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Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays! In the spirit of the season, I wanted to give you all my own small present: the long-awaited and much-rumored Damian story, Only the Dead Remain.

Good morning, everyone! My angel-wife and I are on vacation, but the wheels of publishing never stop; Tantor has just released the audiobook for the second book in The Many Travails of John Smith, Blood is Thicker Than Lots of Stuff! “Messy divorce? Check. Emotional stability of the involved parties? Questionable. Possibility of bloodshed? High….

For a while, it felt like this day would never come, but here we are, with The Queen of Smiles officially out in the world (or Amazon’s small slice of the world, anyway)! The fourth full-length novel in the post-Break world–and the first to star someone other than Damian Banach, Baby Crow–The Queen of Smiles is part stand-alone, part post-trilogy palate cleanser, and part something that’s still figuring itself out, much like the titular anti-heroine herself. I had a hell of a lot of fun with this one and I hope you do too!

I’m counting down to the November 22 release of The Queen of Smiles by sharing sample chapters, book stats, content warnings, and whatever else seems fun. Here is Chapter 5!

I’m counting down to the November 22 release of The Queen of Smiles by sharing sample chapters, book stats, content warnings, and whatever else seems fun. Here is Chapter 4!

I’m counting down to the November 22 release of The Queen of Smiles by sharing sample chapters, book stats, content warnings, and whatever else seems fun. Here is Chapter 3!

I’m counting down to the November 22 release of The Queen of Smiles by sharing sample chapters, book stats, content warnings, and whatever else seems fun. Here is Chapter 2!

I’m counting down to the November 22 release of The Queen of Smiles by sharing sample chapters, book stats, content warnings, and whatever else seems fun. Here is Chapter 1!