I’m a little late to Prime Day, but now I’m there and a few of my books are available for free! Check it out. https://www.amazon.com/Bernard-Wilkerson/e/B00F0IZPJI

I am most grateful for my family and my faith, but I am also grateful for my readers.  As a thank you, and as a bit of a promotion, I’m offering the first book of my science fiction trilogy, The Hrwang Incursion, for free over the holiday weekend.

Enjoy!

The Hrwang Incursion Trilogy

Book One: Earth    

Book Two:  Hrwang   

Book Three:  New Israel

Also, check out the wonderful message below about giving thanks.

Cheers,

Bernard

#GiveThanks

Finally!  The third book in the Hrwang Incursion Trilogy is published!

It features cover art by my good friend, Meggan Hayes.  She does great work.  In fact, in celebration of releasing the entire trilogy, she has created new covers for Earth and Hrwang also and they are now available on Amazon Kindle.

I also reformatted the text a little using Amazon’s new Kindle Create tool and fixed a few typos along the way.

I removed “Omnibus” from the title of Earth.  Originally, I was copying how Hugh Howey entitled his series, Wool, but it turned out to just confuse people.  Like Wool, Earth was released episodically, and the omnibus edition combined all of those episodes.  But now, the first nine episodes are just compiled as book one, Earth.  Hrwang, book two, has four episodes and those are renumbered 10-13.  New Israel also has four episodes and they are numbered 14-17.

Each of the books is named after a planet, with New Israel being the name given to Earth by the alien invaders.

I hope you enjoy the series.  I’ve been laboring the past few years on an historical fiction novel, but some day plan on returning to writing science fiction.  It’s often my first choice when I pick something up to read and it’s terribly fun to write.

Book One: Earth    www.amazon.com/dp/B01EUP5NEI

Book Two:  Hrwang   www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0J3UBZ

Book Three:  New Israel     www.amazon.com/dp/B0893MJVM5

Cheers,

Bernard

New Israel, the exciting conclusion of the thrilling Hrwang Incursion Trilogy, is way behind schedule.  Beta reading is complete and I have some final touches to put on the work.  I hope to release it by June or July of this year.  There are also all new covers for all three books created by my good friend, Meggan Hayes, that will also be released at the same time.  I can’t wait to share them with you.

The primary reason for the delay is that I’ve ventured into a new field.  Never one to stick with a specific genre for too long, I’ve moved temporarily away from science fiction and fantasy to a work of historical fiction.  Not One Stone is about the Jewish-Roman war of 66-70 A.D. that culminated in the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.  It was a devastating period of time, and the loss of the temple as prophesied by the Savior had a profound impact on both Judaism and Christianity.

Historical fiction is much harder for me to write than science fiction.  It takes me so much more research.  For my other works, I would spend time researching and then lots of time writing.  For Not One Stone, it’s research, then more research, then write a little, then research some more.  Sometimes I worry that I’ve bitten off more than I can chew.

But, it’s as they say in football:

GO BIG or go home!

Cheers,

Bernard

Check them out!

Driven Out
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0749BCG2C

It Is Finished
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B074L6KFP9

Episode 3 of the second book in The Hrwang Incursion series is available!  Take a look!

Episode 3, Descent, is now available at Smashwords.  There will be four episodes in this book.  Not quite as long as Earth, but more along the lines of a standard length novel.

A note about pricing.  I’m experimenting with Smashword’s ‘You set the price’ feature.  If you’d like a frame of reference, when I publish all four episodes in one novel on Amazon, the price will be $2.99.

Eva’s adventure on Hrwang continues in Descent.  Face to face with the Lord Admiral, she has to figure out how to deal with him while also dealing with a surprise traitor.

Enjoy!

Cheers,

Bernard

It’s time to start the second series!

You can download all 9 episodes of Earth, the first book of the Hrwang Incursion series at Amazon now.

The second book in the series, Hrwang, will be released the same way.  Episode format on smashwords, then later an omnibus version.

So, download Episode 1: Confined today and enjoy!  And let me know what you think.

Pre-order Earth now!

I’ve been releasing episodes of Earth for free on smashword, and now I’m releasing the final episode.  I’m only charging 99 cents for the entire book (all 9 episodes), or, if you’ve been downloading them for free on Smashwords, the final episode is the same price.

It’s been a fun ride writing and releasing this science fiction work.  There’s more to come!

Episode 4 of Earth is out.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/585967

I’m enjoying writing this series. I love the characters and it’s fun writing the action.  It’s intense at times.  Everyone seems to love the cliffhangers at the end of each episode.

I’ll compile all of it into an omnibus edition when I’m finished and plan on including the first episode of book two.  There are nine episodes for book one, ‘Earth’, but I don’t know yet how many episodes there will be in book two.  I do know book two will be called ‘New Israel’ for reasons that won’t be apparent until you read episode nine.

So, for now, enjoy episode 4, Insertion, and let me know what you think!

Cheers,

Bernard

First, an apology to all you smashworders!  I only put my latest book, Defeat   Earth: Episode 1 on Smashword for free because I read that’s the only way to get Amazon Kindle to make your book free.  But the response has been overwhelming!  Thank you so much!  Now, after all of you have finished reading, write those reviews!

Because of my mistake in not considering Smashwords a viable platform, I didn’t even put a cover on my book out there.  I’ve corrected that, so now you can go redownload at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/550766 and get a cover!

Defeat is not at all like what I’ve written before.  It’s straight up, mostly, science fiction, with a few themes I’ve explored in my earlier works about the Afterlife.  But everyone who dies in Defeat departs the picture.  It’s clearly told from the perspective of the living.

I’ve enjoyed science fiction for a long time and have always wanted to write a science fiction novel.  Just like I’ve had ideas kicking in my head for a long time about the Afterlife, I’ve had the ideas kicking around about Earth for a long time also.  I just hadn’t expected the book to be so long, so I’m releasing it in episode format, with Defeat being the first episode.  From the title, it isn’t hard to imagine how things are going for Earth in it.

Why science fiction?  I used to read historical fiction and murder mysteries, but I found Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein and became forever hooked.  I read a bunch of Heinlein, then discovered Asimov, Bradbury, (I never was much of a Clarke fan), Herbert, McCaffrey, Zelazny (I met him once!), Wolfe, and many others.  I read some fantasy, including Tolkien, Moorcroft, Lovecraft, and Leiber, but science fiction was where it was at for me.  I think it influenced my desire to go into rocket science, although I always enjoyed setting things on fire and blowing them up and rocket propellant development was a natural fit.

So now it’s my turn to write some sci-fi!  I hope you enjoy it.

Cheers,

Bernard