In case you missed it, I have the final cover for Frozen Logic.

I’m over 60% complete on the rough draft of this book. According to my schedule, I should be ready to publish by the end of September. I’m usually faster with a book this size, but this is the first of a series, and it has to be really good. That means that I’ve spent extra time noodling on the story. In addition to that, there are new characters, and writing drags a bit while figuring out who these characters are. Once this series is in progress and I start on the second book, it’ll go much faster like the Daphne books. I know the main characters so well that I don’t think about their personality much. The words just pour out of my fingers.

Other things that are happening

I’m working on another freebie (you like free stuff, right? Of course you do). This will be a Daphne short story that will be included with the newsletter sign-up. If you already signed up, then you’ll receive a link in your newsletter automatically to download the new freebie. The title is The Ghost Cargo. Oooh, a ghost story before Halloween.

Not really.

It’s a sci-fi, and I don’t like to mix ghosts with science fiction. So, this book will not be paranormal or ghost-related, but the title is apt. I’ll try to make it obvious in the book description so nobody is turned off by the phrase “ghost.”

I just updated the cover, spruced up some of the writing (a tiny bit) for Rogue Phoenix. Another short story that I wrote in 2020. It’s part of The Chronicles of the Clavius Moon Colony (say that three times fast). There are two short stories in that series. The second book is AI Patch. I originally had big plans for this series, but I’m not really sure if I’ll extend it in the future. Shorts are difficult to make money from. They’re both in KU, so feel free to read ’em. I’m probably the only person on the planet who has purchased the paperback versions. I just like to have a physical copy of my own books on my shelf. Amazon sets a minimum price for paperbacks because it costs them to print on demand. The cost is quite high, so the lowest I could get away with was $5.99 for a thin paperback. Nobody will break my heart if the paperbacks don’t sell.

I updated the blurb for Alien Surprise Attack. This is a short story involving characters from the MacKinzie Steele series. It’s technically an out-of-band story that can be read in any order, though I have it as short story number 21. So the stories start in The Patrol Ships as short stories 1-10, then 2-20 are in Storm Clouds Gathering. Then the series moves on to three other novels and ends with Terminal Society. Alien Surprise Attack, as well as all the MacKinzie Steele books, are in KU.

I reduced the price of all the Escape from the Abyss books to match the first book. The pricing used to be set at $2.99 for The Archons and $3.99 for the remaining books. Now they are all $2.99. If you’re contemplating reading those books, they are sci-fi, space fleet/space marine with a slight horror feel to them. It’s sort of like Battlestar Galactica meets the Gauld from Star Gate. The books explore some first-person views of what it would be like to have an alien intelligence in your brain that controls your body, but you still have your thoughts.