The tenth and final book of the Valens Heritage series (and the 28th Valens Book by me - 31 if we count Peter's three) is now up for sale on Amazon:
Pay Backs - Valens Heritage #10
This will very much be the final Valens book that I will write. The series had an amazing run, seeing as it made it to 28 books (18 first series, 10 follow on, plus some anthologies). But the truth is that sales have gone incredibly soft in the last couple.
Part of that was my fault, Amazon was pressuring people writing in a 'certain genre' with fears and rumors of being banned. So I slow rolled the last couple of books in the series as I watched to see how things played out. Apparently that pressure was from individuals and not corporate, because the threatened bans never took place. In fact the genre is far larger now than when I first helped to create it.
(I know some folks claim I was the sole person who created it - but I think there's two people who definitely were there with me at the beginning).
I am hoping to write a new series, totally unrelated to this one, once I get caught up on the work my surgery caused to be postponed. I do hope you enjoy this book. I also hope you tell all of your friends to read this series, if they haven't already.
A suitable end to the series, it wraps up most of the dangling plotlines. Fun and satisfying read, dealing an end to :-)
ReplyDeleteSad to see the series end, but I'm liking your current series more, glad to see you spending time on those. Has your Baen series caused a noticeable impact on the rest of your sales? It's certainly how I found your books.
Related, have you seen Ringo's latest (Not That Kind of Nice Guy, and upcoming Welcome to the Jungle)? I was halfway through the first one, cracking up, when I realized "I recognize this! It's Shadow!" . Now that the 2nd is coming out, It's listed as part of a series called "Shadow's path" rather cementing that association. But I didn't notice any specific callout in his first book to an origin idea (like he did with Live Free or Die).
Yes, actually, I've already read them both back when he was putting them on substack. I'd be surprised if he ever read Shadow.
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