This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit the books page for up to date links and releases. As of this writing, The Terran Privateer has been bouncing around the #200s on Amazon.com for a week. Suffice to say, I am extremely pleased with the success of the book and am glad everyone is enjoying it! Since the question has been asked: yes, there will be an audiobook. I've signed a contract, but details are still taking shape. Since The Terran Privateer was clearly ... Read more »
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The Terran Privateer is out now!
The Terran Privateer is book one of the Duchy of Terra. Get it on Amazon here. (It will be $2.99 US until the end of July, then go up to $4.99) Earth is conquered. Sol is lost. One ship is tasked to free them. One Captain to save them all. When an alien armada destroys the United Earth Space Force and takes control of the human homeworld, newly reinstated Captain Annette Bond must take her experimental hyperspace cruiser Tornado into exile as Terra’s ... Read more »
Mystery Project Unveiled: The Terran Privateer
Since completing Battle Group Avalon I've been working on a new project to help clear my mind a bit before returning to Starship's Mage for book four in that series. This is the one that's been labelled as 'Mystery Project #1' on this site so far (there are, for the curious, now four Mystery Projects.) and, since its now exactly one month from release, I figure it's time to unveil the mystery! The Terran Privateer (Book One of the Duchy of Terra) is an epic space opera in the vein of David ... Read more »
Battle Group Avalon is out now!
Battle Group Avalon is the third Castle Federation novel. Get it on Amazon here. TURNING THE TIDE The Terran Commonwealth has proved a nigh-unstoppable juggernaut in its war against the smaller Castle Federation and her allies, but an almost accidental victory by Captain Kyle Roberts of the carrier Avalon has opened a chink in its armor. Desperate to change the course of a war they are rapidly losing; the Federation assembles a new forward fleet with orders to retake the systems ... Read more »
Kindle Unlimited & The Scammers
As I'm pretty sure everyone reading this knows, Faolan's Pen Publishing Inc. started as me self-publishing, and our catalog is fully enrolled in Kindle Unlimited. There has been a growing amount of media coverage lately of the current issues with scammy books moving into Kindle Unlimited. (Sample article at The Observer). There are two components to this mess that haven't really made it into the general kerfuffle: 1) The situation has dramatically improved from the perspective of the ... Read more »
Battle Group Avalon Complete
In the middle of February, having just finished the first round edits on Voice of Mars, I started into the third Castle Federation Book: Battle Group Avalon. It was intended to be a 90,000 word novel, and I gave myself 45 days to finish it - until the end of March. 2,000 words a day is a pretty sustainable pace for me at this point, so this seemed a reasonable target. About ten PM on March 31, I finished the book. It is... not 90,000 words. Battle Group Avalon ended up being just over ... Read more »