Thank you for your patience!

The more I work in the field of writing and publishing, the more I realize how difficult it is to gauge how much time any given project will take. It's taken a little longer than I'd hoped to get Vatican Abdicator out to you. But now it is finally available!

I self publish using Lulu.com. This link is to their site, to the page that features Vatican Abdicator: www.lulu.com/content/2433033. It takes another 6 to 8 weeks to show up on Amazon.com, so if you don't want to wait you can get it now direct from Lulu.

The official release date is this coming Friday, August 8th. I'll send out press releases and such to trumpet the release. That's when the audiobook of Vatican Abdicator will go live at podiobooks.com, too! I'll be releasing a chapter a week, with me reading aloud from my book, each chapter a free, downloadable mp3 podcast. Almost a thousand people have listened to Vatican Assassin so far! And over six hundred are checking out Vatican Ambassador! I hope the grand finale in Vatican Abdicator doesn't disappoint!

I wrote the first short story about the "Vatican Assassin" about 18 years ago. Didn't know it was going to turn into a book... never mind a trilogy! It was one of many projects started but left unfinished. About eight or nine years ago I began working on the project again, and it mushroomed into its present shape and form. I thought it would be one book. Then I realized it would be one loooooong book, so I decided to finish part one and put it out as Vatican Assassin. I self-published Vatican Assassin in December 2005, right after my 40th Birthday. I dedicated it to my Dad, who was able to read and enjoy the book before he passed away in February of 2006. Makes the book special to me.

The "Glow-in-the-Dark-Radio" Podcast began in September 2006, while I was in between radio gigs. I recorded myself reading from my books. Every other episode was a chapter of Vatican Assassin, and, later, Vatican Ambassador.

I published Vatican Ambassador, the sequel and book two of the trilogy, at the end of March 2007. I was honored to be asked to be a guest at the small science fiction convention 2PiCon in August of 2007. On the podcasting panel I found out about Podiobooks.com. After initial contact, my books were podcat through their wonderful site!

Now it's time for Vatican Abdicator! Live on Podiobooks this coming Friday! And available now at http://www.lulu.com/content/2433033

Well, now... this has taken longer than I'd hoped. Have to admit, the pushing of Panthea Obscura #3 out on 7/23/8 has taken some time away. I just received back Sarah's reader's copy... Yay! Thank you, Sarah! Nate got his back to me a while back, so thank you, Nate, too!

Sarah suggested some sort of something at the start to remind the reader of what's going on and who is what. So I've created a new preface. Wanna read it?

It's here.

Thank you for your patience!

Mike

With the book nearing its final form, I thought you might like to read chapter one.

It's HERE

Vatican Abdicator's 3rd Draft is DONE!

...and there was much rejoicing!

The "Readers Editions" are being printed right now for those who do me the honor and the favor of reading through for mistakes, gaffes, grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.

This keeps Vatican Abdicator on track for Summer publication!

Decided to go with a new cover look: