2024 So Far…
Let’s talk about my 2024 so far… well, it’s been busy, though the releases that result in that work will mostly happen in the latter part of the year and in 2025. A few things have made it into the world already, however.
Sam & the Magic Hockey Gear, the children’s book (which has a coloring book companion) was finally released after a long development process. Meant for kids under 5 who are excited about hockey.
Think of Laura (Stefan Kopriva Mystery #5) is out, too, exclusive to the Code 4 Press Bookstore until August 28. Also in Kopriva news, my short story, “A Checkered Past” appeared in Tina Wolff’s anthology, Games People Play: Opening Gambit. (and related Murder to Die For podcast). “Dare or Truth,” a Finch and Elias closed-room mystery, was released on the podcast as well, and will be out in the anthology, Games People Play: Final Move.
Lastly, my science fiction novel, Kemper’s House, came out in May. I wrote this under a different pen name. What up with that, you might wonder? (I also “re-authored” my 2018 alternative history novel, An Unlikely Phoenix, to this pen name to align the genre).
On the podcast front, I’ve kept up with new episodes of Wrong Place, Write Crime. As planned, there’s been one episode every two months. The most recent includes a ton of short interviews from the conference floor of the PSWA conference in Las Vegas. October will feature retired Massachusetts investigator (and author/podcaster) Bill Powers.
There is more on the horizon. By November, we’ll see a new entry in two series: Nor Shadowed Heart (River City #15) and The Silence of the Dead (Charlie-316 #6).
What else? Well, 2025 will see several sequels: All the Minor Kings (SpoCompton #6), A Hard Favored Death (Sandy Banks #3), The Sins of Somebody Else’s Past (Stefan Kopriva Mystery #6), and the yet unnamed third Jack McCrae novel.
But the biggest news is that I’m delving into the fantasy series that has been hounding me for about a decade — Seasons of Wither. I grew up on fantasy and science fiction, so it only makes sense that I’d find my way back around to those genres. I think the timing of my career really taking hold while I was working in law enforcement certainly informed my choice of crime fiction as a genre to play in for a long time. I still love it and will never leave it entirely, but I’ve written over fifty books and out of those, crime fiction titles number in the low forties of that figure. Stretching as a writer is important, but even more important is writing what you want to write. There’s only so much time we have on this planet, right? And the benefit of being an independent author is having the latitude to make that choice.
So I’ll be working A Burnt Summer, a book that will be launched with Kickstarter sometime later this year or early 2025. You can read the current draft of chapter one right now!
I hope your writing and reading journey is all you want it to be, or more.
Source: All The Madness In My Soul
