I guess my biggest news this month is that I was shortlisted for the British Orienteering Volunteer of the Year award. I didn't get it, but being nominated was wonderful in is own right.
Something that you are probably much more interested in is that I'm gathering submissions for the next in the Scifi Anthologies series. I hope to release The Caretaker in the summer.

And here are the books you want...

When Earth gets embroiled in the middle of an intergalactic war, humanity's only hope for survival rests with a rag-tag team of unlikely heroes which includes an ace fighter pilot, a stuntwoman, a super-assassin, and an alien prankster.
Jim, a wise-cracking, OCD-suffering fighter pilot, is about to propose to his girlfriend when his friend Kurt surprises them by showing up at his house, wounded and covered in blood. This is just the beginning of Jim's woes because soon after his life is thrown into a galactic conflict that threatens the very existence of the human race.
Can our heroes save humanity from the wrath of a galaxy-conquering alien fleet?

Technical Chief "Pappy" Gunther is a grizzled, burning out commando in the United Earth Armed Forces. He ponders a return to civilian life, yet feels a strong sense of belonging to his elite team. When colonists on a far-flung world request aid, a task force from several allied systems is assembled. Pappy and his crack unit are sent to investigate, and to engage a mysterious alien force from beyond.
Talks-To-His-Spear is the warrior-caste champion of a matriarchal space empire called the Regime. Leading an army of fanatical, genetically-enhanced super soldiers, he dreams of dying in battle for the glory of his Queen. However, he’s beginning to question the motives of this new campaign, and fears that he may have to compromise his own deep sense of honor in order to fulfill his tasks.
Nobody expected the two alien cultures to have so much in common, and for friendships and alliances to form alongside rivalries. However, when Pappy discovers a rebellion spanning worlds, everything changes. The growing insurrection threatens to tear the Regim, and the galaxy, apart.

Stephanie Morgana has graduated to Protector of ALL Federation’s people.
But can she get them to all respect her? She has to go to Dreth and find out.
To pass a test, there is one more type of MU that she has to understand, without killing herself in the process.
The enemy sympathizers are working to attack Morgana on multiple fronts, not realizing that the team around Stephanie are powerful in their own ways.
The problem is Earth needs more magic users. Are there those with the right genes on Earth? If there are, do they have what it takes to step into their roles?
Will Stephanie mature into the leader the Federation, with all of their power, need her to be?
She is a MORGANA. There are no other alternatives- no matter the personal cost.

Sergeant Andrea “Andy” Dolan and her squad of Space Marines are trained to protect the ESS Alliance against all threats. When hostile aliens invade, they are the last line of defense. As conflicts intensify and unexplained abilities manifest in Andy, it becomes clear something big is on the horizon. Their only hope is the Space Marine who doesn’t even know who, exactly, she is.

After a devastating galactic war, disgraced veteran Ralston Muck ekes out a living as a bouncer at Last Stop Station’s premier nightclub, A Curtain of Stars. Night after night he listens to the club’s star performer, Siren, sing her memories and ease some of his aching loss. But when Siren goes missing, Muck finds himself drawn into a world of dirty cops, drug lords, and conspiracies that trace back to the war itself.
The only person he can trust isn’t even human. Angel, Siren’s personal AI, was ripped from the singer’s mind the night Siren disappeared. With no idea what has happened to her human host, and pursued by a killer virus, Angel flees to Muck for answers.
Together they struggle to comprehend the conspiracy that entangles both their lives. Can Muck and the angel on his shoulder recover Siren before it’s too late? Or will he lose everything that matters to him one more time?

Carmen Grey always knew she was different.
None of the other children seemed able to read minds. None of the other children were able to manipulate their toys without touching them. On the morning of her sixth birthday, three men dressed in black arrive to remove her from the loving care of her parents.
She is taken to an underground facility meant for others like her, for Clairvoyants. Stripped of her name and identity, over the years she is fashioned into something scary—something lethal. Each day is an endless struggle and every night is plagued by nightmares. Yet Carmen's ultimate battle won't be to save her life but to keep her soul.

Opal Lake's bad girl. Hope Casey's sworn enemy.
Stealing at the mall, sneaking into clubs, dating older boys, bad girl Angel Sherman was living her best life. Until a dark force takes over her town.
Angel sees fire inside heads of other people. She swears she's going crazy. The girl who warned them all is dead- Hope Casey. Angel watched her gruesome demise. But Hope left behind a precious treasure- the one thing that could help Angel soar.
Opal Lake belongs to Angel now. She and her friends dominate the streets. Until the fire and dark poison turns its sharp blades on Angel. The fun and games become a nightmare of dark forces, and there is only one way Angel flies free.

They weren't supposed to be there. It was a huge mistake.
But when a right turn put them on the wrong road, a case of mistaken identity gets way out of hand.
These fish ain't just out of water, they're up in space and getting it all wrong trying to do the right thing.
Instead of the two highly trained super soldiers the Space Force planned to send in a stealth shuttle to infiltrate, evaluate and rescue, Carver and Dawes are bundled up in suits and shot into outer space to save the world.

Captain Quasar is out of time.
Pursued by vengeful Goobalob toll collectors, savage Arachnoid bounty hunters, and formidable Amazonians, Captain Bartholomew Quasar must do whatever he can to keep the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude out of harm's way.
All in a day's work—except time is not on his side.
Torn from the present to relive his past, he vows to keep mistakes from occurring the second time around. But is he doomed to repeat history? Or can he erase his regrets?
Villains will be vanquished. Lives will be lost. Bonds will be betrayed. Heroes will be heroic. Join the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude for a hilarious time-travel space adventure the likes of which you've never seen!

When your worst enemy has your back ... you know the mission is doomed from the start.
Sergeant Osu Sybutu of the Legion had a simple mission. Take five men and travel unobserved to a location in the capital where he would deliver a coded phrase to a contact. Simple, that is, except for the fact that there was a war going on, and all the different factions he had to pass by on the way would cheerfully shoot him on sight. And that was only if the planet didn’t kill him first.
Militia Sergeant Vetch Arunsen’s task, however, was far more complex. Shepherd a group of hated rivals across the frozen wastes, keeping them safe from everyone who wanted to kill them, which was pretty much everyone. Including the oddball troopers under Arunsen’s own command, who would happily shoot the Legion soldiers if given the slightest opportunity.
Legion versus Militia. Joint defenders of the Federation. In theory. Their mutual loathing, however, could burn the armor plate off a battleship. For rival sergeants Sybutu and Arunsen, there’s only one way their squads could survive trekking across the iceworld of Rho-Torkis.