January 5, 2014: Lost Cause is the exciting follow up to Unleashing Colter's Hell, the Amazon top 100 terrorism thriller. Lost Cause begins during the Civil War and is a nail-biting chase to find a relic supposedly owned by Robert E. Lee. Legend has it the relic's finder will have the power to start the second civil war. Members of the Confederate League are hot on the trail of the relic. They seek it's power to right the wrongs of the civil war. National Park ranger Grayson Cole, along with fellow ranger and best friend Alex Reeves, and Sarah Thompson Gettyburg artifact curator, are ordered to find the relic before it falls into the wrong hands.
I've read countless text books, novels and articles about the civil war in order to bring realism to the thriller. Here is a short list of recently read books:
- Battle Cry Freedom
- US Grant
- Cause and Comrades
- Nothing But Victory
- Grant
- Team of Rivals
- Killer Angels
- Confederates in the Attic
- How the South Could have won the war
- Why the North Won the war
I'm always looking for new civil war materials, especially ones with a unique perspective on the war between the states. What book(s) would you recommend to add to the list?
December 31, 2013: At the end of the year, I like to look back at the books I've read over the past 365 days. Here is my list. There are some really great reads, others not so much. Although, I didn't set out the year to read a broad spectrum of works, 2013 turned out to have a great mix of fiction and non-fiction, thrillers, science, history, and fantasy. Every one of the books made me think, which I believe is the ultimate goal of every author.
What does your list look like?
- The Lost Bank
- The Inner Circle
- The Magic of Reality
- Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation to War
- Feast of Crows
- Why the North Won the War
- Area 51
- The Story of Medieval England, from King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest
- Dance with Dragons
- Inferno
November 23, 2013: Unleashing Colter's Hell is a semi-finalist in the Authorsdb cover contest. The thriller is one of 16 chosen out of the more than a 130 covers submitted in the mystery, thriller, and suspense category.
The semi-finalists are listed alphabetically here. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find Unleashing Colter's Hell. Give it 5 Stars!
Unleashing Colter's Hell's recognition in the Authorsdb cover contest follows the novel's winning the Reader's Favorite 2013 Gold Medal in the mystery and thriller category.
Unleashing Colter's Hell makes a great gift, get the award-winning thriller here.
November 1, 2013: Below are the next draft covers for Lost Cause. Which one do you like best? A,B, or C. What do you like about the covers? What could be better?
Lost Cause if the follow up to the Unleashing Colter's Hell, the award winning national park thriller. Look for the new thriller in 2015.
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