Update 03/30/2026

After eleven years of hard work I am finally reaching the end of a long road. What was to have only been one book turned into a six book post apocalyptic series and I am steadily coming to the end of. This Lawless Land began life as many of these things do as an idea that has slowly built itself up to something much bigger than I anticipated.

I have reached the end of the story, and a part of me feels a deep sense of sadness that I will no longer be speaking with the characters on a regular basis. Meat, Window, Billie-Bob and Einstein had become a part of my life while I worked to bring their story to the page.

But not to despair, there are other works bubbling through my mind as they seek their place in the spotlight.

Bitter Hollow is currently sitting at around 50,000 words, my first foray into a first person narrative and I feel like I’m really pulling it off, but we’ll see.

There is also a work I’ve tentatively titled The Bad Place, that is connected to my novel Cursed, and features Sheriff Paul Odenton. It’s at about 68,000 words right now.

Beyond these two will be the final book in the Paul Odenton trilogy that will be titled The Gathering, and will close out his story arc.

I’d also like to explore a number of other ideas from haunted houses to those quiet places in the world where the barrier between the living and the dead is at its thinnest.

I want to step away from speculative fiction for one book that will take a look at our country during two distinct periods. The Vietnam War, and The War on Terror. There is so much material to dive into in how the civilian perspective of our military changed over a period of thirty some years. As a veteran who served shortly after the Vietnam War, this story is important to me

With this in mind I’m planning to devote the next two to four months to completing This Lawless Land, During that time I will be taking a step back from my blog so i can focus on the work at hand. The weekly writing challenge will continue, but beyond that I won’t be posting like I usually do. But I will be back.