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Holy crap, but how time flies. I feel like I just finished the edits on this one, but here it is, all grown up and ready to be a real book out in the wild. It’s all the rage to describe books these days as combos of other books (and, hey, who am I to buck the trend?). So, if you’re into Firefly or the […]

Release day is here! If you’re of a mind, go check out The Company, my first foray into the Fantasy genre. It’s under a buck, so what do you have to lose?

I’m pleased to announce my new fantasy novella, now up for pre-order. You can get it on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08WR97SKJ/ and it will also be available on B&N, Kobo, etc… Here’s the “back cover” copy: The Company, Mir’s Company, is no longer the elite fighting force contracted by Dukes and Barons to win the day. Sometimes the fortunes of war break bad, and the mercenary […]

Since this is sort of a review, I suppose it’s only right to disclose that Glynn Stewart was kind enough to “blurb” ReCoil. Of course, my love of the Starship Mage series predates my completion of the that particular manuscript, but the internet is a great place to err on the side of caution. On to the review(ish)… The publishing industry, like most media, is […]

In something of a departure from my normal fare – that being Fantasy and Science Fiction – today’s “Books I Love” goes into the world of mystery. But not just any mystery – Dick Francis writes mysterious set against the backdrop of English horse racing. I know… how does someone who loves fantasy and sci-fi find themselves immersed in something that borders on a cozy […]

One of the first (and in my opinion still one of the best) examples of the military sci-fi genre, Starship Troopers pits the Mobile Infantry against the Bugs in the First Interstellar War. If you’ve seen the movie… well, to be honest, I enjoyed the movie (guilty pleasure) but it went more for an Aliens vibe than what the actual book did. But don’t let […]

Military sci-fi has always been one of my favorite genres. There’s probably a direct relation to the fact that I grew up in a military family and spent the first twenty or so years on this planet living on military bases across the world. I “grew up Army” as it were, and getting to be up close and personal to tanks, artillery pieces, helicopters and […]

Magic, dragons, swordplay, bastard princes, ancient evils, and, of course, assassins – Robin Hobb’s Farseer Trilogy has all of the elements of classic fantasy. That alone would be enough to make me love this series, but there’s so much more to these books. They tell the story of a bastard prince, raised in the shadows to be a weapon for the king – a spy […]

I don’t know what could possibly have Patient Zero on my mind these days… strange, eh? But viruses aside, Maberry’s first Joe Ledger novel is a wild ride. Ledger is a Baltimore cop going about his normal life when he gets pulled off the street by the feds. They take him to what has to be one of the strangest job interviews in fiction, where […]

Installment two of “Books I Love” is another throwback, one that helped cement my love for all things sci-fi and opened my eyes to the idea that you can take any idea, any story, and make it your own. The Star of the Guardians is a three (or four, depending on how you look at it) book series by Margaret Weis. It is, in my […]