Yes! That's right! For those of you who wanted to buy the ebook as a single file, or wanted to read the KU or Paperback Versions, Valley of Fire, Book 1: Misplaced, is now live!
So please feel free to check it out!!
(Or please feel obligated to check it out! I don't care, just as long as you buy it ;-) )
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Hello to all of my fans and good morning to you! There's a lot going on this coming week, as well as a lot already going on! First up I have TWO new books coming out next week! That's right TWO!
The first is the sequel to Summer's End -> Sometimes In The Fall come out 3/4/25!
(published by Baen books and available on Amazon and in bookstores)
Sometimes In The Fall is the continuing story of Dave Walker (now Dave Doyle) who having finally emigrated from Earth and settle on Ceres wants nothing more than to build Doyle Shipping and eventually get his engineer 2nd certification. But when you're now a recognized member of one of the richest families in the Solar System, and your step-brother may well be on the way to figuring out the secrets of FTL travel, well—while Dave may be done with Earth, Earth is by no means done with Dave.
And some people just need to be taught a lesson.
Second is the first book in my new trilogy! Misplaced is book 1 in Valley of Fire and comes out 3/4/25!
(Published by Raconteur Press and available on Amazon NOTE: Misplaced will be released as a serial first, in three installments. After that it will be released as a full novel - including paperback)
Misplaced takes place in my Wolfhounds Universe and starts about two years after the events of book 6 (End Game - coming 5/1/25). It is the story of one Eric Wolfram, aka Wolf. Eric and his older sister are both orphans, whose parents were murdered while fleeing from the DPRS when Eric was barely 6 years old. Having been raised by Dartanion, the owner of a large salvage yard, he's learned all about hard work and what it takes to get ahead. As Dar is also one of the largest fences on Teleios, Eric's also learned a lot about crime. He's also learned not to share his biggest secret: that his murdered parents were nobles and he has an interface. A high-level interface.
Nikki's Origin: A Portals of Infinity Novella
For those of you who are fans of my Portals of Infinity series, the story of how Will's sister Nikki ended up a champion is available in Print and Audio! The Audio version (as well as links to the print version on Amazon) can be found on my website:
Audiobooks!
Necessity: Ghost Warrior, Book 2 is now available on Audible!
And, if you didn't know:
War Child: Wolfhounds Book 4 is also available on Audible!
Wolfhounds: War Child - On Audible
Last but not least!
The Kickstarter for Book Ten of Valens Heritage has funded! So that book will be getting written sometime after May of this year! The kickstarter is still running, so if you'd like to get some of the things that are currently only available there, check it out!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnvanstry/valens-heritage-book-10-paying-back
Yes, it's been busy and things are going to continue to be so for the rest of this year!
I hope all is well with you!
It's Live and here's the link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnvanstry/valens-heritage-book-10-paying-back/
Check it out!
As hopefully all of you know, next week I'm going to launch yet another kickstarter - this one for book 10 in Valens Heritage. Which will close out that series.
I need reward levels for it still. I also need add-ons. (My recent substack post also mentions this).
I've got three rewards currently:
Two Add-ons:
And that's pretty much -IT-.
Obviously I need some more ideas and suggestions, please!
That's right! It funded yesterday on Christmas - a nice touch to be honest.
As of this post, it's got 40 minutes left and is almost $1000 past the goal.
So I need to finish Wolfhounds 5 ASAP (almost done)
Write POI #12
Then Dan's Inferno V
Then the second book in the Wolfhounds Spin-Off trilogy (Valley of Fire)
THEN write the first book in the Wolfhounds follow on series.
Oh, and I think I need to sleep in there somewhere - and write the sequel to Sometimes in the Fall.
In other news I seem to have gotten nominated for an award?
It would appear that the Audiobook version
of 'Force Majeure' is up for 'Best SciFi Audiobook' on the 'Discover Sci-Fi'
website.
On the Second Page of the selections, 'War
Child' has been nominated for 'Best Military SciFi'!
I have no idea how big the DSF awards are
(The publishing company for my audiobooks contacted me, so apparently it has
some standing), but I'd appreciate it, if you'd all go vote for me.
https://discoverscifi.com/the-best-sci-fi-books-of-2024-voting-round/
