This summer is flying by and it'll be back to school here at the end of the month. Muahahaha! I have two kids in high school so hence the evil laugh. 🙂
Moving on to more serious stuff:
Last month I released Fracture – First Colony Book 8 continuing the saga of humanity’s first interstellar colony. There's a lot that happens in this book and the return of some characters who were in the previous books.
Whenever I release a book, I’m always stunned by how fast people can read. It usually takes me at least a week or more to read a book. Yet I have people who have contacted me after they finished the book telling me how they’ve read it in one sitting. That’s both amazing and humbling for me to hear. First, that they’ve finished the book so quickly and second, that they enjoyed the book so much that it held their interest for that long. Thank you to everyone who picked up a copy of Fracture and read it. Please if you have a few minutes, leave a review and recommend to others who might like it. Word of mouth helps out so much.
After I release a book I usually get the following questions, so I figured I’d put them here along with the answers.
When is the next book in the First Colony (Book 9) series coming out? I’m currently writing it, but I expect to release it by the end of October. I’ll be posting my progress in these monthly blog posts so check back next month for an update.
When is the audiobook for Fracture – First Colony Book 8 going to be released? That’s a tough one. It usually takes about 2 or 3 months to produce the audiobook, but this one might take longer because of things outside of my control. It’s a bit frustrating when things don’t line up, but please know that one way or another there will be an audiobook version of Fracture released.
How many books will the First Colony series be? That’s another tough question. The current series arc that began with Discovery (Book 5) will be at least two more books after the current book I’m writing (Book 9). I’ve always said there are a lot of stories to tell in the First Colony universe and not all of them will be as epic in scope as the current storyline. I could see this series easily growing to be 15 books and beyond, which doesn’t account for spinoff series. I love writing in this universe and plan to write in it for a long, long time.
What else are you working on? I just finished writing a novella that will be part of a multiauthor anthology released in a few months. I’ll be revising it in the coming weeks while I’m writing First Colony Book 9. Beyond that, I haven’t decided yet. Either I will jump in and work on First Colony Book 10 (Most likely) or I will be writing the first book in a new series.
So there you have it. Thank you for stopping by. I’m going to get back to the writing.
First of all, thanks for writing the books in a very nice speed, I’m hooked up with Connor’s story, looking fwd to next stories about the colony… the story is really nice, I think here & there you can go into more details to clarify motivation of Lars for example, what did he learn from Overarrow that motivated him so strongly that they cannot be allies to colony, about their connection to the Krake, is it coming soon? But he would have told everything he knew to Connor already? Also I’m wondering if any tv show or movie talks about first colony? I hope the story gets a budget & director that is worth its value; imagine Dune & the movies that are made around it, also streaming crazy cheap production may propose a good value for you of course but I’m worried it may create something so cheap it may even stop your future readers… Anyway, good luck with 9th book, looking fwd to it, I wonder how you will tie up Dr. Evans finding out 2 best friends of Sean got her brother vaporised!! ;))
Thank you. There is nothing in the works for a tv show. Regarding Dr. Evans, should be an interesting reunion.