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A Dead Man’s Favor: Chapter 2

A Dead Man’s Favor, book five in The Many Travails of John Smith, launches September 26th! As usual, I’m counting down to its release by sharing sample chapters, book stats, content warnings, and whatever else seems fun.

In Chapter 1, we joined a wedding reception, already in progress, where John was happy to have a chance to focus on something other than vampire politics. In Chapter 2, John gets to deal with… well… vampire politics. And a few other things. Enjoy!

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A Dead Man’s Favor: Chapter 1

A Dead Man’s Favor, book five in The Many Travails of John Smith, launches September 26th! As usual, I’m counting down to its release by sharing sample chapters, book stats, content warnings, and whatever else seems fun. On to Chapter 1!

 

Photo by Nick Fewings on UnsplashChapter 1

IN WHICH VOWS ARE JUST THE BEGINNING

 

 

It was a pretty great wedding until the zombie showed up. September in San Diego meant different things than in the rest of the country. It was warm, but not too warm, the sk...

A Dead Man’s Favor is Coming!

As those of you who follow along on social media might already know, early copies of A Dead Man’s Favor went out to my sainted beta readers this past week. So far, the feedback has been great! We’ve identified the usual persistent typos (now fixed), discussed a few areas of potential confusion (now addressed), and reviewed the themes I tried to bake into this book. The goal, as always, is to make sure that the rest of you get the best possible version of the book, and I think we’re well on our ...

See These Bones: Sale & Author Interview

Crow sitting on a gravestone

Happy 4th of July to the Americans out there, and happy uhm… Tuesday (?) to everyone else!

This week, See These Bones is on sale for $0.99 in US markets and discounted (as much as I manually could) everywhere else. As part of the ongoing promotion, I answered some fun questions about the story (and my writing, in general) for ManyBooks. Here’s one small snippet:

 

What drew you to Dystopian fantasy as a genre?

What I find most interesting about dystopian settings is ...

May Movement

Hey everyone! With May on its way out, I figured it was a time for a recap of the month–trips, dinners, concerts, and more–along with the ever-important updates on my next few books and audiobooks. So, let’s get started!

 

The Sisters of MercyThe Sisters of Mercy, Live and Audible

After a relatively quiet1 first half of the month, things kicked into high gear with a The Sisters of Mercy concert here in Las Vegas. My angel-wife is a huge Sisters fan and had never gotten to see them live, so wh...

A Much-Delayed Status Update

Hey everyone! It’s been quite a while since the last update here, hasn’t it? I’ve shared a few tidbits on social media–primarily Facebook and Twitter-but realized it was well past time I wrote something official here for the rest of you.

Books! Books! Books!

Let’s start with the stuff you’re all here for. After two months of illness and another month spinning my wheels, writing on Speaker of Tongues, my forthcoming litrpg portal fantasy1, is really starting to flow. I’m roughly 60-70% through ...

The Year Ahead

Now that we’ve said goodbye to 2022, it’s time to focus on the year ahead. New goals, new challenges, and of course, new books.

Here’s what I have planned:

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Writing

Q1:

Finish writing the current WIP, my untitled portal fantasy LitRPG. The goal is to release this one first to Kindle Vella at a cadence of a few chapters a week, while I turn my attention to drafting A Dead Man’s Favor, aka The Many Travails of John Smith , book 5.Release the audiobooks for Gh...

A Goodbye Letter to 2022

 

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Dear 2022,

Once again, you’ve been… a year.

On the one hand, it feels like I barely even know you… like our time together flew by in a matter of hours. On the other, I remember events like the Olympics, which happened roughly ten months ago but feel like they could have taken place last century. Time, as ever, is broken, and yet here we are, saying goodbye.

You were a year of endings and new beginnings, of proxy wars and mid-term elections, social media tak...

Free Release: Only the Dead Remain

Photo by Carl Jorgensen on UnsplashOne Final Gift to Put Under the Tree

Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays! In the spirit of the season, I wanted to give you all my own small present: the long-awaited and much-rumored Damian story, Only the Dead Remain.

Set during the time gap between the last chapter and the epilogue of One Tin Soldier, this is a very short, relatively bleak tale that I hope you all will nonetheless enjoy. I certainly had fun writing in Damian’s voice again!

For those who ...

The Blood is Thicker Than Lots of Stuff audiobook is available!

Good morning, everyone! My angel-wife and I are on vacation, but the wheels of publishing never stop; Tantor has just released the audiobook for the second book in The Many Travails of John Smith, Blood is Thicker Than Lots of Stuff!

“Messy divorce? Check.

Emotional stability of the involved parties? Questionable.

Possibility of bloodshed? High.

Yep; it was definitely starting to sound like one of my cases.”

In addition to being San Diego’s supernatural mediator, John Smith is the city’s least s...