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Books I’m Looking Forward To In 2025

Yeah, every writer is still a reader (at least, usually), and we’re fans of other people’s writings. 2025 promises to be a good year for readers, and here are the top 4 books I’m really looking forward to reading in 2025.

SHADOWS UPON TIME by Christopher Ruocchio (DAW Books, Book 7 of the Suneater series) — this is pretty much on everyone’s to-read list, since this is the final book in the series which began back in 2017. 8 years, 7 books, and one epic masterpiece, this series explores the ...

Confusion and Anger

“Jason’s been…. snippy lately. Ready to bite people’s head off. Even angry.”

Well, yes.

On January 11, sometime between 9:00AM and 11:00AM, the only man who’d ever tried to be a dad to me passed away in his sleep. He was 87 years old and has been battling health issues the past few years. In spite of our relationship being contentious at times, we understood one another.

I went to live with Max Overholtzer as a foster kid when I was 12 after spending the previous 7 or so years bounc...

Two Cover Reveals!

Yep, I’ve got not one but two cover reveals this week! Best of all, they’re in the same series!

Some longtime readers might recognize the name Quintus Fox. I’ve written… 7 stories now in his vast universe but, until recently, never really got around to writing him a novel. That all changed over the weekend (bad immunotherapy infusion session on Friday got me thinking…) and now I’ve got two Quintus Fox books in the pipeline for 2025. The first, QUINTUS FOX: BOUNTY HUNTER, will be dropping in J...

2024 Year in Review

I’ve been pretty good about doing one of these every year the past few years. 2023 was a banner year, with one of my highest words written count ever at over 537,000 words written, and 7 published works. I thought I wasn’t going to be able to replicate that in 2024.

I didn’t repeat them. No, I sorta crushed those word count numbers.

In 2024 I had 7 published works once again — two short story collections (Side Hustle: Vol 1 and Side Hustle: Vol 2), sold a story I wrote years ago to be repr...

The Great Christmas Shopping List (2024 Edition)

Brief health update: I’m alive (yay!) still, and heading into my next cancer infusion treatment on Wednesday. It’s been exhausting. I also just got back from Dragonsteel Nexus late last night (technically early this morning because there was a nasty accident right in front of my ride and we were stuck in traffic for almost a solid hour). It was my first convention since my treatments began. We’ll see if I dodged concrud (because, you know, immune system wonky at the moment).

Anyway, let’s get...

THREE DAYS UNTIL THE END BEGINS

Only three days left until Salvage Harbinger, Book 2 of The Invasion, drops. Nick and I are super stoked about this one.

Captain Morrison and the Cabrillo must stop the invaders in their tracks, or the entire galaxy will be at risk. With only a single vessel to fight against an armada, what chance do they have?

With enough prep work and some devious thinking, a pretty good chance, actually.

Have you snagged Salvage Purgatory, Book 1 of The Invasion, yet? If you have Kindle Unlimited it’...

Side Hustle: Vol. 2 is out!

The print version actually went on sale November 1, but the ebook is now LIVE exclusively on Amazon and KU.

12 stories, including one never before published, as well as 5 Quintus Fox short stories and tie-ins, 3 Freehold stories (I’ve been in all three anthologies to date), and a Black Tide Rising short story.

Still only $4.99 because I really like that price point. Instead of a combo meal somewhere, it’s a mocha latte. I think that’s a reasonable trade.

Also, countdown to Salvage Ha...

The State of the Solo Debut Mainstream Novel

The heading isn’t misleading. I just wanted to talk about my first solo foray (we’re not counting collaborations here, or anthologies) into mainstream publishing after **coughcough** years in indie and small press. More importantly, why I’m not regretting it, but why I also am still not going fully trad in the coming years.

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First of all, having the opportunity to write in the bestselling Black Tide Rising series was a massive honor. John Ringo and Toni Weisskopf’s having faith in me and an...

LFG!! Salvage Purgatory Release Weekend

Quick cancer update: still recovering from surgery. Had some massive bleed-through the day after surgery and had to go back to the surgeon (I warned them I was a bleeder) to get the wound site redressed. Since then, been a pretty smooth-ish recovery journey so far. Sitting sucks, laying down is uncomfortable, and standing isn’t really a good idea, so… I switch around a lot. Lay down, sit, stand, rinse, lather, repeat. My employer is being awesome right now and letting me heal slowly, since I am ...

Life Update

So…

I’ve been reluctant to post about this because of how much is going on right now, plus it being in the middle of one of the busiest convention seasons we’ve had post-lockdowns, but the news broke this afternoon when the Baen Free Radio Hour went up, so…

On Aug 23 I went in to the doctor’s office to have a mole removed. If you saw me at Libertycon, you probably heard me bitching about the bloody mole that ruined two of my shirts (and led to the startling discovery that the hotel for LC ...