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Book Cover Reveal

I’ve been having a lot of these this year, courtesy of producing a LOT of written material.

GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY will be out on Jan 3, 2020. Co-authored with the always entertaining Jamie Ibson, here is the cover as well as the entire cover art wrap (for the print editions).

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The pirate kitty skull in the background was pretty much my only request for this cover.

Release Date Confirmed

I was informed the release date for my next novel published by Seventh Seal Press (an imprint of Chris Kennedy Publishing) will be released Jan 3, 2020. That’s right, Jamie and I have the first book coming out in 2020. We’re extremely excited about the potential of GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY and what it means to the overarching Four Horsemen Universe plot, since this explains one of the bigger mysteries set in the universe as well as lays down the foundation for future events.

I’ve also seen the cover but can’t share that yet. Once...

Word Counts Matter

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I should be writing THE CHRISTMAS SURPRISE but I went down that rabbit hole known as Youtube and discovered Russian slap fighting tournaments. While it sounds straight of of some trashy underground novel, it’s a legitimized sport over there, further cementing the reputation that my Russian friends are f***ing insane.

Speaking of, it’s almost finished. The cover design team over at Mottfolio Design is working on it as I type, and it should...

Commence the Celebration

Once more doth the song of awesome play!

That’s right, Jamie and I turned in GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY, a novel set in the bestselling Four Horsemen Universe, last night. It’s not directly in the main timeline but the sequence of novels after will bring everything up to the main line, which is something we talked about. However, we both have lots of other independent stuff to do before we go down that particular rabbit hole.

That puts me at 3 novels completed this year, as well as 4 short stories finished and t...

Nine

On November 3, 2010, my very first novel ever was officially published.

Corruptor was a YA story which told the story of a young girl trapped within a virtual reality video game with friends and enemies alike trying to find their way out while being held hostage. It did okay but interest in it waned as the years rolled on and no sequel came out… until 2017, when it was re-issued by Anticipation Press. The sequel, Devastator, came out shortly after, but once again interest just wasn’t there.

It’s n...

Don’t Stop

It’s NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and all I’ve been seeing from friends is how this year they are going to crush it. Me? Well, I decided to do a different route.

I’ve been bad about updating the website over the past…. nine years. Yeah, this started off as a weird blog before I was even a published author, but as my writing career has grown the site had morphed from a blog to a hybridized website. Plus, getting my name dot com has driven up the search engine pings. Yay.

But anyways, I decid...

Reflections

My earliest science fiction memory wasn’t the normal one.

I remember I was a young child on my way somewhere. One of the group homes I was at was going on a weekend camping trip to Lake Mead, and the four of us kids were sleeping in the back of the truck underneath the protective camper shell. It was really late at night and we’d been driving for a few hours at this point, so of course a bunch of kids passed out.

Something woke me up on the way, though. It was very dark and I couldn’t see all that we...

Name of the Game?

I just got back from Colorado yesterday and I’m still beat, so I’ll make this brief. I might put up a full-on AAR about the Colorado trip but then, it was pretty boring. The train trip was… interesting, to say the least, Patchouli Rod, you shall live on forever in infamy.

Two new anthology invites accepted, co-authoring one short story with my quasi-adoptive Portuguese mother (I’m not exactly sure who adopted who here) and the other is a continuation edited by another co-author.

GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY is on the last home s...

A Plan Comes Together

Just a quick update to let everyone who comes here that yes, I am still alive and no, I haven’t stopped writing. Far from it, in fact. Right now my problem seems to be too many pieces of iron in the forge.

My co-author Jamie Ibson and I have finally settled on a title for our current 4HU work in progress. GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY is moving along steadily and while he doubts we can do it, I believe we can turn it in by Halloween. This novel is a look at how diplomacy within the Four Horsemen Universe...

Dragoncon 2019 AAR — Vacation Mode Engaged Edition

This year’s Dragoncon was a weird one for me. Not because it was my second year there, but because I was only there for two days. I had reasons for scheduling things like this, but the primary one was money.

If you didn’t know, Dragoncon is very expensive to attend. Not because of the convention, but because of how the hotels respond to the con. I’ve seen a mad dash for hotels in the past (I remember when Libertycon was at the tiny hotel before the Choo Choo and just how much fun it was tryin...