New on KU this month
Last Light in the Dark (Last Light, Book 1) — out June 15, on Kindle Unlimited from day one. A salvage crew, an anomaly on the dark side of the moon, and a base full of things that are not what they used to be. Marcus, Rylee, Lucas, Chelsea, Nigel — an ensemble in low gravity, finding out what the swarm wants and what transformation actually costs.
It is the slowest opener I have written and the bleakest. The nine-book arc starts here, and Book 2 — Echoes in the Void — lands August 15.
If you read it the week it dropped and dropped a review, thank you. Reviews on a Book 1 in the first thirty days do more work than any newsletter ever will.
Backlist binge of the month
World of Shadows — three books, complete, all on Kindle Unlimited.
If nine-book sci-fi is not the read you want this month, the three-book exorcism trilogy is the opposite: short, kinetic, and finished. A priest who should not still be a priest, a girl who keeps surviving things she should not, and a Vatican archive that did not want to be opened. The arc lands, the bishop pays for it, and you can read the whole thing without paying for any of it.
Start with The Everett Exorcism →
From the site this month
A note on shipping a long arc.
Last Light is a nine-book series, and the plan is one book every two months — Book 1 in June, Book 2 in August, the rest landing through 2027. Nine books in a year is a pace I have never tried and a pace I will not pretend is normal. The honest reason it is doable is that the whole arc was outlined before Book 1 went to my editor. I am not discovering the ending while I write Book 4.
The risk in a long arc is the second book. Book 1 gets people in. Book 2 has to keep them. If Echoes in the Void reads thinner than Last Light in the Dark, the nine-book frame collapses. I have been on it for most of the spring. We will know in August whether I got it right.
— Lincoln
P.S. If you read Last Light in the Dark and finished it, reply and tell me which of the five POV characters you walked away most attached to. I am asking because Book 2 has to decide whose shoulders the rest of the arc rides on, and there is exactly one way to find out.
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