Desperate Measures is in the process of publishing.

Sometime tomorrow morning, this should go live, (I'll put up a link once I've got it).

Status on the next book

I thought I'd drop a line here on the status on the next book. Right now I'm shooting for a May 25th release date. I don't know for sure if I'll set up a pre-order for it, because it'll have to be done and loaded by the 22nd in order for me to do that. And right now I'm running just a little bit behind. I'd hoped to be done by Saturday, but I don't think I'll be done until Monday. And then I have to send it to my new editor so she can take a look at it.

Still not sure on the title or the cover picture, which I know I need to finalize in the next couple of hours so I can order the cover. I don't know why sometimes I have so much trouble with this, but I do.

I'll be at BLFC tomorrow for a few hours

I'll be driving up and spending about half the day there (which is about as long as I figure the dog can hold out). Mostly going up to be with friends who are already there, and see some old friends who I haven't seen in years.

If you're there, look me up. I'll be around. Somewhere. Odds are I'll be wearing a shirt with a black leopard on it. That should make it easy, right? :-)

I hired an Editor

Something that didn't get mentioned in the last few days, because of all the Amazon issues: I hired an editor. I had Vegas Rules edited first, and put that up yesterday. She's now going through Black Friday, and then I'll have her go through each of the stories, in order.

Book number 8 is in process, I'm about 6K words into it currently, and with all of the issues resolved, I'm now free to focus on that a lot more. Book 8 will be completed and released sometime this month. Most of the plot for it is done, so it's just a matter of writing it. I'll have a date when it's a bit further along.

Yea! They fixed it!

So yes, as of today the issue has been fixed. Hopefully my sales will soon recover.

On the Amazon Problem / Glitch

To all of my fans and readers, Amazon is aware of the problem and is working hard to fix it. I suspect once they do fix it, they'll then have the even bigger problem of trying to help all of the authors who got hurt by it.

So, just a reminder, if you are a fan of any particular author, please go check their author page on Amazon, or their website, to see if they have any new releases out in the last week and a half. Not only have I been hit (Jan Stryvant), but so have authors like J.A Cipriano, and Micheal-Scott Earle.

If you are fans of these writers, please take a few minutes to see if you're up to date on their releases, as well as any other author you are a fan of.

Thanks!

Please tell your friends the new Valens Legacy book is out

Because apparently everyone who published a new book between 4/20 and 4/23 got all of the books in their series pulled down from the Also Bought and notifications lists.

Yup, the Valens Legacy series, which used to be in a slew of  'Also Bought' lists on many other author's books has completely disappeared from Amazon. Along with several other series by other authors who published in that date range.

I've written Amazon, but if they fix it, it won't happen until Monday when they're back at work. So a lot of people who would have read this book are never going to know that it's out. And nobody new is going to be exposed to the series for a while.

Which seriously sucks. I was wondering why sales were off.

Last week really was the week from hell. :-(