Slight shift in approach to the Jake Sloan Adventures series... in preparation to connect with a publishing house!

I'm doing a little fiddling with the series, in preparation for selling it to a publisher.

The last three novels are rather long. Some of that is the book size available in Amazon's CreateSpace. The actual word count for each is comparable to others on the market (Rowling), even those in the genre (such as Vince Flynn). Shortening the novels a tad will help make them more marketable to the publishers, and possibly more attractive as easy-reads for potential readers. If mine were printed to a larger size of book, they would approximate any of Vince Flynn's novels, and average-out with Rowling's seven Harry Potter books. They just LOOK large in the size they're in. But having them shorter might be more appealing to potential publishing houses, where I hope to sell them at some point. (Anyone know of a good literary agent?) So, I'm taking the front-end of Sanctum Threat, and putting it into its own novel. That one will be entitled Smoking Bolts. The series will number this way: 1. Trident's Flame 2. Smoking Bolts (the first two parts of the original Sanctum Threat). 3. Sanctum Threat (contains only the last two parts of the original). And so it will go with the other two (Choke Point and Force Multiplier). The rest of the series will look like this: 4. Pulse Blast (contains the first two sections of Choke Point). 5. Choke Point (contains only the last two parts of the original). 6. Fatal Kiss (first two sections of Force Multiplier). 7. Force Multiplier (etc. and so it goes...) While making that happen, and developing the cover art with Jannelli Roper, I'm also writing the next novel, 8. Escape Velocity. After that comes: 9. Bone Breaker 10. Depth Charge. Here's the sketch for the cover of Smoking Bolts. It's the scene when Jake and his buddy Aric are running from the AK-shooting mercenary thieves in China Cove (aka Smuggler's Cove) in Point Lobos, just south of Monterey.

Final Version of the Cover for FORCE MULTIPLIER: A Jake Sloan Adventure (book 4)

Here is the final version!

And here is a preview of the Table of Contents!

Contents

Forward

List of Personnel

Part 1: Last Monk Assassin

Chapter 1.  Loose Lips Sink NPS

Chapter 2.  Linguistics and LEOs

Chapter 3.  Shakedown Cruise

Chapter 4.  Demo-Training with the Barracuda

Chapter 5.  Breighton’s NSA

Chapter 6.  Ravenous, Not Ravishing

Part 2: Sicilian Friends: the Vulpezzi

Chapter 7.  Op Specialist: Program, or Be Programmed?

Chapter 8.  Oil Rigs in the Mist

Chapter 9.  Lemon with a Tryst

Chapter 10.  Drink a Mojito, or Fight One?

Chapter 11.  Dangerous Tails Packing Heavy

Chapter 12.  Flilght of the Yukio Rose 

Chapter 13.  Mossad Hunting the Mojitos  

Chapter 14.  National Security Threat Assessment

Chapter 15.  Mossad Breaks Cover

Chapter 16.  Deep Code Calls to Deep

Part 3: Shadow Warrior, Cobalt Knight

Chapter 17.  QRF: Quick Reaction Force

Chapter 18.  Commander Draeger, Scud Hunter

Chapter 19.  Dead-of-Night Operation

Chapter 20.  When the Sun Goes Down

Chapter 21.  Conflab of Agents and Officers

Chapter 22.  Lost at Sea, Lost in the Sky

Part 4:  The Ruins of My Heart

Chapter 23.  Safe-House: Point Reyes

Chapter 24.  Sick-Bay Visits

Chapter 25.  The Fatal Kiss

Chapter 26.  Losing the Beloved

Chapter 27.  Crackling Fire in the Commons

Chapter 28.  Seekers, Not Finders

Chapter 29.  The NSA Say “Nay” 

Chapter 30.  The Mermaid

Chapter 31.  Aunt Lucy’s House

Epilogue

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Appendices

Force Multiplier: A Jake Sloan Adventure (book 4) is soon to be published. Here's a cover sketch.

Here is a first concept of the cover for Force Multiplier: A Jake Sloan Adventure (book 4). Two of my kids are featured on it; by the time the designer is done, we'll have an Iranian commando in there as well, modeled by our remaining Foxling.

The book is coming together nicely. It's a redo of the original FM (the first novel written, in fact); this one truly builds on the current story line and carries things forward in the series.

Here is a concept for the commando to be added:

Choke Point: A Jake Sloan Adventure... is published!

This past November, 2016, Choke Point (book three in the JSA series) was officially given its own ISBN and cover.  Amazon will offer it as a hard copy paperback and as a digital book for Kindle users.

Choke Point (2016) summary:

The dangers of Operation DEW Drop led the US Task Force to the shores of Calcutta, India.  Jake Sloan and his friends, Aric and Jerika, hunt the dangerous team of professional thieves into the swirling rivers of India and Bangladesh.  In the midst of a civil war, they defend themselves against rioters, and against mercenaries in the jungles of Amman.  Can they avoid being bombed by India’s air force?  Follow them as they hunt down the last component of the theft into the heart of London.  Jake meets with a lovely surprise there, and experiences teamwork of entirely new kind.