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WIP Thursday (Bet you thought I forgot)

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I sorta did, if I’m being honest!

I was hustling to get ‘Side Hustle Tango’ out the door because I cut the timing really close with my editor, oops!

Plus I was finishing ‘Big Ship, Lots of Trouble‘ and have started ‘Ghosts of the Past’ Plus my conference company is ramping up as conference season comes upon us.

‘Ghosts of the Past’ is proving to be quite fun. I’m really enjoying digging into Jax and Naomi’s lives.

The door that lead to the hallway beyond slid open and Rudy rolled in. The navigation droid has a steaming cup in one hand, the other folded against the cylindrical torso. He offered Jax the cup, “Here.”
“Thanks.” He took the cup. The interior door slip open and the tall British guy rushed out. He hurried through the waiting room, a single sob escaping his lips before he was out the hatch and into the hallway beyond.
“That might be a new record.” Jax said as the outer door slid closed.
Rudy’s optic sensor followed the man then turned to Jax, “She’s still making them cry?”

This book opens shortly after ‘Side Hustle Tango‘

Lift Off! ‘Here, There Be Monsters’ is Live

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Space Rogues book 8 Paperback

Today’s the day! If you pre-ordered, your copy magically appeared on your device around midnight!

If you haven’t pre-ordered, well, now you can regular order! And You should.

I’m really happy with how this one came together.

As the Beastie Boys say, “No Sleep, til Brooklyn!”

I’m almost done with my loose outline for the 3rd book of the Grand Human Empire series. I’ll be starting the first draft in a few days! If you haven’t taken a look at that series you should, I think you’ll like it :)

WIP Thursday 3/18

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I really need to put a reminder somewhere to do these posts!

Everyone places their order and the waiter ambles off, his long arms swaying as he walks.
“If we pick a name, Bennie will have a bull.” Maxim says.
“Cow.” Wil corrects.
“Aren’t the same thing?” Cynthia asks.
Wil inhales, “Oh, man.”
“I’m kidding. I’ve watched enough of your archive to know what a bull is.” She turns to Maxim, “The boy cow.”
Zephyr makes a face, “So what’s the female called?”
Wil groans, “Can we get—“ The waiter returns with their drinks. Everyone orders and the bark-skinned man departs. Wil tries again, “Can we stay on task here? We need a name. Something to hang above the door of the warehouse.”
Maxim opens his mouth but is interrupted by a commotion at another table, near the forward-most section of transparent bulkhead. The four Ghost crew members all turn to look. Bennie is fending off the rapid-fire slaps of an angry pale green Brailack woman. “You said I mattered to you!” She screams as the flat of her hand impacts the top of Bennie’s head.
Maxim winces, “That probably hurt.”

I still love the dynamic between the team no matter if it’s all of them together, or any combination of them off on separate adventures. As I work on wrapping up Space Rogues 9, I wonder where the team goes after this. There’s for sure a book 10, but then what? I haven’t decided.

We’ll see what the future holds for Wil and the crew, together. :)

Finish a Book, Get Free Beer

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Space Rogues 8 WIP – Done

So, this is a new one, and I have ZERO objections :)

Given that we’re moving into winter, and that Denver (and CO, and most of America) are racing towards new COVID-19 surges, Nicole and I went to one of our favorite breweries to do some “work from a patio, with beer,” work.

I was almost done with the first draft of “Here There Be Monsters” the 8th book in the Space Rogues series. An hour or so after we sat down, I typed “The End” and so took the above picture to celebrate, posting it to my instagram feed. Of course, being the good social media citizen I was I tagged my location, Empourium Brewing.

A few minutes later one of the staff comes out to offer virtual high fives and elbow bumps. It took me a second to realize she’d already seen my post!

We hung out for a bit more (hours and beers) then headed to our next stop (another brewery that was doing a sushi pairing!).

When the crew brought our bill out, they also gifted us a 4-pack of the beer Nicole and I were drinking!

A first for sure, and a trend I have no complaints with continuing forever. Might have to have the crew visit if they make it back to Earth again.

So anyway, that made my weekend!

Oh, by the way, I write Thrillers too.

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Island of Secrets Cover

Lesson learned, release two books really close to each other, while also running conferences, means something will not get the love it deserves.

In this case, it’s my action/adventure thriller ‘Island of Secrets‘

I decided to branch out a bit from science fiction to write something a little more down to Earth. A team of treasure hunters going where they’re paid to go to find treasures and secrets long lost.

It came out last week, go grab it if you’re a can of Clive Cussler style adventures

Release Day! A Guy Walks Into A Bar

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A Guy Walks Into a Bar

It’s here! It’s here! :)

Space Rogues 7: A Guy Walks Into A Bar is officially released! You can read it on your favorite eReader or (once Amazon gets their shit together) Paperback.

I love release day, especially now that I have a bit more idea what I’m doing. :) The book is written, edited, covered. And now people are reading it.

This one was a ton of fun to write and took a little inspiration from a guy’s trip I took to Disney World. I won’t get into the details (Spoilers!) but yeah this might be one of my favorite tales of the crew of the Ghost.

I hope you enjoy it!

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