Author Update April 2025

Hello Readers,

I have two exciting updates to share with you!

(1) I have been hard at work on two fantasy novels, and, by some unplanned coincidence, I have finished them both at the same time, namely, right now. So, later this month, I will be publishing, not one, but two brand-new never-before-released novels! Look forward to them. One is a historical fantasy romance, and the other is an urban fantasy magical realism holiday novel.

(2) I had kept my books exclusive to Amazon, which gave me certain perks when selling on Amazon, but I have made the decision to "go wide." This will enable me to do something I have never done before: set some of my books' prices to permafree. So, later this month, tell your friends to take a look at my books, because some of them will be priced at free. Amazon sets a minimum price of 99 cents, but, if my understanding is correct, once my books are in Barnes & Noble and Apple iBookstore, those ones in those online stores I can set to free, and I plan to price some of them at free. We'll see how it goes.

(3) I have done a rewrite of my novel The Crystal of Light. It was already averaging 4 stars on Goodreads, so readers thought it was an above-average novel, but the one bad thing reviews said about it is that it starts too slowly, so I changed the way the opening unfolds to try to start the action sooner, and my hope is the new edition will average 5 stars on Goodreads. The Crystal of Light is one of the books I am planning to permafree later this month: I feel that it is a good entry point into my fiction for readers unfamiliar with my novels, because it is probably my best novel. So look forward to reading it for free later in 2025.

Trump's Mistake

Everyone knew Trump was going to do tariffs and everyone knew Trump was going to lower taxes, but everyone expected him to cut taxes first and then do tariffs. Instead, he decided to do the tariffs first. That was a mistake. Why? In my blog post where I predicted a Trump win long before anyone else, I said that Trump would be elected for one reason and one reason alone: to lower prices. You lower prices by cutting taxes, and the argument for the tariffs was that the tariffs would fund the government once the taxes were gone. I know Trump and his "DOGE" are firing federal employees at a rapid pace to try to lower the government's costs, but he needed to do a massive tax cut before going all in on the tariffs. If he fails to lower prices, he will find that the Trump show will get a short leash from the American public, and every month that prices don't go down, that leash will get shorter. Don't forget that Trump won the popular vote by a narrow margin, and the Democrats haven't all just disappeared, although right now they're pretending that they have. If prices stay high, they will return. And I'm sure he knows this, too, it's just that he made a very questionable decision.

Book Launch! New Book Released!

Hello Readers and Fans,

I have completed and published my latest book, Lord of the Right. The link is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS95ZT3G. If you like history, politics, or current events, this is the book for you!

As one final author update, I am still hard at work on my urban fantasy novel, but that one might take a few more months to complete.