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Karma and Summary Justice

On By TomIn Achievement, author ideas, beta readers, collections, Competitions, editing, General, Insight, Novel, Promotion, reading, self-publishing, series, Short Stories, thriller, work in progress, writing

Harriet: and other stories is now available. You’ll find more of my brand of karma and summary justice within. This is my first anthology for four years.

Three of the tales were written for this collection, and nine were created over the past three years for the regular 1,000-word challenge in Connections eMagazine. Fellow author Melanie P. Smith produces the quarterly digital publication. Each edition has short stories, new releases, special features, and author profiles.

This is the eighth collection of short stories I’ve published featuring only my work, and with my collaboration anthologies, it’s my eleventh collection to date. (Not including erotica).

I aim to publish Another Taste of Honey during December. The manuscript is now in the hands of my beta readers, so when their reports are returned to me, I’ll work through their comments and suggestions, followed by a final punctuation and grammar check.

This sequel has been a long time coming, and I want it to be received as well as the first part of the heroine’s story, A Taste of Honey.

As always, thank you for dropping by, and for any comments.

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Constance is available

On By TomIn Achievement, author honesty, author ideas, beta readers, collections, General, Insight, Novel, paperback, Promotion, reading, relaxation, self-publishing, series, thriller, trilogy, writing3 Comments

I’m delighted to announce that Constance, my latest crime thriller, is now available in digital format from Amazon. The paperback edition will be released soon.

Constance began her existence in a supporting role in Crusader, but soon evolved as much more than a female sidekick to the vigilante detective. Here was a young woman with a personal agenda, not too far removed from that of her personal idols, the members of the Beyond The Law (BTL) vigilante team.

Within the story, I’ve used brief selected passages from Codename: Foxglove, and Crusader. These scenes help to develop the tale and the main character, using a mixture of narrative and dialogue, but they’re not simply copied from the other two books. The chosen scenarios are reduced in content, and told from a different point of view.

This story is neither a prequel nor a sequel to Crusader, and is, in effect, an overlapping tale. We see how Constance proved her ability before she moved to London. We also gain an insight to her character while she’s working with Jason (Crusader), and how she operates when he leaves the Met. There’s no need to have read Crusader, however, I’m hoping that readers will be tempted to read about both member of this team in their own stories.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my beta readers from the Indie Author Support and Discussion group, Ruth Coulson aka (Rebecca Bryn), Cherime MacFarlane and Barbara Speake.

Special thanks to Sharon Brownlie of Aspire Book Covers for her advice and assistance in improving my cover solution for Constance.

As always, comments are welcome, and thank you for reading.