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USA release for Conflict of Empires delayed until summer 2010

Please accept my apologies for another delay.  My publisher planned the release to showcase Conflict at the prestigious mid-April London Book Fair. Unfortunately, the annual Fair was seriously upended by the Icelandic volcano eruption.  So as of now, we are optimistic for a US release before the end of the summer.  Until it is available locally, you might consider purchasing Conflict of Empires from Amazon.co.uk.  The book and shipping to the US will cost approximately $26.  Again, my apologies and thanks for your patience.

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Book I  - In The Beginning - just finished, not yet published. Read a few stories about Eskkar as a boy and young man, and Trella’s misfortunes. Follow the link. And please let me know what you think of these stories.

Book II  - Dawn of Empire -  the first to be published (2006). Eskkar and Trella’s rise to power, the building of the great wall, and the first steps down the road to civilization and empire.

Book III - Empire Rising -  published next (2007). Picks up the action where Dawn of Empire leaves off, and continues the story of the struggles to save mankind’s first walled city. 

Book IV - Conflict of Empires - published in 2010. Two years after Empire Rising, Eskkar and Trella build the world’s first professional army in a desperate effort to save their city. Now available in the UK.

Book V  - Battle for Empire - still being written. The final stories of Eskkar, Trella, their son Sargon, and grandson Escander.

Quest For Honor - Readers please note: My UK publisher, Century Arrow, has planned a second release in the UK for Conflict of Empires around September 2010.  This will be a reprint of Conflict in the smaller paperback format and is entitled Quest For Honor. This is not a new Eskkar and Trella story.

Interested in the backgrounds, my personal thoughts, historical facts, and actual excerpts from Conflict of Empires or any of the other stories? Follow the links to learn more . . . including some unpublished stories from In The Beginning about the fight to build and defend mankind’s first walled village, and the world’s first empire.

Latest Release 2010

UK Century cover

UK Century’s dramatic cover

Two years after Empire Rising, Eskkar and Trella build the world’s first professional army in a desperate effort to save their city.

Cover illustration by
Steve Stone

Conflict of Empires
      UK released February 2010
      US release summer 2010
Published by Century/Arrow, a division of Random House

Author at a private book signing in Arizona 2009

Thanks again for visiting. Please feel free to contact me with ideas, suggestions, or just to say hello, either by email or through the Guest Book. I do appreciate hearing from interested readers and will reply to each message.  It may take a few days, so please be patient. 

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