Of Downloads and New Books!

Just checked my tallies, and it seems I am just a few hundred downloads short of 15,000! Which is good, because very soon, the books I put up for sampling a few months ago will have to come down. Yeah, guess its about that time, not that I don't like giving them away for free! Its just that I need to make room for new work to be sampled and of that, there are a few…

For example, my short-story Genome, a detective-thriller story set in the near future mega-city of NYDC (that's New York-Washington DC) is coming along and is sure to done soon. Sample chapters of this are available at Feedbooks and Scridb, and as soon as its complete, it will be available in its entirety at Free-ebooks.net. My thanks to Katrina Cain for her work as co-founder and inspirer of that story. Hard to believe it was spawned from a single Facebook IM conversation about the merits of self-doubt, imps, and genetic engineering. How did we get onto the subject of all that anyway? We're weird!

Second, there's another short-story set in the same universe as Legacies (the first sci-fi novel I ever wrote, but have yet to post due to the burden or re-editing such a tome!) It's called Akuma, a noire, techno-thriller set in the off-world city of New Detroit. Its a story of crime syndicates, junkies and what happens when low-lifes cross the truly evil, with plenty of Cityspeak-style gutter talk thrown in for good measure. Forgive the shameless and totally undeserved comparison to Blade Runner, but it WAS my inspiration for this one!

But the big news, for me anyway, is the near-completion of my full-length novel entitled Data Miners. This is my first work of real fiction, that is to say, set in the world of today. And as the name would suggest, it's about hackers, espionage and cyber-policing in the digital age. As soon as my editorial staff and I (aka. friends and family members who graciously volunteered) are finished editing it, I will be posting some sample chapters and podcasts for people to see. Since it is my first attempt at creating something that takes place in the world of today, you might say I'm a little apprehensive about it. Mainly I'd like to see if people enjoy it before releasing it full-on to the world.

Well, that's all for now. Hope people like the new page format too. I selected it in anticipation of Data Miners release, knowing that the format would be more conducive to sampling and chapter reading. In the meantime, keep on truckin!