Hello all. I’m announcing my latest release, which is the sequel to The Long Journey, and is book 2 in An American Family’s Journey. This is my 29th novel released since 2008.
Originally, I planned on having this finished in 2016, but due to having life get in the way and becoming a caregiver for my parents, it just stamped out my creativity, so I abandoned my writing for a while until last year. Now, I’ve got so many ideas in my head that I’m writing several novels simultaneously. I plan on more than two novels for this particular series, basically a new generation per novel, and because there’s a Delaney in this story, that particular last name ties into Times of Trouble, so that’s a bit of an easter egg.
Blurb:
In Tahlequah, George and Ellie Massey face an uncertain future as their children begin choosing paths of their own. Junior returns home carrying painful memories of his wartime imprisonment, struggling to find his place in a world that no longer feels quite the same. Jenny reunites with the man she has loved for years and begins building a future beyond the Cherokee Nation. Meanwhile, Hopson wrestles with questions of identity, belonging, and what it means to stand up for his people.
As the country struggles to recover from war, the Cherokee Nation faces its own divisions and uncertain future. Each member of the Massey family must decide what matters most, even when those decisions threaten to take them far from one another.
Through hardship, changing loyalties, and the challenges of starting over, George and Ellie hold on to their faith and the hope that the family they raised will not be lost to the roads their children choose. In a nation divided by war and a family divided by circumstance, can the bonds of home endure?
ebook is $3.99
paperback is $14.99
audiobook: $9.99
282 pages / 67k words
Books2Read universal link or visit the book’s page for book / audio sample
Other works in progress include the second novel to the Tales of the Southwest series.
The Phantom of the Desert will be about the camel experiment conducted by the US Army in the 1850s to see if the Army could utilize camels in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of the southwestern United States, which was called the Camel Corps. Matt Hayden, who is the young historical researcher of my series, uncovers the history of that, and discovers that there’s also a legend associated with it in present day Arizona, called Red Ghost. So, he decides to find out what separates fact from legend. I plan on several sequels as Matt ages and discovers various legends, ghost town stories, and other history from the southwestern United States.
Other works in progress include book 3 of The Second Chances series, which is once Nathan gets the girl, what happens next? The novel will follow his tech career as it goes from the 1990s to the 2020s, and he gets to experience every technological upgrade (or downgrade) as it happens. Since Second Chances as a whole was way too long as one novel (700+ pages), I separated it into two novels, Going Back to Yesteryear, which covers junior high years and Into the Unknown Future, which covers high school and a little past graduation. This one will be called: The Future Unfolds.
The Library Saga is nearly finished, just need to write The Crossover Crisis (book 9), and the last novel (book 10), The Faultline Decision (tentative title). The series was my attempt at whimsy, parody/satire, with a lot of the genre tropes mixed in. I think I’ll stick with mostly historical fiction.
I also plan on maybe writing sequels to my first novel published in 2008, Out of Time, and my second novel, Don’t Mess With Earth, which was 2009. Not sure if the idea will work after nearly 20(!) years of both being out, but I’m going to try. So, that’s at least five novels planned for the coming months and year(s) and I plan on some crossovers with some of these novels where a character from one series helps out a character in another, but I’ll just have to see how that’ll work out.
Thanks for reading so far!
Leave a Reply