Supporting Indie Authors
Without the powerful marketing machine of those BIG publishers behind us, what do indie authors need most? Exposure. The more readers who discover our work, the better. Word of mouth and multi-author promotions are great, but sometimes we need that little extra push. So this year, I'll be doing my part each month, sharing books by folks who write in some of the same genres I do.
January Reading Deals
Captivating Stories Cozy Mysteries Into the Shadows
Sci-Fi Series Sale Sci-Fi & Fantasy Sale Escape into Adventure
New Year, New Reads Collections & Anthologies Mayhem & Motives
Support Indie Authors Awakened Heroes Dystopian / Post-Apocalyptic
KU First in Series Plot Twists & Surprises The Sound of Stories
Starships & Cyberpunks Dark Dystopian Reads More Cozy Mysteries
Epic SciFi Book Bazaar SciFi & Fantasy Deals SciFi w/ Kobo Plus
KU Post-Apocalyptic KU Science Fiction $0.99 Crime Fiction
Kobo Plus Mysteries New Year, New Cozies KU Fill Your Kindle
Find Your Next Read Mysteries, Crime Noir & Thrillers Sizzling Tales
Mysteries, Thrillers & Suspense Even More Cozy Mysteries
SciFi & Fantasy Adventures Fantasy & SciFi Promo Free SciFi & Fantasy 2025
Free SciFi & Epic Fantasy Reads SciFi & Fantasy Giveaway New Reads Giveaway
Free Sci-Fi and Fantasy Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense Mysteries & Thrillers
Take the Dark Path Mystery & Suspense Freebies Sci-Fi Mysteries
Year in Review: 2024
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Slow Going, but Going
Hit the 20K mark today on my current work in progress. Originally intended to be a Dome City Investigations novella, it's now turning into Book 3. We'll see where the story takes me. So far, I've got a character in witness protection, two android assassins tasked with his extermination, and masked freedom-fighters looking for trouble. Our heroes, Sera and Dunn, have been captured by unsavory types, and it doesn't look like they're going to escape unscathed. Because if they want out, they'll first have to survive an underground cage match.
I had a lot of projects lined up this summer, but a close encounter with poison sumac put most of them on the back burner for a couple weeks. I've been taking medication to help with the inflammation and maddening itch, but it's left me feeling a bit wonky. Even so, I've gotten a few things done around the house, which is always nice. And I plan to fully eradicate our yard of the dread urushiol offender, wearing long sleeves, long pants, and gloves, of course. Lesson learned.
Looks like I'll be subbing again this fall. It's been four years now since I taught full-time. For the last couple years, I've been a building sub at the local middle school down the street. I show up each day, and if they need me to cover a class, that's what I do. Any subject, grades 6-8. If all the teachers are present and accounted for, I help with cafeteria supervision, hall monitoring, and shelving books in the library. After twenty years of teaching, this job feels like semi-retirement.
In other news, I'm slowly unshackling all of my books from Kindle Unlimited and allowing them to roam free, which means you'll be able to find them at Barnes & Noble, the Apple store, and Kobo, among other retailers. My audiobooks are available from Audible and Apple, as well. Feel free to buy as many as you like, and then tell everyone you know about them. You'll make my day.
New Release
Editing Update
Took about a month of blood, sweat, and tears (not so much), but it was well worth the effort, and I'm pleased with how the edits turned out. Trimmed some fat, fleshed out a few scenes, cut and tightened the dialogue, improved the overall pacing, and fixed a dozen or so typos along the way. Next, I'll give the manuscript one more proofreading pass in Word, which always seems to catch things I've missed in Docs. Then I'll start work on the formatting: eBook and paperback.
The blurb is good to go, and you can check it out here. There's a lot going on in this novel, and summarizing it in a way that piques reader curiosity was no small task. I may give it a tweak at some point, but for now, it's serviceable enough.
I'm kicking around the idea of writing a couple novella-length adventures that take place between Infidels & Insurgents and the next book, Angels & Androids. Just not sure which order to do this in. Novellas first? Novel first? Dinner then dessert? Guess I'll go where the muse takes me.
Novel #23
Next: a few rounds of edits and blurb-composing in 150 words or less. I have about a month and a half before the final draft is due, so that should give me plenty of time to polish everything up just right.
Meanwhile, you can be first in line to snag your very own Kindle copy by pre-ordering it right here. Assuming I get it formatted in time, a paperback version will also be available on the release date.