Yes, I'm still heading for Atlanta. I still have a blog to do.
You know, it's occurred to me that I should probably so something really strange .... and have a blog post that actually collects, you know, my books.
Yes, I know, I'm slow.
I'm going to be putting these together in order, sort of. Mostly in chronological by story. Most of these books are not really that tightly interwoven. For example, It Was Only on Stun! marks the first appearance of Sean A.P. Ryan, but you don't need to read it in order to understand The Pius Trilogy. Technically, you don't even need it to understand Set To Kill when that comes out.
Granted, I want you to buy all of them, but I'm not going to force it.
This one, everyone knows. Why? Because it's "murder mystery at a science fiction convention." I won't say it's typical at all, because, well, this one has terrorists, assassins, and a psychotic who thinks he's an elf.
Or is he?
The follow up anthologies, which are really prequels, are
There are some people who might suggest that this comes first before any of the other books. Technically true. All of the stories in these are the result of, well, promotion. I was trying to build up buzz for the Pius trilogy with stories about the characters. That's how I had....
Sean Ryan vs. the IRA, on twitter .... and versus the meth dealers, on a public street...and in a mall on Black Friday
Scott Murphy, Catholic Mossad Spy, blowing up Bethlehem and Boston.
Jon Koneig, Mafia Enforcer, versus drug lords.
Father Frank Williams .... vs. terrorists on St. Patrick's Day.
Yeah. I had some fun.
The year is 2093. Lt. Kevin Anderson is a spy.
Then everything he knew and loved was blown up by corrupt politicians.
This means war.
You know, it's occurred to me that I should probably so something really strange .... and have a blog post that actually collects, you know, my books.
Yes, I know, I'm slow.
I'm going to be putting these together in order, sort of. Mostly in chronological by story. Most of these books are not really that tightly interwoven. For example, It Was Only on Stun! marks the first appearance of Sean A.P. Ryan, but you don't need to read it in order to understand The Pius Trilogy. Technically, you don't even need it to understand Set To Kill when that comes out.
Granted, I want you to buy all of them, but I'm not going to force it.
This one, everyone knows. Why? Because it's "murder mystery at a science fiction convention." I won't say it's typical at all, because, well, this one has terrorists, assassins, and a psychotic who thinks he's an elf.
Or is he?
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| A Pius Man: A Holy Thriller |
You've seen every Dan Brown knockoff in existence. You know, a Mozart conspiracy, or a Michelangelo Pattern, and Daniel Silva, or I don't know, someone else who decides to smash pseudo-history together with "high technology" MacGuffins.
Granted, Dan Brown is actually a knockoff of James Rollins, who had been putting theoretical science together with mysteries of history well before Brown's train wreck of a series.
The Pius Trilogy is pretty much where I started in the general insanity of my writing career. Stun! came first, but Pius is what I was passionate about for years. It ate a decade of my life, and if you don't believe, me, I can tell you I went through two agents just getting there.
You want history? We got history.
You want a culture war? We fight it with real bullets.
You tired of seeing religion put on trial? See it mount a defense.
Hate lawyers? I think we shoot some.
War on God? God will have none of it. I'm putting the militant in "church militant."
We have an evil Cardinal, a psychotic mercenary, shady priests, a zealous Pope, and everything you think I'm going to do with them, you're wrong.
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| Pius Origins |
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| Pius Holidays |
But, you can get both of them in the complete Pius Tales.
There are some people who might suggest that this comes first before any of the other books. Technically true. All of the stories in these are the result of, well, promotion. I was trying to build up buzz for the Pius trilogy with stories about the characters. That's how I had....
Sean Ryan vs. the IRA, on twitter .... and versus the meth dealers, on a public street...and in a mall on Black Friday
Scott Murphy, Catholic Mossad Spy, blowing up Bethlehem and Boston.
Jon Koneig, Mafia Enforcer, versus drug lords.
Father Frank Williams .... vs. terrorists on St. Patrick's Day.
Yeah. I had some fun.
On the one hand, this is out of order. Other books have come out since then. However, this is the cherry on top of the trilogy. It's the final straw, really. It's all the footnotes, to pretty much everything I used over the course of the entire series.
Because when in doubt, through everything out there, and see what's bought.
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| Codename Winterborn |
The year is 2093. Lt. Kevin Anderson is a spy.
Then everything he knew and loved was blown up by corrupt politicians.
This means war.
Can you tell that I like that song?
Honor At Stake
Anyway, this doesn't have any connection to the other books. But I enjoyed myself.
Honor At Stake
And, of course, the Sad Puppies and Dragon Award nominated book, Honor at Stake.
If I haven't talked up this book enough lately, I have not done my job.
For All Their Wars Are Merry
Exactly what the title says.
So that's all nine books -- and I'm not counting the pieces and parts of Tales, it's just one book, as far as I'm concerned. I have at least three more that are ready to launch within a matter of weeks.
Don't worry, I'm not going away any time soon.
Any chance of a sequel to Winterborn? What happens to the 500 priests? Does Kevin ever get out of the assassin business? Inquiring readers (ok, one reader) want to know.
ReplyDeleteIn the works. They're hadn't been a lot of interest expressed in one
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