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RONIN BORN is available now!

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I’ve had ideas on this title for a while. I wanted to write another book set in Japan, and influenced by some different movies (in particular Battle Royale and Ghost in the Shell), I came up with the idea of Ronin Born, a new cyberpunk superhero novel.

The setting is a futuristic version of Japan. Technology has advanced to an incredible degree and Japan is a powerful player on the world stage with military strength to add. After serving in the armed forces, Erika receives a promotion to the Tokkei, the nation’s top intelligence agency.

Equipped with cutting-edge armor, Erika has the opportunity to prove herself to her superiors. But the case she’s been assigned has a darker element. One in which government, business, and criminal interests all converge, profiting off the suffering of those who cannot defend themselves.

It forces Erika into a difficult situation. Will she preserve her career or her soul?

I’m really excited you now have the opportunity to read this book. I feel like it’s set in a very interesting and intriguing world, one I’ve spent a lot of time craft.

You can purchase the book as an ebook or paperback through Amazon, or read it for free with your Kindle Unlimited subscription.

The epic conclusion of VANGUARD!

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The end is nigh! The adventures of Vanguard conclude here in Vanguard: Season Five, now available on Amazon and in paperback!

Talon has been thrown into the past, right before the Kotharian forces are poised to take control of the Earth! Can she bring Vanguard back together, help them discover the traitor in their midst, and find a way to stop the alien invasion before her own hellish future comes to pass?

All secrets are answered! Old enemies and allies return! All in the epic conclusion to Vanguard!

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If you want to see more Vanguard, then help spread the word! A series can only continue if fans support it, so show your support by reviewing each book in the series, sharing the books with your fellow superhero fans, and letting your social networks know about it!

In fact, here’s a great way to start…

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Myself and several other superhero authors have teamed up with InstaFreebie to offer free superhero books from now until December 19th! Get free books and help share this giveaway with others, using the hashtags #InstaFreebie and #SuperFree!

Click here to view the free books!

Vanguard: Season Four now available!

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The wait is over! Vanguard: Season Four is now available on Amazon! And this week only, you can save $3 by picking it up for the special launch price of $0.99! Or read it for free if you’re a member of Kindle Unlimited.

When I first began planning Vanguard, I had a rough idea for the focus of each season, and Season Four takes influence from the classic X-Men story Days of Future Past by taking place entirely in the future! See the outcome of the alien invasion, meet the new members of Vanguard, and thrill as the team tries to send back Chronos in order to save the world!

And once you’ve read it, don’t forget to leave a review telling everyone what you thought.

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Vanguard #12 available now!

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The latest episode of Vanguard is now available! Continue the third season in the twelfth episode, which sees the team facing a threat against one of their own!

Check out the description below:

When a Cerberus agent turns up dead while investigating an underground ring of fight clubs, Gunsmith is tasked with finishing the job. There’s just one problem—these clubs are using genetic experimentation to grant superhuman abilities to their fighters, with catastrophic results! Can Vanguard discover the truth behind these clubs before one of their own succumbs?

More information comes to light and pieces are moved into place that will lead to a surprising season finale!

The episode is available free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers or for a limited time, it will be available for 99¢. Hurry up and get the episode now before the price goes up!

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Vanguard #7 out now!

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Vanguard 007The second season of Vanguard continues in Vanguard #7: The Experts, available now on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited!

With Vanguard disbanded in the wake of the Red Fist incident, Gunsmith has found new work with Cerberus, a global peace-keeping organization designed to keep specials in check. But an investigation into the remnants of the Red Fist turns up a surprising fact—the director of Cerberus has been using a strike team to round up specials and imprison them without cause or trial!

Now Gunsmith stands against an organization with a global reach, including their operatives who are armed with extremely advanced technology! His only hope lies in a mysterious informant and a former teammate in a desperate plan to try and overthrow the Cerberus director before he causes even more damage!

The second season continues here as the disparate elements of the team slowly begin to come together! Pick it up now for 99¢ on Amazon or read for free as part of Kindle Unlimited!

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Vanguard: The Complete First Season now available!

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Vanguard Season 01 - 3DVanguard: The Complete First Season is now available!

After a mysterious event has altered humanity’s genetic structure, a group of superhumans, called specials, have emerged. Fearing the potential danger these super-powered individuals could pose to normal humans, the President of the United States secretly authorizes the creation of a response team of specials, called Vanguard!

In this first season, Vanguard must not only adjust to working together as a team, but also face super-powered menaces in the form of a well-meaning yet arrogant special with a desire to be a superhero, a mad scientist who wants to unlock the secrets of humanity’s changes, a revolutionary with the power to enforce her rhetoric, a vengeance-driven powerhouse, and waiting in the wings is a mysterious warlord who desires to use specials to his own benefits in order to impose a new world order!

Fans of the X-Men and the Avengers won’t want to miss this explosive first season! This collection contains not only all five episodes of the first season, but also a special bonus episode previously only available to subscribers! And at $4.99, Vanguard: The Complete First Season will give you a discount of more than 50% if you bought all the individual episodes!

Pick it up today at your online retailer of choice! Season 2 is coming next month, so now’s your chance to catch up on season 1!

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Vanguard Season 2 coming soon!

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vanguard-s02I’m currently working on completing the second season of Vanguard. I’ve been really happy with the response so far to the first season and this series has been a ton of fun to write.

Right now, I’m closing in on the end of the tenth episode, which will be titled Harbinger. On the one hand, this is a pretty self-contained story to end the second season and it won’t be as big as the first season finale, Rise of the Red Fist. But it does set some things in motion that will be pretty big for the rest of the series (at least as far as I have it planned at the moment.

Season 2 is a really interesting experiment. Unlike the first season, the first three episodes will be much more self-contained. For those of you who have completed Season 1, you know that it ends on kind of an interesting note for the team (don’t worry, there won’t be any spoilers for those of you who haven’t gotten to the fifth episode or are waiting on the season compilation).

The first three episodes center on just a few members of the team. #6 deals with Shift and Sharkskin, #7 focuses mainly on Gunsmith with Wraith and Paragon also appearing, and #8 will be all about Colonel Thorne, Zenith, and a new character who was introduced in the first season finale. Episode #9 will see the team coming back together and #10 will spin directly out of the events of that episode.

Just as with the first season, I will be offering a prologue to Season 2 for free to my subscribers. I’m also doing something different with this season. The first season was on a monthly release schedule for a few reasons. One of those was I was worried if I would have the time to have a backlog of material to enable monthly releases throughout the year. Originally I was planning on Season 2 also being on a monthly schedule, but thanks to Chris Fox’s 5000 Words Per Hour, I’ve managed to double my daily writing output. So now I’ll be able to move Vanguard to a bi-weekly release schedule.

As I said, the season is still in production, but Episode #5.5 will be available to my subscribers in September and Episode #6 will come out shortly after that. Subscribers will also be able to pick up the individual episodes at a special release discount price of 99¢ after which the episodes will rise to the $2.99 price, and they will be in Kindle Unlimited at first.

And also, Vanguard: The Complete First Season will come out later this month. It’s going to be released wide on all the platforms, which is why I’m waiting on the KDP Select period for Vanguard #5 to expire before releasing it. So those of you who are on the other platforms and waiting patiently, you’ve only got to wait a little bit longer.

If you want to get on the ground floor and be notified immediately when Vanguard Season 2 starts to come out (as well as get the free prequel episode), you can subscribe to my mailing list. I don’t spam you, I send out at the most two emails or so a month. And you’ll also get special freebies for the entire time you’re on the list.

Here are the covers for the second season. I’m really excited about where this series is going and I hope you’ve all enjoyed it.

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The stunning conclusion to Vanguard season 1!

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Vanguard 005It all comes down to this! Everything that’s been building since the beginning of the series!

The Red Fist and their leader, the mysterious man known only as the Khagan, now make their push for the final stage of their plan! What is the Khagan’s plan? How does a new young special figure into it? What is the secret that’s been plaguing Paragon? Who is the mole inside the team?

With Vanguard now two members short, can they possibly manage to stand against such a threat? And what does this mean for the future of the team? Find out in this extra-sized season finale!

Featuring the return of several foes, including the Exemplar and Lucent!

Pick up the season finale now, available only on Amazon for 99¢. Or free if you’re a member of Kindle Unlimited!

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And be sure to join the mailing list so you can get the upcoming Vanguard Annual #1 for free!

Vanguard #4 available NOW!

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Vanguard 004Vanguard #4: Power Surge is now available on Amazon for $0.99, or free if you’re a Kindle Unlimited subscriber!

In this episode, the team gets an emergency call from a research company being attacked by a rogue special, one who has been kept prisoner! Now free the special—called Lucent—is embarking on a deadly path of revenge and he doesn’t care who gets in his way!

But Lucent is just one small part of a larger problem. How did Vanguard’s superiors discover about this attack so quickly? And what connection does this have to the mysterious special known only as the Analyst and his organization, the Red Fist?

The clock is ticking to the explosive season finale as Vanguard is forced to fight a battle with significant consequences!

Own your copy of Vanguard #4: Power Surge today! And don’t forget to pre-order the season finale, Vanguard #5: Rise of the Red Fist, coming in May!

If you enjoy the Vanguard series, help spread the word by leaving a review on Amazon!

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The Descendants Volume 1

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24241603I first discovered comic books in the early 90s. I was a huge fan of the X-Men and Batman: The Animated Series and my brother, whose sports collectibles shop sold comics as well, shipped me some unsold issues of various comics. Although I first came to comics in the 90s, I became quickly addicted and through the use of my local library and back-issue bins, quickly began devouring older stories from the Silver and Bronze Age. And of the comics I read, the Bronze Age ones were undoubtedly my favorite.

For those who aren’t aware, the Bronze Age of comics generally refers to the period between 1970-1985. There was also a mixture of darker, more socially relevant storytelling. This is the era that brought us such classic stories as The Dark Phoenix Saga, The Night Gwen Stacy Died, Snowbirds Don’t Fly, and Frank Miller’s groundbreaking run on Daredevil. But even with the darker stories, there still remained elements of the fun of the Silver Age stories (unlike comics that followed and continue to this day, where grim ‘n’ gritty is used as a shortcut for good storytelling).

It’s clear that Landon Porter and I are cut from the same cloth, because The Descendants definitely follows in the mode of those stories. The group of young superhumans we meet in Welcome to Freeland House have some been through some trying situations, but they still maintain their youthful exuberance and act just as any other teenage kid would act. And like the Bronze Age comics of old, Porter gives us short, self-contained stories with larger story-arcs playing in the background.

Porter proves himself a master of the serial format, expertly weaving in and out the multitude of character arcs and plotlines that never drag on for a page longer than they should.

Some of the story elements didn’t win me over as much. I didn’t quite understand why the story was set in the future as the setting seemed like it could easily be the modern-day. I also wasn’t very fond of the non-powered friends of Warrick and Cyn. But the interactions of the residents of Freeland House, particularly Warrick and Cyn, more than make up for these weaker points.

Pick up The Descendants Complete Collection Volume 1: Welcome to Freeland House from Amazon or read it in serial format at the website.

If you’re looking for more superhero action, check out my Vanguard serial (issue #4 coming out Monday, April 20th!).