You know, all the recent TL/DR complaints got me to thinking… as a novelist I’m really not serving the impatient, entitled, short attention span, functionally illiterate, community nearly as well as I should. So I’m going to produce TL/DR versions of all my novels. Here are the first books of each series-

Monster Hunter International – An accountant shoots monsters, then shoots more monsters, and then shoots different kinds of monsters.

Son of the Black Sword – An Indian guy who might be autistic forgets a bunch of stuff then remembers it. Also there is stabbing.

Academy of Outcasts – Like this kid wants to be a wizard or something, but there’s a shark, and the shark might be autistic.

Servants of War – This kid who is not autistic but needs glasses gets to drive a giant robot with magic. Also lots of rats eating people.

Gun Runner – A different kid drives a different giant robot, only it isn’t magic. And the space ship captain is based on Nick Searcy.

Dead Six – Its like a buddy cop show only they aren’t buddies or cops and there’s a lot of shoot outs in two different deserts.

Lost Planet Homicide – Now this one has buddies who are cops but the shoot outs are in a big cave. It’s like Space Bosch, but not Space Justified, because the character based on Nick Searcy is in a different one.

The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent – honestly, the title should be enough for you. Also there is a manatee.

Into The Storm – I don’t know. This was someone else’s universe, but I got to write about the Dirty Dozen only with mad science lightning swords.

American Paladin – Have Gun Will Travel but for the guy who shoots Aztecs from another dimension, like if the Punisher was a cowboy.

There you go. If you functional illiterates made it this far you owe me 80 cents for each of those summaries. I take Venmo.

A brief update-

Right now I’m working on MHI. Specifically the collaboration with Les Johnson for another memoirs book involving space aliens.

In the immediate queue I’ve got Academy of Outcasts #3, MHI #9 (Monster Hunter Trespass), and then American Paladin #2.

I just finished the edits for American Paladin. My next releases are the Monster Hunter Files 2 anthology of short stories in March, Magic & Bullets (Academy of Outcasts #2) in May, and I believe American Paladin is also May.  

My current releases are Heart of the Mountain which just came out in audio, and Dust Sacrifice (the AmPal graphic novel) is shipping now.

There are other collabs also in the works, Jason Cordova is working on the sequel of Monster Hunter: Fever, and Steve Diamond is working on the sequel to Servants of War. There is also going to be a graphic novel adaptation of Gun Runner (and the art for it looks amazing).

Trying to balance all this stuff, my original plan was to write MHI #9 and #10 (Omega) back to back to complete the Owen storyline, but I don’t know if I’m going to be able to do that as I’m not good at spending too much time working on one setting, and I really need to nail that ending.

Before the FAQs (I get these same questions every time I do an update post), would I like to write more Grimnoir, Tom Stranger, and Lost Planet Homicide? Absolutely. I just don’t know when that’s going to get squeezed in yet. Will there be more MHI universe after Omega? Yes. That’s just the end of Owen’s story arc that began in MHI, but as demonstrated by things like Alpha, Nemesis, Guardian, and Memoirs there are plenty of others stories to tell there. And sadly no, there will not be more Malcontents ever, because that’s out of my hands, I don’t own that IP, that was work for hire.

And the worst frequently asked question of all (which is really more of a perpetual whine) here’s my perpetual answer: I’m terribly sorry that I’m working on (the series you despise) rather than (the series you love) and yes, even though I claim to write different things at different times for logical business or creative reasons you don’t grasp, in reality writers are like those soda machines with a hundred flavors and you just push the button you want and wonderful stories effortlessly come out super fast on demand, so clearly I am only writing books in this order because I am cruel and spiteful against you personally, even though I don’t know you at all. Cool? Run with that.

The audiobook is finally here!

Heart of the Mountain

That’s it, the series is done. This is the last thing we’ve been waiting for. Hell yeah! 😀

I got the edits back for American Paladin. Working on those now. Due this month.

Then I’ve got the MHI Memoirs collab with Les Johnson waiting for me. Hoping to be done with that by the end of the year.

Then it’s back to regular MHI for #9, MH Trespass, followed by Academy of Outcasts 3.
Jason Cordova is working on the sequel to Fever and Steve Diamond is working on the sequel to Servants of War.

Academy of Outcasts is in stores tomorrow, and available in eBook, Kindle Unlimited, and audio.

All Oz Carnavon ever wanted was to become a master mage.

Except, to do so requires the natural gifts or wealth necessary to secure an appointment to one of the prestigious magical academies in the Core City at the center of the seven realms. Oz had neither.

He was born without magical talent, serving in the elemental plane of fire, a nightmarish hellscape of treacherous lava and vicious monsters, where life is cheap, and escape is rare. But Carnavons never give up.

When Oz fakes his death to get out of his family’s contract and crosses the Nexus gate to sneak into the Core, everything seems to be going according to plan… Until he gets blamed for an assassination attempt on the fire realm’s ambassador.

Now, Oz must become a fugitive in a vast magical city, while trying to earn a place among the magical academies which have nothing but disdain for his kind. And the clock is ticking, because in one week, the most dangerous wizard in the realm of fire is coming to track him down and drag him back to hell.

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This was a really fun story to write. It’s my first foray in the Progression Fantasy genre, and it came out really well. In fact I was enjoying myself so much that I went ahead and wrote the second book as soon as I finished the first one. I almost never do that.