A Trail of Publishing - Part 3
Back in 2015 one of my editors suggested I send some material to a second publisher. I was churning out words at a prodigious rate in those days.
eTreasures Publishing said yes please, so I sent them two projects.
"We're Not in Kansas," a near future thriller came out in 2016. It was a standalone tale that I've been told cries out for a sequel.
Then I followed with the alternate history Toltec Project. I presented the publisher with a rather large manuscript. They came back, said they liked it, but as they were a small publishing house, it was too long for them to do as a print edition. (Not a problem for an ebook format.) Their suggestion was I should cut the large manuscript in two, which would allow room for me to flesh out the existing story. Because they liked where the tale was going, they requested a third volume to continue what was happening, with the possibility of a series and further volumes
"Toltec Dawn" came out in 2016 followed by "Toltec Khan" later that same year. "Toltec Noon" completed the trilogy in 2018
Back at Champagne Book Group I was looking for something new to exercise my brain with and decided to try a science fiction based tale with a little more toward a full bore Space Opera than "Kansas" had been. "Of Destiny's Daughters" was published in April 2019. By the time I was halfway into creating this tale I knew it had to be another trilogy. "Hammer Across the Stars" was released as an ebook in July 2020. "Expeditions to Earth" was released in ebook format in September 2020. Trade paperback print editions followed shortly after.
Back on the Housetrap Chronicles trail, "Silence of the Sands" (Housetrap #9) was released in ebook format in August 2020. Hopefully a print collection of #'s 7,8, 9, will be out shortly. Housetrap #10 "The Road to Hell is Paved With Parsnips" is scheduled for release Feb 1 2021, and I have the rough drafts completed for # 11 and 12 which will complete this fantasy detective series and allow for a fourth print collection.
eTreasures Publishing said yes please, so I sent them two projects.
"We're Not in Kansas," a near future thriller came out in 2016. It was a standalone tale that I've been told cries out for a sequel.
Then I followed with the alternate history Toltec Project. I presented the publisher with a rather large manuscript. They came back, said they liked it, but as they were a small publishing house, it was too long for them to do as a print edition. (Not a problem for an ebook format.) Their suggestion was I should cut the large manuscript in two, which would allow room for me to flesh out the existing story. Because they liked where the tale was going, they requested a third volume to continue what was happening, with the possibility of a series and further volumes
"Toltec Dawn" came out in 2016 followed by "Toltec Khan" later that same year. "Toltec Noon" completed the trilogy in 2018
Back at Champagne Book Group I was looking for something new to exercise my brain with and decided to try a science fiction based tale with a little more toward a full bore Space Opera than "Kansas" had been. "Of Destiny's Daughters" was published in April 2019. By the time I was halfway into creating this tale I knew it had to be another trilogy. "Hammer Across the Stars" was released as an ebook in July 2020. "Expeditions to Earth" was released in ebook format in September 2020. Trade paperback print editions followed shortly after.
Back on the Housetrap Chronicles trail, "Silence of the Sands" (Housetrap #9) was released in ebook format in August 2020. Hopefully a print collection of #'s 7,8, 9, will be out shortly. Housetrap #10 "The Road to Hell is Paved With Parsnips" is scheduled for release Feb 1 2021, and I have the rough drafts completed for # 11 and 12 which will complete this fantasy detective series and allow for a fourth print collection.
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