I’m breaking into my regular schedule for an announcement.

BookBub Featured Deal!

Shadows of the Past will be a BookBub Featured Deal this week. It'll be available everywhere for 99 cents from the 28th through the 31st.

These featured deals are notoriously hard to get, and landing one feels like a bit of an accomplishment.

If you're a BookBub user, following me or leaving a review for one of my books would be a huge help. If you're not a BookBub user, check the site out. It's like Goodreads, but if Goodreads hadn’t suffered more than a decade of benign neglect and allowed links to booksellers other than Amazon.

Beasts in the Garden

Alternate history is my favorite genre, that's why I read and write it. But I still like to step out into other areas, especially with different sub-genres of science fiction and fantasy. I recently came across C. Gockel and her latest release Beasts in the Garden.

When John Miller signs up for the rescue mission to the Proxima Centauri outpost, he expects to find his former lover, Hana, the brilliant physicist behind the invention of near light engines, dead.

Instead he and his team find Hana missing and a large part of the outpost destroyed.

John's team suspects suicide. John knows Hana would never give up so easily.

It's a great read! Gockel's dialogue sparkles, and her take on time travel is intriguing.

New Peter Gabriel!

I listen to a lot of music, wandering between genres including but not limited to, progressive, metal, ambient, classical, punk, post-punk, and grunge. But I always end up back at one artist: Peter Gabriel. I think his stuff is timeless.

I was really excited to hear of a new album with a schedule similar to that of I/O in 2023: a new track released on the date of each full moon.

So far he's released two mixes of Been Undone, a song that is fitting in many ways. I prefer the Dark-Side version.

By all the forms that you get from the Mandelbrot set
I've been undone
By the recursive slaves in the home of the brave
I've been undone
Though I want to observe, it keeps touching a nerve
And I've been undone
By the past that you trace, by a moment of grace

I have been undone

You can subscribe to Peter over at Bandcamp and get new tracks added to your collection a few times a month. He releases tasty remixes, demos, and the occasional pre-release.

But Speaking of Different Genres

Despite 2026 already feeling about 40 weeks long, we're still in January and the All-Year Giveaway is still with us. I’m sure a bunch of you found this newsletter via the promotion, but maybe a few of you haven’t visited it yet.

This giveaway has books from a wide variety of different genres, including science fiction, fantasy, crime, mystery, and military fiction. Take a look and try a few titles out!