In Times to Come Book Two

The second book in my new In Times to Come series has been released today.

The positive feedback and strong sales I’ve gotten from the first episode of this story have exceeded my expectations. This is always a good thing, because it is a project I have been excited about for quite some time now, and its success bodes well for other, similar works I have planned for the near future. I am especially pleased to see that the combination of time-travel and post-apocalyptic fiction has both resonated with my established audience and attracted new readers to my work as well.

All of my published fiction to this point fits primarily in the post-apocalyptic and dystopian genres, and all the stories have strong elements of wilderness survival and self-sufficiency baked in. In crafting this new series, I wanted to continue to give my readers of those prior works more of what they want, while branching out to explore one or more of the other genres of fiction I enjoy reading.

Time travel fiction has always fascinated me, especially when the story is about someone going into a wilderness or some other isolated place and somehow getting lost in another time without knowing it. When they attempt to return to civilization and the everyday life they knew before, they learn it doesn’t exist. Over the years, I’ve written down my notes and ideas for several stories with this premise, but most involved a character or characters that went back in time, rather than forward. This is the most popular kind of time travel fiction and it has been the subject of countless books and movies in the genre.

I still plan to explore some of those ideas as there is a lot appeal to casting characters from the modern world back in time into a primeval setting replete with adventure and danger. But for my debut into the genre, I decided to go the other way instead.

In Times to Come, as the name implies, entails a small leap forward to the near future, rather than a journey to some distant past. The premise, of course, is that the future the protagonist finds himself in is much worse than the world he has left behind. It is, in fact, a dystopian world set in a post-collapse America, similar to the setting in my popular Feral Nation series. And like Eric Branson of Feral Nation, Alan Carson has the skills, training and combat experience to cope with such conditions better than most. Left with no other choice, he quickly adapts to life without the technology and support systems he knew in his life before.

Because he has traveled only seventeen years into the future, Alan Carson is able to reconnect with some of the people he knew in the life he left behind. This lends itself to infinite possibilities for plot twists and surprises, most of which I am still working to uncover as I move now from Book Two into Book Three. As with Feral Nation, I’m not sure at this point just how many books it will take to tell this story, but if reader interest in the first one is any indication, then I will be free to explore all the avenues that present themselves as the adventure unfolds.

Feral Nation Eleven is Here!

Book Eleven of the Feral Nation Series is here today in the Kindle and Paperback editions. I know it's been a long wait since Book Ten, and for those of you who have read all of this series, I appreciate your patience while I was launching my new In Times to Come Series. But there's still more to come in this story too, so get your copy of the latest episode at the links below. Book 12 is on the way as well and more info will be posted shortly.

Feral Nation - Opposition

Momentum is gaining and the resistance is growing…

Eric Branson and his team have dealt their enemies a decisive blow, wiping out an entire unit of rogue soldiers and liberating refugees from the largest detention camp in the region.

These victories serve as major setbacks to the forces bent on expanding their control ever eastward, and opposition to the invasion grows as Eric and his militia prove to the locals that fighting is always an option, no matter how great the odds.

But despite his early success, Eric has the experience to know that winning this war that he’s caught up in will require outside help. With reasonable intel on where he might find such help, Eric leads a hand-picked team of five on a perilous mission to go and seek it out. Will the effort be worth the risk? Will they get the assistance they hope for, or will the opposition they encounter stop them from reaching their objective? There is only one way to find out.

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In Times to Come Series is here!

Book One of my latest series was officially released today:

Displaced is the first book in my new In Times to Come Series, launched in April 2022. Like my previous post-apocalyptic and dystopian works, this is a story of survival action and adventure in a setting where technology has failed or has been disrupted and law and order have collapsed. The main difference is that in this story the central protagonist is also lost in time, arriving by accident in a near-future America he couldn’t have imagined when he set out for a hike in 2012.

The In Times to Come series begins in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, a place I have explored many times over the years and continue to find myself drawn to as often as I can get there. The Gila is truly a vast roadless wilderness with rugged mountains, seldom visited canyons and countless remote caves and caverns. The idea for this story came from my own discovery of forgotten artifacts and relics in one of those hidden caves, and as the series progresses, I intend to write a nonfiction account of that particular backpacking trip for those who are interested.

The Time Travel genre has always been one of my favorites, especially when it is mixed with exploration, survival and raw backcountry adventure. The works of Edgar Rice Burroughs in particular held my fascination as a young reader, and no doubt inspired many of the adventures I undertook in the islands, jungles and mountains when I was old enough to set out on my own.

The second and third episodes of the In Times to Come series are planned for later this year, with Book Two: Destiny scheduled for release in October.

A glitch in time and a one-way trip…

Back from his final deployment with the U.S. Marines, Alan Carson is hiking across New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness to ponder his future and put the war in his past.

When his best friend and squad leader, Sergeant Kurt Timms, took a Taliban bullet because of bad intel, Alan made a promise to his dying friend. He would come here to see the rugged mountains that were Kurt’s boyhood stomping grounds, even if the horseback hunting trip the two of them had planned would never come to pass.

After paying his respects to Kurt’s wife and daughter at the ranch his buddy had called home, Alan loads his pack for a week and heads into the Gila, finding all the splendor and solitude of which Kurt so often raved. But deep in a trackless canyon, miles from any trail, Alan finds something else: The body of a dead man at the foot of a cliff… an ancient cave dwelling in the rock face above… and a mysterious passageway too intriguing to ignore.

Alan Carson has come to the West to contemplate the next chapter of his life, but the future into which he emerges is beyond imagination; and the world he’d known before is changed beyond recognition. Can he ever come to grips with this new reality he must face? Can he ever return to the life he knows and understands?

Displaced is Book One of the Times to Come Series: a story of survival and courage in a near-future dystopian nightmare.