New release: Thicker Than Blood
The final book in the Peter the Wolf series, Thicker Than Blood, arrived on Amazon, but you can also check it out on Kobo, or through my blog bookstore on Gumroad. Here’s the blurb:
After escaping a life of sexual slavery, lycanthrope Peter Holmes has fought weredogs, a golem, and vampires, and he’s won his freedom from a term of indentured servitude to a harpy. Yet even with these victories behind him, he has yet to tame his inner demons and come to terms with his animal urges.
His return to Dallas, Pennsylvania also brings new problems with the weredogs and his adoptive family, and his muddled sexuality forces him to reconsider his relationship with Alice. Even as he struggles to behave, Peter’s wolf becomes infatuated with his enigmatic best friend Pi, who thinks that becoming a skinwalker is romantic. But biting Pi will mean war with the weredogs, and expulsion from his family.
Spiraling down into the depths of his addiction, Peter meets a strange werewolf who reeks of death. Chasing down this deadly wolf, Peter learns more dark secrets about the weredogs, and he sees in this revenant traces of what he may become if he can’t gain control of the monster inside him.
Faced with this unavoidable moral dilemma, Peter must decide where his loyalties lie. In this shocking conclusion to the Peter the Wolf series, there are no easy answers, and no victories gained without painful sacrifices. Will Peter accept that he is a monster and help destroy the weredogs? Or will he find the strength to be the hero that everyone expects him to be?
If you haven’t read any of the series, you have a couple options. First, as I mentioned a few posts back, you can get a zip file with all four books in four different DRM-free formats for only $7.99, or roughly half the cost of the full series if you bought them separately. But you can also pick up all four books in one combined omnibus edition for the same low price at Amazon, Kobo, or Gumroad. The omnibus editions have a table of contents file, so in theory it should be easier to navigate this mega-tome.
One minor headache has come up with the release of the omnibus: Amazon has temporarily (I hope) removed Peter the Wolf (Book 1) from my search listings, and they’ve applied the reviews from the first book to the omnibus. I’ve emailed Amazon to try and fix this, and if you’re looking for book 1, you can still find it here. So Amazon didn’t erase the book or anything dire. It’s just gone missing from search. Oy.
I expect I’ll be trying to ballyhoo the last book and the omnibus a bit over on twitter, but before I forget, I would like to politely ask readers if they would review of rate Thicker Than Blood and the Peter the Wolf omnibus edition. I’ll be the first to admit the story is a hard sell, being a dark tale of a young werewolf and victim of sex abuse who develops a relationship with an underage neighbor. A lot of people are going to look at a description like that and say, “Uh…I’m gonna wait to see what the reviews look like.” Totally fair, and of the 5 reviews I have for the first book on Amazon, only one reviewer felt like I’d tricked them into reading filth. The rest gave the story high marks and high praise for being challenging and full of hope despite the main character’s worst flaws.
There haven’t been that many reviews for Dogs of War or Roll the Bones, and those were all blog reviews, so I’ve not yet got anything to show Amazon readers for the rest of the series. I really could use your help on this. So if you’ve read the first three books but haven’t yet posted a review, please, consider doing so.
And that’s it for now. I’ve stalled a bit on reading while getting these books ready, but I should have some new reviews soonish.
Oh, no, wait, one other writing update. As you may know, in July I’ll be releasing book 2 in the Tobe White series, which is entitled Fangs, Humans, and Other Perils of Night Life. Well I’ve already started writing the third book in the series, Adventures in Trolling, and after a scant 3 days, I’m already up to 20K. The first day, I slammed out 11K, and the story is flowing very easily. I’m not sure if it’s that I’m more comfortable with Tobe’s character, or if I’m just really hot on this plot about a stolen baby and dimension hopping heroes. But either way, the rough draft should be done by this weekend. So, if you’re liking Tobe’s first book, A Boy and His Dawg, there will be two new books out for you in the near future. And if you haven’t read the first book, please give it a shot. Yes, its got gay romance with a vastly different wolf mythos, but there’s no sex, and it’s been picking up good reviews on Amazon so far.
Right, that’s really it now. I’m back to the Twitter mines to beg for sales.
