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Weekly Update – July 30, 2019

[image error] Cover design – Tricia Lupien. Cover model – Renee Sutherland. Cover photography – Lauren Dubois.

Well-Behaved Women – Endtimes is here!

The third and final book in the Well-Behaved Women trilogy is available for pre-order for the Kindle on Amazon now and will be released on Tuesday, August 13. The print edition is available now, but if you can hold out until October, you can visit me at the Connecticut Renaissance Faire to buy a signed copy (more on that below).

WRITING PROJECTS

Action Figures – Issue Nine: Hell Hath No Fury: With Endtimes out of my hair (metaphorically), I’m back to work on this in earnest.

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Sworded Affairs: First draft completed!

Well-Behaved W0men – Transition: Audiobook is in the recording process with my new narrator.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

The Connecticut Renaissance Faire – Saturday, October 5, Lebanon County Fairgrounds, Lebanon, CT: I’ll be there as part of the Local Authors Series. Here’s the full line-up:
Saturday, August 31: Shawn Flynn (The Kitty)
Sunday, September 1: Mary Lawrence (The Bianca Goddard series)
Monday, September 2: Stephanie Robinson and Jessica Haight (the Fairday Morrow series)
Saturday, September 7: Billie Kowalewski (the Enlightened series)
Sunday, September 8: Sky Boivin (The Sisters Two Chronicles)
Saturday, September 14: Rachel Menard (Steel Hand, Cold Heart)
Sunday, September 15: Deborah Ann Davis (Fairly Certain)
Saturday, September 21: Liz Delton (The Starless Girl)
Sunday, September 22: Amber Beaulieu
Saturday, September 28: Allyssa Norton (Momma Buy Me a China Doll)
Sunday, September 29: Suzanne Cordatos (The Willard the Dragon series)
Saturday, October 5: Me!
Sunday, October 6: Kim Headlee (The Dragon’s Dove Chronicles)
Saturday, October 12: A.L. Davroe (The Tricksters series)
Sunday, October 13: E.A. Rappaport (The Legend of the Four Races series)
Monday, October 14: Jo Kearney (The Adventures of Amelia the Astronaut)

[image error]The New England Speculative Writers group has a new preview book for newsletter subscribers. Pick it up and read the opening chapters to Well-Behaved Women – Awakening and other stories.

If you’d like to make sure you don’t miss any news from me, remember that I have a weekly newsletter that features some of the stuff you see posted here plus new, newsletter-exclusive material. Click this link to sign up.

Weekly Update – July 23, 2019

The list of featured authors at the Connecticut Renaissance Faire’s Local Authors Series for 2019 is now complete! Here’s the updated lineup:

Saturday, August 31: Shawn Flynn (The Kitty)
Sunday, September 1: Mary Lawrence (The Bianca Goddard series)
Monday, September 2: Stephanie Robinson and Jessica Haight (the Fairday Morrow series)
Saturday, September 7: Billie Kowalewski (the Enlightened series)
Sunday, September 8: Sky Boivin (The Sisters Two Chronicles)
Saturday, September 14: Rachel Menard (Steel Hand, Cold Heart)
Sunday, September 15: Deborah Ann Davis (Fairly Certain)
Saturday, September 21: Liz Delton (The Starless Girl)
Sunday, September 22: Amber Beaulieu
Saturday, September 28: Allyssa Norton (Momma Buy Me a China Doll)
Sunday, September 29: Suzanne Cordatos (The Willard the Dragon series)
Saturday, October 5: Me!
Sunday, October 6: Kim Headlee (The Dragon’s Dove Chronicles)
Saturday, October 12: A.L. Davroe (The Tricksters series)
Sunday, October 13: E.A. Rappaport (The Legend of the Four Races series)
Monday, October 14: Jo Kearney (The Adventures of Amelia the Astronaut)

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Sworded Affairs: First draft completed!

Well-Behaved W0men – Transition: Audiobook is in the recording process with my new narrator.

Well-Behaved Women – Endtimes: Final draft is underway! The guts of the third and final book should be ready this week, then it’s just a matter of getting the cover and prepping it for release!

Action Figures – Issue Nine: Hell Hath No Fury: First draft is back on the to-do list! I started plugging away on this again last week and I’ll be pounding away at least until I have to do up final edits on Endtimes.

Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins (audiobook): Review completed, final editing in progress.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

The Connecticut Renaissance Faire – Saturday, October 5, Lebanon County Fairgrounds, Lebanon, CT: I’ll be back again to sell and sign books as part of CTRF’s Local Authors Series.

[image error]The New England Speculative Writers group has a new preview book for newsletter subscribers. Pick it up and read the opening chapters to Well-Behaved Women – Awakening and other stories.

If you’d like to make sure you don’t miss any news from me, remember that I have a weekly newsletter that features some of the stuff you see posted here plus new, newsletter-exclusive material. Click this link to sign up.

Weekly Update – July 16, 2019

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Sworded Affairs: First draft is DONE! Time to set this aside for a bit, let my brain cool down, and then head back in for draft two.

Well-Behaved W0men – Transition: Audiobook is in the recording process with my new narrator.

Well-Behaved Women – Endtimes: Fifth draft is finished and with my editor, now aiming for a late August/early September release.

Action Figures – Issue Nine: Hell Hath No Fury: First draft in progress.

Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins (audiobook): Review completed, final editing in progress.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

The Connecticut Renaissance Faire – Saturday, October 5, Lebanon County Fairgrounds, Lebanon, CT: I’ll be back again to sell and sign books as part of CTRF’s Local Authors Series.

[image error]The New England Speculative Writers group has a new preview book for newsletter subscribers. Pick it up and read the opening chapters to Well-Behaved Women – Awakening and other stories.

If you’d like to make sure you don’t miss any news from me, remember that I have a weekly newsletter that features some of the stuff you see posted here plus new, newsletter-exclusive material. Click this link to sign up.

Weekly Update – July 9, 2019

As regular blog readers might know, I am one of the featured authors at the Connecticut Renaissance Faire’s Local Authors Series for 2019.

One of, but certainly not the only one, and faire co-producer Eric Tetreault has shared with me the mostly full roster of this year’s authors — mostly, because there is one slot yet to be filled.

Here’s the lineup:

Saturday, August 31: Shawn Flynn (The Kitty)
Sunday, September 1: Mary Lawrence (The Bianca Goddard series)
Monday, September 2: Stephanie Robinson and Jessica Haight (the Fairday Morrow series)
Saturday, September 7: Billie Kowalewski (the Enlightened series)
Sunday, September 8: Sky Boivin (The Sisters Two Chronicles)
Saturday, September 14: TBA
Sunday, September 15: Deborah Ann Davis (Fairly Certain)
Saturday, September 21: Liz Delton (The Starless Girl)
Sunday, September 22: Amber Beaulieu
Saturday, September 28: Allyssa Norton (Momma Buy Me a China Doll)
Sunday, September 29: Suzanne Cordatos (The Willard the Dragon series)
Saturday, October 5: Me!
Sunday, October 6: Kim Headlee (The Dragon’s Dove Chronicles)
Saturday, October 12: A.L. Davroe (The Tricksters series)
Sunday, October 13: E.A. Rappaport (The Legend of the Four Races series)
Monday, October 14: Jo Kearney (The Adventures of Amelia the Astronaut)

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Sworded Affairs: First draft in progress. I have Sunday all to myself so I am hoping to get a good chunk of the climax out of the way.

Well-Behaved W0men – Transition: Audiobook is in the recording process with my new narrator.

Well-Behaved Women – Endtimes: Fifth draft is finished and with my editor, now aiming for a late August/early September release.

Action Figures – Issue Nine: Hell Hath No Fury: First draft in progress.

Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins (audiobook): Review completed, final editing in progress.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

The Connecticut Renaissance Faire – Saturday, October 5, Lebanon County Fairgrounds, Lebanon, CT: I’ll be back again to sell and sign books as part of CTRF’s Local Authors Series.

[image error]The New England Speculative Writers group has a new preview book for newsletter subscribers. Pick it up and read the opening chapters to Well-Behaved Women – Awakening and other stories.

If you’d like to make sure you don’t miss any news from me, remember that I have a weekly newsletter that features some of the stuff you see posted here plus new, newsletter-exclusive material. Click this link to sign up.

Weekly Update – July 2, 2019

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Sworded Affairs: First draft in progress, and I’m into the big climactic action sequence!

Well-Behaved W0men – Transition: The audiobook is in the recording process with my new narrator.

Well-Behaved Women – Endtimes: Fifth draft is finished and with my editor, now aiming for a late August/early September release.

Action Figures – Issue Nine: Hell Hath No Fury: First draft in progress.

Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins (audiobook): Review completed, final editing in progress.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

The Connecticut Renaissance Faire – Saturday, October 5, Lebanon County Fairgrounds, Lebanon, CT: I’ll be back again to sell and sign books as part of CTRF’s Local Authors Series!

[image error]The New England Speculative Writers group has a new preview book for newsletter subscribers. Pick it up and read the opening chapters to Well-Behaved Women – Awakening and other stories.

If you’d like to make sure you don’t miss any news from me, remember that I have a weekly newsletter that features some of the stuff you see posted here plus new, newsletter-exclusive material. Click this link to sign up.

Weekly Update – June 25, 2019

[image error]The big audiobook promotional effort over on fellow author Emerald Dodge’s website runs through Sunday. Don’t forget to check it out!

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Sworded Affairs: First draft in progress.

Well-Behaved W0men – Transition: The audiobook is in the recording process with my new narrator.

Well-Behaved Women – Endtimes: Fifth draft is finished and with my editor, now aiming for a late August/early September release.

Action Figures – Issue Nine: Hell Hath No Fury: First draft in progress.

Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins (audiobook): Review completed, final editing in progress.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

The Connecticut Renaissance Faire – Saturday, October 5, Lebanon County Fairgrounds, Lebanon, CT: I’ll be back again to sell and sign books as part of CTRF’s Local Authors Series!

[image error]The New England Speculative Writers group has a new preview book for newsletter subscribers. Pick it up and read the opening chapters to Well-Behaved Women – Awakening and other stories.

If you’d like to make sure you don’t miss any news from me, remember that I have a weekly newsletter that features some of the stuff you see posted here plus new, newsletter-exclusive material. Click this link to sign up.

Well-Behaved Women – A Series Overview

What’s it About?

Rose Booker remembers how she died. Both times.

Rose’s pursuit of the truth behind those memories leads her to discover that she was in a past life the legendary pirate queen Mary Read — and that she’s not the only infamous historical figure who has returned from the dead.

Who is this Series For?

Well-Behaved Women is an urban fantasy trilogy featuring a predominantly female cast. I wrote it for everyone looking for an action-packed adventure tale driven by complex heroic (and villainous, and somewhere in-between) LGBTQ women.

Is it Suitable for Young Readers?

No. The series contains violence, language, and sexual content that make it inappropriate for younger readers.

What are the Books in the Series?

[image error]Awakening: Nearly a year after being shot and left for dead, Sergeant Rose Booker returns to active duty with the Worcester Police Department, hoping to put the past behind her — except she’s not sure it’s her past that’s haunting her.

When hard-drinking hellraiser Julie d’Aubigny enters Rose’s life, she promises to reveal the truth behind Rose’s nightmares — or are they memories? — of her death at the end of a hangman’s noose.

But first Rose must stop the mysterious madman waging a bloody campaign of vengeance that threatens to turn the city’s streets red. All she has to do is uncover his identity — and his own dark secret.

[image error]Transition: The adventure continues as Rose and her friends deal with the aftermath of the events in Awakening and face off against a new, deadlier enemy hellbent on revenge.

Endtime (Fall 2019): The conclusion of the Well-Behaved Women trilogy.

How Long Will the Series Run?

Three books and done.

Where Can I Learn More?

Read can read sample chapters from Awakening, buy signed copies, connect with me through social media, and get regular updates at my website: innsmouthlook.com

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – A Series Overview

What’s it About?

Derek Strongarm and Felix Lightfoot are a pair of hard-luck adventurers for hire with an unfortunate knack for landing jobs that pay too little and threaten their lives too much. Erika Racewind is a hardened elven warrior who doesn’t like people, except maybe when she’s killing them. Winifred Graceword is a kindhearted elven priestess skilled in the healing arts. David is a young sorcerer on a path to discover who he really is – and whether that person has a last name, because going by just David is getting old fast.

Together these companions travel across the land of Asaches looking for adventure and the glory and riches that come with it. Mostly the riches, though, because you can’t buy food and beer with glory.

Who is this Series For?

Sword-and-sorcery fantasy fans looking for something a little lighter than most of the fare currently on the shelves. If you want heavy, dark, serious stories with lots of death, destruction, torture, rape, and political intrigue, go read something else because you won’t find it here.

What you will find is a fast-paced adventure filled with colorful characters, rip-roaring action, humor, and gentle jabs at the classic elements of fantasy fiction.

Which is not to say this series is a comedy or parody. There is still drama aplenty, but as a rule I don’t take things too seriously. You can read these books and not feel like you need a hug and a room full of puppies afterward.

Is it Suitable for Young Readers?

Not really. The series is a hard PG-13/light R for violence, language, and sexual content. It is suitable for older teens, but not for the YA crowd.

What are the Books in the Series?

[image error]Scratching a Lich: Derek and Felix find themselves entangled in an urgent quest to slay a legendary lich before he can trigger a world-ending apocalypse – as insane undead sorcerers are wont to do. Together with Erika Racewind, bodyguard for a mysterious young wizard named David, and Winifred Graceword, they head out to discover lost cities, recover long lost magical artifacts, and slay great evils in order to fulfill curiously specific prophecies – as mismatched, ragtag groups of adventurers are wont to do.

[image error]Assassins Brawl: The companions are hired to safeguard a spoiled brat of a princess targeted for death by the assassin Ruined Isys, but as is often the case, there’s more going on here than meets the eye. Now all they have to do is determine who is behind the plot before they get caught in the crossfire.

[image error]Blades of Glory: Derek, Felix, and company are up for a job that seems a little too simple for a payday that seems a little too generous – but unfortunately, so are the famed adventurers of fortune known as the Noble Blades. Which of them will be the first to find a stolen ceremonial mask that is absolutely positively completely normal and not at all some lost artifact possessed of dark power?

Sworded Affairs: The heroes take a job to dispose of a potentially dangerous magical artifact only to become snowbound in an isolated city besieged by flesh-hungry beasts — and under assault from within by a secret cadre of assassins.

How Long Will the Series Run?

Unknown, but tentatively ten books.

Where Can I Learn More?

Read can read sample chapters from Scratching a Lich, buy signed copies, connect with me through social media, and get regular updates at my website: innsmouthlook.com

Weekly Update – June 18, 2019

[image error]This week begins a big audiobook promotional effort over on fellow author Emerald Dodge’s website. Go check it out and see what’s available on audio!

In other cool news, Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins has been selected for Amazon’s Prime Reading program! Prime members have unlimited access to a library of free e-books, and for small authors like me, that could be a big boost for the other books in the AF series.

Finally, I’ll be doing a little writing for the Connecticut Renaissance Faire this year, in addition to returning as the show’s fight director. The director asked me to write up the tournament scene, so I’m returning to my CTRF roots a bit this year (I started with the production as a script writer).

 

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Sworded Affairs: First draft in progress.

Well-Behaved W0men – Transition: The audiobook is in the recording process with my new narrator.

Well-Behaved Women – Endtimes: Fifth draft is finished and with my editor, now aiming for a late August/early September release.

Action Figures – Issue Nine: Hell Hath No Fury: First draft in progress.

Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins (audiobook): Review completed, final editing in progress.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

The Connecticut Renaissance Faire – Saturday, October 5, Lebanon County Fairgrounds, Lebanon, CT: I’ll be back again to sell and sign books as part of CTRF’s Local Authors Series!

[image error]The New England Speculative Writers group has a new preview book for newsletter subscribers. Pick it up and read the opening chapters to Well-Behaved Women – Awakening and other stories.

If you’d like to make sure you don’t miss any news from me, remember that I have a weekly newsletter that features some of the stuff you see posted here plus new, newsletter-exclusive material. Click this link to sign up.

Weekly Update – June 11, 2019

[image error]This week, the Kindle edition of Well-Behaved Women – Awakening is on sale for 99 cents! Get it for yourself or buy it as a gift!

I’m also part of a big audiobook promotional effort that kicks off on Saturday. You can go to fellow author Emerald Dodge’s website to learn more.

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Sworded Affairs: First draft in progress.

Well-Behaved W0men – Transition: The audiobook is in the recording process with my new narrator.

Well-Behaved Women – Endtimes: Fifth draft is finished and with my editor, now aiming for a late August/early September release.

Action Figures – Issue Nine: Hell Hath No Fury: First draft in progress.

Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins (audiobook): Review completed, final editing in progress.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

The Connecticut Renaissance Faire – Saturday, October 5, Lebanon County Fairgrounds, Lebanon, CT: I’ll be back again to sell and sign books as part of CTRF’s Local Authors Series!

[image error]The New England Speculative Writers group has a new preview book for newsletter subscribers. Pick it up and read the opening chapters to Well-Behaved Women – Awakening and other stories.

If you’d like to make sure you don’t miss any news from me, remember that I have a weekly newsletter that features some of the stuff you see posted here plus new, newsletter-exclusive material. Click this link to sign up.