Some of you may have already seen that Insurrection won the Literary Titan Gold award. In a five star review, Insurrection was described, in part, this way: “It is refreshing to see that Farlow’s focus is not solely on action but rather on the well-thought-out plans and tactics that are…
Things are moving along on schedule with the launch of Retribution on November 7. I have noted on several venues that the book can be pre-ordered now. One reader went online and found that refers only to the eBook. That is correct. Unlike past launches, Amazon has changed its procedures…
Crucible: Records of the Argos just won First Place in adult fiction from the North Texas Book Festival. It was quite a surprise given that there was no category for Science Fiction. To be fair, the book tied for first along with Kimberly Packard’s Dire’s Club. Interestingly, we were both…
Best Science Fiction Series according to the Texas Association of Authors. That was the award for my first three books in the Host series starting with Future Discovered. Was I surprised? Yes. How did it feel? After a lot of work, it was great to have some solid recognition. I…
This coming Saturday, June 9th, I will be at the Wimberly Book Festival in Wimberly, Texas. I don’t get a chance to do this often, so I hope you can make an adventure out of the trip to see and meet fifty Texas authors like me. Of course, you have…
My primary editor Tammy Salyer reminded me that I started this writing adventure just over two years ago with the objective of doing three books (then a trilogy) by September of this year. And, thanks to a lot of people, I can get there as planned. I may move the…
One of the hardest things for an author to get are book reviews. That may seem odd given that people in general have all sorts of views on nearly everything. But try and get them to publish their views on a book, a story or an article is like pulling…
For years now experienced authors have been telling new writers that reading is important, especially in the genre they would like to write in. Read a lot, they say. Unfortunately, they don’t tell you what they really mean . . . the secret. I read a lot and by some…
