Hey, you beautiful Space Cadets! I wanted to take a break from writing my new series, The Cyborg Corps, to let you know about this fantastic steal of a deal! My series, The Sleeping Legion, is currently on sale. If you haven’t read them, now would be a good time to buy!
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Cadences & Chants Galore
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Hello Space Cadet, today I wanted to muse about some parts of my time in the Big Green Weenie. It inspired this post, as I tackle the role that cadences and martial music in the development of military culture and Continue reading
Sales and other nice things!
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Hey Space Cadets, I hope life finds you well! I am doing good, preparing for my wife’s surgery next month and trying to write every day. The good news, the surgeon thinks she will recover quickly and be back to where she was before the car accident last year! Then it’s back to the races. I still have my Order of the Centurion book in the Galaxy’s Edge Universe tentatively scheduled for late fall and I submitted a short story in the next Four Horsemen Universe anthology in September. I should find out if it was accepted soon, and I’ll let you know! I’ll have additional writing announcements soon, as a certain project is nearing a date with an editing guru! Continue reading
Lance Scipio’s Story Continues
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The Sleeping Legion
Hey Space Cadets, I just wanted to pass some information to you. I thought you might want to know how Lance’s story ends! You can find it in Tim C. Taylor’s new books that are out now, Battle of Earth Part 1: and Battle of Earth Part 2: Restart. I definitely wanted to know – so I have recently bought them. Come along on the journey with me! Continue reading
Movie Review: HALO 4: Forward Unto Dawn
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Book 4 Updates
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Hello Space Cadets! I just wanted to give you an update on where we are in the process for Book 4. First, the title has been decided!! We chose Insurgency: Spartika for the official name, so I can stop calling it “Book 4!” And to make things better, it looks like the final book in The Sleeping Legion
FAMILY TIME
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Hey Space Cadets, how’re ya’ll doing on this fine day? I’m doing great, working hard on edits for a short story and book four! I’m excited to see how the story ends before moving on to the next project. During this time, when I don’t have deadlines beating me about the head and shoulders, I took some family time. Took my bride on the date to Red Lobster, killed my diet and one meal, and generally have been having a blast! Okay, I know that some people might suggest that it’s a little low rent, but chain restaurants are budget friendly. Maybe if the next book sells like hotcakes, I’ll try a “real” seafood place. I’m told that I’m a bad representation of the Tidewater Region of Virginia because I’ve never had lobster. Eventually, I will fix this, but only after we keep the power on! Continue reading
Book Four Updates
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Hey Space Cadets, how’re ya doing on this fine August day? I just wanted to give you a quick update on where we are with book four. Right now Boss Man and I are still batting around ideas for a title for the book, since Maternal Vengeance wasn’t the best fit. I can promise you that as soon as we know, you will! We do know that the cover won’t change since we want a continuous look across all of them. I think that the editing and rewriting for this book will take longer than the others, but it’ll be a good learning experience for me. I have to worry about tying up all the plot threads that I strung along, and linking the series back into the final Continue reading
The Sleeping Legion is Awake!!
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Hey Space Cadets! Today I get to make the happy announcement – I finished the fourth and final book of the Sleeping Legion Series! I sent it to Boss Man and my editor on July 12th, and I couldn’t be happier. This book will link the Sleeping Legion back into the main body of the Human Legion, though I can’t say more than that upon pain of death from Boss Man! Surprisingly, I feel a little sad that it’s all over. I’ve been with these characters, and this universe, since I signed the contract with Boss Man in August 2015. If the audience wants it enough, there will be the follow-on series, The Sleeping Fleet, but that one is up in the air at the moment. I guess you could say the Sleeping Legion is now awake? Anyway, I’ll be working on the edits, finalizing the name and cover, before moving on to the next project. More about that to come!
Marine Monday: Spartika
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Hey Space Cadets, how are you this fine Monday? I’m doing better, slowly getting my word counts back to where they were before I took a month off to take care of my wife after her car accident. Thank you to every one of you kind souls who asked after her health, I’m pleased to say the physical therapy is working and she is doing better. She still has some residuals from the concussion, but the doctors are happy with how she is progressing. Our parents and I joined in to insist that she take the summer off of college, so hopefully we can ensure a full recovery. Now that things are back on track, I’ll be setting my target goal for when book four and five will be done. I’ve charted out my path going forward, and I know where the series will end which is huge for me! I can’t wait to share that with you, bringing you along for the ride.
Now, what comes next for me? Well, I’ve planned a series I’ll be writing after I finish the Sleeping Legion Series, and a contract for it has been signed with a small press. I can’t tell you any more right now, but there will continue to be more shenanigans escaping my piehole and infesting your brain buckets!
Okay, so on to our regularly scheduled Marine Monday! Today I was leaked, by our friendly neighborhood LegionLeak source, the official bio of Marine Spartika. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because she once strode the pages of the main Human Legion Series. It’s been hard for her, she’s loved and lost and been enslaved. Her friends have died in front of her, and she survived torture, but through charisma and the sheer force of her will she endures and overcomes. If you’re intrigued, then on to the important parts! Remember, destroy this message after reading it so the anonymous source can live long enough to continue feeding us excellent intelligence! Without further ado, here is the leaked document!
Hopefully you enjoyed this sneak peek into our favorite Marines official record. If you did, stay tuned for next week as we anxiously wait for the latest documents smuggled our way!
Until next time, stay frosty and don’t forget to keep your powder dry!
JR
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