Tag: Dieselpunk

Science Fiction and Paranormal Fantasy with a Noir Twist

New Release and Series Discount!

There’s a New Edition to The Crossover Case Files…and The Whole Series Is on Sale!! Happy New Year! I hope 2022 is treating you right so far. I’ve been hard at work on Book 6 in The Crossover Case Files, and I’m happy to announce that The Smoking Gun Serenade is now ready for you to read.…
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January 23, 2022 0

It’s Discount Time!

I’m hard at work on Book 6 of The Crossover Case Files, and while you’re waiting for it, I thought I’d offer a little discount on a couple of books as a thank you for sticking around. So, for a limited time, you can get The Girl at the End of the World and The…
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September 23, 2021 0

Book 5 in The Crossover Case Files Is Available for Pre-Order!!

The Wait Is Almost Over… If you’ve been keeping up with the adventures of Jed Strait in The Crossover Case Files, then you know that Book 4, The Jetpack Boogie, ended with Jed confronted with a new enemy. I’m pleased to announce that the follow-up, The Fedora Fandango, is now available at the pre-order price…
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July 3, 2021 0

Cover Reveal: The Jetpack Boogie

I’m very pleased to be sharing with you the cover for Book 4 in The Crossover Case Files. The Jetpack Boogie launches in May, but you can get it at the pre-order price now. Jed Strait has let his nemesis, Elsa Schwartz, get away one time too many. Now, he needs to track her down…
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April 5, 2021 0

Book 3 in The Crossover Case Files is Now Available

It’s not easy being a private detective in a town full of secrets and lies. Can he find the truth without getting his clients killed? Jed Strait knows that Hollywood is a town built on deception. But when he can’t trust his clients to tell him the truth, how can he keep his fledgling business…
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April 3, 2021 0

A Blacktop Blues Playlist

When I write, I usually picture my books unfolding like films, and a good movie needs a good soundtrack. Since music figures pretty heavily into Jed Strait’s character and his adventures in The Blacktop Blues, I thought it would be great to offer you a soundtrack to go along with the book. If you want…
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February 3, 2021 0

New Book! New Series!

Welcome to The Crossover Case Files, a new dieselpunk series featuring Jed Strait, a fish-out-of-water private eye who’s trying to make his way in a version of 1948 that includes renegade Nazis, femmes fatale, and an old inventor with a lot of tricks up his sleeve. The first book in the series is The Blacktop…
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January 12, 2021 0

Free Short Story!!

I’ve been hard at work getting ready to launch a new dieselpunk series, The Crossover Case Files. To help introduce you to that world, I’m releasing a FREE stand-alone short story set in the Crossover Case Files universe. Jed Strait doesn’t normally babysit, but when the Private Investigator is offered the job of making sure…
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December 28, 2020 0