much, as the art was newer - and the book was longer - than stuff published in the late 70s.

I'm *guessing* that the author was female, as only fairly recently have I seen any female authors writing war-type novels.

Bujold and Huff are the only two I can think of off the top of my head.

edit:
Man, I was tired when I wrote that - meant to say, 'is male' as there are (effectively) no female writers.

Also, turns out it's pretty much 20 years old on the dot :D

Anne McCaffrey's Catteni series has humans enslaved by other races and at least one of her Brainship books has frog-like aliens, but I don't know if there's any overlap.

Starhammer is a standalone (the series are loosely connected) but that is not it.

Few books that I have not read so maybe take a look - none by female authors:
In this book we are "allies" with aliens: /book/show/1...
Name starts with B and we are conquering for a master race: /book/show/4...
And last to check:
/book/show/8...

_When Heaven Fell_ is the correct title.

I'd tried googling on Heaven but that turns up no results (SMH), and my book index is missing stuff. :P