The Bearens' Hope is Just Days Away!

We are in the final stages of getting The Bearens' Hope ready for publication.  We hope to have it available for purchase in a week to ten days from today, depending on how things go.  Laura Jo has finished the manuscript and is going through it, filling in small scenes here and there, and making some tweaks.  I have edited about 40% of the book so far and I'm very, very impressed.

To whet your appetite, I am authorized to tell you that, in this book, readers are going to really get to know Ellicia Daniels, sister to Lariah, the heroine from Book One and a significant presence in the later novels.  As many of you remember, Ellicia is a psychic Agent for an organization whose covert business will also be glimpsed a bit more fully in this novel.  In addition, a good portion of the action in this book takes place on Earth, much of which will be familiar to readers but much of which has been changed almost beyond recognition by the horribly destructive Bolkin Wars.

Don't let all that military/spy stuff fool you, though.  This book has enough romance and love and heart in it for two books.  In fact, readers will be getting two love stories and an even twistier emotional ride than in the first three books.  There are some parts that brought me to tears, and I'm a guy.

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, this book is going to be significantly longer than the others.  Accordingly, our publication costs, in both the digital and paperback versions, are going to be slightly higher, requiring that we pass the cost on to our readers.  We want to keep these books very affordable, so the price will not increase by much and will go up only as much as our costs, but it is looking like the cost of the e book is going to be $6.99 (up from $5.99 for the first three books).  We think that readers will still be getting a good value, as this book is going to be somewhere between 35% and 50% longer than Book Three.  On a page for page basis, in fact, this book will actually be cheaper than the others!

We will alert you as we progress toward publication and will be sure to put a notice in this space when we upload the text so you will know when the book becomes available.