My JTF-13 novel Witch Hunt, which follows a monster hunting military unit in the Civil War, won the 2022 Imaginarium Imadjinn Award for Best Historical Fiction! This has made me start itching to write the next one. I know the setting, I know the plot line, I know the monsters. Now I just need to …
The first in-person LibertyCon in three years! This is particularly significant to me because the last one, in 2019, was my very first and I attended as a pure fan. My good friend Kacey Ezell (aka Girl Kacey), invited me to it when she found herself with an extra pass. At that LibertyCon, I mentioned …
This is kind of a culmination in my writer’s journey.By culmination, I don’t mean the end of my writer’s journey, only this portion of it. Let’s put it this way for the gamer and D&D types–I’ve completed the first writer’s quest I set out on.In high school, at the Academy, and few a couple short …
I can honestly say this is the coolest thing I’ve ever written. The anthology is as awesome as all of its predecessors and this one centers on bounty hunters and those hunted by them. Fifteen outstanding authors. Fifteen stories about bounty hunters and their bounties! There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and …
The second Fallen World anthology is out! In addition to many wonderful stories, this features my debut in the Fallen World with the story “Blue Falcon”. On the day the world ended, a pilot for Teledyne is launched with a flight of bombers to destroy a city. He has no idea why the city is …
This year my annual trip out to FantaSci in Raleigh-Durham, NC was preceded by a trip to my first operational base- Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, GA. I was invited to partake in the dedication ceremony for Komodo 11, an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter crash that occurred 23 March, 2003. It was my first …
Fourteen Tremendous Authors. Fourteen Extraordinary Stories. One Amazing Anthology. An ancient spear of legend warded by a torturer. Swords that define families, for good and ill. Magic too powerful not to use, but too dangerous to keep. It’s all here, along with dragons, ogres, and gods both old and new. These fourteen great stories continue …
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My first foray into J.F. Holmes Fallen Empire series and the introduction of my mercenary rescue unit, the Field Extraction and Recovery Services, the FXRS “Fixers”. The Grausian Empire has fallen. All the Humans who were conscripted into the Empire in the Legions must find their way, with nothing but their skills and surplus equipment …
JTF-13 in the Civil War! They’ll fight the unseen evil, on the land or on the sea! During one of the earliest blockade actions of the Civil War, Sergeant Alexander Philips of the United States Marine Corps witnesses an unspeakable horror. With no explanation, he finds himself in charge of a group of hotheads and …
