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It’s been a while since I released something new (February! The Dustfall conclusion and a series re-launch), so I figured some folks may be curious as to what I’m up to.

Well, I started a new horror series, which is coming along nicely but will be a while before it’s ready to be released, and I also made a start on a new zombie series (not co-authored this time), – though this is in very early stages of rough draft and will also be a while, and yes, before anyone asks, the next Diary of the Displaced book is part written and not forgotten, but as usual that series is incredibly hard to write, so more waiting there! (Sorry!)

But, what I’m excited about is how popular the Thrown Away series was when i wrote it, and the sudden surge in interest now that there’s a compiled full series version. This got me thinking. I wrote the original first part as a standalone short story, then expanded it to a series of novellas when people started asking for more, and I found it to be the most enjoyable tale I’ve ever written.

I left the series at a conclusion that was complete for that story arc, but left a few openings for coming back to it at some point.

I didn’t expect to come back to it quite this quickly!

At the moment the first three novellas in series 2 are draft written, but need a lot of work, and I’ve got notes for the whole series. I’ve put everything else aside for now and I’m concentrating on just this, so hopefully I can get this done in a couple of months and launch the series while the interest is still there!

I look forward to hearing what you book fiends have to say about series two!

Just thought you may want to know, I’ve created the following boxsets…

I’m very happy to announce that Dustfall 5 – What Lies Beneath – is now available!
CLICK HERE TO GRAB IT!

“With every light comes a shadow.” – Dustfall

Book five of the Dustfall series. The saga concludes…

As the war escalates, Jonah faces the greatest challenge of his life. With the unification of the clans and their survival on the brink of collapsing, and with enemies closing in from all directions, he must face the darkest threat in this thrilling conclusion of an epic adventure.

To Celebrate the release of book 5, I’ve made book 1 available for free until the 19th of Feb.

Grab it while it’s available!

Readers are calling the DIARY OF THE DISPLACED series:

“A wild ride through a stunning imagination.” …

“An epic journey through places best left in darkness.” …

“I was hooked in the first few pages.” …

“Mysterious, compelling, and brilliantly imagined.” …

“Unpredictable with great character development.” …

“Great books…enjoyed from first word to last.” …

“Unexpectedly excellent!” … “Very bizarre and imaginative.”

I’m very happy to announce that Dustfall 4 – Sons of the Lost – is now available!
CLICK HERE TO GRAB IT!

“With every light comes a shadow.” – Dustfall

Book four of the Dustfall series. The saga continues…

The saga continues…
The Valk swarm and the Cygoa assault the Elk in a violent attempt to wipe the T’Yun descendants from the land. Jonah must find his family and unite the clans as Seren returns with a technology that could decisively end the war.

Dustfall book 1 is reduced to 99 cents for a short time!
Grab it at Amazon!“

With every light comes a shadow.” – Dustfall
In a ravaged tribe on the edge of humanity, the suspicious death of a chief thrusts a man into a dark realm for which he is unprepared. When Jonah inherits leadership of the Elk Clan from his father, many in the old man’s inner circle question his son’s ability to lead the tribe to their winter shelter at the ruins of Eliz. A dark stranger, a journey over hundreds of miles of dangerous highway and clashes with feral gangs will push Jonah to the edge.

I’ve reduced the prices of several of my books for a short time for anyone who may have missed some titles and was looking for something to read over the holidays.The reduced books are listed below in between the news items!

Diary of the Displaced book 5
Progress! The book is now about 75% done. Mostly in terribly messy draft that will confuse the hell out of me when I get to editing, but a good chunk of it is clean. I’m quite excited about where this went, even if it has taken me ages to figure it out!

Diary of the Displaced is reduced to 99 cents for a short time!
Grab it at Amazon!There is a place where nightmares are real. A dark and terrifying place that is hidden from the world we know, by borders that only the most unfortunate of souls will ever cross.
James Halldon woke up in the dark, alone.

Also reduced.
The Thrown Away Omnibus is now $2.99 and Chasing Spirits and Whispers are both now 99 cents. 
You can click the images to follow the links.

I’ve had a lot of folks ask if I’ve abandoned some stories that are currently unfinished, such as Diary of the Displaced, Thrown Away, Last to Fall, etc.

For the record. Arisen is the only series I no longer write – Michael Stephen Fuchs is finishing that.

I’ve been busy with Dustfall 3, and because it’s co-written I have an obligation to keep up with J.Thorn on that. So it’s taken priority and other projects are delayed (some of them by quite a bit of time! Sorry!).

Here is a quick list of other books that may interest you. Some are zombie apocalypse, some are survival apocalypse, others are just different. A few of these are very popular and I’d be surprised if you haven’t read them anyway! If you are interested in some of the books, you can order them online and receive them fast thanks to the best shipping labels ProOffice.

There is also a “best zombie books” list on goodreads –

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/933.Zombies_

(BTW the Arisen books are in that list if you feel inclined to vote on them.)

I Am Legend – Richard Matheson
Max Brooks – World War Z
Stephen King – The Stand
Robert R McCammon – Swan Song
Hugh Howie – Wool (Post Apocalypse Survival)
Hugh Howie – I, Zombie (told from the point of view of the zombies – be warned it’s pretty icky in places)
Carrie Ryan – Forest of Hands and Teeth (Zombie apocalypse but also YA romance, so be warned)
Justin Chronin – The Passage (Non-zombie apocalypse – but damn good)
Brian Keene – The Rising/City of the Dead/Dead Sea/Ghoul
David Moody – Autumn Series / Hater Series
Rats/Lair/Domain – James Herbert (No zombies, just lots and lots of rats. Lots of them)

I haven’t read these, but they are popular –

Joe Nobody – Holding their Own (Post Apocalypse Survival Series)
J W Vohs – Zombie Crusade Series
John O Brien – A New World Series
J L Bourne – Day by Day Armageddon
James Cook – Surviving the Dead series
David McAfee – Bachiyr (Vampire series)
Stephen Knight – The Rising Dead
Robert Kirkman – The Walking Dead – Rise of the Governor
D J Molles – The Remaining Series
Mira Grant – Newsflesh Series
Z A Recht – Morningstar Series

I’m into my last editing/rewriting of the fourth book of the Displaced. After nearly three years away from this series I’ve managed to get back on it and write the next book.  That’s so much longer than I intended, and far too long for me to be happy about it, but it will be finished and off to my editor soon and then out into the world it will go.

And then I’ll get onto book 5…

Of course I’m nervous about it. I think expectations are far higher than I can achieve, but I do like where I’ve taken it – finally. I’ve actually written the book three times, now, and not liked where it started. The other versions seemed to pick the story up much too soon, but oddly, with how it’s turning out, I’d written half of books 5 and 6.

I’m also preparing up for Nanowrimo, so something cool is going to happen there. I hope!

I’m not sure why I bother saying I’m doing Nanowrimo, though. Every month is a Nanowrimo month for me! I guess it’s because I’ve done it so many years in a row.