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June 14, 2024
New Dagny Gray Book Comes Out Next Week
April 17, 2024
Book 3, June 18, pre-order now
June 4, 2021
So what’s the deal with the third book?
A number of you have been asking about the third book, which I finished writing a year and a half ago. Here’s the deal … Borderline Insanity didn’t sell well enough, so the publisher didn’t want to continue the series. (I get it … when you’re publishing Dean Koontz and Patricia Cornwell, my numbers are going to seem puny, and why not concentrate efforts on things with more mass appeal?) It’s a shame, because I’m very proud of Borderline Insanity, and very proud of the new one too.
I’m not shopping the third book to other publishers because my sense is that no one wants to buy a book mid-series if they can’t control the whole series. There are two options at this point:
1. People who want more Dagny Gray books can let the publisher of the first two, Thomas and Mercer, know that they’d really like them to publish more in the series. Maybe tweet at them. Maybe leave Facebook comments. Leaving reviews on Goodreads and Amazon can help a ton too. If there’s enough demand, maybe they change their mind.
2. I will try to publish it myself, but this will require time for editing, cover art, formatting, audio-recording, etc., that I don’t have right now, so this option will take some time.
I’m sorry about this–I really want you all to see what’s happened to Dagny and the gang.
So what’s the deal with the third book?A number of you have been asking about the third book,...
A number of you have been asking about the third book, which I finished writing a year and a half ago. Here’s the deal … Borderline Insanity didn’t sell well enough, so the publisher didn’t want to continue the series. (I get it … when you’re publishing Dean Koontz and Patricia Cornwell, my numbers are going to seem puny, and why not concentrate efforts on things with more mass appeal?) It’s a shame, because I’m very proud of Borderline Insanity, and very proud of the new one too.
I’m not shopping the third book to other publishers because my sense is that no one wants to buy a book mid-series if they can’t control the whole series. There are two options at this point:
1. People who want more Dagny Gray books can let the publisher of the first two, Thomas and Mercer, know that they’d really like them to publish more in the series. Maybe tweet at them. Maybe leave Facebook comments. Leaving reviews on Goodreads and Amazon can help a ton too. If there’s enough demand, maybe they change their mind.
2. I will try to publish it myself, but this will require time for editing, cover art, formatting, audio-recording, etc., that I don’t have right now, so this option will take some time.
I’m sorry about this–I really want you all to see what’s happened to Dagny and the gang.
April 13, 2019
Very cool Instagram post from the Sioux Falls library system.
Very cool Instagram post from the Sioux Falls library system.
February 23, 2019
Third Draft Done
I finished the third draft of the next Dagny Gray thriller. Next, I’ll get some feedback from friends, polish it, and send it off to the agent.
January 4, 2018
The first draft of the next Dagny Gray book is finally done.
The first draft of the next Dagny Gray book is finally done.
December 4, 2017
June 14, 2017
In Chapter 38 of The Bubble Gum Thief, Dagny Gray wakes up in...
In Chapter 38 of The Bubble Gum Thief, Dagny Gray wakes up in the field at the Del Ray YMCA in Alexandria. This is the same ball field where a mad man fired upon Congressmen, staffers, and officers today. My girlfriend (now wife) and I used to go the that Y, and we crossed through these fields regularly. She lived two blocks from the YMCA. I gave Dagny a home just down the street because I knew and loved the neighborhood. You won’t find any other neighborhood this unbelievably quaint so close to D.C.–it has a real small town feel, even though it’s very close to the Metro and a stone’s throw from Old Town.
My thoughts and prayers are with the victims of today’s attack, and the neighborhood that had to witness it.
