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New book coming!
BROTHER SERGEANT (Hospitaller Saga Book 4) Thomas is back! I’m shooting for a May 2024 release. Read the first 5...
read moreKwellevonne Update
Well, I’m putting on the finishing touches to my Keepers of Kwellevonne short story series and have been trying to decide on a publishing schedule. I think what I’m going to do is release it privately to everyone on my newsletter mailing list for FREE. That only seems fair since you’ve been so patient with me! The plan is to release a story each week for seven weeks (starting this weekend) to my newsletter members, then sometime after that publish it on Amazon for an exorbitant sum. So if you haven’t signed up for my newsletter yet, and you want to read Keepers of Kwellevonne for free, now is the time to do it! As long as you’re on my list before I publish it on Amazon, I’ll make sure you have access to all the stories. After that, you’ll have to pay. Okay, enough with the toothless threats. Sign up Here And of course you can unsubscribe at any time…but make sure you get the free stuff first. That’s what I would do 🙂 Here is a quick look at a new map! Hope to see you in the newsletter. all the best, jk click for larger...
read moreWhat am I working on now?
So now that the Hospitaller Trilogy is finished (or is it…?) you might be wondering what I’m working on now. Well… I have a few ideas burning and smelling up the deep recesses of my mind, but first I am committed to finishing up my Keepers of Kwellevonne short story series. I have really neglected this series and feel bad about leaving my handful of readers hanging. Originally I had intended it to be an ongoing series that I could write a story for in between novels as a kind of break from doing my longer works. But the short stories never sold very well, and with the expenses of covers, editing, and time each story took to bring to market, I guess I lost my drive. However, I love some of the characters and they refuse to leave me alone. So, I have come up with a solution. I will finish the current plotline, which will make the series 6 stories in total, 3 of which are already published. The 4th is written, so I just need to write the 5th and 6th. I will end up with something about the length of a novel, so I will...
read moreHospitaller has been published!
Did I say Hospitaller was going to be released on May 29th? Well, it looks like I was wrong because it is available right now! As I have done with all my previous books, it will be available for a week or so at a reduced price (US$4.99 equivalent) and then it will go up to its regular price (US$7.69). I do this to show my appreciation to you that subscribed to either my website or my mailing list, so be sure to pick it up earlier than later. Once again, thank you for your support! These books would not exist without you. More...
read moreHospitaller Release Date
The third book in the Hospitaller Saga is coming May 29, 2020 More Info Join the mailing list to be sure you don’t miss it! ...
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ACRE has been published!
The Forest Knights prequel series is here! A doomed mission. The Kingdom of Jerusalem hanging by a thread. One Knight Justice must face his greatest fears or die trying… Read...
read moreRead Aloud’s 15-minute Movement
March is National Reading Awareness Month! I was a painfully shy kid for the first few years of elementary school. I never went to kindergarten or playschool, so grade 1 was my first experience with a group of kids my own age. I can still recall the awkward terror of standing alone in the coatroom everyday, looking out at the groups of kids playing together before the morning bell rang to begin class. But I was a good reader. My parents and older siblings read to me everyday at home and so when the teacher called on me to read a passage out loud in class I felt like Superman. If I had been a poor reader, one of those kids that stumbled over every second word, I would have been denied those few confidence building moments so important to an introverted child trying to fit into an extroverted world. Some people say reading is a way to escape the real world. For me, it was a way to fit in. A child who can read is empowered. It’s as simple as that. Why ReadAloud.org matters: • Only about 1/3 of low-income families read aloud regularly. • From 0-3,...
read moreDrunken elk
Okay. I know I have the first book of my Forest Knights series coming out soon, and if I were a wise man I would post something to do with that. Long story short…I am not wise. You have to check this...
read moreLast heir to Austro-Hungarian empire dies
Otto von Habsburg, the eldest son of the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian empire has passed away. The Habsburgs may be the villains in my novel “The Forest Knights“, but they were a remarkable family dynasty and a major player in European politics well into the 20th century. Anyone brave enough to speak out against Nazi Germany in 1938 deserves a moment of repect. “Otto von Habsburg was born in 1912, as the heir to the empire, but it collapsed at the end of World War I and the Habsburg family went into exile. After World War II, Mr Habsburg became a champion of European unity during its Cold War division. He served as a member of the European parliament for two decades. He is to be buried in the Austrian capital, Vienna. Mr Habsburg only officially relinquished his claim to inherit the empire in 1961 and five years later was allowed to return to Austria for the first time since the family fled in 1919. He was an opponent of the Nazis and spoke out against Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938.” Click here for the full BBC news...
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