50 Reviews
Republic finally hit 50 reviews on Amazon.com just the other day. I’m not sure why this feels like a milestone to me, but oddly enough it does. The book’s been out for three years, and…
Updates to Insurgent
Latest chapters of Insurgent are up. You can check it out at The Next Read.…
Insurgent Chapter 3
Brigadier General Tom Murphy stood in the sunlight near the helicopter pad on the roof of the Governor’s mansion, chilled by the arctic wind and trying to absorb a little sunlight to offset it. Though…
Insurgent Chapter 2
The clank of the outside door down the hall woke up Valerie Murphy. She still lay flat on what passed for a bed, staring up at the dirty ceiling. She heard two sets of footsteps.…
Insurgent Chapter 1.3
In Whitesville, the sun was just setting behind the ridgeline, leaving the woods above the town in darkness. The wind howled over the ridgeline, blowing an icy wind into the narrow valley. Not much of…
Insurgent Chapter 1.2
“General, we just got a call from Second Brigade. Seems that one of our relief patrols was ambushed in Boone County.” Brigadier General Tom Murphy looked up from the report he’d been reading. His aide-de-camp,…
Insurgent Chapter 1.1
Lieutenant Jonathan Blake leaned against the door of his humvee, eyes vacant, and stared out at the pristine snow as the convoy drifted forward. Two feet deep mostly, unplowed; some of the snowdrifts were three…
Insurgent Prologue (2)
When Joe Blankenship was growing up, the steep-roofed cabin had nestled in a clearing halfway up the slope of the mountain, surrounded by lush forest. The logs had settled over the decades, causing cracks to…
Insurgent Prologue (1)
She no longer knew how long she had been in the cell. It was a tiny cage, not much bigger than the bathroom in the apartment she could barely remember. This was nothing like that…
Dear Daddy
The other day, when I drove your car back to the apartment, the song on your mp3 player was Jim Croce’s Rapid Roy Stockcar Boy. Hard to get my mind around the idea that this was the last song you listened to before you left this earth.…