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Book 3 in the Poor Little Rich Kids Series is out!

I think that I’ve mentioned here before that I got the idea for what is now book one in what became in my slice-of life/adventure series: Poor Little Rick Kids, while traveling in the Balkans starting about this time last year.

Well, sometimes ideas won’t leve your alone, so, since then I’ve decided to turn it into a series, one in which the books can be enjoyed if read in any order.

Nonetheless I call the latest one Book Three; it launches today under the title The Underdogs of Tarzan at the discount price of $0.99 through Jan 28th.

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Additionally, book one, The Testimony of Some Poor Little Rich Kids will be free. Book two will also be $0.99 for the same time period. You can grab them Here.

I’ve got plenty planned for 2023. First, a fifth main book in The Russia Chronicles (you can see that series in the sidebar below). Then I’m planning to write a standalone saga detailing the life of one Slovene family from the Slavic pagan times up to the present day. It’s partially based on the story of my own Slovenian ancestors. I call that one The Curse.

After, I plan to circle back to what maybe will be the final book in Poor little Rich Kids, set during and up to Svetlana’s Olympic gold medal skate. Who’d have thought that she and her family would have made some enemies getting there?

Toward the end of the year I plan to get started a project I’ve had in my head for a couple of years now: a two part story about a cocky but adventurous young European guy and his younger American friend who are kidnapped by Muslim extremists and must struggle to escape and survive in 2021 Pakistan and Afghanistan.

For now, though, enjoy Testimony, Murder and Tarzan in any order you may please.

A Spanish murder mystery by Andrew launches

My twenty-sixth book is out today. It’s the second book in the Poor Little Rich Kids series, and it follows the main character of Luka Williamson, a curmudgeonly writer turned family man as he must solve a murder in small town Spain and uncover one of the deepest held secrets of the Knights Templar, if he is to avoid being implicated in the crime.

It’s called:

Murder in La Ciudad del Inglés

The ebook is launching at the special price of $0.99, so grab it now before the price goes back up to $4.99 on Nov. 7th.

Additionally as part of the launch the first book in the Poor Little Rich Kids series will be free for the same amount of time. It’s available here.

The Testimony of Some Poor Little Rich Kids. A new novel.

My twenty-fifth book is out!

I’m not going to lie. This one was hard to write at first. It’s my first literary fiction novel, and the main character, Luka Williamson, is semi-autobiographical. Parts were close to home. There were times when I considered not publishing it. But, at the end of the day I’m proud of the result.

The Testimony of Some Poor Little Rich Kids is set during January-April, 2022 in Slovenia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia, during the COVID pandemic and the outbreak of war in Ukraine. As I said it is probably the closest thing to a slice of life piece that I have written.

It’s launching at the full price of $4.99. But there’s a reason. While being the most literary novel I’ve done yet, there’s also still plenty of action and adventure, like in my other books. While Testimony started out as a standalone and indeed can be read as such, I’ve decided to make the adventures of Luka and his found family into a series, the second book of which, Murder in La Ciudad del Ingles, I am currently tapping out. The tagline I am thinking of for the series is A Luka Williamson adventure.

Anyway, you can start following the adventures of Luka and his adoptive daughter, Svetlana, already in The Testimony of Some Poor Little Rich Kids. The synopsis below:

Thirty-year-old Luka Williamson is a self-absorbed jerk who has life pretty easy. He lives rent-free in his parents’ luxury vacation apartment in Slovenia and writes books full-time. He has no day job, no friends — and enough family money to not care.

When his nosy parents start renovating the apartment’s bathroom, Luka decides to take a vacation from his first-world problems. Generally honked off about the post-pandemic world of 2022, he heads for Plovdiv, Bulgaria. His plans for a solitary drinking binge are upended by a chance meeting with group of well-connected Bulgarians. He’s invited to party with them.

He strikes up a casual-sex relationship with Iliana, a spoiled hipster from a powerful local family. She wants to use Luka to get revenge on the mobster ex-boyfriend who dumped her. But when a beat-up homeless child begs for their help, the plan takes an unexpected turn. Over Iliana’s objections, Luka decides to take the little girl in.

Only then do they learn that ten-year-old Svetlana is the property of the Bulgarian mafia. The child also has a secret that could bring down organized crime in Eastern Europe. The mob will stop at nothing to silence her — and any who have helped her — forever.

Suddenly, the entitled rich kids are running for their lives and forced to go off the grid: no smartphones, credit cards or luxury cars. They must now experience life as homeless migrants, learning survival skills from a child less than half their age. Along the way they gain another young travelling companion – Sasha, a Ukrainian refugee boy with secrets of his own.

On a mad dash through the Balkans, they must stay one step ahead of corrupt border police and a vengeful gangster, risking everything to get Svetlana and Sasha to safety in Slovenia. But their mission could be doomed to failure unless they learn the hardest lesson of all – the price and importance of caring for someone else.

The Testimony of Some Poor Little Rich Kids is available here.

Europe’s Lost Children boxed set launches

Now is the time to get all four books in the Europe’s Lost Children boxed set for only $0.99! It’s an action-packed alternative history satire of European politics in the 2010s that asks the question: What if the European Union was secretly being run by a bunch of twenty-something misfits from the Balkans and their adopted teenage kids?

Grab it before the price goes up to $8.99 on July fourth.

The Europe’s Lost Children boxed set is out!

My four book satirical alternative history thriller, set in the European Union’s capital of Brussels during the 2010s is now available as a boxed set ebook. Clocking at at over one-thousand pages it makes for quite the epic read at over half off the price if you were to buy all four of the novels separately.

Follow the adventures of Elena and her friends in the EU’s Covert Action Service as they face down difficult world leaders, bloodthirsty terrorists and vengeful serial killers to keep Europe together and bring the rest of the Balkans into the club in this alternative history satire that asks the question: what if the EU was secretly run by a bunch of misfit twenty somethings from the former Yugoslavia?

Europe’s Lost Children, the complete series, is available Here on Amazon and Here basically everywhere else.

A new non-fiction book by Andrew

Before I started writing action adventure novels, I was in academia. My work was in the areas of political science, European Union and media studies. My research concerned why national identity is taken up in news and how this could serve as a source of resistance against European integration.

I have decided to bring that research out as a book alongside my fiction, for any interested in the topic, under the title Bad News: How tabloid journalism could destroy the European Union.

Here it is:

You can get Bad News here on Amazon and here basically everywhere else.

Nutria Tales Launches

My latest book is out! As the title suggests it’s a survival story about a very special group of nutria (also knowns as coypus) who live in the river that runs through Ljubljana, the city I call home..

It’s launching at the special sale price of $0.99, so grab it while you can before the price goes up to $4.99 on may 12th!

The cover and synopsis are below:

The Nutria says, “Read a book about me!”

Lipa has always refused to accept her place as a girl nutria in the rigid society of her burrow. She is fiercely protective of her brother, Suho, a runt who claims to understand the signs the humans have posted along the riverbanks. He believes that their river rat colony is about to be exterminated, but his warning is dismissed by the nutria leaders, who cling to their traditional mythology.

The brother and sister decide to run for their lives. Only a few other outcasts are willing to join them. Embarking on a quest to find a new home, they must swim against the current of the Great Flow, confronting steep cement banks and a barrier long thought to be impassable.

Venturing into the unknown, they encounter strange groups of nutria who have devised their own strategies for survival. Lipa begins to question the old beliefs as she leads the ragtag band of exiles into an uncertain future.

Then, with the help of a new friend, Lipa makes a shocking discovery that exposes the truth behind the nutria’s traditions – and means that the price of failing to carve out her own burrow is brutal confinement and certain death for all of her followers. She must risk everything to keep her new burrow alive and free.

Join Lipa, Suho and their adventurous friends on a heroic journey as they embark on an unwitting search for the meaning of life itself, during a time of spiritual crisis.

Nutria Tales is available here!

Tito’s Lost Children Book One is Free!

Tito’s Lost Children, my alternative history, action adventure series set during the breakup of Yugoslavia, is now available on the websites of all major ebook retailers.

Furthermore, the ebook of the first book in the series, War One: Slovenia, will be FREE for the foreseeable future!

Now’s the time to get started here on Amazon, or here everywhere else.

‘The Russia Chronicles’ Promotion

Just a quick announcement that book one in my alternative history thriller series The Russia Chronicles will be free today and tomorrow. The remaining three books in the series will be $0.99 through March 13th. As always you can get the prequel novella Pagans’ Cult by clicking ‘Get Free Ebooks.’ Grab the whole series while you can for just $2.97 before the price goes up to almost 20 bucks!

The Russia Chronicles follows the adventures of a lost American boy who is taken in by a gang of homeless teenagers with some very special bloodlines, who are struggling to survive in Russia’s capital. Their adventures will take them from the streets of Moscow to the Siberian tundra and all the way to the halls of power in the Kremlin as they face down the most powerful man in Russia.

The Russia Chronicles is available here.

A new feature in the Slovenian Union of America’s magazine

I was honored to have Slovenia’s National Ethnographic Museum feature War One: Slovenia, the first book in Tito’s Lost Children, my alternative history adventure series set during the breakup of Yugoslavia, in an exhibit related to Slovenian independence last year.

I am now happy to announce that ‘Zarja,’ the official magazine of the Slovenian Union of America has included my book and an excerpt from it in an article on that exhibition.

Find it below:

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Tito’s Lost Children Book One is available Here.