My loyal readers the date is important because that’s the date I’m launching my second printing of Edge of Darkness Four Seasons Book One. As you all recall I self-published the first edition through Amazon Kindle in 2018.
The sales were mostly through me and some through the local bookstores in Spokane area. I also had a signing done at Aunties, an independent bookstore in downtown Spokane. Sales were probably average considering that I wasn’t reaching out to a broader audience.
I’m announcing this now so you, my loyal readers can preorder it and be ahead of the game, so to speak. Now the gist of the storyline.
Mark Marteau has dreams of doing something useful with his life other than doing grunt work for a landfill scavenger. He becomes the unwitting witness to the murder of Old Joe Murdock and convinces the city detective, Tracy Dickerson, to let him be an informant to find the person responsible.
In the second story of this ongoing series, Mark’s lifelong friend Dave is assassinated in front of his wife and four-year-old son, Dylan. It comes to Mark’s attention that the murder was retribution for the Murdock case ten years prior. Mark is now a bounty hunter, and he has been given an assignment to go after a man from a drug cartel out of Totos Santos, Mexico.
Book Two will hopefully be available soon. The idea was to create a series of short stories with a running plot that takes Marteau and his partner through until the actual puppet master is discovered and apprehended, or not. That’s called Search for Justice.
Evil that Men Do will feature the women partners of this series, though Mark won’t know this until later. Book Four is called Road to Nowhere. Clockmaker and Red Widow features the two antagonists of the series, who are just following orders in book five. And book six, Desperado, will be with Dylan as the lead protagonist helping to finally achieve retribution for the murders of his parents.
I hope I live long enough to see all six books published. Whether I make a decent amount in royalties is another matter altogether. So far each book I’ve written has cost me thousand of dollars to publish, and since I wasn’t fortunate enough to be born with a silver spoon in my mouth, I have to work extra hard to make this dream of mine come true
Jerry Schellhammer 