After hours of sweating away in my recording studio, the audiobook for Swords of the Six is finally published on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes! It’s pretty awesome to look at Amazon’s Swords of the Six page now and see that paperback, kindle, and audiobook editions are all available.
Please share the link with your fantasy-loving and Audible member friends! Swords of the Six on Audible.
After a well-fought contest amongst several worthy artists, I am pleased to present the final cover for Sword of Tears!
Sword of Tears (The Sword of the Dragon book 5) will release this Summer 2021, and is the direct sequel to The Phantom’s Blade.
Book teaser:
When Caritha left the Hemmed Land, she imparted a gift to Ombre. He vowed not to open the letter, believing it would mean that he had given up on ever finding her alive. But is the letter more than a letter, and can the gift of a dragon’s daughter make him more of a warrior than he was? Love strengthens even over a vast distance and Ombre’s optimism may be the candle that keeps the darkness at bay.
Note: please feel free to plaster this book cover on all of your social media and blogs! 😎 Coming Summer 2021!
Tonight I set up an art contest on 99Designs.com for the cover illustration for Sword of Tears. Over the course of this next couple of weeks I will select the top candidates and, ultimately, name the winner. Cover reveal for Sword of Tears will be next month. I will share more info as I have it!
I’ve done it again! While writing my latest novel In Search of Dragons, the plot expanded beyond the scope of a single novel. So this Summer 2021 we will release book five in The Sword of the Dragon series, but the new title for this is Sword of Tears. I really cannot wait to share it with you all. Look out for the book cover release… coming soon!
Here’s the updated order of novels in The Sword of the Dragon series:
Swords of the Six (available now)
Dragon Offspring (available now)
Key of Living Fire (available now)
The Phantom’s Blade (available now)
Sword of Tears (Summer 2021)
In Search of Dragons (Spring 2022)
The Last Grandeur (TBA)
Finally, the files for the Swords of the Six audiobook are finished. Today I wrapped up submitting those files to all distributors. Just be aware that this publication process can take upwards of one month, due to the high volume Hoopla, Audible, and others are dealing with. I will update you as soon as it becomes available!
It’s April 1st, folks! This week I have been sick… I know that sounds bad, but actually being stuck at home has been kind of nice. For the first time in a couple of months I am free to focus on writing and publishing. Foremost on my agenda are two projects: the new novel In Search of Dragons (The Sword of the Dragons series book 5), and fixing the audiobook files for Swords of the Six.
In Search of Dragons is coming along very nicely, with a couple of plot points that have really surprised me. I’m still a mostly seat-of-the-pants writer, not an outliner, so things do happen that I do not anticipate. Currently it stands at 75,000-words and I anticipate it finishing around 160,000-words. Yes, I do expect this will be the longest novel yet in The Sword of the Dragon series, and not due to wordiness. It’s chock-full of events that keep you on the edge-of-your-seat, and a heart that will have you worried for your favorite heroes and heroines. I still anticipate publishing this in print and on Kindle by Fall 2021.
Back in December I was excited to release my first-ever audiobook, this one for Swords of the Six (The Sword of the Dragon series book 1). However, as first projects often go, there were unexpected challenges that set it back. Audible found some problems with the audiobook files, and my kids alerted me to a couple of errors. As a result, I yanked the production from distribution and set it aside until I could go through and fine-tune it. I’m pleased to say that I will finish those files this week. Once done, I will re-submit the audiobook to the distributors. I have never recorded, much less produced, an audiobook before. But the end result is something I am proud of and know you will enjoy. The distributors dictate when an audiobook is released and Audible (in particular) has quite the backlog. I wouldn’t expect this to release until late-Spring/early-Summer 2021.
God bless, everyone! I’ll try to keep you in the loop as things progress. It’s going to be a great year for writing.
