Changes on the horizon

 Well things are changing and for the better I believe.

The first major change is dealing with the already released books. The first two books came out with AI generated cover images. Which is something I wanted to replace as soon as I could. This is being replaced in the near future. The covers will be simpler in some ways but will have human art as it should be. This leads into the second change.

I will be pulling the books off of Kindle Select which will enable me to provide the ebooks through more than just Amazon. As I am doing this it gives me a chance to do some minor formatting edits to provide continuity through the series as I have found the look I really like and want it the same across the books now. Thank you to those who bought the first editions but there will be a new revision coming everywhere. (Kindle, Barns & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, Ingramspark, etc.) This will also include the ability to buy paperbacks on other sites as well!

The Iron Oath (Book III) is still progressing. Chapter 33 rough draft was completed recently and is massive coming in at over 14k words. My largest chapter to date but there was not really a good place to break it up. This will change a little during editing but I want to keep the gist of what is going on.

More great things to come. Hopefully you all enjoy the journey as much as I do.



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