My new thriller, Blood and Ink, will be published by Fremantle Press in 2022.
Slightly funny story. After pouring energy into Blood and Ink, aiming to publish to Amazon by the end of 2020—formatting, typo hunting, second guessing, tweaking, cover buying, third guessing—I finally pushed the button. On December 28 at 2:47 PM Amazon notified me it was available. At 4:17 PM I got an email from a publisher indicating their interest in the novel.
The timing was purely coincidental. I had submitted the manuscript (almost) ten weeks earlier, and mistakenly thought the review time had elapsed. Needless to say, this was pretty exciting. I yanked the book from Amazon, then waited to hear more.
The upshot is Blood and Ink will be published next year by Fremantle Press https://www.fremantlepress.com.au/.
I’m excited to get an inside look at traditional publishing, and will try to keep you posted.
Book 2 of The Commander and the Chief series finds the Chief "on the warpath" and "counting coup" with her enemies on both sides of the ocean. Meanwhile, she fights an indictment and risks losing her latest love, the Commander, as well as unleashing
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