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In Defense of the Second Amendment, release week!

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Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the official release day, but it looks like it is on shelves all over the place already.

In Defense of the Second Amendment

Please do me a favor and tell your friends. I wrote this book in the hopes that it’ll help move the needle on the debate. It is for people who already believe in the 2nd, and I want to arm them with facts and help them articulate good arguments. And it is for people who are on the fence, who’ve maybe bought into the media narrative, but who are trying to get educated.

I hope it helps!

I did a dozen interviews (radio, print, podcast) already, and I’ve got 19 more scheduled so far this week.

Lost Planet Homicide 2: Ghosts of Zenith, out now

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Ghosts of Zenith is available on Audible today, and best of all, it is FREE to all Audible Plus members. AND episode 1, Lost Planet Homicide is also free, so if you don’t have either you can grab them both.

I love this series. It is my Gritty Cop Show in space. It is about one of the only honest cops on a lost colony, cut off from the rest of humanity, on a super deadly planet, where not everything is what it seems.

https://www.audible.com/series/Lost-Planet-Homicide-Audiobooks/B0BLFCYN8D?ref=a_pd_Ghosts_c1_series_2&pf_rd_p=f86336fd-97a1-4fd8-a401-0daa79693a87&pf_rd_r=AXP7TEEETAYPRTKXMB8J&pageLoadId=D5iem6Iu7Ce8RAI0&creativeId=63c141e5-3e55-4da0-897f-be8544603a1f

Check it out, I hope you like it.

FAQs!

People keep asking me when this will be in print. It is an Audible exclusive for now. My current plan with the LPH series is to do a few of these novella sized stories, and then combine them into a cohesive novel that would be in print.

For some reason people get worried that I’m not getting paid because Audible is giving it away for free. Thank you for the concern, but I’m fine. I get paid for these rather well and it is part of my contract that it would be given away to you guys for free.

Is LPH in the same universe as Gun Runner? Yes. But they take place at different times and a different part of the galaxy. In GR they talk about the dangers of gate travel and how some ships get launched off course somewhere into space to never be seen again. This story is about the descendants of one of those groups.

And since I’m talking about free books, you can still enter to win the giveaway on GoodReads where Regnery is giving away 100 copies of In Defense of the Second Amendment (which comes out in less than 2 weeks).

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/356566-in-defense-of-the-second-amendment

January 2023 Update

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2022 was a weird year. My family had some health challenges (we’re doing fine now) and the world continued to get stupider. Here’s hoping that 2023 will be slightly less stupid. Fingers crossed. 🙂

On a personal and professional level, it went pretty damned good. I spent a big chunk of December off recovering from surgery (got my deviated septum fixed from all the times I broke my nose when I was younger, and it turns out being able to breathe through your nostrils is awesome. Who knew?)

I’m eager to get back to work because I’ve got a lot of stuff on my plate.

Book Stuff

The next release is later this month, with my first non-fiction book In Defense of the Second Amendment. I’ll be posting about this quite a bit over the next couple weeks, but I’d love as much help as possible in spreading the word on this one. Please tell your friends. I’m hoping it helps people out and moves the needle on the debate.

Sometime in January or February (I think? Once it goes into audio production I don’t really know the exact date until it is listed) will be another Audible Exclusive novella. Lost Planet Homicide 2: Ghosts of Zenith. I love this series. My plan is to do a few novellas and then combine them together into a full novel.

In April Tower of Silence comes out. This is the 4th of the 5 Saga of the Forgotten Warrior novels. I love this one. I love writing Ashok. He’s one of my all time favorite characters.

In October will be Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever cowritten with Jason Cordova. The memoirs are all MHI universe stories that take place in other times and places other than the main the MHI storyline cowritten with other authors. This one is going to be 1970s California. I’m working on my part for this one now.

There is another MH Memoirs in the works that I’ll be doing with Les Johnson, but that’s a bit further out so I can’t say too much about it yet.

Last year No Game For Knights came out, as the 2nd noir sci-fi and fantasy anthology that I edited with Kacey Ezell. We are currently working on editing the stories for the 3rd one Down These Mean Streets. I don’t know the date for that yet.

Servants of War came out last year by me and Steve Diamond, and we will be doing a sequel. This one is currently in the planning phases, but then Steve will be going to work on the rough draft.

In 2023 I’m also starting the process for the next Monster Hunter Files anthology of short stories. These has been on the back burner for a while just because of how many other projects I’ve had on my plate, but the last one was crazy popular. (still one of the bestselling anthologies I’ve ever heard of). There will be more details coming on that soon.

My next solo project in 2023 I’m not quite sure yet and need to talk to Toni about scheduling. It will either be the next regular MHI after Bloodlines, the 5th and final Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, or the 1st of the new Grimnoir trilogy. I’m thinking MHI though, so this will be a very MH heavy year.

On that note, we just had Royalty Check Day which is my favorite holiday of the year, and I need to do another breakdown of my various series again, because you guys seem to find that stuff educational!

Side Hustles

I’m super happy to say that the leatherbound limited edition Grimnoir books are moving along again after Covid screwed everybody, and the paper supply fell apart, and printers went out of business, that project is finally getting finished. The Spellbounds just shipped! Up next Warbound and that’ll be done.

The MHI tabletop game is still being worked on by Everything Epic, and they should be sending out KS updates to all the backers. It is looking amazing.

The Swag store was open before Christmas and Jack and Jill Wylder shipped a ton of stuff. I’ll post an update before the next time the SWAG shop opens again. (reminder, WriterDojo supporters get a one day head start on the shop for the limited number items).

WriterDojo’s listenership has been growing steadily. We started that project to help writers out and to have fun, and I’m really happy at the reception we’ve gotten. It is actually helping! 😀

October 2022 Update

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Wow. There is lots of stuff going on right now.

Book Stuff!

In Defense of the Second Amendment

This will be out in January. This project is one that I’m really excited about, as it is my first work of non-fiction. If you’re not aware, I’m a bit of a gun guy. 🙂

I’m also happy to announce that there will be an audiobook version from Blackstone Audio. (which means it will be available pretty much everywhere you get your audiobooks). I’ll put up preorder information for that as soon as I have it.

Then coming out in April-

Tower of Silence

Tower of Silence is the 4th book in the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior. I love this book. I’m doing the final edits on it right now. There will be 5 books in this series, and I am extremely proud of it.

Seriously, this book is bad ass. I love writing Ashok. 🙂

This next book is not by me, but I’m going to promote the hell out of it because it is from my friend, CorreiaTech Marketing Daimyo, and guy who keeps this website and the WriterDojo podcast working, Jack Wylder-

An Illustrated Guide to AI Mastery

Jack goes through the various AI art programs and demonstrates what kind of prompts generate what kind of output, which artists can then manipulate and use the bits and pieces for all sorts of creative things.

Coming soon, but I don’t know the actual release date, there is a 2nd episode of Lost Planet Homicide coming to Audible, called LPH: Ghosts of Zenith. I love this series. It is my gritty cop show in space.

After I get done with the edits on Tower of Silence I will be working on Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever with Jason Cordova. (I should have already started but I’m running late on ToS because I stopped in the middle to write a gun rights book). This one is going to be a lot of fun.

There is a bunch more MHI coming. Both main series line, more memoirs (including something really neat with Les Johnson), and another MH Files anthology.

People keep asking me about more Grimnoir. Yes. There will be. The plan is to finish the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior’s fifth and final book, then start the new trilogy. So that way I wrap up a series before starting a new one.

Other Projects

WriterDojo® has turned out to be really popular, and useful for a lot of aspiring writers. Which is awesome, so we’re going to keep making them. We’re doing some testing later this week for guests calling in to see how that works out.

The Monster Hunter International tabletop miniatures game from Everything Epic is still moving right along. They’ve been sending me more artwork and miniature renders that are super bad ass. I believe they did an update last week.

The limited edition leatherbound Grimnoir trilogy which got kicked in the head by Covid after book 1, Hard Magic, shipped, is back on track, with book 2, Spellbound now at the printers. I hope to have some more news about that soon.

Gritty Cop Show I’m going to wait until after the miniatures game is fulfilled before proceeding on that. It is a fun side project, and Jack has come up with some really cool stuff for the game book, but I don’t want more than one Kickstarter hanging out there at a time if I can help it.