3 PAPERBACKS ARE GLOBALLY APPROVED!

2026-August-05

The paperback versions are approved for global distribution for:

  • Two O’Clock

  • The Town Called Family

  • Overkill by Natural causes

So far I haven’t found them on amazon or IngramSpark yet, but I think they should be available by end of the week. I’ll update again once I start to see them available on any of the distribution sites. Or when the eBooks and the hardback versions are approved, too. Hoping that this means the next two will also be approved in the next week. And the Fallen Heroes books maybe the week after that.

Currently, I’m working on a third installment in the “Fallen Heroes” universe and am planning on having the first draft done when I take PTO over the week of Labor Day (USA) - incidentally, thank the unions for PTO, Paid Holidays, and weekends. Current working title is “A Razor’s Edge”. This one will center on characters mostly from the first book, but with a different main character. I have over 30k words already written up for this one and anticipate the finished book will be in the 70-90k word range. Annoyingly enough, in working on book 3, I’ve also thought of another book’s plot for the Fallen Heroes series, but it’ll take a backseat for a bit while I wrap up a few more projects already in-progress.

Assuming I get that one done, the next PTO break will be Thanksgiving (USA) and will center on finishing up another standalone book— the genre is Urban Fantasy with a secondary plot surrounding police investigations; not murders this time, though. I already have 20k words written for that story and I think it’ll land closer to 50-60k words.

If I’m really lucky and finish both of those projects— and don’t burn myself out in the process— the end of year fortnight I take every year (End of December thru Early January) will hopefully give me enough time to finish off another longer book; currently, it’s sitting at over 82k words, but it’s maybe halfway done. I already have the cover design for that one. It’s going to be another Urban Fantasy-Adventure.

Plan for next year is to clean up and push out the rest of the Fixer novella series and wrap up the last few books in a major novel series I’ve been working on since 2022— The Problem with Wishes, a fantasy-adventure series that follows a prince whose greatest birthday wish is to have an adventure of his own— and it happens on his thirtieth birthday. It’s a reminder that you’re never too old to forge your own path.

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Why, hello there

2026-July-12

With the ‘Fallen Hero’ books out, I’ve mostly caught up on the books I finished over the past six years. I wrote them while trying to get a literary agent and, six years on, I didn’t succeed. With the rapid, unregulated rise of AI, I thought it prudent to get my works out. And with rumors around major publishing houses insisting that authors strip away ‘anything that resembles AI’ — such as the dash before this; semicolons; the use of the oxford comma, metaphor, and simile (which is ridiculous in my opinion because LLMs are trained on already published works which include those things so restricting them in future works only continuously narrows down the criteria until all that is left are sentences akin to what’s found in “See Spot Run”) — I realized that no major publishing house would even want my works unless all of my uniqueness was burned out of them.

Fuck that.

Hence the self-publishing route.

The remaining completed books are the other four Fixer novellas and one Horror-Rom-Com combo that I’m tinkering with.

I also have several in-work projects of varying word-counts that span the speculative fiction genre.

All of my books are mine alone; no AI or LLM was directly or intentionally used on any portion of the books, including the covers— most are real pictures that only had a bit of filtering applied, and the ones that are composite were done in MS Paint (without Copilot). That said, since AI has been forced into most websites and applications, I cannot say that absolutely no AI has touched these books at all— hell, spell check might use it. For example, this author site likely has some imbedded in it that, while I’m not actively seeking to use, is probably scraping the information on here.

To that end, the books themselves aren’t sold here — they’re sold through the publisher site Lulu.com and the buttons on the catalogue entries are to the projects on that site. Most are up for global distribution, so, eventually (around 6 weeks, if I got everything right) they’ll reach major distributors like amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Ingram.

For indie bookstores and libraries, though, I’d like to point you to the Wrapped Hardcover versions of my books. I intentionally kept them off of the global market so I could put the price low; hopefully low enough to provide a healthy profit margin.

So, anyway - fuck AI. Call me a Luddite if you want, and, knowing the history behind the label, I take it with pride. More to come, eventually. I work full time so I can only write as my limited free time allows. Thank you, sincerely, for any purchases you make.

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