A new specialty press was announced today. Vault Books publishes limited and special editions, both existing books and new projects.

http://www.vaultbooks.pub/

There are two reasons I think my readers will find this of interest.

First, it was started by some real stand up guys. The people running this are awesome, and I know that they will do a fantastic job. They are going to be bringing out a lot of special collector editions of things that you already like, and have some fun new projects in the works.

Second, I can’t say what yet, but they will be announcing something of mine in the near future.

So check them out.

I realized it has been over a year since I last posted a comprehensive update of everything I’m working on or have planned. I needed to update the list of all my projects because as soon as I have a chance I’m going to redo the My Novels tab.

I just finished the edits for Monster Hunter Memoirs: Sinners from John Ringo. It will be out in December.

Today I am working on my short story for the upcoming MHI anthology. Almost every other story in there is done and they are waiting for me. And let me tell you, they are awesome. A lot of really talented people played in the MHI universe and we got some great stories as a result.

After that I will be working on MHI #6, which currently I haven’t decided on the title yet. This is a solo Owen book again. I teased where this one is going at the end of MH Legion, and in MH Nemesis when Franks offers clues about how to find the Hunters who were MIA after Las Vegas.

Sarah Hoyt is currently working on the rough draft of a collaboration called Monster Hunter Guardian, about Julie Shackleford.

After catching up on MHI (opening it up to be a shared world really complicates a universe!) I will be getting to work on House of Assassins.

Below is the list of everything I have written, what is done and on the calendar for publication, and books that are in the works with an estimated release year. On some of these they are pretty far out, so it is more of a wild guesstimate, and I still have to actually write the darn things.

The Monster Hunters Series: 

Monster Hunter International – 2009
Monster Hunter Vendetta – 2010
Monster Hunter Alpha – 2011
Monster Hunter Legion – 2012
Monster Hunter Nemesis – 2014

Monster Hunter Memoirs, spin off series with John Ringo

Grunge – coming August 2016
Sinners – coming December 2016
Saints – projected 2017

Upcoming:

Monster Hunter Anthology – 2017 edited with Bryan Thomas Schmidt, (featuring stories from Jim Butcher, Jonathan Maberry, Faith Hunter, Jessica Day George, Jody Lynn Nye, Mike Kupari, Steve Diamond, Maurice Broadus, John C. Wright, and more)
Monster Hunter #6 – Projected late 2017
Monster Hunter Guardian, with Sarah Hoyt Projected early 2018

The Grimnoir Chronicles 

Hard Magic – 2011
Spellbound – 2012
Warbound – 2013

I currently have plans for another Grimnoir trilogy set in the 1950s. However, that is far enough out that I do not have an estimated date. If you want a preview of this trilogy though, check out the short story Tokyo Raider.

The Dead Six Trilogy with Mike Kupari

Dead Six – 2011
Swords of Exodus – 2013
Alliance of Shadows – Coming October 2016

Saga of the Forgotten Warrior

Son of the Black Sword – 2015
House of Assassins – Late 2017/early 2018
Destroyer of Worlds – estimated 2018

Warmachine

Into the Storm – 2014
Into the Wild – 2016
Into the Dark – estimated 2018

I have also mentioned some other book projects that I’m working on, but they are far enough out that I am hesitant to put them down here because they keep getting bumped back for other paying work. That’s the way things go though. For example, I had the idea for Son of the Black Sword clear back in 2010.

Peacemakers – ? (the reality TV book)
Big Science Fiction Project – ?
The Revenge Novel – ? (only Toni and Bridget know about this one!)
Top Secret Project N – ? with Jack Wylder

I found out while I was at LibertyCon that I am on the short list for the Gemmell Legend Award for best fantasy novel.

www.gemmellawards.com

Voting for the short list is now open to everyone. The information is at the link above.

This is an honor because there were a lot of fantastic authors on the long list. The other finalists on the short list are Miles Cameron, David Guymer, John Gwynne, and Mark Lawrence. Of those the only one who I have read is Lawrence, but he is damned good. The man has skills. I’ve not read the book in question, but I loved Prince of Thorns.

I look forward to checking out the others, and I wish all of them the best of luck.

But more important than us writers, Larry Elmore is up for best artist (the Ravenheart Award). Because Larry Elmore is a living legend, and the nicest guy you will ever meet, I really want him to win.

I had not read any Gemmell novels until a couple of years ago. I was on book tour at the University Bookstore in Seattle, and Duane (every author who has signed there knows who I am talking about) was comparing my style to David Gemmell’s style. I said I had not read him yet, and Duane was like WHAT? And immediately gave me a copy of Wolf in Shadow to combat my cultural ignorance.

I’m glad he did, because it was really bad ass, and I read it on the next couple of plane rides. Then I related this story to Pat Tracy at Writer Nerd Game Night when I got home and his response was something along the lines of You Haven’t Read Gemmell Before WTF is WRONG WITH YOU!? (as he shook me violently, and Pat does Strongman competitions for fun)

So basically, Gemmell’s books are awesome. Don’t be a cultural ignoramus like I was most of my life, and go buy some of them.

DragonCon is an legendary sci-fi convention held every year in Atlanta. It is a 60,000 person party that takes over four city blocks for a weekend. And it isn’t a stuffy, literati snoot-fest. It is Nerd Mardi Gras. The whole city turns out for the costume parade. And at night every college student in the southeast crashes the place. It is young, vibrant, energetic, and frankly a little crazy. Nobody gives a crap if you are having fun wrong, just that you are having fun.

And this year they have started their own fan awards. http://awards.dragoncon.org/

These awards are open for anybody who loves fantasy and sci-fi to vote. There’s no membership fee. It doesn’t cost anything. They just want as many fans as possible to participate.

This weekend I was at LibertyCon, and I ran into one of the organizers of the Dragon Awards. He said that he was kind of surprised that he hadn’t seen me talk about them online much. I told him that was because of Sad Puppies, I’m a controversial figure, there are just too many bitter harpies and poo flingers from fandom’s inbred pustulent under-choad who automatically flip out about anything I do, so I didn’t want to rock the boat for them.

But his response? Screw that. This award is for ALL FANS. And you have fans. So GO BUG THEM! We want so many people voting in this thing that no little clique or faction can sway it. The more fans involved, the better.

(an attitude that demonstrates why DragonCon is awesome)

There is no *gasp that outsider author dared to talk to his enthusiastic fans rather than suck up to our cliques discreetly* nonsense. Come to the Dragon Award and fly your wrongfan flag proud.

So if you’ve not already, go click that link and nominate your favorite things. Let’s flood this sucker! Tell your friends. Share the link. Spread the word. This award isn’t for a small clique to take turns telling each other how brilliant they are. This award is for all of fandom to celebrate what they think is great.

Now me personally, I’m a little biased. 🙂  I voted for Son of the Black Sword for best fantasy.

(apparently so did a bunch of you for a different prestigious award, but that is tomorrow’s blog post!)

There are categories for military sci-fi and fantasy too, a category that sells piles of books, but traditionally doesn’t get much love from awards. There is also a category for horror, which I think is fantastic, because there is a ton of crossover between fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, and most of us read all of them. And since it is like the biggest thing in the bookstores, they’ve got a Young Adult category, and all I can say to that is about damned time!

So let’s go tell all our friends, and make the 1st annual Dragon Awards as big as possible.

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EDIT: This is the first year so they’re working the bugs out of their system. Some people who signed up early had a technical problem where they didn’t get the response email. If you’ve not got a response from the help email there, post in the comments here and I’ll give a heads up to the admin.

I got a late start on this one! It was supposed to have been posted last night. Shoot.

This month’s Book Bomb is Awful Intent by Super Author John D. Brown.

For those of you new to Book Bombs, the goal is to get as many people as possible to buy an author’s book on the same day. The more books sell, the higher it gets in the rankings, the more new people see it. If it is something that you would be interested in reading anyway, getting it the same time as a bunch of other folks pushes it up in the ratings, which means more publicity, exposure, and new fans. Success breeds success, and a good Book Bomb can get an author hundreds of new fans. We steer people toward Amazon for this because it is big, has lots of eyes on it, and has an constantly updating sales rank, but if you prefer to purchase somewhere else go for it, because the most important thing is that the author GETS PAID.

So please spread the word and tell your friends.

Awful Intent
(Frank Shaw Book 2)
Kindle Edition
by John D. Brown

John is one of the best authors I know. The dude has mad skills. And he was one of the guys who really helped me out when I was getting started. We toured together (on our own dime!) The man is a brilliant story teller.

Now this one is a little weird because Awful Intent is the sequel to Bad Penny. You don’t need to have read Bad Penny first, but John has tweaked the prices for this BB so that Bad Penny is only 99 cents! If you’ve not picked up Bad Penny, you should, because it is awesome. (and I am a character in it) 🙂

Because I screwed up and didn’t get this up last night (A thing with my kids ran long, and I got home and forgot, my bad) and Amazon has added a longer delay, we probably won’t see an uptick in numbers until this late this afternoon.

As of right now we are at:

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

• #420 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Crime > Vigilante Justice
• #544 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Spies & Politics > Terrorism

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,920 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

• #52 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Crime > Organized Crime
• #64 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Crime > Vigilante Justice
• #107 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Suspense > Political
  

Edit: Jack Wylder here- Larry had to unexpectedly drive out to the west desert of Utah and back so he asked me to update the numbers and offer his apologies…

Current ranking:
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#34,184 in Books
#244 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Crime > Vigilante Justice
#274 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Spies & Politics > Terrorism

#869 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#4 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Crime > Organized Crime
#7 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Crime > Vigilante Justice
#14 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Suspense > Political

So even with a late start, we still brought him up 80,133 in overall book rankings. Once again, the Monster Hunter Nation comes through. Full update from the ILoH to follow…