Beau Henry Series – A 3rd Book?

Trample the Weak has been out for nine months. Leap the Dead, for about two weeks. They both have good, strong looking sales, category rankings, and reviews.

So…

I’ll admit to it now since I already let it slip online…

There’s going to be a third book.

Eat the Survivors.

I’m about 15,000 words into it. (It’s got Nazi’s.)

Originally Trample the Weak and Leap the Dead was going to be one book… Named Operation Something Er Other. Then I signed a contract with a now defunct publishing house who requested it be turned into two books. Then, as I was writing, I had a wild idea of potential turning it into a longer series if the interest was there.

Which it appears to be.

So, there will be a third book. And possibly an as yet unnamed fourth. If this series goes on long enough, maybe we will even get around to slaying some Soviets as well. We will just go around the whole globe, killing bad people everywhere. It’ll be a gas!

In other news, I’m getting back in shape. As close as I can get to my 2019 body before I ruined it with concussions, depression, and eating my feelings. There’s a Spartan Race in South Carolina that I plan on doing this Nov. Giving me about 9 months to drop a ton of weight and learn how to run again.

I can’t wait to not be a giant slug anymore.

And I need more tattoos… But my Tat Guy is in jail for murder right now… so…. that’s a first world hardship to overcome…

But I’m rambling now.

I hope you all have a magnificent month.

Read muchly.

Shoot often.

Live free.

Erik.

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!