First Colony is back!

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The wait for the next First Colony book is almost over. Pre-order for the ebook is now available.

Stranded thousands of light-years from home, General Connor Gates faces the brutal reality: their battered ship is failing, supplies are dwindling, and home is an impossible distance away.

Their only hope lies with a mysterious alien prisoner who offers a dangerous bargain—freedom in exchange for guidance to an ancient outpost with technology that could save them all.

Their voyage plunges them farther into uncharted space, where every shadow hides peril. 

The Forsaken Outpost, a massive relic adrift in the dark, hints at a galaxy far grander—and more treacherous—than they ever dreamed. 

In this gripping sci-fi epic, Connor must navigate a crew fraying at the edges, outwit a foe who knows too much, and decode the outpost’s secrets before their time runs out. 

It’s an adventure where courage clashes with doubt and where every discovery rewrites the rules. Betrayal is almost certain, but survival demands risk—can Connor outsmart the enemy and lead his crew back home? 

Grab Forsaken Outpost Here!


The audiobook version of Forsaken Outpost will be out by 1st week of May 2025, and Scott Aiello is onboard to narrate. Less than a month after the ebook and print is released!

I hope you enjoy Forsaken Outpost – First Colony Book 18. These books are a lot of fun and challening to write. It’s a process I enjoy a lot, and I’m looking forward to writing to the next book. 

The ebook is available for pre-order and unfortunately Amazon doesn't allow me to setup a pre-order for Print or the Audiobook. Maybe one day.

As always, thank you so supporting my work. 

Ken

2024 – What a year it’s been.

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Status Update: What’s going on?

Pathfinder Audiobook should be out in the next week or so. Scott Aiello has never missed a deadline for me and I have no reason to believe that this will be any different. 

I’m currently working on Book 18 of the First Colony series, and I’m planning for it to be released by the end of March 2025. I plan to write and release two more books in 2025, and I’m leaning toward beginning a new science fiction series. I’m not ready to talk much about that, other than to say it’s been an idea I’ve been kicking around for a while. 

Does this mean the First Colony series is over with Book 18? NO! I plan to write more stories in that series, explore new characters, and revisit some older ones. Writing a long series like First Colony has been rewarding and challenging, and I’m grateful for all your support for it. I’ve been writing in this series for seven years. 

What’s next? I’ve been kicking around an idea for a new science fiction series that I’m going to pursue after I finish First Colony – Book 18. The new series is a fun concept I’ve been playing with and fits nicely into the kinds of stories that I like to write. At the heart of the series I write, I strive to write interesting characters, a clearly defined villain, and exploration that manifests in new technology, locations, or a combination of both. Intertwined in these types of books are the interpersonal relationships that the characters have.

That’s my plan for 2025. Another First Colony book, and two more books in a new series. My schedule for the next six months is as locked in as I can make it. Beyond that is the possibility for change. I never know when a story idea will show up and won’t go away, be it for an existing series or for something new. 

2024 has been a wonderful year, both for me personally and in writing books. I’m so thankful and blessed to be able to write stories for a living. Thank you for reading my work, and for reaching out to me with words of encouragement. I appreciate it. 

Happy New Year!

Ken Lozito

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