Life of a Miner – Chapter 08 – Weight of Dishonesty
Below, you’ll find Chapter Eight of the Life of a Miner short story. If you’re interested in reading the chapters as they’re released, please subscribed to my newsletter. artwork by Roberto Gabriel Garcia Chapter 8 - Weight of Dishonesty "Priloe, could you come...
My Favorite Place
I often talk about my sister, Diane, who is both an editor for Privateer Tales and Witchy World as well as the creator and writer of the highly successful Bellingwood series. Not quite as often do I mention my other sister Carol, who also helps out with my books as a...
Foundry – If Merrie can do it …
In 'A Matter of Honor', one of the pivotal moments in the text was when Merrie and Amon decided to ignore the status quo and build their own steel foundry, or Tatara Furnace. It wasn't as if Merrie invented the idea, simply that she recognized the value it brought and...
Life of a Miner – Chapter 07 – Theft
Below, you’ll find Chapter Seven of the Life of a Miner short story. If you’re interested in reading the chapters as they’re released, please subscribed to my newsletter. Chapter 7 - Theft "Hey, get away from there," Merley broadcast over the public comm channel....
Life of a Miner – Chapter 06 – Will-O-Wisp
Below, you'll find Chapter Six of the Life of a Miner short story. If you're interested in reading the chapters as they're released, please subscribed to my newsletter. Chapter 6 - Will-O-Wisp "I thought you said there was plenty of fuel left," Ulran said as Merley...
Life of a Miner – Chapter 05 – Scuttled
Below, you’ll find Chapter Five of the Life of a Miner short story. If you’re interested in reading the chapters as they’re released, please subscribed to my newsletter. Chapter 5 - Scuttled "Clean up those lines and we'll head in. It looks like you have a nest of...
Wizard in a Witchy World Cover Reveal
Artist Silviya Yordanova, an extremely talented digital artist, has put together this one of a kind cover. This cover is a change from my other covers in that Silviya does all of her work by Photoshopping images. That is, she combined about fifteen images, blended...
Rookie Privateer Audio Book Available
Rookie Privateer Audio Book Available Today, I'm extraordinarily pleased to announce that Rookie Privateer Audio Book is available on both Audible as well as on iTunes. While producing an audio book isn't nearly as taxing as writing the book in the first place, I...
Life of a Miner – Chapter 04 – Never Judge a Book
Below, you'll find Chapter Four of the Life of a Miner short story. If you're interested in reading the chapters as they're released, please subscribed to my newsletter. Chapter 4 – Never Judge a Book Priloe hadn't thought he'd be able to sleep, but no sooner had he...
Life of a Miner – Chapter 03 – Safety Training
Below, you'll find Chapter Three of the Life of a Miner short story. If you're interested in reading the chapters as they're released, please subscribed to my newsletter. Chapter 3 - Safety Training "I think you're ready for an ore-sled," Silver announced. Sterra's...
That’s not a Corvette
I just had a nice long phone conversation with a reader / beta-reader about some of the more technical details of utilizing military vernacular for many of the things in Privateer Tales. Specifically, I was trying to come up with a rank structure that was easier for...
Life of a Miner – Chapter 02
Below, you'll find Chapter Two of the Life of a Miner short story. If you're interested in reading the chapters as they're released, please subscribed to my newsletter. Chapter 2 - Educator "You're getting better," Silver encouraged. "Big Pete is particular about his...
Rookie Privateer Audio In Production
Finally, Rookie Privateer Audio Book is in production. I've been holding off announcing the narrator until I was actually to the point of no return. Drum roll please... I ended up selecting Mikael Naramore as the narrator. Not only did you all select him as the top...
Writing Goals for 2016
I belong to a number of writers groups and a common thread right now is setting writing goals for 2016. For me, this is a particularly valuable process. I've found in my life that where I set goals, I strive to meet them and where I don't, well... I don't. To...
Life of a Miner
As a writer, I have an interest in experimenting with different ways to deliver stories. 'Life of a Miner' is one of those experiments. Over the next several months, I'll write this story one chapter at a time and deliver it via email before and...
War Council Chapter – Missing Text
In each of the manuscripts we've delivered, there have been grammatical errors. It's not for lack of work on our part, it's just part of what you sign up for when you produce a work with a hundred thousand or so words. What is unusual is when we actually drop a few...
A Matter of Honor – Released
December 3rd, 2015 A Matter of Honor will be generally available on Amazon. Instead of giving you more marketing text about how much fun this is going to be, I'm including the start of Chapter 2. Yeah, you read that right. I'm not giving you Chapter 1 because it gives...
Privateer Tales – 99 cent sale
On the eve of the release of the much anticipated A Matter of Honor, we're giving away Rookie Privateer and Parley and reducing Fool Me Once to 99 cents. You read that right, for 99 cents you can get started on the highly successful Privateer Tales series. Privateer...
Rookie Privateer Audio Book Auditions
I need your help! I'm working on a project to record an audio production of Rookie Privateer for Audible, iTunes and Amazon. Below, there's a poll where you can click on my favorites (we had 25 actors audition for this work). Please click on the links and listen to...
A Matter of Honor
It's an exciting time around here as we prepare to release 'A Matter of Honor (Privateer Tales #9). I skipped writing a short story between novels and jumped right to the good stuff, that is 'A Matter of Honor' is a full length novel and should be available well...
Out of the Tank – Liam’s perspective
When I originally started writing Out of the Tank, I'd thought it was a story about how Liam felt about how Tabby's recovery from the events of Smuggler's Dilemma. As I was writing it, I realized that I'd much rather write it from Tabby's perspective. The following is...
Amazon’s Amazing Quality Control
I discovered something very cool about Amazon kindle books yesterday. There's a feature where a reader can report a word that is incorrectly used or mis-spelled. One of the hardest things about quality control is finding where I've used a homonym (sounds the same,...
Busy Summer as a Science Fiction Writer
In the future, when I look back at the Summer of 2015, I know I'll remember it as a whirlwind. On top of releasing Out of the Tank and Buccaneers, my only daughter was married, my youngest son was also married and my eldest son's wife gave birth to my first grandson....
Out of the Tank nearing release
The drought is over and we're finally getting to the fun part where we announce our new books. Privateer Tales #7, is Out of the Tank. And who do you think that copper haired beauty is standing in the medical bay? You'll have to read the book it to be sure, but I'm...