Jeffery H. Haskell's Blog

As an author, I can't express how grateful I am to have such amazing fans. Your support and enthusiasm for my work means the world to me, and I am constantly humbled by your kind words and encouragement.

Being an author is not always easy. It requires long hours of hard work and dedication, and there are always ups and downs along the way. But knowing that my books are being read and enjoyed by so many people makes it all worth it.

I want you to know that I don't take your support lightly. I work hard to produce the best books I possibly can, and I am constantly striving to improve and evolve as an author. I pour my heart and soul into my writing, and I am always touched when I hear that my words have resonated with you in some way.

Thank you for being such amazing fans. You inspire me to keep writing, and I am forever grateful for your support. I hope that my books bring you as much joy as they do for me to create. Here's to many more years of reading and writing together!

All the very best in this new year,

-Jeffery

A Grimm Sacrifice

I spent two and a half years writing three books (technically four if you count Wraith 5) and it has paid off.

All the sleepless nights, agonizing over plotlines, defining characters, seems to have made a big difference.

From the stellar reviews to the emails and Facebook posts I'm getting almost 100% universal praise.

None of this would be possible without the good people who shell out their hard earned money on stories I have written.

Know this, my goal is always to leave the reader feeling entertained. If I can also make you feel something, that's icing on the cake.

Thank you everyone who purchased Against All Odds.

With Grimm Resolve hits the shelves in the middle of May, followed by One Decisive Victory in the end of June.

Occasionally I receive emails from other authors who are starting out on their journey and they ask me craft questions. I’m thrilled when I can answer them! I was on Keystroke Mediums podcast not long ago and in response, I was asked by a listener how I structure my stories.

I'm mostly a pantser. I have a rough idea of what I want to have happen and how I want people to feel when they read the book (excited, sad, happy, joy, etc.) Having said that, if you feel like you're 'conforming' to structure and that’s stifling you, then you may not have a thorough enough understanding of the story you're trying to tell.

Something I picked up is that story and plot are two different things. The plot is what happens to the characters, the story is how they make it through. I've studied story structure for the better part of my life. From watching movies with a critical eye to reading books like Screenplay by Syd Field (Possibly the greatest book on storytelling ever written) along with The Fire in Fiction, by Donald Maass.

Having said that, there really are only 3-acts. A beginning, middle, and end.

People sometimes will break it up into more, by having each turning point in a story be its own act. That's fine, but it's overly complicated. There are, of course, examples (Pulp Fiction) of wildly different structures working… and when you’re Quentin Tarantino, you can do that.

Here is the basic story structure for every good story ever told and what I do. No one has to agree with me here, and I am not laying down the law. This is what I have learned over the years and how I view story.

ACT I Literally the beginning of the story.

Intro: Show the hero doing something competent (if he's a thief he's an excellent thief, if he's a mage, he's an excellent mage).

The Inciting Incident: Something happens, the hero is asked for help, or they help someone in distress.

The Hero Refuses the Call: This is when the hero (after initially helping) decides it is too big to help and they try to back out.

The Hero Accepts the Call: Either because their internal conscious won’t allow it, or an impassioned plea by a secondary character, the Hero decides to help.

The First Turning/Plot Point: Something happens that changes what the hero is trying to do, an objective shifts.

ACT II The middle of the story and the upping of the stakes.

Try/Fail Cycle: This act is a series of try/fails. The hero tries something, it fails. They try something else, it fails. The beautiful thing about this is you can have as many as you need.

The Mid Point: This is the most crucial point for sustaining tension in the story. This is the point where everything turns sideways, and everything they thought they were doing is all wrong, and now the story shoots off in a new direction heading to the conclusion!

The Black Moment: This is the moment that all hope is lost. The hero is down, the bad guy is in charge, all is lost.

The Resolution: Surprise! The good guy wins, he gets the girl (or vice versa) and the bad guy is sent packing.

You may have noticed how vague this is. That’s because it’s JUST structure. The structure of a story is an empty glass. You can put anything in it. You can make it look and feel like virtually anything you want. But this is the structure that flows up from the beginning to the inevitable end.

You can do anything you want in the structure because structure, isn’t plot or story. The plot is the thing that happens to the character. The story is how they get through it. And the structure is what binds it all together.

Plot leads to Story
STRUCTURE

Often times if you don’t know what to do next, or what should happen next, I find it’s because I either don’t know the kind of story I’m trying to tell, or I don’t know my character's motivations well enough.

The good news is, the first book is always the hardest. Then there are all these other things that are hard, and you have to figure them out.

I feel like being an author is like a story unto itself, except there is no third act. Once you are into the try/fail of the second act it just goes on forever. As you ‘level’ up, you learn and master new things and then there are even more things to overcome.

The good news is, as I always say, the only way to fail is to give up. Never give up and you will succeed. That’s true for everything, not just authoring.

If you want to see this in action, pick up Wraith: Danger Close (Superhero by Night Book Four) out now!

Needless to say, here there be spoilers.

“Why does it feel like we’re coming home from a funeral,” I said to my kids as we drove back on I-84 from The Village in Meridian to our home in Caldwell.

Normally after seeing a movie, especially a Marvel movie, Rebekah and the kids and I are full of stories about our favorite moments and scenes, what we loved, what we thought they could have done better.

After that we move on to the storytelling, was the character sufficiently motivated, did they act like they should, that sort of thing…

Not this time. This time it was dead silence. By the time we got home, the realization hit us.

It was over.

The MCU, was over.

For the next three days, all of us, but me especially, walked around the house like zombies reeling from the fact that our favorite characters, were gone. Never to be seen again.

It doesn’t matter that we agreed on their end. Natasha (at least in her eyes) needed redemption. Tony needed to make the sacrifice play. Steve needed to live his life with Peggy.

Even now, writing this months later I’m getting the chills and I don’t think I’ve ever had such an impactful emotional experience from a movie in my life.

And I doubt I ever will again. Marvel pulled off something that no other film company has ever done, ever. And it wasn’t the shared universe. It was that they brought these characters to life and set them loose on the world for 20+ movies.

All the tricks we writers use to make people love our characters, they used. When a movie called “Captain America” opens number one in China… CHINA… you know you’ve done something right.

However, more than just the death of beloved characters or the end of the movie itself, it’s the end of the MCU that really bothered me. All of a sudden, I have NO DESIRE whatsoever to watch any of the Marvel movies I own, none. I’m not even excited to go see Far From Home and Spider-man is my all time favorite comic book character.

The only thing comparable to this feeling is when I left the Army. For four years I’d sunk my heart and soul into service and then one day I wasn’t in anymore. But for Marvel, it was ten year.

Ten years of eagerly anticipating the next movie. Ten years of wondering when Cap would frigging say, “Avengers… Assemble!” Ten years of wondering if Tony would ever find out that Thanos was behind Ultron and it wasn’t his fault.

In the MCU, Cap was my hands down, favorite character. Now he’s gone. I like Anthony Mackie, but he’s no leading man, and he certainly isn’t Cap.

People are saying, “Just wait till the next Avengers movie.” I’m not sure there will be a next Avengers movie. Who would be in it?

Captain Marvel is to OP to ever be in a team movie. And while I like T’challa, and I feel like he’s the only other person in the MCU who could lead the Avengers, he doesn’t really have a team to put together.

And from a meta-perspective, even if he did, the audience would compare them to the old Avengers and it would not go well for the new team.

So, what now? I have no idea. If it were me leading the MCU I would have backed the Brinks truck up to Chris Evans and RDJ’s house and paid them whatever they wanted to keep playing those characters.

Because those characters WERE the MCU, and without them, the world is a little more sad, a little more alone. They brought us hope. They stood for what was right (most of the time, I’m looking at you, Tony).

But most of all…

They brought us together.


Jeffery is the award-winning writer of the Full Metal Superhero series, and the Superhero by Night series. Check out his awesome superhero books on Amazon.com

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One of the questions I get a lot is where do I come up with my ideas for world building and superpowers?

I love comic books, but they do tend to have the same power sets over and over. Not that I ever get tired of "fast and strong."

In my Full Metal Universe, I classify powers like tornadoes, the more dangerous they are, the higher the rating. From F1 (useless) to F5 (lethal on a large level). I've avoided specific definitions as to not write myself into a corner. But suffice to say, an F3 (strength) is no match for an F5. It would be like shooting a tank with a pistol, you can do it all day long, but you're never going to hurt it.

There's an array of positive and negative powers, elemental's, telepathy, that sort of thing. I try to keep the powers that are the most dangerous, on the low end. There are exponentially less F5s than F1s. While a person who can levitate is 'relatively' common, a person who can throw a tank is rare.

There's also the beast modes, people who have taken on bestial aspects, anywhere from just claws, to full-on werewolves like creatures, or a mix of lots of things. I think I have a fly/wolf/spider person in one book, poor bastard.

There are also downsides to mental powers. At one point Domino (an empath) talks about the suicide rate among empaths and telepaths, and it's high.

I also have an array of "magical" powers. It's in air quotes because my MC, Amelia Lockheart doesn't believe in magic.

As for how I explain superpowers existing, that one I'm pretty proud of. They've existed since 1903, and they're not superpowers so much as they are pockets of physics from other dimensions attaching themselves to people at around puberty (cliche I know but it works).

One of the challenges of writing superpowers in fiction is trying to explain where they come from and how they defy science. Marvel and DC have it easy, for them, there have always been superpowers. I wanted to mimic that as much as possible. Most people in the FMSU think that Tesla is responsible for it.

The fun thing about keeping the world building to a minimum is that I can let it develop slowly over time. I don't think I even mention what caused powers until book two (Unstoppable Arsenal) and I let a little out in each book.

Of course, I have aliens too, which is fun. I tried to keep all the super science based around one or two singularities in science. Breakthroughs like computers, that dictate everything that comes after it. The rest of the stuff, I try to keep grounded in actual science.

Of course, the Rule of Cool(TM) applies. If the thing I'm doing is super cool (like windows shattering from punch impacts) then I will favor that over strict observance of science.

I do occasionally pass my work to a friend of mine with a Ph.D. in Physics, he even wrote a blog post about one of my weapons that would basically vaporize a chunk of the planet if I used it as is... I had to change that one.

The box set containing the first 4 FMS books is on sale for 99c right now. It's a great time to gift it.

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See you next month!

What do choice and consequence have to do with a good superhero story?

It’s required to make it great.

I’m not saying you can’t have a great superhero without it (Superman/Batman) but I think anyone would be hard pressed to create a brand-new hero today without it.

Sure, we can have heroes who are born with their powers or are gods or whatever, but when you do that, you take away a very specific element that I feel, is required for people to love the heroes.

Here are some examples of what I’m talking about. (Here there be spoilers).

Thor. In the movie (not the comic) Thor is banished to Earth and he must come to terms with the fact that he’s not worthy. Ouch. Thor has no reason to believe that facing Loki down at the end of the movie will result in anything other than his death. The writer, very cleverly, took away Thor’s powers so we could empathize with the man. Then they had Thor grow, and learn what true heroism is. When he faced down the Destroyer, he is killed. Only through his choice (Face Loki with no powers to save his friends) and sacrifice (Loki killing him) does Thor truly become a hero. Also, he’s resurrected by Odin. No wonder Thanos waited until Odin was dead to start his war!

Captain America. Born a runt, Steve chooses to face bullies rather than hide or cower. Each time he knows he will be beat down (I can do this all day!) Even when given the opportunity to serve as Cap, his power is still limited to a dancing monkey. It isn’t until he chooses to go after Bucky, to disobey orders, that he truly becomes a hero. He has every reason to believe that he will spend the rest of his life in prison for disobeying orders. And still, he turns himself into the Colonel at the end. He must choose (save Bucky) and sacrifice (court-martial) to be the true hero.

I’ve said before I have two favorite superhero heroes. Spider-Man, and Captain Marvel (comics). There is a ton of history on both of them and I don’t have the room to go over it here (also you wouldn’t want to read it). Suffice to say, in the comics I love Carol Danvers because no matter how bad things get, she refuses to give up. She’s always willing to push herself a little harder, a little further.

The same can be said for Spidey. I’m going to stick with the movies here because while the origins are very similar to the comics, they distill them down to their essence. Plus, you’ve likely seen the movies.

Spider-man Homecoming was and wasn’t an origin story. While you don’t see Pete get his powers, you do see him become the hero. From Civil War, we know that something bad happened because he refused to act (Ironically Cap’s entire argument about the accords). The rest of the movie is a master class in choice and consequence, wants and needs. I won’t go into what I didn’t like about the movie (Basically everything but Pete and the Vulture) but none of that matters because of how they did it.

When faced with the threat of a very real death from Vulture, Pete is given a choice. Go into the dance, have a good time, go home and let the Vulture, vulch.
Pete wants to do this. He wants more than anything to dance with Liz. But he NEEDS to stop the Vulture. He chooses (stop Vulture) and sacrifices (dance with Liz). In the seminal moment of the movie, when he’s trapped underneath the HVAC machinery, he has a choice. Wait for help or push himself past what he believed possible. He has no reason to think the entire thing won’t collapse on him. But he has to stop The Vulture. Needs to.

I really loved Captain Marvel. I understand why it made some people mad, and I can see their point of view, but we’re not going to go into that here. We’re going to talk about what was in the movie.

Spoiler warning one more time. If you haven’t seen Captain Marvel, go see it and come back. It’s really good. Carol, when faced with the possibility of her friend and mentor, Mar-vel (cleverly gender-swapped so we the audience don’t see it coming) dying trying to prove her hyperdrive works, volunteers to fly the machine. When they crash, and Mar-vel dies, it’s up to Carol to keep the Kree from getting the experimental hyperdrive.

What does she do? She can’t run, her devotion to her friend prevents her from fleeing. She does the only thing possible. She chooses to destroy the drive, with no real possibility that she will survive the explosion, she does it anyway. Choice and consequence. And because it’s a movie, we know this is what gives her power. Not only does she make a choice and sacrifice her life, but she is also rewarded for it!

Choice.
Consequence.
Wants.
Needs.

This is the key to not just superhero origin stories, but all great characters. A hero wants one thing. If you can’t clearly and succinctly say what that is, then your hero won’t resonate with readers or viewers. The great thing about storytelling is that the medium doesn’t matter. Books, movies, comics, it’s all the same. While we write in different formats for it, the story must resonate the same way.

It just so happens that with superheroes I get to create fictional characters with awesome powers, cool costumes, give them wants and needs and let them loose on the world!

Madisun Dumas needs justice for her family. She wanted someone else to do it, but then she had to choose to do it herself. Notice it’s justice, not revenge.

Now, none of this means these things can’t change over time.

Amelia Lockheart starts out needing to find her parents. She wants her childhood back but must sacrifice that to save her parents. Then she shifts into needing to protect them. From Ericsson, from Aliens, the Armory, the Engineer, and finally Chronos the Titan.

What she does next will be determined by her core character need; protect her parents and friends. Whether your reading or writing, look for choice. Choice will help you define your hero and craft a truly exceptional story. Even if your writing isn't the best (I'm looking at you Aquaman).

Wraith 2: Welcome Home and Ancient Arsenal FMS 7 are out now.

The Wraith 3: Urban Warfare will be out next month, followed by Arsenal Reloaded in May. Check back here for pre-orders or on my Amazon author page.

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I'm working on the last few pages of Ancient Arsenal... it's perfect and beautiful, and I'm in tears as I write it. 7 books in, three-hundred and fifty THOUSAND words with these characters and I love every one of them.

They're like real people to me (not literally, I'm not cray cray) and so when they win, I win. When they love, I love. When they hurt, it hurts me.

When authors used to say their characters would do things and they had no control, I used to laugh thinking it was stupid. Now I understand. We create these people who have real emotions and motivations. Once you do that and unleash it upon a fictional world, they can no more act untrue to themselves than any of us. Sure, they make mistakes and sometimes choose poorly. But at the end of the day, their underlying motivations connect all their decisions.

Thank you all for reading my silly stories. This really is a dream come true. While it took me a long time to get here, I wouldn't change a thing!

This year is going to be action-packed, so buckle up!

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Ancient Arsenal is on Pre-order now.

The Wraith: Welcome Home
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Is available to read.

Next month I'm launching my third new series, Juice, Bolt from the Blue!

My roadmap is a fast and furious one. A book every month through September, then one giant-sized end of the year annual with every hero from every book, all working together to end a threat bigger than any of them!

All the best,
-Jeff

Hey everyone! I hope the holidays were awesome for you all. I had a great Christmas. I’m going to recap the last few months and then go into what is coming next!

I went to a fantastic writer’s conference in Vegas and it really fired me up for the coming year. I have goals I’ll share in a little bit. Arsenal has done FANTASTIC this year. Thank you all for reading and loving it as much as I do writing it. There is something special about having people love what I write. 

What a year! I finished three, Full Metal Superhero books, one Superhero by Night (The Wraith) and a non-fic book (Writing for Life). My Facebook author page has grown to over two-hundred subscribers and we have almost sixty people in the group that is linked to the page. 

Goodreads has over 1,100 unique users reading my books and over 1,500 reviews in total. On top of that, my books are really well reviewed! My #1 book with a statistically significant number of reviews is The Wraith: Superhero by Night (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KFZ6W5B) with a 4.41 average. Yay! 
Over 15,000 people read and enjoyed a story by me last year. That blows me away. Mathematically speaking, that means there was a person, somewhere here on Earth, reading one of my novels every second of every day. 

Just, wow. WOW!!!!!

What a great year and I have all of you to thank for it. Thank you! 
Now on to my goals for 2019! Write more good books! I’m currently working on The Wraith 2 (Welcome Home) and Arsenal 7 (Ancient Arsenal). I’m planning on releasing a book a month this year for the first 9 months. Then, at the end of the year, I will release a triple sized annual! This will be the start of a new tradition for me. Every year I will dedicate a few months to writing a massive Avengers-style crossover with all my heroes in one big event that highlights all of them. I’m really excited for the people you get to meet this year and how I will bring them all together in the final book of the year. 

Jan: Wraith 2
Feb: Arsenal 7
March: New Project
April: Wraith 3

And so on and so forth. May might be a little tricky since we’re going to have a new baby, but I am working really hard to make this schedule work. Of course, no plan survives contact with the enemy, so we’ll see how this goes. 

This will be an exciting year for me. I am thrilled to be a full-time author and even more thrilled to have awesome fans who like reading what I like writing. I’ve found my home in superhero fiction and I plan on doubling down and ending this year as the #1 superhero author in the world. I know it sounds ambitious but no one ever succeeded by planning to fail. 

In the more immediate now, the Full Metal Superhero Box set is on sale for 99c. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C1H4KHC) That’s the first four books for one low price. If you wanted to buy a gift for a friend, or you hadn’t gotten past book two, now’s the time to save money and read a fantastic series. 

Next week I will be on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Marketing Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkgP...) that should be out on Tuesday night. I’m talking about Writing For Life, my non-fic where I try to show a path to success as a writer. My philosophy is pretty simple. Work hard. Also, if I can do it, anyone can (See, I just saved you $4.99!) 

This year is shaping up to be awesome and I look forward to taking the ride with you all!

This month’s blog is a little off-kilter. I don’t have a release to tell you about yet, and next months release is too far away for me to give you anything concrete beyond the basic idea. It’s like the Punisher married The Shadow’s daughter and they had a baby girl who worked with Batman and Wolverine. That sounds about right.

However, that’s next month, and I’ll get more into The Wraith then. I don’t have a title for the series yet, but when I do, I’ll post in on my https://www.facebook.com/jefferyhhask... so make sure you follow me there, or in the attached group to find out more.
On to the blog.

I grew up in Alaska. A little town called Ketchikan to be exact. If you Google it, you will see some the most amazing and beautiful scenery on Earth. Trees for days, ocean, wildlife, you name it.

The only downside to the little island I lived on was that it was a little island. At its height, it had 13,000 people on the whole island and about 9,000 in the city. When I joined the Army in 1991, it was down to under 8,000 but it hung in there over the years.

The main industry in the 80’s was logging and fishing, but as new regulations came into play, those industries died out (not for lack of need, just too expensive to operate in K-town). What replaced it was tourism. It had its own ills, but I won’t get into that.
Before I go too far off track let me say this, Ketchikan is an island. To Quote Harrison Ford, “It’s an island babe, if you don’t bring it here, you won’t find it here.”

That means everything from milk, to comic books, to gasoline, to lumber, all had to be shipped in. Yes, you read that right—lumber. On an Island full of trees, we had to ship in our own lumber.

The entire time I was growing up (Pre-internet) everything was so damned expensive unless you were rich, you lived a very modest existence. Those with money would actually fly to Seattle and buy food at Costco, then fly back. Because even after airfare, it was cheaper.
Then 1991 came and went and a little old thing called “The World Wide Web” happened. Do you know what everyone on the island learned almost overnight?

Shipping wasn’t nearly as expensive as we had been led to believe. The local business in Ketchikan, either through collusion, or ineptitude had gouged their customer base for years, sometimes raising prices as much as 500%. When I left to join the army gas was 2.67 a gallon… in 1991. I got to Seattle, and it was 97c. Milk was 4 dollars a gallon and tasted like water. Down in the lower 48, it was a buck a gallon and tasted like ambrosia.

Things started going downhill for the local companies as the WWW, and the Internet allowed people to order things online for their actual price and then pay a couple of bucks to have UPS send it second-day air (the only available option at the time).

Then Wal-Mart opened a store, and it all went downhill in a hurry. You see, the local business, those rich people I spoke of (I’m not painting rich people as evil, there were plenty of good ones), they were rich because they had fleeced the townspeople for years.

After Wal-Mart opened, almost overnight, nearly every business in Ketchikan went out-of-business. They had a chance, they could have changed their ways, but they insisted that things still as they were. They blamed Wal-Mart and later, Amazon, for their woes. They never pointed at themselves and said, “I dun screwed up.”

One of the hard lessons I’ve learned in my life is accountability. Something you hear a lot of middle managers speak about but only in the context of their workforce, never for themselves.

If I write a book, and it sucks, it’s on me, no one else. I can’t blame you (my awesome readers and I would never, ever blame you). I can’t blame my cover designer (she is my wife, that would be stupid), I certainly can’t blame Amazon. If not for them I wouldn’t even have a career.

No, only me. What does this have to do with writing, you ask? Publishing is at a crossroads. For the last few years, the media and the Big-5 have done their very best to convince the world that Amazon is at fault for their decline. That Jeff Bezos is the devil (he may be, I don’t know him personally. I do like how he went from the son of a single mom to the richest man in the world, very American), that Amazon is evil, and New York Publishing is as pure as the driven snow.

The problem is, New York Publishing is like my hometown business. They have been screwing over authors and the general public for years. Offering a limited amount of product for an exorbitant price and telling people that it was because of this factor or that factor, not greed (the truth).

To put it simply, Wal-Mart opened, and now they are going out of business. I don’t feel bad for them in any way. If not for them I would have been a writer decades ago. Like everyone else, though, I believed the Big Lie™. That only the very best writers could be published, that only people with something important to say could be published. Despite VOLUMES of evidence to the contrary, this message was so pervasive, it sank in.

I’m writing this because I feel like it’s important for everyone to know the story of how this has happened and how to keep it from happening with whatever industry you’re in. You have to adapt, be willing to change, be willing to modify what you do when it no longer works.

As for me, I publish superhero novels. The ones I would have loved to read when I was a kid. Heck, the ones I would love to read today! I’ll not likely ever be traditionally published again (I had one book with Kindle Press before they closed up shop) and I’m okay with that. I love what I do. I love people loving what I do. To me, this isn’t just living the dream; this is inventing a new one.
If there was ever a person who was meant to write about superheroes, I really think it was me.

Thank you all for your wonderful support. Next stop… #1 superhero author on Amazon!!!!

Sometimes an author writes a book and it's a struggle. Every single day is a nose to the grindstone kind of day.

Explosive Arsenal (Sep 24th, 2018) was not that sort of book. It flew out of my mind faster than I could write it. I loved almost every minute of it.

I've tried a few different things this time around. Hired me yet another editor. I seem to be having trouble finding one who can match my speed for writing. I guess the reviews will tell me how he did.

I also tried to make this book a lot more personal, more punch for Amelia.

I've also come to realize; I like cliff-hangers. Not the crappy "Best of Both Worlds PT 1" kind where the book ends before the story is complete. The Alias kind, where the story is complete and the hook for the next story is introduced. Those, I love. I hope it helps that the next book is never more than 3-4 months away.

Enjoy Explosive and I look forward to seeing what you all have to say about it!

All the best,
-Jeffery