First Colony Returns!

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I’m so excited to share that the wait for the next First Colony book is almost over.

Dark secrets lurk among the stars. Are they ready for them?

General Connor Gates is leading a task force on the most ambitious exploration initiative to date. The crew aboard the ships are mix of military and civilian, and include his son, Ethan, who has grown into a well respected leader.

While exploring a strange alien world, the team investigating the wreckage of an alien ship is brutally attacked. The survivors barely escape and are now fighting for their lives and their sanity…including Ethan. They’ve been exposed to a dangerous contagion, and it’s going to spread.

Evidence surfaces that there are prisoners on the planet, and their fates are somehow linked to the survivors on the ship.

For Connor Gates, it’s all or nothing: rescue the people left behind and find a way to heal his son, or lose everything. But when a mysterious alien encounter presents an unthinkable choice, Connor’s decision will affect the future of humanity’s place in the galaxy.

They knew they weren’t alone in the galaxy, but no one could’ve predicted an encounter that would change all the rules.

Grab Resurgence Here!

What's next for me?

The audiobook version for Resurgence will be out by August, and Scott Aiello is onboard to narrate. I'm so happy about that. With a series that's ongoing like this I'm grateful that Scott is still available and willing to narrate these books.

I'll be working on First Colony Book 17, which I plan to release in September. I've got my summer project, and I'm thinking that —in my mind at least— I won't be anywhere sunny or pleasant.

I hope you enjoy Resurgence – First Colony Book 16. The book was a lot of fun and challenging to write. It's a process I enjoy a lot, and I'm looking forward to writing the next book.

As always, thank you for supporting my work.

~Ken

May 2020

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May is upon us and it’s time for a status update. I’ve been writing a book in a new science fiction series. I’ve mentioned it before – Acheron Inheritance. I’m about 50% through the first draft and have been enjoying getting to know a new cast of characters for this series. I was planning to release this book in June, but the plan has changed. I missed the deadline I set for myself for this book. I don’t like missing deadlines, but current events have been really distracting. I pride myself on being able to put on blinders and get to work, but sometimes I need to take them off to see what's going on in the world. Stay safe.

The new plan for Acheron Inheritance is to release the book in September, and I will try to have the audiobook ready for when the book is released. This is something I haven’t done before and requires some coordination.

What’s next for First Colony?

First, thank you for everyone who's read Insurgent. I really wasn’t sure what the response would be to that book given the current global pandemic. If you’ve enjoyed the book, please consider leaving a review.

I’ve begun planning Invasion – First Colony Book 11, and I plan to begin writing it in mid-June. I’m still aiming for a September release for book, and the audiobook will come out within two months after. If you’ve been reading the First Colony series, then you already know that events have been building to an epic showdown. I’m anticipating this book being one of the longest in the series. 

September will be the time for new releases for me.

As always, thank you for reading my work. If you have any questions for me, post them here or send me an email. I'm an avid reader too, so if you have some book recommendations for me I'd love to hear about them. I've recently read Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov and really enjoyed it.

~Ken