Robin Vale's Blog: One-way to Mars?
February 10, 2026
Reeva is returning
Book two of the Reeva Naan series is finished.
The busy elves of grammar and craft are still polishing away the last of my unintentional mistakes - the release is approaching fast.
In Never Fear the Worst, Reeva returns to a familiar Mars colony to face a new reality. The murder is solved. The dust has settled. And the consequences have arrived.

Reeva's native Mars colony hasn't changed much, but politics have. She is not longer law enforcement. That should mean a quiet life, but her undeclared rival is enforcing public order now. That itching pain and Reeva's temper land her in a sticky one that slips into a blazing curveball, only to turn outright perilous.
Yet, she is being told to be lucky.
Lucky to be alive.
Lucky to be useful.
Lucky to be forgiven.
And then - there is this child, missing.
Don't miss this new adventure from the world of the independent Freedom of Mars, a nation founded to overcome the sins of the Old World.
January 14, 2025
Special Honor
, even if it was short-lived. You send my book up the ranks to the number 2 of the Amazon in free Crime and Mystery Science Fiction. So lovely.Keep up reading, and don't forget, if you want to support Indy writers like me, buy or download, read and review, recommend the best to your friends, and the rest to your foes.
January 6, 2025
Free Kindle Ebook Promotion
from Wednesday, Jan 8, 12 AM PST, to Sunday, Jan 12, my ebook will be available for free on Amazon.
You need a good read, I need readers, get your copy.
Cheers,
Robin
January 4, 2025
Welcome
Having just finished the work on my first title, Never Waste A Nail: A Reeva Naan MysteryNever Waste A Nail, which will be the first in a series about life and crime on Mars, I am happy to introduce me with this author page. I worked on the book for almost a year, through most of 2024, and now I realize something important. I need to connect to you, dear prospective readers, and I need to get your attention. Something I personally would love to avoid, shy as I feel, but know what, that'd be unprofessional.
So get in touch, ask your questions - and as they say on the little independent settlement on Mars, the Freedom of Mars, as it is called, - Enjoy life!
One-way to Mars?
My current topic is how life on Mars would be, would it be a plentiful, happy and adventurous? Or rather bleak? While we wish for a Garden Eden it might just be a bit different.... Don't let me down - Join me on my journey! ...more

