Short Stories Volume 2 is out!

Benjamin Ashwood Short Stories Volume 2 is live! These stories are set in the world of Benjamin Ashwood but are told from the perspectives of different characters. They intersect with Ben’s story in funny, exciting, or insightful ways. There are 8 stories in this collection, 6 of which have already been shared with newsletter subscribers, and 2 of which are exclusive to the collection.

Desperate for more Benjamin Ashwood and unable to wait until Weight of the Crown on December 1st? This is your antidote.

Patreon

My favorite platform to reach readers is Patreon. For those unfamiliar, you support creatives by giving monthly payments and then receive rewards based on your level of support. It's a great way to diversify my income, and give exclusive & early content to big fans.

Most of you do not support me on Patreon, and that is Ok. I'll still be here on Facebook, website, newsletter, etc. I get that you don't want to sign up for a recurring payment, but I also want you to know what you're missing.

My most popular rewards are the $2 and $5 tiers.

At $2, you get exclusive weekly updates and you get 1 Week Early access to my short stories and novels. You can read these on any device (the only way to get my digital stuff outside Amazon!), and never need to purchase my books at retail. You read that right, you'll get Weight of the Crown 1 Week before it's released!!

At $5, you get the same rewards as above, but if you're in North America, you get signed print copies of each of my books. For my next series, I'm planning t-shirts and things like that and I'll distribute that to $5 tier and up.

There is a $1 tier for exclusive updates but not early books, and more expensive tiers for things like naming characters. Please check it out if any of this sounds interesting.

Upcoming Patron rewards:

Every Wednesday I share my updates. Tomorrow's will be a video update and I'll give some insight into Benjamin Ashwood that I've never shared before.

Nov 16th-ish, Short Stories Volume 2 including stories I share in the newsletter and new ones which will only be included in the bundle.

Nov 24th, Weight of the Crown, 1-week prior to it's public release date, and you can read on any device!

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Endless Flight now in German!

Endless Flight: Benjamin Ashwood Buch 2 is available in digital on the Amazon DE store! See the link below for the eBook, and the print book should follow soon. Another bit of good news, we’re near completion on the translation for Dark Territory: Benjamin Ashwood Book 3 and I fully expect it will be released in early December! Cutting down the wait time.

I’ve been to Germany several times, and I really love the country. Very green, very old castles, lots of bier. Ashwood-ian, you could say, or perhaps Germans would say Benjamin Ashwood is very Deutsch. Either way, you can see the influences even in the English version of this story. In Dark Territory, our heroes visit Hamruhg, which bears a striking resemblance to the German city Hamburgh’s old warehouse district. A lot of that section was written on location, and the bier drinking was authentically replicated ;)

So, while my German dates back to high school classes, I still know how to order some schnitzel and bier, and formatting this book is a ton of fun for me. I can pick up about every 10th word, so it’s hilarious trying to figure out what exactly is happening in my own story… I’m usually wrong.

If you have a stronger command of the language than I do, then what are you waiting for? Go get Endless Flight today, and get ready next month for Dark Territory!

Find Endless Flight: Benjamin Ashwood Buch 2 HERE!

Endless Flight auf Deutsch!

The German translation for Endless Flight is almost complete! I apologize, I was aiming to have this book out in October, but it looks like it will fall back into the first week of November. The good news, my German team seems quite pleased with it, so I’m confident the quality will be worth the extra wait. Even better news, we are on track for getting Book 3 released in December of this year!

I will update on publication days here on the blog and on my Facebook page.

Thank you for your patience, German readers!

-AC

Quick Progress Update

I’m hard at work on Weight of the Crown: Benjamin Ashwood Book 6, and it’s shaping up nicely. I’ve completed the rough draft, finished my revisions and rewrites, and I’m now on copy-editing. I’ve got two more weeks of that, then it’s off to a professional proofreader. She’ll spend a few weeks painting the entire thing red before sending it back. That gives me a few weeks to accept her changes and apply the final polish. We’re on track for a December 1st release.

This book is currently sitting at 127.7k words, which will make it the longest in the series. It wraps up the main story arcs, but there are a few unanswered questions / unexplored stories which I may delve into later. For now, I’m just worried about getting this thing finished and making it the strongest and most satisfying conclusion I can!

If you’re not caught up yet, now is the time to get reading so you’re reading of Dec 1st!

-AC