Loyalty to the Cause

Posted on March 8, 2014 by BR

I am pleased to announce the title for the fourth installment of the TCOTU series, Loyalty to the Cause. This was a harder than normal book to title. Usually when I finish the book that comes before, Book Three in this case, the next book’s title pops out as an obvious choice in the dialogue from one of my characters.

Not so much with this title. There were some close calls but nothing fit exactly right. I have to give credit to my wife, who found the little jewel hiding in plain sight. Book Five (the final book in the series) most likely has a name that reflects Heskan’s overall story but I want to be sure something even better doesn’t evolve when writing Book Four.

Book Three, The Wrong Side of Space, will certainly be out in early Summer (and more accurately, late Spring). This weekend I am delivering the draft to beta readers, and they’ll have a month to comment on it.  I am then hoping for a late Fall release of Loyalty to the Cause and then an early Summer of 2015 for Book Five. I’ve previously mentioned the possibility of a short story or novella following Lombardi but I’m not sure how that would fit into my timeline. We’ll see how it goes and if that gets written.

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No Way to Start a War on Indie Book of the Day

Posted on March 2, 2014 by BR

I missed being able to post this on Friday, but No Way to Start a War was featured as Book of the Day over on IBD.  Always fun to flip through the books on sites dedicated to supporting indie authors, so please do go check them out!

Royal Certificates

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If a Starship Leaves Bree, How Far to Tetium?

Posted on February 10, 2014 by BR

As I was writing The Wrong Side of Space, I began to realize just how much of the universe was beginning to fill up.  New London, New Roma, Dionne (anyone remember that one?) and so many other systems have been named and casually remarked about.

I recently made a point to keep track of the locations I’ve named and I finally got around to placing names to locations.  The Galaxy Map  (on the Stellar Maps page) has been updated with a “safe” map to view.  I quoted safe because there are still some pseudo-spoilers.  Sure, Novya Zemya is benign enough but how the heck do some of these other systems fit in?

So, if you want to be completely spoiler-free, don’t expand the map.  If you’re curious where Janus is or perhaps you always wanted to catch a Slamball game at Tetium, now you can at least know how many dives you are from it.

For the most part, I have hidden the names of systems not in the Brevic Republic although I have named quite a few of those.  Maybe, in time, they might be relevant.

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