August author update

For authors, summer is supposed to be the quiet season. It is supposed to be the time we set work aside, take rejuvenating vacations, and take a break from the rigors of writing, editing, and marketing novels.

For me, though, this summer has been an opportunity. It has been a chance to accomplish a lot while others relax and play.

Sea Spray tops the list of projects completed. The novel, the pivotal third book in the Time Box series, is now available in audio.

Veteran voice artist Roberto Scarlato narrated the work. He previously narrated Camp Lake and The Fair and will soon lend his talents to The Refuge and Crown City, the fourth and fifth books in the Time Box series. Eighteen of my twenty-two novels are now available as audiobooks on Audible, Amazon, and Apple Books. (A note to those who requested these books: I do listen to you!) I hope to convert the remaining titles by the end of 2024. As I noted in March, I have a limited number of free promo codes for my audiobooks, including Sea Spray, that I can release to prospective reviewers on request. Please contact me if interested.

Also this past month, I began writing Duties and Dreams, the third and final book in the Second Chance series. Set mostly in Southern California, Washington state, and France in 1918, the novel will follow Paul Carpenter, Andy Lee, and their families through World War I, the Spanish flu, and a medical crisis that will finally open many previously closed doors. I am currently nineteen chapters and 27,000 words into the novel and hope to publish it by the end of the year.

I also attended to marketing, the bane of every writer, even though summer is notoriously slow for sales. Two major promotions are on tap. BookBub will feature The Mirror, book five in the Northwest Passage series, for the first time in five years on August 20. EReader News Today will run The Fountain as its Book of the Day on September 15.

I hope readers will take advantage of both offers. I remain very grateful to those who have expressed their support in the past.