Tom Stranger 2: A Murder of Manatees releases next week on Audible.  It is narrated by Adam Baldwin and available for preorder now.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/A-Murder-of-Manatees-Audiobook/B077K4XXKV?ref=a_a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=WSD0ACAE8C8PAWQHEH7F&

And here is the cover!

When half your galaxy is unexpectedly sucked into a black hole – when a hitherto-unknown species of space aliens lays waste to your home planet – when disaster rears its ugly head (or heads) – who can you call for faster-than-light appraisals and best-in-the-multiverse customer service? Just one man – Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent.

In this latest chapter of his interstellar exploits, Tom is about to deliver a crushing performance evaluation to Jimmy the Intern when the unimaginable happens: The beloved Wendell the Manatee has been kidnapped! Armed with his battle mechs and his elite corps of junior associates, can Tom find Wendell before he’s canned in oil? And can Jimmy, at long last, channel his inner agent?

A Murder of Manatees will make you quiver with fear, laugh uncontrollably, and wonder whether your deductibles are too high.

EDIT: This Book Bomb is postponed! I screwed up. The Book Bomb for Sins of Her Father is supposed to be in MARCH. I repeat, this Book Bomb is in March. I just talked to the author. My bad, I looked at the wrong thing. There are no ballistic missiles headed toward Hawaii. 

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I try to do a Book Bomb about every other month, but I fell way behind in 2017. But it is a new year, so here we go.

On Tuesday the 23rd I’ll be Book Bombing Sins of Her Father, by Mike Kupari.

Sins of Her Father
by Mike Kupari

The purpose of a BOOK BOMB is to get as many people as possible to buy the same book on the same day. That gets it to go up in the sales rankings on Amazon as much as possible. The higher it gets, the more eyes see it, the more new readers check it out. Success breeds success, and the most important thing is that the author GETS PAID. So please check it out, and if you like it, tell your friends and spread the word.

I use Amazon for this because it has an hourly updating sales rank and half the fun is seeing how high we can make it go, but if you want to buy it from your local store, or Barnes and Noble, or whatever, that’s great because the author still GETS PAID. And the whole point is to get a deserving author with a quality book new fans.

This is one I originally planned to do when it first came out, but 2017 kind of kicked me in the teeth, so better late than never. Mike is a great guy and a fantastic writer. Let’s get him a bunch of new readers.

I am reposting this info from November, because it kind of got lost in the shuffle with all the posts around the RPG Kickstarter.

I’m probably the only fantasy novelist who has his own line of ammunition.

The bullets for reloading purposes have been a huge hit. They are still available here: https://rmrbullets.com/…/9mm-124-gr-rmr-fmj-flat-nose-mhi…/…

By popular demand we’ve added loaded ammunition. If you’ve got any technical questions about the ammunition, please ask the manufacturer. I’m just the writer.  ????

Anti-Chupacabra Ammo

And for kicks and giggles, you can get it in a few different boxes. Collect them all.

Anti-Deep Ones Ammo

Anti-Huge (But Not Giant) Ammo

And people kept asking about silver bullets, but that means they haven’t check out silver prices lately. But they’ve done something neat there.

Experimental Anti-Lycanthrope Ammo

Here is an explanation from the company:

 Experimental AMMO! These bullet jackets are infused with a dry lubricant compound of 99.99% silver and tungsten disulfide. This ammo is still in testing against creatures with vulnerabilities to silver. If they prove to be less effective against werewolves please let us know!

After the 9mm 124 gr. FMJ FP MHI bullet, with the Monster Hunter International logo on the flat point was introduced, lots of folks have been asking for a .45 caliber version. So “Ask, and ye shall receive”! Larry gave permission to do a limited run of .45 bullets! These are .45’s just like the bullets real Monster Hunters shoot, except, well, they aren’t made of silver. If we offered silver bullets we’d have to increase the price substantially, and only real monster hunters could afford them! They still will work great for your normal, non-magical monsters, though.

You are looking at bullets from a limited run of our 230 grain FMJ Flat Nose line that include the Monster Hunter International logo stamped on it’s face. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Monster Hunter International (MHI), it is a book series written by Larry Correia. We highly recommend reading them if you haven’t already. If you’ve already read the books then you know why it’s such an awesome thing for Larry to allow us to use his logo on our bullet. Also, if you haven’t yet read the MHI books or anything else written by Larry Correia, please consider giving them a try. We love his books and I think you will too.

By popular demand Jack has added a bunch of new stuff to the MHI Swag Page including a couple of Grimnoir stickers, MCB and Special Task Force Unicorn patches, and more.  Check it out.

2017 was a busy year. Monster Hunter Siege was the biggest release I’ve ever had, and the most successful tour of my career.

The Monster Hunter Files did extremely good. Anthologies don’t sell as well as novels, but this one did fantastic.

I had short stories published in Aliens: Bug Hunt, Predator: If it Bleeds, Joe Ledger: Unstoppable, Straight Out Of Tombstone, and I think I’m forgetting another one.  EDIT TO ADD, I forgot, I had a story in the Freehold anthology, Forged in Blood.

This is what I’ve got coming out so far in 2018.

On January 23^rd, the second episode of The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent comes out on Audible. It is called A Murder of Manatees and is narrated once again by Adam Baldwin.

The mass market paperback for Monster Hunter Memoirs: Sinners, comes out on January 30^th. This is the 2^nd book of the memoirs trilogy, by me and John Ringo.

July 3^rd is the release date of Saints, the final book of the Monster Hunter Memoirs trilogy.

The mass market paperback for Monster Hunter Siege comes out April 24^th.

In September is the release of volume one of my short fiction collection, Target Rich Environment. This one is awesome. It includes some new stuff, as well as some of my favorite short stories I’ve written, which most of my fans have never seen.

Then there is the stuff that I’m working on, that I don’t have release dates for.

I’m almost done with House of Assassins, the sequel to Son of the Black Sword (2^nd in the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior). It is bad ass. I should have the rough out to Reader Force Alpha this month.

Sarah Hoyt has written the rough draft of Monster Hunter Guardian (the Julie Shackleford novel) which I will be working on as soon as I’m done with House of Assassins. It is awesome and I’m really excited to work on this.

Once I’m done with Guardian, I’ll be going back to the 3rd book in the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, which is called Destroyer of Worlds.

Gallant Knight Games is working on the MHI Savage Worlds RPG to fulfill our very successful Kickstarter. (It turns out we were in the top 20 of crowd funded RPGs).

At the same time, I’ve got multiple collaborations going on.

Steve Diamond is working on the rough draft of our Trench Warfare Fantasy.  Think WW1 eastern front, in a world with dark fairy tale magic, and instead of tanks it’s dudes in armor suits made out of dead golems.

John Brown is working on the rough draft of our Sci-Fi, space pirates novel. This is the one where all the plot elements were given to us by my son, and we outlined the whole book live at LTUE.

There is going to be a 2^nd Monster Hunter Files anthology, but this time it is going to be made up of five novellas. I’ve reached out to the authors I’m going to use, but I need to get that hammered out with them so they can start work.

I’m also co-editing another anthology for Baen, but I don’t think I can announce that one yet.

There is new stuff coming to the SWAG store, including new patches.

Also, don’t forget you can buy ammo with the MHI logo on it! J

In personal news, the Yard Moose Mountain 2 project is on hold until it thaws. In 2017 we cut the road, did the geological survey, got all the permits done, and dug a well. It was a year of infrastructure and paperwork. Once the snow melts we will break ground for the new house.

2017 was an awesome year. I’m looking forward to getting a lot done in 2018.