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A Wing and a Prayer, the latest in the Flying Star Adventure series, is complete and will be released on 10/3. This is an introductory novella intended to be a low-cost introduction for new readers, so the Kindle will be on $0.99 (I wanted free, but Amazon doesn't allow it), and the softcover will be $4.50, which gives me $0.02 in royalties. Everyone grab your copy and enjoy!

I've commissioned the cover for A Wing and a Prayer over on Fiverr. Should done about the middle of next week, and then the book will be ready to go.

A Wing and a Prayer is edited, and I've done most of the formatting in preparation for publishing. I'm still working on the back-cover blurb and design for the cover. Should be ready sometime next week.

I've incorporated my feedback for A Wing and a Prayer into the master copy, and I'm going to run it through regular editing one more time. Then I'll see if I can get feeback from a couple more readers and make arrangements for a cover. When complete, A Wing and a Prayer will be an intro for Flying Star Adventure, so the Kindle will be free and the softcover at cost.

I had an impressive volume of sales at the Happily Ever Sip & Shop at Martin House Brewing Company on Sunday, despite the brutal heat (109 degrees).

I'm done with editing A Wing and a Prayer with a wrap-up I think the reader will like. There's also some foreshadowing I added before the reveal. I'll see what the Writers' Group thinks of the second half on the 8th, then do final editing. After that, I'll commission the cover and it'll be available FREE!

The rough draft for A Wing And a Prayer is complete. It'll probably be ready for release early next month.

Go to the current project page to see the news.

I've revised the site so there's now a free sample available for all the books. No matter how new or old the book, the first ~2000 words are available for free. Click on the button beneath each book listing.

If you see me selling in person, you'll also have the chance to get themed merchandise. We'll have -Near Misses mouse pads -Flying Star Adventure flashlight keyrings -Distant Lands t-shirts -Traitor Devil pens -Flying Star Adventure mugs and bumper stickers

Near Misses: My Honorable Mentions from the Writers of the Future Contest is available tomorrow!

My fifth book, Near Misses: My Honorable Mentions from the Writers of the Future Contest, drops on May 21st. This is a standalone work of four unrelated short stories. If you're unfamiliar with me as an author, this is a short, inexpensive book, so it's a low-cost way to see if my prose works for you.

I advertised Seasons of Music and Mystery on Amazon Ads, and put the Kindle version on sale. People clicked through on the ads at a slow rate, but after 20 clickthroughs, no one bought a copy, so I ended the campaign. Nobody got a copy on sale, either.

Started Amazon Ads for Seasons of Music and Mystery. Hundreds have seen the ad, no one has clicked through yet. The kindle version is also on sale until the 28th, and you still have 12 hrs to get it for 99 cents.

I've overhauled the site, adding a new page for my new series the Lady Seis Mysteries with some explanation about the series and links. I've also added the Lady Seis characters to the Dramatis Personae page. Last but not least, I've revamped the navigation to make it obvious those things at the top are buttons to click, and not random words. I'm wondering if my high bounce rate might be because people don't realize there are other pages to look at.

Slacked off on posting to the blog here, but I'm back now. Fair Means or Foul is now my official novel-length next project, and I'm working on the plotting. There are four threads to manage, and I'm having some trouble keeping them all in sync and having a sense of progress. This was often a problem with real pulp-era novels; there's a lot of running around and narrow escapes without any real sense the story is going anywhere.

Seasons of Music and Mystery , the first book in the Lady Seis Mysteries , is now available for preorder on Amazon.

I uploaded the files for Seasons of Music and Mystery , the first book in the Lady Seis Mysteries series. All it needs now is a cover, and I just commissioned one. Release is scheduled for March 21st.

I've commissioned the cover for Near Misses , and uploaded/set up everything. In about 10 days, I'll upload the cover and Near Misses will be available for preorder. The release will be May 21st. Near Misses is the four short stories I submitted to the Writers of the Future Contest that received honorable mentions (never did crack the top three). It's four widely diverse fantasy stories, all good enough that the Writers of the Future judges thought they almost made the cut.

When you build a table to check how much name overlap there is in the four stories. There are two Nicholases as central characters in two stories, but one is in the first story, and the other is in the last, so I'm going to leave it. To a certain extent, this is inevitable. The pool of names in Elizabethan England wasn't big (~50 per gender), so the same names are going to come up again and again. Elizabeth itself is extremely popular, especially toward the end of the period;