First of all… Blood Creek has gone missing! Well, not really. The series is actually safe and sound, just temporarily missing from the storefronts. Amazon has a puppy to keep you company if you go to the link. Consider it temporarily “out of print.”
Here’s the scoop: I have acquired the rights to the series from my publisher, Immortal Works. This was all done amicably–they are great people and I consider them friends. There are just some things I want to do with the series that IW doesn’t currently have the resources to handle. So we worked it out. I’m super-excited for the “new edition” of the Blood Creek series to come out, with new covers and everything. But it’ll be a little bit. I hope you’ll find the wait is worth it!
(And I’ll include an image to the original cover for the first book here. Just to remember it by.)
Podcast Appearances
Monday I was on Geek Gab talking primarily about my new book, Dead to Rights. But of course, we talked about several of my books, and my experience in the video games industry. You can catch it here:
I was also on Matt Chat, which is normally focused on video games and video games history. The fact that Dead to Rights was based on the game Car Wars (which DID have a computer game adaptation back in the 1980s… Origin Systems’s “Autoduel“) probably helped on that front. Matt doesn’t do hyper-focused interviews. It’s just a couple of old acquaintances shooting the breeze for a couple of hours.
If you haven’t checked out Dead to Rights yet, it’s awesome! (In my totally biased opinion). You can check it out here:
https://jaybarnson.com/books/dead-to-rights-a-car-warriors-a…
Reminder: Free book!
My new, free novella is called Heart of the Sky. It’s my story of Amelia Earhart’s arrival in the world of The Vanished. Want a copy? It’s free. Did I mention free? Well, okay, it DOES ask for you to sign up to the newsletter, so there’s a catch. You can unsubscribe immediately after if you want, though. I won’t judge. Much. 🙂
https://dl.bookfunnel.com/xnq4kbhj5o
Heart of the Sky takes place almost ninety years before Queen of Monsters. Of course, the people of Earth, with their amazing regenerative powers, can theoretically live much, much longer. They rarely die of natural causes. Technically, she might still be around in Aiden’s time. But where? What happened to her? Even Alex Thompson, who once served with her in the military, hasn’t heard of her whereabouts in decades.
That’s a story for another time…
Anyway, enjoy the stuff. As always, be safe and have fun!