It's been a long time. Not that I have any readers, but still, as long as I'm only blogging to hear myself talk, I feel I've been giving myself the silent treatment.
So what's new?
Since 2010, my horrible job folded when my boss got fired by her bosses. My so-so part time job became my (almost) full time job. I kept reading, I kept writing (but not nearly enough).
Some good changes.
Former Destroyer ghost and co-writer James Mullaney decided to launch not one but two series -- The Red Menace and the Crag Banyon Mysteries. I've been trying to help him get the word out that these exist. There are so many ebooks out there, competing for attention. But Moonstone has picked up Jim's first Red Menace book, Red and Buried, and are issuing a paperback copy, due out next spring. You can pre-order it through the link.
Warren Murphy and his sons Devin and Brian have decided to bring back the Destroyer series. They have a publisher who is going to be re-issuing the first twenty five Destroyers as e-books, replacing the ones that the Murphys put up on their own. Warren has a new agent, who is trying to get the back catalog of Destroyers out to the foreign market again which will give the books a bigger audience overseas. That market had dried up when the books were at Gold Eagle back in the mid nineties to 2006.
Warren is co-writing Destroyers again. He has two new Destroyers and one spin-0ff series written and ready to launch soon.
The first book on Kindle will be Take Two, a novella written by Warren Murphy and Donna Courtois. Yes, me. Warren approached me last July about writing some Destroyer novellas. My online friend and Destroyer Club creator Jerry Welch was tapped at the same time to outline and write the first book of a spin-off series featuring Remo's children, Freya and Stone (formerly known as Winner) Smith. It's called Forgotten Son and should be out shortly after Take Two. And last -- but definitely not least -- Warren and Molly Cochran have written a new, novel length Destroyer, which should be out shortly after Forgotten Son. I've seen the first two chapters and they're terrific.
I'm very excited and happy to be a part of reviving the series. The characters are as fresh and timeless as ever, and as long as there are pompous people or idiot trends and unbelievable beliefs to target, there will always be room for more books.
Right now I'm working on the plot and outline of the second novella. So I'd better close this up and get back to that.
