Leap the Dead – Release day!

Link is below.

https://amzn.to/46veyzM

Release day’s are so exciting. It’s the culmination of hours and hours of beating my keyboard. And now I get to watch and wait as reviews roll in.

And trust me, reviews are my very favorite thing about being an author.

A lot of authors say don’t read them.

But personally? I love ’em. It’s a direct response from the readers.

Sure, no two readers are the same. Opinions vary and such. And if 99 people out of 100 like something, there’s always one butt hole who will ruin it. So you kinda gotta take them with a grain of salt, but reading good reviews makes me happy inside. It means I did my job well. I entertained.

Actually, come to think of it. The only noticeably bad review I’ve ever received was on Goodreads for West of Prehistoric. Some fellow ‘author’… who writes poorly received lesbian romance…. hammered me for her not being able to finish the book because my main character wasn’t racist enough for the time period….

Sorry lady. I don’t write liberalism.

Anywho. I’m not bitter…

Her books are of wretched filth and have poor reviews. Mine are of toxic masculinity and have awesome reviews.

Suck it, loser.

Enjoy buying half a cup of Starbucks with your meager royalty checks. I’ll be over here ordering another case of military surplus 7.62 bullets.

I digress…

Leap the Dead is out. It’s awesome. It’s fun. Go get it and read it.

And leave a review. 🙂

https://amzn.to/4u1uoMF

Oh, and I forgot to mention.

West of Prehistoric is 99 cents this week. And that’s a steal of 118,000 words of awesomeness for a rock bottom price.

Get you some of that one as well.

Link below!

https://amzn.to/4aTOVtN

Internet Forums that I owe my Authorhood to…

So in the back of my books, I always try to shout out to a few forums that have been immensely helpful to me getting started actually selling books.

I owe them a LOT.

And as I was spreading the news on them that Trample the Weak is $0.99/EBOOK for this week…. (hinthint)

I wanted to do a quick math problem.

When I finished my first book, I posted the exact same new thread in each of their General Forums. That was on October 2nd, 2020.

Which is such a long time ago.

(My very first book, West of Prehistoric, came out on Sept 18th, 2020.)

Here’s the thread, which was posted here as well.

C’mon you apes! Do you wanna READ forever? (Book PUBLISHED!)

Fast forward a few years to Feb 2026… And these are the stats on those forums/thread.

NC4x4.com – 288 Replies, 34,000ish views.

CarolinaFirearmsForum.com – 345 replies, 13,000ish views.

FalFiles.com – 121 replies, 9,000ish views.

Total of: 754 replies and 56,000ish views.

That’s just nuts. Granted, a lot of those replies were me giving updates on my writing journey and release information. But still, that’s a LOT of participation.

And I certainly wouldn’t be doing as well as I am now without them.

Many thanks amigos!

Leap The Dead – PRE-ORDER IS LIVE!

Pre-order HERE!

Comes out Feb 27th!

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After their greatest defeat in the 170 year history of the United States Marine Corps, 1st Marine Division is shipping out to retake Yeuhan Island.

Their objective?

Fight through a large scale assault on the beach defended by thousands of monstrous kaiju, retake the airfield, and work through the cavernous tunnels and underground infrastructure of the island to root out the Emperor’s evil and sadistic Unit Thirty-Five.

And, supposedly, not die in the process.

Sergeant Beau Henry doesn’t want to survive though.

He wants to die.

But unknown to either America or Japan, Unit Thirty-Five has new plans for their biochemical weapons and technological advancements.

And the task of ending them will push Henry to the breaking point.

It will take all his willpower, his beliefs, his weapons, and his men to defeat those who would challenge the world.

Because if he fails, Unit Thirty-Five will be unstoppable.

Can a man who wants to die live long enough to do what is asked?

Will duty and honor overcome selfish desire?

Henry is about to find out.

Trample the Weak’s Audio Book is released! And Leap the Dead is finished!

Let there be much rejoicing and huzzah!

Trample the Weak is out in Audible form! Narrated by my favorite guy, Chris Lyell. Who I grew up with. And did many a stupid thing together. (But we survived! More Huzzah!) LINK BELOW:

AUDIBLE LINK HERE.

Leap the Dead is finished. Cover art is in the works by the amazing Matt James and final edit is going on now(think I’m at Chapter 14 of 54), followed by the ‘put together’ of the book. Ya know… formatting, adding all those little pages like copyright, chapter list, about the author, what else I’ve written, etc.

So that’s awesome.

Should be released in kindle/paperback by end of Feb.

Can’t wait for you guys to go back to the blood soaked island of death and monsters!

Hasta La Vista, 2025. Bring on 2026!

Leap The Dead will be finished by the end of next week. That’s book… -counts fingers- seven.

Not bad.

I started it May of 2025. So, 9 months. That’s the shortest time it’s taken me to write a book yet.

My favorite cover artist, fellow author Matt James, is working on that part. Also, my favorite narrator, Christopher Lyell, is going to be dragged back in to do the audio on this one as well. (After three weeks so far of dealing with Amazon ACX/Audible trying to get the cover art uploaded – we finally wrapped that up Trample the Weak last week. Now it’s around ten days of waiting for approval…) And as for myself, I’ve an idea for a third book to continue the Beau Henry series. Which will likely be titled, ‘Eat the Survivors‘.

I also have ‘Settling Prehistoric‘ on the brain. I miss Jedidiah Huckleberry Smith, his horse Carbine, his love Skyla, and all that chaos of fun western characters in the lost world of Prehistoria…

Conquering Prehistoric, the 5th book in the series, was a blast to write from a new perspective. Cato ‘The Black Plague’ Landry was a cool character who needed his story to be told. And bringing a lost Roman Legion into the story was fun as well. I mean, c’mon… Roman’s vs Cowboys. Heck yeah.

But ultimately, while the reviews are at an awesome average of 4.7/5 stars, it wasn’t as popular as the Jedidiah books. And Settling Prehistoric would be going back to Jed as the main character, with his ‘family’ intact, and a dangerous new threat that was hinted at in the end of Conquering Prehistoric. (So I reckon you ought to read that one even if you wanted more Jed… just for the reveal at the end.)

After almost two years away from Prehistoria, I feel like I need to re-read the books first while I work on an outline. I’ve been so glued into WWII and the Pacific Theater, that it’s going to take some work to recall all the details of the West of Prehistoric series.

That may give me time to figure out the next series I’d like to work on. And also give another book to the fans of WoP before 2026 is over…

But expect a cover reveal post and pre-order option soon for Leap the Dead. Which will hopefully coincide with a ‘Audible Release!’ announcement for Trample the Weak.

Things are a moving.

Cheers to 2026.

May we make all things better than they were before.

Erik.