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	Minus Epsilon (The Earth Saga #1) 4.20 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Defiant Order (The Earth Saga #2) 4.46 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Standish (The Earth Saga) by Donald B. McFarlane (Goodreads Author), Ivan Batsalov (Illustrator) 4.38 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horizons (The Earth Saga #3) 4.44 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remnants of Empire (The Earth Saga #4) 4.37 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edge of the Vortex (The Earth Saga #5) 4.47 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Battle for Jupiter (The Earth Saga Universe #7) 4.50 avg rating — 40 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Condition Zero (The Earth Saga #6) by Donald B. McFarlane (Goodreads Author), Luke West (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terminal Frontier: The Earth Saga VIII (The Earth Saga Universe Book 8) by Donald B. McFarlane (Goodreads Author), Thea Magerand (Illustrator), Scott Pearson (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.52 avg rating — 29 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rescue: Vanuri Down: The Earth Saga Universe 4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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It’s the first of May, and we’ve got a few irons in the fire to discuss.

At the moment, there are three projects in various stages of production. Actually, technically, five.

The first up for release will be the Cryne standalone novel. This book is complete, has been beta-tested, and just waiting on me to get around to making edits. This book should be off to the editor in July and hopefully relea Read more of this blog post »

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