We’re one week away from Action Figures – Legacies dropping! The Kindle edition is available for pre-order and will release on August 26. The print edition will drop that same day. The official synopsis is below.

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Like many young women, Aja Pershing had a lot of ideas about what she might become when she grew up. She could tell you, however, that “second-generation super-villain” was nowhere on her list.

Yet forces beyond her control are pushing her to take up the mantle of the deadly mercenary Manticore — or as Aja knows her, Mom.

Lia Pershing spent years grooming her daughter to one day inherit the Manticore battlesuit, and following in her mother’s bloody footsteps might be the only way Aja can survive the trials lying ahead.

That sets Aja on a collision course with Grace Harker, the latest in a long line of women to stalk the night as the Silhouette, self-appointed guardian of New Kingdom. Her city is teetering on the edge of destruction, and she’s not about to let anyone — not even Manticore — finish the job.

But Aja might be the least of Grace’s problems. Former ShadoWorks soldiers are gathering in New Kingdom, heeding the call to arms from a mysterious mastermind with sinister intent, and Grace is the only one standing in their way.

Or is she?

Legacies is the first book in the expanded Action Figures universe, picking up in the wake of Zero Day, an Amazon bestseller*. New heroes, new villains, and a new world in need of hope. The action returns here!

(* = #1 in Teen & Young Adult Superhero Fiction, March 2023)

WRITING PROJECTS

Action Figures – Legacies 2 – Third draft completed.

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – A Wanton Criminal: Edited, awaiting cover art. Tentatively set for late 2025 release.

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – untitled book nine: First draft underway.

APPEARANCES & EVENTS

Nothing currently scheduled.

MISC.

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