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New releases, works in progress, and the stories behind the stories.
Isn’t the highlighted artwork great? For the last several years, Elias Stern has produced the art for all of my science fiction works. The scene above is from the Xandarj star system where AJ and friends have taken on a giant old ship turned junkyard. And to avoid spoilers, that’s about all I can tell […]
Read the storyWhen aliens threaten his country, one grumpy old vet will take the fight to the stars. Finally! Junkyard Spaceship – Junkyard Pirate #3 is available now on Audible, Amazon and iTunes. Junkyard Spaceship starts with a bang when an alien spaceship is shot down over Albert Jenkin’s junkyard home in Tucson. After rescuing the inhabitants […]
Read the storyHere’s a switch for you. I’ve recently signed two contracts with a small publisher. The first is a project where I’m co-writing a space opera adventure with Rachel Aukes. What a joy it is to work with such a talented writer. I can’t give a lot of details about this yet, but we’re about 50% […]
Read the storyIt’s an exciting time around here as we prepare for the third installment of the Junkyard Pirate series. For a variety of reasons, Junkyard Spaceship has been slow to completion. Finally, we’re through a couple of rounds of editing (thank you dear Janet and Diane) and we’re off to beta readers. With the manuscript out for beta, I’m able […]
Read the storyPrivateer Tales #19 – August, 2020 The Mendari have surrendered, that should have been the hard part. Of course when Liam and crew arrive on the Mendari home world, they find a population in crisis. The Mendari overlords have stripped the civilians of virtually everything, including their free will. With twelve-thousand new mouths to feed, […]
Read the storyI’m often guilty of burying the headline so I’ll get right to the point of this post. Today, I released Old Dogs, Older Tricks – Junkyard Pirate Book #2. To be entirely honest, I was surprised at the amount of interest Junkyard Pirate, the first book in the series, generated. Don’t get me wrong, I […]
Read the storyAs a Crow Flies is a short story in the Witchy World series. The story takes place several years prior to Wizard in a Witchy World and gives us some insight to Maggie and Felix’s unusual relationship. The entire presentation is only four minutes long. I enjoyed the process and I hope to record more […]
Read the storyOne of the joys of being a full-time writer is the location freedom it offers. After writing for most of the morning on Thursday, Janet and I packed up the camper and started north into the pan-handle of Nebraska. Happily surprised by some of the best roads we’ve pulled our camper on, we quickly chewed […]
Read the storyAs a semi-retired software developer and full time writer, I’ve discovered a freedom of movement that I haven’t always enjoyed. To that end, Janet and I purchased a camper and have taken this mobile writing office on the road. If you’ve been reading the Biggston Thrillers, you know that the setting is in western Nebraska. […]
Read the storyWith the exception of an annoying issue where the survey completion button didn’t tell the user they were done, the 2019 reader survey was a great success. I’ll present the data in this blog post and then in future posts, I’ll discuss how these results might shape future endeavors. First, the meta data. The survey […]
Read the storyBelow, you’ll find the first chapter in Junkyard Pirate, subscribe to my newsletter to receive updates as soon as they’re released. Chapter 1 – Junkyard “Hand me that twelve-millimeter box-end.” Albert Jenkins held his hand out behind him from where he leaned into a salvaged 1989 Subaru four door DL. The vintage Subaru was a piece of […]
Read the storyUPDATE – As of 10:30am, Judgment is live on Amazon – click here You know what they say, justice delayed is justice denied. The good news is that this doesn’t also apply to Judgment. What am I talking about? Yesterday, Thursday, May 31, I plugged away moving Judgment of the Bold into the Amazon stores. This […]
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