March 2014

I haven’t started writing it yet, but here’s a little teaser about Ghost Worlds. Someone’s going to die in a very shocking way, and the person who has to kill them is going to be even more shocking.

As for the book itself, my plan is to start writing it either tomorrow night or the next day.  It will definitely be incorporating elements from both groups as they explore their areas of the destroyed worlds looking for some answers.

I just finished designing the cover and other graphics for book 8 of the series, Ghost Worlds.  I’ve got a lot of film reviews I have to get through this week, so I’ll probably take a short break from writing to get caught up on those and then start on the book right after the first of next month.

I am very happy to announce that book 7 of the Unseen Things series is now available!  This book is entirely devoted to the team in Scotland, though characters from the original team in Washington do make occasional appearances.

Synopsis: When they volunteered to move to Scotland to start up a new operation there, they all had their own reasons for doing it.  Some wanted to prove themselves, while others just wanted to make a fresh start.  Whatever their personal reasons were for going, they all still had the same mission, which was to free the human slaves from the Faranox dimension, explore new dimensions and to make friends wherever they could.

When they made their first journey into one of the previously unexplored dimensions however, they encountered a very hostile race that they later come to call fangtails.  Unfortunately, when they find themselves greatly outnumbered and forced to run for their lives, Jenny loses her amulet, which later ends up in the hands of the fangtail queen.  When she accidentally opens a portal and ends up in the human dimension, it takes the entire team along with the help of one of her own kind to track her down.

Eager to prove themselves after the fiasco with the fangtails, Beth, Sheryl, Martin and Dylan all head out to find a Faranox village so they can free the human slaves and bring them back home.  It was supposed to be a standard operation where they went into the village, killed the tribal leader and all of their Agaronin and then took the amulets and the slaves and headed back home.  What they found when they got there however was something entirely different than anything they’d ever expected.  They found themselves in what was called a free village, where slavery was outlawed and the humans who’d escaped from the slaver villages and made their way there were taken in, cared for and protected.  Now, with the help of their tribal leader Thayelle,  a plan is set into motion to eliminate slavery entirely from the five surrounding villages, so Thayelle and her people can live in peace and the human slaves can be brought back home.

You can purchase the book right here through the official site and get it in three different formats (Epub, Kindle and PDF), or you can get it from Amazon or Smashwords. Once Smashwords sends it out for premium distribution, it’ll be available on a variety of other sites as well.

So I’ve just completed the initial story for Trackers, which is book seven of the series.  Last night I started the proofreading and editing process and I should have it finished up and published by the end of the week if I don’t hit any snags.  The next book in the series is going to be called Ghost Worlds and will likely combine story elements involving both of the teams in Washington and Scotland.  Trackers was devoted entirely to the team in Scotland, though characters from Washington do make brief appearances through webcam chats and such.

This is also officially the longest book in the series.  I’m only half of the way through proofreading chapter one and I’ve already broken the 100k word mark.  Most of the books in the series fall in roughly the mid 90k range.

Anyway, back to proofreading, which is something I actually hate doing because it’s like re-reading a book you just read, only in this case…I wrote it. 🙂

I wanted to post a quick update here since I haven’t posted one in a while.  I just finished writing chapter fifteen of book seven of the series.  Just one more chapter to go and then I can start the proofreading and editing process.  I’m anticipating having the book out in another week or so, after which I’m going to take a short break from the writing so I can spend some time marketing the series, which I haven’t done at all yet.  My plan’s always been to get a good number of books out there so people could really dive into the series and have a lot of material to read through from the get go.  Well I think seven books constitutes a “good number of books”, so I guess it’s time to start really trying to get the word out.  Unfortunately, that’s just part of being a self-published author.  If I had an agent and a deal with a publisher, the publisher would be taking care of the marketing and such for me.  Oh well…wish in one hand… 🙂