Book Four

Book Four is completed. 135,000 words and 250 single spaced pages.

VIPER re-released

The new edition of TARGET VIPER is now up on Amazon, and will be available to download for free today through Friday February 28. The kindle app is also free to download, so no reason not to get a copy. Get it here.

Continuing work on VIPER

Continuing with edits and revisions on VIPER. No significant re-writes or retooling of the plot on this one, but numerous tweaking throughout, mostly added dialogue and character moments and fleshing out some scenes that were quickly glossed over in serious cases of "telling rather than showing." Also, when this new version is completed, it just might be my favorite of the four novels I have written. It will be on Amazon later this month.

Editing Viper

Editing and tweaking VIPER before it's re-published, and in retrospect I don't recall making it this dark, but it has incest, rape, torture, a touch of cannibalism, collateral damage, high civilian casualties, numerous characters with miserable or pyschotic backstories, and the last page leaves the main character possibly left for dead and bleeding out in the desert. Oh, and someone gets his balls shot off. Kinda makes me wonder where my head was at back then.

Weapons Grade now available

WEAPONS GRADE (formerly SCORPION) is up and available to download for free today through Friday.

Book News, Finally

I've completed edits and revisions on Book One (formerly SCORPION, now WEAPONS GRADE). Keeping in mind author Steven Hildreth, Jr. 's criticisms on showing vs telling, I've ended up adding 14,000 words. I made numerous changes and added some new stuff (like Avery being detained for interrogation by Tajikistan's KGB) throughout to make a more cohesive narrative and tighter story, as well as tweaking some technical details, like swapping out the Ground Branch team's MP5 subguns for M4A1 CQBRs. Suffice to say, if you already have the old edition, I'd highly recommend replacing it with the new edition, especially since it will be free the first week week it is published (sometime in the next two weeks). VIPER will be next and probably published the following month.

Books Relaunched

After a trademark dispute earlier this week, the books will be re-launched as new editions, this time without the "Scorpion" series branding. The books will be up on Amazon shortly. Each week for the next three weeks, one of the books will be available for free, so even if you already have them, now is a good time to get the new editions. Plus, I've done a lot edits and re-writes on them over the years to clean up the text.

Book One, now called WEAPONS GRADE, will likely be up this weekend, and free. TARGET VIPER will be free the following week, followed by SUBVERSIVE ACTION on the third week. 

Given how some Amazon reviewers operate, hopefully I can avoid a slew of 1 star "reviews" from people complaining that they bought (re: downloaded for free) the same book with a different name (despite identical plot summaries and being able to read the free preview).

If you previously left a review for the original editions, please consider re-posting them if you have the time.

With that out of the way, it is time to continue writing ROGUE STATE, which is at 100,000 words and awaiting a conclusion.  

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