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Catching Up

2025-04-11 / / 4 Comments

It’s been a while since my last post, and I apologize. But we spent over a month in the Caribbean in the January-February timeframe and I’ve been busy.

I’m doing something I’ve never done before: writing three books simultaneously. Why? Because I like to be productive even when something in a book’s plot isn’t working and I’m stuck until I figure it out. And lately I’ve been stuck a lot for some reason.

So, what are those books? First, there is Imperial Rogue (Ashes of Empire Book 7), then there’s The Cost of Treason (Constabulary Casefiles Book 5) and finally, the first in a new series, set in a different universe, that of the Thousand Worlds, Coins for the Dead.

The first two sit at one-third completion, while the third is only at 10%. None of the books will be published before the summer, alas.

You can see the covers here https://www.thomsonfiction.ca/upcoming-books.php

And that’s all I have to share on this gray, rainy April day in the Great White North.

Stay safe, fellow humans.

Happy New Year!

2024-12-31 / / 0 Comments

“May green be the grass you walk on,

May blue be the skies above you,

That pure be the joys that surround you,

May true be the hearts that love you.”

And may the coming year be better than the last.

Merry Christmas!

2024-12-24 / / 1 Comment

“May peace and plenty be the first

To lift the latch at your door

And happiness be guided to your home

By the candle of Christmas.

God’s blessings and peace be yours throughout

This New Year.”

Another year has gone by, and gone by fast. Time seems to be accelerating, the older I get. Perhaps it’s the notion most of it has already passed that makes it feel so. Oh well…

In other news, it looks like there will be a seventh Ashes of Empire adventure after all. I toyed with a new series set in the same universe, a few years after Imperial Dawn but in the end, it didn’t gel. So now I’m re-working the concept as Imperial Rogue – Ashes of Empire #7. It’ll feature some of the folks from Imperial Dawn like Norum and DeCarde reprising their roles. When will it be out? Likely not before late April or early May.

And now, peace fellow humans. Stay safe, stay healthy, and enjoy the season.

Violent Fires

2024-11-05 / / 1 Comment

I’m pleased to announce that Violent Fires (Ghost Squadron #5) is out. You can get it from your favorite retailer here:

https://books2read.com/violentfires

As always, the paperback and hardcover versions will follow over the next few days. If your favorite retailer doesn’t have it yet, check again later.

I hope you’ll enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Victory and Video

2024-09-29 / / 0 Comments

I’ve sent off Violent Fires (Ghost Squadorn #5) to my editor earlier today. And that means I’ve turned my attention to my latest scuba diving trip video. If you’d like to see what we saw under water 3 weeks ago, take a look. It was a lobster trip, because we saw a lot of large, mature lobsters, but they were fun to film anyway.

Another One Bites the Dust

2024-09-02 / / 1 Comment

I realize that I haven’t posted anything in a criminally long time, but my excuse is simple — I was hard at work writing the fifth Ghost Squadron adventure, Violent Fires. And I’ve just finished! Now to the hard work of revising before it goes off to my editor, hopefully at the end of September, which would mean a late October publication date.

Here in the Great White North, summer is drawing to a close. The nights are getting fresh and the daytime temperatures are dropping. I wonder where it went. One moment, it was June with the glory of Summer ahead of us, now it’s September and the leaves are threatening to start turning any day. Another spin around the sun progressing as it has for eons, I guess.

Once my editor has Violent Fires, I will begin work on the first, so far unnamed novel in my new Imperial Rogue series, which picks up a few years after Imperial Dawn when the Second Empire and the Republic are locked in a cold war for supremacy over humanity’s scattered remnants.

Summer Update

2024-07-06 / / 0 Comments

It is clearly summer in the Great White North because I’ve eschewed long pants in favor of shorts all day long, every day, although it’s been rainy. But since I’m spending so much time behind my keyboard, it doesn’t matter.

Imperial Dawn (Ashes of Empire #6) has been out for a week now and is doing quite well. If you haven’t get snagged your copy yet, what are you waiting for? Yes, it’s the last of the Ashes of Empire series, but I’ll be starting a follow-on series to be called Imperial Rogue which will be set a few years after Imperial Dawn. It will feature the adventures of an agent of the Second Empire as he does roguish things across the galaxy in the service of the empire, and will look at future developments of the Second Empire and its adversary, the Republic of Lyonesse.

I don’t have a title for the first book yet, but I expect to begin working on it once the fifth Ghost Squadron adventure, Violent Fires, is out. And when will it be out? I figure sometime in late September. I have a third of it written so far. That means the first Imperial Rogue story could potentially hit the shelves in early 2025.

And that’s all the news fit to share! Stay safe and healthy, fellow humans.

Finally!

2024-05-09 / / 0 Comments

I’ve finally finished writing Imperial Dawn. And mightily glad I am to have done so. For some reason, it was the most difficult of my stories to write so far. And it will be the last installment in the Ashes of Empire series. But don’t fret, I’m planning a new series called Imperial Rogue that will be set a few years (decades?) after Imperial Dawn and will feature the adventures of Harry Paget, agent of the empire, as he gallivants across human space, fixing things and getting into trouble.

Imperial Dawn will likely come out in late June and that’s driven by the fact that my editor won’t be available until the second week of June even though I’ll have completed my revisions by the end of this month.

Stay safe and healthy, fellow humans

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