The Griffin Series

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Book 5 Underway

I am pleased to announce that Book 5 in The Griffin Series is midway through completion. The events in Book 5 take place 16 years after A Path of Majesty. 

The planet Galzeki is nearly in ruins. The Imperial war machine has halted its advance and the reclamation engines are grinding to a halt. But a dark lord is arising in the chaos, seizing control of the slave markets and speeding the planet's descent into genocide. 

Ka'vaelus visits his old allies on Archiva with a Call to Arms. Garrand and Vailetta are raising a son alongside the precognitive pandas they rescued in Book 4. Is the boy ready to take on the challenge of saving a planet?

Moving Forward

I'm pleased to announce that I have finally come to terms with the fact that *the giant project that I have worked on for years and years* has come of age. I have wrung my hands over and over for the last two months, wondering what oh what will I do now? It has been a painful process, watching my babies move into the world of "published novels." I have stopped obsessively tracking sales on Amazon. I have stopped carrying copies of the book around with me, just in case someone wants one.

Yes, I leave them in the car now. If you want one, I'll have to walk to the parking lot and get you one. You can swipe my Square reader and ta dah... Okay, so baby steps here admittedly, but you'd be surprised how many I sell sight unseen when someone hears I've written a book. 

But I have accepted that Garrand and Sid must face their battles now without me. I have been blessed with fantastic readers, solid sales, and wonderful reviews. I hope to keep pushing the novels to a wider audience across the world, but for now the words, the characters, and the stories stand for themselves.

So the good news is I'm writing the next novel. Not just poking around at my notes, or jotting down scraps of dialogue but really writing. And it's amazing how happy it makes me to be getting into the thick of it again!

So without further ado, I have begun story boards for Book 5 in The Griffin universe. And that's all I'm going to tell you for now...

The Void

There is a wonderful feeling after you publish the last book in a long series. It lasts about two and a half minutes. Then there is a terrible feeling that feels like it will stretch into eternity. A giant gaping void where the Big Project used to exist. There was always something new that needed doing. Another book to edit, another set of proofs to study, covers to design, back of book material to compose... A million problems to solve and decisions to make. The list seemed endless and all-consuming. And then suddenly I finished everything. Nothing left to fix. Nothing left to work on. Just that all-elusive glow of completion which feels like a brief ray of sunshine followed by dark, ominous clouds of Now What...

The four books of The Griffin Series are published. Now I must start The Next Big Thing. It's tough to start from scratch. It's daunting, scary, and bewildering. Must roll up sleeves and begin. Or maybe after I have one more glass of wine... 

Book 4 is Now Available

A Path of Majesty has been released. Buy the Kindle version on Amazon.

Ashes of Honor Hit #1 on Best Seller List

Thanks to the big promotion I'm running this weekend, Ashes of Honor is #1 in Science Fiction on Amazon. Thanks for the awesome support guys and girls! Don't forget, The Dreams of Men and Pandas is in a Countdown Sale right now. 

Ashes of Honor

Ashes of Honor is on Amazon as a paperback, or as a Kindle ebook. It is also available for Nook and iPad readers.

The book is 392 pages long and is available for free two-day shipping for Amazon Prime members.

Purchase a Paperback from Amazon

Readers may also purchase a signed copy of Ashes of Honor as a paperback directly from my Square Marketplace.

Purchase a Signed Paperback from Philip

Same price as Amazon, just shipped from North Carolina with my signature. Happy to personalize the message for you as well. 

Ashes of Honor is also available as an ebook in multiple formats. If you would like a Nook or iBook version, please send me an email to [email protected] and I'll be happy to send you the version of your choice.

#1 Bestseller

Ashes of Honor is #3 on the Bestseller List

Great way to start the weekend! The kids are rolling in from school, it's warm and blustery here in Carolina, and we have plans to hit the premiere of Catching Fire tonight. It's report card day and my littlest nailed it with 3 A's and a B. Very proud of her!! I've got a book on the bestseller list and the KDP Select promotion is already paying dividends for book 2: Sales of The Dreams of Men and Pandas are up 500% today.

Ashes of Honor Hits the Bestseller List

My first KDP Select promotion started this morning and the results have been spectacular. Ashes of Honor has jumped onto the Amazon Bestseller List for the first time and currently sits at #3 in the Science Fiction Space Opera category, putting me ahead of some serious big name authors.

When you look at the rankings from a broader perspective, Ashes ranks #34 in Science Fiction overall. That puts me ahead of Hugh Howey's Wool (which has been free for some time now) so I feel like I'm in good company.  He has a production deal with Ridley Scott—just sayin'...

H.G. Wells' The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds are just ahead of me. So I've still got my work cut out for me. It might be hard to climb much higher in this broad Science Fiction Bestseller List as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are going to be pretty hard to knock off! But is sure is fun thinking about it!!