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Indentured Bonds, the first novel in the Lovelys' Family Tree series, is finally here!

The Kindle book is on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08S7FPFF4

The paperback and Hardcover will be available by the 20th of this month.

The last book, Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop, of the Herring Cove Road series is finished and now up on Audible, Amazon and Apple.

Audible
https://www.audible.com/pd/Before-Her...


Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Before-Herring...

Apple
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/...

The audiobook of Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue is now available on Amazon, Audible and iBooks. It's using a new narrator who will also be narrating the final volume in the series.

The last audiobook of the series, Before Herring Cove Road, will be released no later than November of this year.

And,... the first novel, tentatively titled (The First Generation) Indentured Bonds, of the new series, tentatively titled The Lovelys' Family Tree, is currently going through a harsh rewrite of the third draft and should finally be released by late November. It's been two years in the making and I'm starting to feel truly good about it.

Well will you look at that! I completed something this month. The hardcover version of the Herring Cove Road series is up on all the retailers' websites, though I noticed the Canada and Australia prices are much more than they should be and will be looking into it.

With the first draft of the first novel in my new series almost finished, I’ve decided to further delay the third audiobook of the Herring Cove Road series. I apologize for the delay, but I feel the new book deserves my full attention due to it being almost two years in the works. Once it’s finished, it will take almost three months more to edit, proof and have the cover designed before releasing.

Mike

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The second audiobook in the Herring Cove Road series has been released today! Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death is now available at Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Still-Herring-...

I've finally caved in and changed the subtitle of On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Jew and the Goy Boy to On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety. After doing a search and seeing people taking the the title as being racist, I decided it was best to make the change. Originally meant as tongue-in-cheek since the title is explained in the third chapter by nine-year-old Dewey's confusion, my error as the writer of the novel seems to be that readers wouldn't get the innocence of the subtitle unless they first read the book.

I had to give the subtitle some serious consideration before committing to its audiobook, which is coming out this next week.

I'm hard at work on a new character-driven series to be called The Lovely American Family Tree. It starts with a first generation British Immigrant, William Lovely, who comes to Virginia as an indentured servant, and each other novel in the series continues to follow the family tree for the next nine generations. Though the plotting out of the ten-novel series is not yet completed, the writing of the first novel, Indentured Love, has begun. The series starts in the early 1700s and some of the prominent characters will make appearances in only one novel while others, like William Lovely, will make appearances over several. And, instead of labeling each novel in the series with a volume number, they'll be labeled by generation.

Oh, and there will be a very, very surprising revelation, which may make your jaw drop, at the end of the series -the tenth generation's novel.

I'm hoping to have the first novel completed and released by November of this year.

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