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New covers

Two of my books recently got new covers!

First, the cover for In the Hands of Children changed a little. (I'll keep the old covers on the sidebar for a while for comparison.) I like the picture of the girls (who I imagine to be Hannah and Amy) staring at a rundown building, but I thought the text was a bit hard to read, so I added black on the top and bottom to make it stand out.


George and the Galactic Games got a major cover overhaul. This book is my poorest selling novel, which is a shame be...

Book review: The Confession by John Grisham

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Description:
An innocent man is about to be executed.
Only a guilty man can save him.

In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row.

Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled i...

Beyond New Eden now available in other formats

For those of you who don't have a Kindle, I'm happy to announce that Beyond New Eden is now available in other formats.

You can find Beyond New Eden at the following retailers:
Amazon - Kindle e-book and paperbackBarnes and Noble - Nook e-book Kobo - Kobo e-bookSmashwords - various e-book formats Createspace - paperback

Book review: Dark Life by Kat Falls

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Description:
The oceans rose, swallowing the lowlands. Earthquakes shattered the continents, toppling entire regions into the rising water. Now, humans live packed into stack cities. The only ones with any space of their own are those who live on the ocean floor: the Dark Life.

Ty has spent his whole life living deep undersea. When outlaws attack his homestead, he finds himself in a fight to save the only home he has ever known. Joined by Gemma, a girl from Topsid...

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Publish it and they will come? Nope

I hang out occasionally in the Kboards' Writers' Cafe, a forum for writers, especially those publishing on the Kindle platform. Every once in a while, a new writer will join because they just published their first book (congratulations!) and wonder when the money will start to roll in. I don't blame them for thinking that publishing a book means readers will immediately flock to it. I'm sure many of them were seduced by success stories like Amanda Hocking or Joe Konrath just as I was. But the...

Beyond New Eden is now available!

My latest novel, Beyond New Eden, is now available on Amazon!

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Eve 142 has lived her entire life in the domed city of New Eden, home to the only surviving humans after the War. Like all of the inhabitants of New Eden, Eve 142 is a clone. Together with the other clones, dubbed the Adams and the Eves, she leads a safe, predictable existence. However, Eve’s life changes when she causes a tragic accident to befall one of the Adams...

Book review: Angelfall by Susan Ee

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Description:
It’s been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back. Anything, including making a deal with Raffe, an injured enemy angel. Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they journey toward the angels’ stro...

Cover reveal: Beyond New Eden

I'm happy to reveal the cover of my latest novel, Beyond New Eden, to be released in about a week!


The cover was designed by the folks at Digital Book Launch. I added the title because I didn't know what the book was going to be called until recently.

Here's the blurb for the novel:

Eve 142 has lived her entire life in the domed city of New Eden, home to the only surviving humans after the War. Like all of the inhabitants of New Eden, Eve 142 is a clone. Together with the other clones, dubbed th...

Book review: The Kill Order by James Dashner

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Description:
Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease.

Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived. But surviving the sun flares was easy compared to what came next.

Now a disease of rage and lunacy races across the eastern United States, and there’s something suspicious about its origin. Worse yet, it’s mutating, and all evidence suggests that it wil...