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This is the newsletter that went out this month. Those who subscribe receive one monthly, and I’ll sometimes include short stories or news of sales that aren’t publicized anywhere else. On rare occasions, I might send a second email in a month, if I stumble across something awesome from another author that I think my readers might enjoy.NEW RELEASE

For those of you who might have missed it, the fifth book of the Jack Dahlish series released last Friday.  Awakenings finds Jack back in San Antonio, ready to settle back into his old life.  It doesn’t take long before he’s dragged into another investigation with Nox-related complications when the mayor’s granddaughter goes missing.
The price is $2.99 for a limited time, and will be going up to the standard $3.99 next Monday.  

The sixth book, Reckoning, has been added for pre-order.  It will release on November 5th.Prime Example discountedStarting today and running through the weekend, Prime Example is discounted to $.99. (NOTE: This is no longer discounted. Only newsletter subscribers saw this when it was.)  This is the first book of my Sci-Fi Adventure series that follows bounty hunter Kole Anwynn as he tracks down the assassin who tried to kill him.  That hunt takes him to Hebat Prime, where he finds a local guide with ties to the local underworld.  Treachery and betrayal await Kole, along with a choice that he never thought to face. Will the end of his hunt be more unexpected than the beginning?Summer Solstice ShenanigansAlso, I wanted to remind you about this fantastic Urban Fantasy anthology , which released on June 21st and will only be available for a limited time.  I have a story included, which is a prequel of sorts to the Jack Dahlish books. 
Available in Kindle Unlimited, or for sale in ebook and paperback formats.More Good Stuff   Also available is the omnibus edition of the Guild Series.  This complete edition includes the four novels plus two prequel short stories that first appeared in this newsletter.  Both stories are available on my website, for those who might have already read the Guild Series and don’t want to miss out. 

   You can always contact me with the email link below, or on my Facebook page .  I love to hear from my readers.  Tell me what you’d like to see in these newsletters. 

I know I’m late posting this, but Vagabond is free this weekend. It will be available for no cost through end of day tomorrow.

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Jack Dahlish is an investigator, the kind of guy people go to when the cops can’t help. The coin he wears around his neck grants him the ability to see the supernatural creatures that live hidden among humans. When a little girl is taken from a playground in broad daylight, can he track down who (or what) might have taken her before it’s too late?

After getting the 4 book Guild Series completed and published, I thought for sure I had this whole thing down to a science…. well, except for the advertising part. That’s a whole other can of worms that is proving harder to figure out that the projects in my senior year Physics class.

Writing has proven to be the easiest part of the self-publishing process, even more so with the most recent developments. In July, I contacted a cover designer to work with me on the Urban Fantasy series I’m putting out next. They put together a cover for the first book that was pretty good. I’d give it a 7 out of 10. For the price I paid, it was fantastic.

In the middle of August, I reached out again to start work on the second cover, planning to ask for the third in September so I could have the first three books ready to put in the store for the November release of book 1. Within a week, I received the first draft of the cover. It was decent, but there were a few things I wanted to change so I sent that request off.

Then I waited… and waited… and waited. Over three weeks, I sent five messages checking in to see if there was any updates on the requested changes. Zero response. After a month, I threw in the towel and cut my losses.

I’ve found a new company to work on the covers, but to keep them cohesive I asked them to do a new cover for book one. The first draft of that cover arrived this morning, and I can’t tell you how floored I was. It was so much better than the finished cover from the previous company. So maybe this will have turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Anyway, if you’ve wondered at my month of silence, it was mostly because I was dealing with things like this. The back room stuff you never see or hear about when a book is published. It sometimes seems like there are a hundred and one tasks to complete between finishing a first draft and actually publishing the book. And every one of those tasks can be a stumbling block to slow you down.

It’s not going to stop me, and with luck it won’t even delay me that much. I’m still hoping to have Lost Souls ready to go live in late November. With luck, I’ll even have book 2 ready to go up for pre-order by the release date.

I have two prequel stories for my Guild Series among more than a hundred other stories from a multitude of authors, available to download and read at any time.. These are from a bunch of different genres – Action, Suspense, Mystery, Science Fiction, & Fantasy. In other words, there’s something here for everyone. It is available through the end of the month.

The first story is one I’ve shared before – the journey Tuya took getting from Earth up to Luna on the way to joining a ragtag crew on a freighter. The second story is about how Erik went from a Coalition navy grunt to captain of his very own Transport Guild freighter.

Check it out! I know I’ve already found a couple of stories that are making me look forward to new books to read in the months to come. No matter how many books you might have on the Kindle, there’s always room for me.

In celebration of the final book of the Guild series releasing on Saturday, Vagabond will be free all weekend. Starts Friday, so if you’ve been on the fence you can pick up a copy and see if you want to read the rest of the series!

I had a little snafu and forgot to submit the book for Kindle Unlimited when I set up the pre-order. That has been corrected, and I apologize for any frustration it might have caused.

Book 4, and the last in the series, is complete. I just have one last round of editing and the cover art, and then it will go up in the store for pre-order. I’m hoping to have it release around the middle of August.

This series has been a blast to write, and it really showed me what I’m capable of if I just throw myself into a project. I hope you’re all enjoying reading it, and I look forward to unveiling my next project in a couple of months.

If you haven’t done so yet, click the Newsletter link at the top of the page. I only send it out once a month, and you’ll get exclusive access to short stories I’m writing in the Guild universe as well as in that of my next series.

You can go here to view a large bundle of free books and stories available now. Included is Tuya, a prequel story for my Guild Series books that follows Tuya Sansar through her early days before she joined the Vagabond.

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Just wanted to let everyone know that I now have a newsletter. You can sign up from the homepage of my website. I’ll be sending the email out every month, and the first one will go out in early July.

In the newsletter – I’ll include updates on my current projects, release dates for upcoming books, special short stories and novellas that will be exclusive to my newsletter subscribers for at least 3 months, and even the occasional advance look at chapters from upcoming books.

I hope you sign up!

While doing editing on the book that I had planned to be the end of the trilogy, I realized that I had more story left to tell. It was the reason I had been feeling so dissatisfied with the ending. So… now working on book 4. It should be out in late August or early September, as long as I can get everything else lined up. I hope those of you reading the series will enjoy it.

Speaking of the series, book 2 has been out for almost two weeks now. I’ve done zero advertising on this one (saving that for when book 3 and 4 release), and I’m happy to say that I’ve still managed to sell almost as many copies as book 1. If things keep going as well as they’ve started, I might be getting a little closer to my dream of quitting the day job and going full time with my writing.