Leaving the military/adventure genre behind for a minute or two, I’m working on a new book I’ve entitled The Wounds of Jonas Clark. This book is a real departure from what my readers are used to seeing from me.
Jonas Clark is rudely awakened one Friday morning with his girlfriend in bed next to him screaming, covered in blood. He becomes even more alarmed when he discovers the blood is his, and he’s bleeding from puncture wounds in his hands and his feet – and he can’t remember anything about how they got there, or even who made them.
Jonas struggles to come to terms with his wounds – and the pain – especially when they begin appearing, and then disappearing, every Friday thereafter. Is he subconsciously inflicting the wound himself, as his doctors claim, or is there something more surreal going on? What will follow is Jonas on a journey of discovery, as he searches for answers, finally finding them in the last place he thought to look.
I expect it will be well into Fall 2020 before The Wounds of Jonas Clark is ready for release.
Meanwhile, as I was going nuts hunkering down and staying socially distant to avoid Covid-19, I pulled back Operation Exodus from the shelf (sales were really sluggish) and rewrote parts of it. Now reissued, I believe the revised story line hangs together far better, and whoever does read it will enjoy it far more.
Silent Warriors: Submarine Warfare in the Pacific continues to sell really well, now over the 1,000 mark, between ebook, paperback, and audio book sales. I am really blown away by how well the audio book, especially, is doing. My hat’s off to Bill Bird at Tweet Audio Productions for the fantastic job he did in narrating it!
Be smart, stay safe, and if you haven’t read The Laconia Incident yet, please do!
-Gene