New Interest in the Life Stories Series

mark@marktreble.com

Amazon Prime members have been reading the Life Stories series voraciously over the past ten days. The two published books are

Life Struggles, Volume One
US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016FL9KB2
UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B016FL9KB2

and

Life Continues, Volume Two
US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IWIPM40
UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01IWIPM40

Next week both will go on sale for $0,99 for two weeks

Finding Series

mark@marktreble.com

Book One, Finding Friendship, will be on a free promotion February 26 and 27, to celebrate the release of Book Three, Finding Closure, on February 27.

The entire set will be available in a single book late in 2017.

Finding Closure now available on Amazon for pre-order.

mark@marktreble.com

Finding Closure, the third volume of the Finding Series, is available for pre-order for $0.99 at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MZH5NH0?ref_=pe_2427780_160035660. It will be published on February 27 at its regular price of $3.99.

Straight Mike and gay Luke have an intense bromance. Each brings issues and lots of baggage to the relationship. Finally, they admit that they’re in love. Shortly thereafter they have simultaneous melt-downs, and painfully  put themselves back together. Until a steer having a bad hair day falls on Luke, injuring him severely.

Ultimately that leads to Luke betraying Mike, although he has no memory of the events. They spend months dealing with Luke’s serious depression, until Mike is asked to go to Vanuatu for an extended period. He’s taking Luke with him, and they’re planning a two-year vacation in paradise. At the boarding gate everything goes to crap, and they’re separated, possibly forever.

Do they find a solution to the problem? Does a solution exist?

Hint: The editor told me she cried all the way through the final chapter.

What I'm Reading Now

mark@marktreble.com

Authors read avidly, mostly for enjoyment but also to expose themselves to new styles and points of view.

What I’m reading now:                                             

The Hunted, Action/Adventure by Brian Haig. A Russian plutocrat is hunted by the former KGB as he works to install Boris Yeltsin as the President.

Let us Prey, Mystery by Jamie Lee Scott. A former Secret Service Agent, now a private detective, looks for the killer of a best-selling author’s assistant.

INTJ: Understanding & Relating with the Mastermind (MBTI Personality Types) by Clayton Geoffreys. A guide to dealing with the Myers Briggs' most difficult personality type.

If the Seas Catch Fire, Suspense, by L.A. Witt. A new twist on an old plot, where the hired assassin falls in love with his target.

Let me know what you're reading.

Mark

Back from Vacation and Back to Work

mark@marktreble.com

Back from a week in the Western Caribbean with my wife. Enjoyed it a great deal.

Currently working on Did You Ever See Allegro?, the story of a 1969-1970 college garage band that did well but broke up anyway. Hope to publish before the end of June. 

Continuing with The Women of New England, a mystery due sooner rather than later to a publisher.

Starting to explore another story, Spring Break Awakening, that follows two college students on a Spring Break they never expected. So far a couple thousand words, I'll need at least 8K to know if it will work.

Life Continues Free for One Day

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Life Continues will be available for free on Amazon.com in the Kindle Store one day only, January 21, 2017.

US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IWIPM40

UK; https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01IWIPM40

FR: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B01IWIPM40

Work in progress and schedule

mark@marktreble.com

Happy New Year

Finding Closure, the third book in the Finding trilogy, will be released in early February 2017. 

There will be a five-day pre-order period at $0.99. When the book is released the price will go to $3.99.

The Men of Carolina is at a publisher. Word is expected within a month or two on next steps 

toward release as a physical book.

A publisher has requested a book, a mystery tentatively titled The Women of New England,

although the title is likely to change before release as a physical book.

Did You Ever See Allegro? Is about 70% through first draft. Release as an e-book in 

Amazon Kindle is anticipated in the second half of 2017.

After that the priorities are the mystery Harassing, the follow-on to Taunting, and 

The Head Game, a sports comedy book. Neither has a tentative release date.