The BARROO Report

Join the fun! Check out my work-in-progress, "Friendly Fire," on Wattpad. What's it about? Well, there are starships, and landing parties, and miniature dragons, and humor, and exploration, and mysteries, and nasty aliens who would sooner shoot you than make peace, and .... Well, honestly, the other book in the series I'm creating, called Seed Worlds, is a recycled Star Trek fan novel. Does that give you a good idea of what it's like?

I would love to get feedback, ideas, speculation on what's going to happen next. Remember: this is a work-in-progress, meaning what eventually gets published could be very different than what you read today....

NEW BOOK
Writers Exchange, on Monday, released the first book in the Nova Vendetta series, part of the Commonwealth Universe. If you read the SF romance novella, "The Pirate and the Professor," this is the story of the heroine's parents and how they met.

NOVA VENDETTA

Niall Encardi is a medical student, ready to graduate
and go home to his colony world and spend his life as a doctor. Unfortunately, yet another revolution occurs in the Central Allied Worlds. Anyone from a colony world that didn't declare unwavering support for the revolutionaries is considered an enemy, and taken prisoner. No matter what Niall and his friends do, resisting their captors, trying to protect their homeworld, they keep ending up on the wrong side of the government -- a government that keeps changing hands. From that prison existence, Niall is formed into a man who will become a legend someday: Captain Niall Encardi, of the pirate ship Nova Vendetta. NOVA VENDETTA, Part 1: The Injustice, is now available from Writers Exchange.

I'm working on Part 2: The Truce, RIGHT NOW. Look for Part 2 late in September/early October.

And if you loved the old black-and-white swashbuckler starring Errol Flynn, CAPTAIN BLOOD, I guarantee you'll enjoy NOVA VENDETTA.