As 2024 dawns, I wanted to get back to regular posts on this blog.

The first thing I’d like to do is announce two new Kindle publications in my Worlds of Sol series.

Fire in the Belt is a prequel to my novel Asteroid Gambit.

Earth is in trouble. Mining and manufacturing in space are mitigating climate deterioration, but the number of mineable near-Earth asteroids is dwindling. Most are rubble piles unsuitable for resource extraction.

Will Lafontaine wants to use nuclear warheads to move mineable asteroids to Earth from the Belt, but his old-fashioned boss refuses to innovate. His co-worker Amanda offers to help, but he doesn’t trust her agenda. The shady investors he finds to finance the project demand results above all else, and the next launch window for a trip to the Belt is looming.

Will is running out of time.

Can he and Amanda find a way to work together to validate his concept and expand Earth’s reach to the Solar System? Only pride and stubbornness stand in his way.

A beta reviewer said this about Fire: The world-building is just incredible. There were times I thought you must be writing from personal experience in that world (that doesn’t exist), that’s how good it is.

Ryan’s Debt is another story in the Worlds of Sol series about Pat Ryan, a UNS Marine whose lover and fellow Marine, Jacqueline, is mortally wounded protecting him in a firefight. Before she dies, she asks him to go to Mars and help her daughter, who lives in an independent farm in the Martian outback. He musters out of the Marines and goes to Mars, where he learns the farm is far from independent. If he wants to keep his pledge, he’ll need all his combat training just to stay alive.

If you read these or any of my other stories, please leave a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads. Reviews are the lifeblood of indie authors.

I have more WiP novels I hope to publish in 2024. Stay tuned.