Updates and What’s Coming in 2020!

I haven’t posted since last year, so happy 2020!

I’ve been dealing with some hacks and security issues with this website, so if you came by this winter and had trouble, I apologize. I hope everything is fixed now. After getting everything professionally cleaned up, I enabled some extra security measures with the log-in, so now I feel like I’m trying to get into the missile silo under Cheyenne Mountain (which would totally be worth it if I could then go through the Stargate!).

I do have a new website theme and a shiny new banner that will be up soon. I had to get rid of my 10-year-old theme, which had nothing to do with fantasy or sci-fi anyway, since it was no longer being updated and had some security issues of its own.

One of the things I’m going to do coming up is combine my two newsletters (I currently have a science fiction one and a fantasy one) into one. I originally made two so that readers who are only interested in hearing about my fantasy wouldn’t get updates and bonuses related to the sci-fi and vice versa, but it’s just been too confusing. People sign up for the wrong one and then send me angry emails because they didn’t get the right bonuses. Yes, angry! I’ve been accused of swindling people to get them onto my newsletters. Okay, only one person has done that (you know who you are!), but as I said, there’s been confusion among many. It’s about to become much easier to figure out how and where to sign up.

I’m looking into how to merge the two lists now, hopefully without anyone having to re-sign-up for anything, and then everyone will get all of the emails and all of the bonuses. I only manage to email about once a month, so I don’t think this will be too onerous, but you always have the option to unsubscribe.

But you won’t want to because I have a new series and new bonuses coming this year!

In addition to publishing the last two novels in my Star Kingdom series (I’m working on Book 7 now), I have a new contemporary urban fantasy series coming. Soon! I already have the first three novels written (and the audiobook for Book 1 recorded). As soon as the cover art is ready, I’ll put Book 1 out there. (I’m hoping to release it by the end of February, with Books 2 and 3 to follow soon after.)

I’ve already written a fun bonus story for you newsletter peeps, and I think there will be extra scenes from the PoV of the sexy but aloof dragon shifter who shows up in Book 1. Yes, yes, I’m bringing dragons to Earth. It had to happen sooner or later.

Star Kingdom fans, I’ve just put the pre-order up on Amazon for Book 7: Home Front.

I’m playing it safe by doing an April date, but if I get it together earlier, I can move the release to an earlier date. I’ll keep you posted!

I also have tentative plans to finish the Rust & Relics series later in this year or early in 2021. I’ve been gradually finishing off older series that I set aside (usually because they didn’t sell that well) in between working on the new stuff that pays the bills. The R&R readers have been waiting for a long time, so that’ll be the next incomplete series that I complete!

That’s it for now. Lots of new fiction coming soon!