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Another Book Release Day

These things are coming at us almost every week now it seems. Best part? This isn’t the last book release for me this month. But I’m not worried about what’s coming out Jan 21, no. I’m celebrating the release of GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY, co-authored with the amazing Jamie Ibson. It’s Book 2 of the Four Horsemen Saga story arc, which right now features a giant Oogar Peacemaker named Hr’ent and his journey to become a legendary Enforcer. Quite by accident, but I believe a few other Four Horsemen...

The State of the Author – 2019 in Review

Personally, 2019 was probably one of the hardest years I’ve dealt with in a very long time. Professionally? It was my best.

I don’t deal with loss well. It’s part of the reason I don’t “bond” well with people. I can connect, but a deep bond is very hard for me to do, and even harder for me to keep once I realize there is one there. I dip into a “flight” mentality to avoid it and eventually I do enough to push them away or they move on. I recognize I do this but it’s a lot of work to deal with...

Book Release Day

(addendum: having issues with Amazon not linking the kindle and print books together. This will be fixed soon.)

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A CHRISTMAS SURPRISE officially launches today and I am super excited. Emily over at Mottfolio Studios has done some tremendous work bringing the cover to life, as well as adding some interior work which is amazing for little old science fiction writer me. I mean, in the print edition there are candy canes bracketing each page number. How...

Baby Kaiju Sighting!

NORAD every year tracks Santa as he makes his way across the US because we don’t want another incident like in 1991, when two F-18’s were scrambled out of Lackland AFB when an unidentified aircraft violated the restricted airspace. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed when the UFO was identified as a sleigh being pulled by eight reindeer. Crisis averted, NORAD has made its mission since to track Santa Claus on Christmas Eve to prevent another accidental crisis from occuring.

However, what is...

Webster Award Finalist

Just found out this morning that my novel, SONS OF THE LION, is a finalist for the Webster Award handed out at Ravencon in Virginia next year. The Webster Award is awarded to Virginia’s best author. I’m competing against my friend R. S. Belcher this year. Last year my other friend and publisher, Chris Kennedy, won the inaugural award.

I didn’t write this book to win awards but to entertain and, possibly, to open people’s eyes about the current issues in Africa, even though it was set in the...

The Match of the Century

I’ve had to step back from social media this past week. It’s not for anything bad. It’s just quickly becoming a time sink where I spend more time responding to… whatever somebody is butthurt about this week instead of writing. It’s why I like this website. My home, my rules, and people don’t have to see it flash across their screen unless they willingly come here in the first place.

I’m currently working on Book 1 of the Epic Fantasy series I’ve been babbling about for the past few months. It...

More Of This

Two great things for today.

First, FREEHOLD: RESISTANCE is out in the wild. Barnes & Noble called and told me they had copies in the store, which I’d asked for (I like to stealth sign books). I think Friday I’m going into Roanoke to sign all the copies at both B&N stores. Assuming they still have any, that is.

This book can be read without reading any of the other books in the Freehold Universe, which the editor (Michael Z. Williamson) has done by design. In this one you’ll find Larry...

Resist

Only two more days until the FREEHOLD: RESISTANCE anthology comes out. I’m super stoked about this one, since my story “The Prayer Wheel”, is possibly one of my favorite short stories I’ve ever written. I also signed a contract to be in the next Freehold Universe anthology, tentatively titled FREEHOLD: DEFIANCE. I have one short story in this one (so far), co-authored with J. F. Holmes and is titled “Semper Malevolem” (aka always grumpy). We wrote it over a weekend and it is utterly...

Halls Getting Decked

It’s Friday, which means I have friends releasing a book today!

Kevin Ikenberry and Quincy Allen have released Book 1 of the Four Horsemen Sagas branch of the Four Horsemen Universe today, titled ENFORCER. What makes this one really cool is this book is the direct sequel of my book GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY with Jamie Ibson, coming out Jan 3. Not quite sure yet how that’s going to figure into the timeline but Chris Kennedy is a clever guy and will make it work.

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I’m supposed to be raking up leaves and bagging them so the city can pick them up. It’s cold out, though, and I don’t feel like it.

In (edit: ONE WEEK… apparently my math is as bad as I remember it being in college) two weeks the next Freehold Universe anthology, FREEHOLD: RESISTANCE will be coming out from Baen Books. It’ll be available through all major booksellers and it arriving just in time to serve as a stocking stuffer for the reader in your house. The last Freehold anthology was a...