A long overdue update!

Hello everyone, I’ve been very very delinquent in posting to the web site, mostly because I absolutely need to make a habit of updates, but in my head I’d had several things I wanted to happen before I “announced” anything–and they finally did. So, without further ado, here’s a list of things that are cooking and you should be seeing in the scheduled future.

Now that all the contracts have been signed, I can say that I’ll have my first-ever collaboration coming out from Baen Books (distributed by Simon & Schuster) called Time Trials. Yes, it’s being published by a traditional publishing house, which means the schedules for such things are soooo different than when I have more control of things–meaning things take longer to get to the readers, but I hope the wait is rewarded.

It will be distributed everywhere books are sold, and that includes the shelves wherever folks buy books nowadays.

I am also releasing a German translation of the book at roughly the same time as the English version. So, for my German readers, gern geschehen.

My co-author, Dave, is a Renaissance man in his own right, and wears many hats, including attorney, stand-in for the Jolly Green Giant when the green man isn’t available for commercials (maybe I’m joking, maybe I’m not), and an author whose “thing” is history. So, if you can imagine a story coming out of a mashup of efforts from a science/thriller nerd and an alt-history fantasy type person, well… that’s what Time Trials gets you. I think many of you will enjoy it.

I won’t give too much away or talk too much about it until there’s a pre-order page up (which I’ve been told should happen in July). That being said, I can give you a sneak peek at the book cover (it may get tweaked before the final version). I can also give you an idea that it should be released by March 2023.

For fans of the Levi Yoder series, I’m also putting the final touches on The Swamp.

It is currently available for pre-order, and should release by mid-July.

And there’s one more new book to talk about, and I’ll admit to being particularly excited about it. It’s called Multiverse.

It too is available for pre-order and should release near the end of the year or earlier.

Since it’s my first TRUE technothriller since I released Darwin’s Cipher, let me give you a bit of a description.

When Michael Salomon wakes up Tuesday morning, he did so with a smile, knowing that today would be a positive turning point in his career. With a wife he deeply loves and a child on the way, he couldn’t shake the feeling that something bad was about to happen. As he drives into work, a feeling of anguish floods through him and he sees himself alone, at the gravesite of an unborn daughter. It feels like a crystal-clear memory, a waking nightmare that nearly sends him crashing into the car in front of him.

Michael is a professor of particle physics at Princeton and he’d made a breakthrough discovery late the night before. The idea of faster-than-light particles has been a part of science fiction lore for fifty years, yet last night he’d proven that they exist.

Going into the office, he hasn’t even had a chance to tell the head of his department what he’s discovered when the men from DARPA came calling. The entirety of his research has suddenly become classified, an object of national security.

But it was only when a young college student intercepts him as he gets into his car that he knows the life he’s looking forward to is over.

The student has memories of her future self… a future where she’s worked with him, and helped extend his research. She knows things that he’s only thought of as possibilities, and she speaks of them as if they’d already happened. And most chilling of all, she speaks of a future where they are both in hiding from the government that sees them as the enemy.

MULTIVERSE is a story about a scientist who uncovers a way to pierce the veil of time and space, and has unwittingly opened Pandora’s box.

Is it even possible to undo what a future version of yourself has done, or is everyone doomed to the chaos that’s been loosed on the world?

And last, but not least of the new literary things, I did release my first book in French, a translated version of Darwin’s Cipher.

For those who are interested, you can find it at this link.

I hope you guys enjoy the books, and I will seriously try to post more often. If you have any particular questions or comments, just respond to this post. Even though I may have “vanished” for a while, I do pay attention to comments/e-mails/etc.

Thanks,
Mike