It was supposed to have been published for both Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook several weeks ago, during my flurry of conversion and publishing, and it certainly got converted to both formats, but it seems that the actual publishing part of that got overlooked by someone who shall remain nameless. That would be, of course, the caveman who is in charge of publishing things around here – bald-headed, bearded, gaining in girth, and forever nameless!

Ahem. Moving on. Yes.

To punish the back office (that would be the aforementioned caveman) the front office (also bald, bearded, and too big around, but never-to-be-confused-with-the-other-caveman at all) has decided to make A Place to Die available until Christmas, 2011, for just ninety-nine cents.

Yes, you read that right. 99¢ for the next two months!

For a novel! That’ll teach that nasty caveman.

"Who are you, that you should forget the Lord your maker, who has stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the Earth?"

Do you believe in God, if you believe he won’t answer your prayers for yourself, but that he may, in fact, answer your desperate pleas for the one you loved so much and couldn’t help? Do you believe in God, if you believe he saved your life, but didn’t give you a reason to live? Do you believe in God, if you believe he let your fiancée drown?

When Matt lost his job hours before he was to propose to the girl of his dreams, when he lost her at the bottom of a river an hour after she said yes anyway, he knew that God was the God of others, and not of him. The only thing God’s plan for the world needed from him was his death.

So he set out to find a place to die.

A Place to Die is a dark, edgy, Christian novel about where and how we die in order to live.

Buy it for just 99¢ (regular price will be $4.99) for Amazon Kindle and B&N Nook.

Buy it in paperback for $11.95 from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and other sources.

2,000 miles.

By train, by steam bus, by river boat, by horse-drawn wagon.

Through an alien dystopia.

To find herself.

Can she find what she needs inside before what’s outside kills her?

Read the first chapter for free!

Sometimes the deepest secrets are hidden behind the thinnest veils.

The first five chapters of Light Always Changes are up now. If you’re getting impatient, you can buy the book here.

introduction
chapter one
chapter two
chapter three
chapter four
chapter five

The first four chapters of Light Always Changes are up now. If you’re getting impatient, you can buy the book here.

introduction
chapter one
chapter two
chapter three
chapter four

This novel will be posted one chapter per week, but the book is finished and available to be ordered in print.

all she wants is to hide her scarred face
all he wants is to take the perfect portrait

    There’s one desk left in the far right row, second desk from the back. She hangs her bag on the seatback, sits down, swings her hair over her cheek. She begins to doodle, tiny flowers and leaves along the very edge of the cover of her spiral notebook.

    “Hi! Lydia, right?” She raises her head, but doesn’t look away from her flowers.

    “You probably didn’t notice me, but I was in your last class. That’s how I know your name.” In her peripheral vision, she can see his hand come up toward her. She reaches up and hooks her hair behind her ear. Turns to face him.

    “Hello,” she says, her voice as stretched and tight as the skin of her cheek.

   “I’m Tanner,” he says, his smile unchanged.

sometimes the deepest secrets
are hidden behind the thinnest veils

Doesn’t the sun always come up again?

Jillian has lost her mother, her home, her favorite aunt, and every friend she’s ever known. Now she’s found Royal. But is he the counter-weight that will help her regain her balance, or is he the anchor that will drag her under forever?

Is he the most perfect boy ever made, or is he a serial killer with a grudge?

Click here to read the first 16 pages…

Click here to order Jillian’s Gold (216 pages, $16.95)

I will be serializing my latest novel, Light Always Changes, on the web. I’m in the process of setting up a blog just for that purpose, and as soon as the book is available for purchase (waiting on the final proof now), I will make that blog public.

My purpose, of course, is to reach a wider audience, and to attract some new readers. I’m not all that eager to read online, myself, but it seems to be the way a lot of younger people seem to expect to do their reading, so I thought I’d give it a try. If this works out, there may be other serializations coming.

Watch this space for further announcements, but in the meantime, here’s a link to the first chapter of Light Always Changes, just to whet your appetite.

Light Always Changes, chapter one

My third novel, Jillian’s Gold, was actually completed almost one year ago, but it has not been published yet, because I haven’t been happy with the page layout. Call me OCD, call me a control freak, call me whatever you want to, but the fact is that I find it very hard to release something that is not as perfect as I can make it, although my continual ascent up the learning curves I find means that no matter how good it is when I release it, I’ll find a way next week or next month or next year to make it better.

I’m still not happy with one particular aspect of the page layout in Jillian’s Gold, which was a rather complex undertaking, due to the format of the book, but I’ve just ordered one last proof copy, and unless I see glaring issues, the book will go live within a week or two.

I might not be able to make that decision, if I was getting an initial print run of umpty-ump copies, but since every copy printed is a copy sold, I can always do a second edition at some point down the road.

So watch this space, and get ‘em while they’re hot, ‘cause the first edition is a limited edition!

(Free review copies to anyone who looks halfway legitimate. Email me if you want one. Click on the ogre on the left, for my contact information!)