Category: Event

Weekly Update – April 25, 2023

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I’m in the finale of the next book on the Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot series, so that’s taking up a lot of mental energy right now.

Next, a reminder that I’m part of a major multi-author promotion through the Superhero Fiction Writers group.

A whopping forty superhero ebooks will be available for 99 cents for one day only, April 28 — which, not so coincidentally, is National Superhero Day! Head to the Superhero Fiction Writers Group website on 4/28 to browse the selection, which will include Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins. I’m going to assume that you’ve already read it, what with you being on this website and all, so why not snag a copy as a gift for someone?

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Draconian Measures: First draft underway.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

  • None scheduled

MISC.

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Weekly Update – April 18, 2023

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Not much to report on the writing front, but I do want to give everyone a heads-up on an upcoming mega-promotion from the Superhero Fiction Writers group.

A whopping forty superhero ebooks will be available for 99 cents for one day only, April 28 — which, not so coincidentally, is National Superhero Day! Head to the Superhero Fiction Writers Group website on 4/28 to browse the selection, which will include Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins. I’m going to assume that you’ve already read it, what with you being on this website and all, so why not snag a copy as a gift for someone?

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Draconian Measures: First draft underway.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

  • None scheduled

MISC.

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Weekly Update – April 11, 2023

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Yes, it is once again a SLOW WEEK! But that does not mean an unproductive week, no no. I had all of Easter Sunday to myself and I put the time to use plugging away at the finale of the next Strongarm & Lightfoot book.

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Draconian Measures: First draft underway.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

  • None scheduled

MISC.

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Weekly Update – April 4, 2023

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Yet another quiet week last week. I continue to plug away at the next Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot book — which, I will remind you, is perfect for the readers in your life you enjoyed the new Dungeons and Dragons – Honor Among Thieves movie. Fun fantasy? Lots of humor and heart? Generous doses of rollicking action? Come on, it’s a perfect fit! All six books are available in print and for the Kindle, and the first five are on Audible, read to perfection by Heather Auden!

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Draconian Measures: First draft underway.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

  • None scheduled

MISC.

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Weekly Update – March 28, 2023

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Another quiet week last week. I spent my writing time working on the next Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot book, but alas, could not finish the first draft as I’d hoped. I’m what’s called a “pantser,” which means I do little to no pre-planning before writing anything — no outlines, no plot breakdown, none of that — and that typically serves me well, but every so often, I hit a point in the story where I have to try out several different approaches to see which one works best. This means sometimes writing and deleting and rewriting a single page over and over until it feels right, which is a real time-suck, but it works out in the end, so why change things up?

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Draconian Measures: First draft underway.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

  • None scheduled

MISC.

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Weekly Update – March 21, 2023

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This is a quiet week, in part because I am on staycation with my wife, and I’m using the time to get some good work in on the next Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot book, which I am tentatively thinking of calling Draconian Measures. My goal is to finish up the first draft by the time I have to go back to my (ick) day job next Monday.

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Untitled Seventh Book: First draft underway.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

  • None scheduled

MISC.

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Weekly Update – March 14, 2023

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The good times continue to roll as Action Figures – Issue Eleven: Zero Day returned to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list for Teen & Young Adult Superhero Fiction ebooks.

Zero Day sat in the number one position for the weekend, which was a nice ego boost, so thank you, readers, for putting it there, and thanks to those who already left reviews!

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Untitled Seventh Book: First draft underway.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

  • None scheduled

MISC.

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Weekly Update – March 7, 2023

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Maybe you missed it, maybe you didn’t, but if you did somehow miss the news the final book in the Action Figures core series, Issue Eleven: Zero Day, is finally here!

You can get it now for the Kindle and in print, and when you finish reading the book — which should only take a day or two despite its length, based on how quickly a few readers have told me they finished it the same day they bought it! — please make sure to leave a review on Amazon. Maybe not a review like this, though…

I had to chuckle at this one, honestly. The lament about the political statements amused me because it suggests someone hasn’t been paying much attention to the series — the politics have always been there — but the reader’s assumption that everything takes place between 2013 and 2016? I guess that’s understandable if he did start reading when the series first debuted, but it never specifies in any of the books when the series takes place. The Thunberg nitpick feels like an extension of the “politics” complaint to me. If not, this guy better not read any actual comic books or he’s going to be horrified by things like Vietnam vet The Punisher still looking like he’s forty or the fact it took Franklin Richards (of The Fantastic Four) fifty-five years to become a teenager.

It’s not the first time someone has wagged a finger for what one critic called my “Massachusetts mindset” (translation: putting queer characters front and center). Frankly, I’d rather be criticized as an author for my liberal politics than…oh, say, for random example, for my TERF-iness.

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Untitled Seventh Book: First draft underway.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

  • None scheduled

MISC.

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Weekly Update – February 28, 2023

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It’s almost here!

The final book in the Action Figures core series, Issue Eleven: Zero Day will release on Thursday — as in this Thursday, as in March 2, as in my birthday! The Kindle edition is still available for preorder at Amazon, and the print edition will drop that same day.

I’m happy to report that in the first week of presales, Zero Day hit number one for new releases in the Teen & Young Adult Superhero Fiction and Teen & Young Adult Action & Adventure ebooks categories! That makes the third Action Figures novel to hit #1 on an Amazon best-seller chart, so thank you, readers, for making that happen!

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Untitled Seventh Book: First draft underway.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

  • None scheduled

MISC.

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Weekly Update – February 21, 2023

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My birthday is coming up on March 2, but you get the present in the form of — drumroll, please — Action Figures – Issue Eleven: Zero Day! Cover reveal time!

My cover artist Tricia Lupien channeled her inner George Perez for this one. I figured since the story is twice as big as the typical Action Figures novel (and since this is the series finale), the cover should be double-sized as well. We’ve got our classic line-up on the front cover and the Hero Squad’s backup team (clockwise from top left) Ylena Johr, Scout, Skyblazer, Chaos Theory (a.k.a. Nikki Morgan), and Meg “MegaWatt Quantum” Quentin.

The Kindle edition is currently available on Amazon for presale, and will be released on March 2, along with the print edition.

And now, the official blurb:

Heroes versus villains. Good versus evil. The Hero Squad versus ShadoWorks.

Winner takes all.

For three years, the Hero Squad has held the line against ShadoWorks, a mysterious underworld cabal working toward a sinister goal: nothing less than the complete subjugation of the United States. With its prize at last within reach, ShadoWorks launches its final assault against the Squad and their allies — and if they fall, America falls with it.

America, and then the world.

It’s Zero Day — the day everything changes forever in this, the epic final chapter of the Action Figures saga.

WRITING PROJECTS

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – Untitled Seventh Book: First draft underway.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

  • None scheduled

MISC.

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