Release Delayed until next week

All, as much as I wanted to get this out, today, there are a few issues that occurred which are going to hold up release until next week. I apologize for it, it's my fault. The book itself is finished, the cover is almost complete, but the holidays have created a few delays and I should have realized that would be the case and taken it into account earlier than I did.

I really hate doing this to you and making everyone wait until next week. I apologize. Sometimes unexpected events happen.

Waiting on Cover Art

That's the current status. Forgot to take the holiday into account when I ordered, so my bad.
Once I get it, 'When It Falls' goes up for sale.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Everyone

I want to thank you all for making this a good year for me. I'd also like to let you all know that book #5 (When It Falls) is finished, and I'm in the process of doing the re-write and looking for grammar and other issues. The Beta readers all have it, and I hope they have the time to get back to me in a few days, with the holidays and all of that.

I need to do a minor re-write on a couple of scenes, I'll hopefully get to that tomorrow, as today will be too busy with company and making dinner (I'm the cook in the house and I make a lot for the holidays). The plan is to release it on the 28th. It won't be in pre-release for the simple reason that they lock the book down three days prior to release, and honestly I suspect I'll not be hearing back from my Beta readers until the 27th because of the holidays.

There will be a book #6, there's just way too much going on for there not to be.

Once book #6 is in the can, I will sit down and plot out the next arc in the story. I don't know if it'll be called 'The Valens Legacy' or if I'll give it a slightly different name, I don't even know how many books that arc will be, but it will continue on the story, as Sean and his wives move on to the next obvious goal.

I'm also hoping to write some side stories, I don't know if they'll be shorts, or if they'll be novella's. I have to see how the storyboarding goes for the next arc, and what the scheduling looks like, but I would really like to write a story for each of the girls, showing just how they got to where they are. There is a lot of back story on all of them. But most of it's either in my head or in the story bible and my notes. I think some of you would enjoy learning more about them.

So again, thank you for your patronage, I am humbled by how much you all like my stories.

If you're in Sacramento, I'll be at the ComicCon today.

It's off of Madison & I80, at the hotel at 5321 Date. Not sure how big it is, or what it costs to get in, I signed up to do this months ago. It'll be the 3rd one with the folks from Turlock, and the last two were actually fun, so hoping this one is as well.

An Update on 'When it Falls'

Okay, I've fallen a bit behind schedule on this, which I guess is to be expected this time of year during the holiday season, and with distractions that literally came out of nowhere to deal with. Currently the book is 2/3rds done, I'd hoped to have the first draft finished today. Tomorrow I'm going up to the claim to do some high-banking (I need to get away for a while) and Sunday I'll be selling at a local small venue comiccon, (Off hwy 80 in Sacramento, it's in one of the hotels off the Madison exit on Date ave). I signed up for that about five months ago, and again, it'll be nice to get away for a little while.

So, with any luck the first draft should be done Wednesday. Once I get it turned around by my beta readers, it'll be published. Unfortunately I don't think it'll be up for sale by the 22nd, so I don't know if it will be up before or after Christmas. But it will be up for sale before the end of the month.

Oh! And for those who have been following along, the series is back up to six books. I don't think I can cover the remaining events in just the fifth book. Once this series is done, I'm going to take about a month off (to write a book that others are bugging me about), then if folks are still interested I'll write the follow on series.

Thanks, and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Years, Happy Solstice and any other holidays I may have missed.