Author Notes - Michael Anderle
Written July 27th, 2017
First, thank you for reading this book all the way though … and NOW, eyes bleeding from the previous 120k words, you stuck around to read some shit from me.
That’s pretty damned awesome.
I’m going to riff a moment on what Craig said. When I knew I was going to have this big freaking gap from when Bethany Anne left the solar system and went after the Kurtherians, to when Michael came back / Bethany Anne showed back up, I could HEAR the “What Happened When She Was Gone??!?” questions.
Now, those questions have blessed me with a friend / collaborator / occasional person I use to talk to and figure out what I should maybe do next on certain projects and so much more.
Friend
Before the Terry Henry Walton Chronicles came into existence, I knew Craig from the 20BooksTo50k group. He was in there, exhorting people and providing his own Marine version of “C’MON AUTHOR, GIVE ME ANOTHER 2,000 WORDS!”
Or, something like that.
I could tell he was a pretty fantastic human being, and I had spoke with him a couple of times on his own books. He will tell stories that I gave him all sorts of shit for his covers.
Actually, I’m embarrassed to say that’s true.
I really did ask him politely - ‘uh, what is your thoughts on your covers?’ At least, that’s the story I remember. I think HIS story goes something like ‘You have GOT to get those covers redone, they look horrible!’
Either way, his covers for the most part look fantastic, now. Except this one… This one needs to be burnt and redone:
Now, I haven’t told Awesome Craig that I put that cover in the back of this book, but I know that I need some proof that I wasn’t just speaking some shit since he has gone back and redone so many of his covers. Since Awesome Craig is …well… awesome, I figure I need photographic evidence for the future.
So, long story short, since I knew fans would want to know about those 150 years on Earth I reached out to Craig to help me with the stories and now I have a friend that I didn’t have before.
I came out ahead in the deal.
Collaborator / occasional person I use to talk to about stuff
Being an author can be a solitary position for a lot of the time. We are inside our own heads in our stories. Now, there are ways to mitigate this situation such as writing groups / get togethers and other processes such as collaborations.
Here, I knew that I would be handing over one of my relatively minor characters that fan’s loved. This quirky, eidetic memory former Marine with an attitude and together Craig and I were going to do something with him.
Craig is a former Marine… Terry was a Marine… Perfect!
The reality was even better than I could have hoped for.
Before Craig took over Terry Henry Walton (nod to Indiana Jones) I had maybe written a total of 15,000 words of scenes with the Terry Henry (TH to his friends) in my books.
Craig took that and wrote fifty times that much by the time he finishes the ten books. I think it is safe to say that Terry Henry is much more Craig’s guy than mine at this point and I can’t be more proud to know my collaborator wrote him and Char into the characters they are.
Sometime during our collaboration efforts, Craig and I formed a friendship where I could bounce stuff off of him not only about stories, but about life in general. He has lived a handful of years more than I have, and sometimes that is all a person needs to ask ‘dude, what do you think about <insert question here>’ and know that what you get back, has a gut-check of experience written included in the answer.
That’s pretty kick-ass to have on speed-dial.
So, add yet another awesome result in my life due to writing that first Bethany Anne story so many months ago. While it FEEL’s like years have gone by, we haven’t even hit the 2 year mark on the first release of Bethany Anne.
Gott Verdammt people, this November, we need to PARTY!
My life has been so enriched, and Craig is a major part due to YOU reading these stories.
So, thank you!
Michael Anderle
Note: I am writing this author note from the 3rd Floor balcony at the Pueblo Bonito Pacifica Hotel in Cabo San Lucas. The same hotel location I was staying when writing the third book, Love Lost, for The Kurtherian Gambit in November of 2015.
Sometimes, we do come full circle, and it feels fucking wonderful.
Michael
Craig Martelle
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Earth Prime Anthology, Volume 1 (Stephen Lee & James M. Ward)
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The Misadventures of Jacob Wild McKilljoy (with Michael-Scott Earle)
The Tide, a multi-author, single story extravaganza
Metamorphosis Alpha, Chronicles from the Warden, Volume 1 (with James M. Ward)
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Death Becomes Her (01) - Queen Bitch (02) - Love Lost (03) - Bite This (04)
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We Will Build (08) - It’s Hell To Choose (09) - Release The Dogs of War (10)
Sued For Peace (11) - We Have Contact (12) - My Ride is a Bitch (13)
Don’t Cross This Line (14)
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Never Submit (15) - Never Surrender (16) - Forever Defend (17)
Might Makes Right (18) - Ahead Full (19) - Capture Death (20)
Life Goes On (21)
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Evacuation
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Restitution 2017
Reclaiming Honor
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Justice Is Calling (01)
Claimed By Honor (02)
Angel of Reckoning (04)
Born Into Flames (05)
The Etheric Academy
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ALPHA CLASS (01)
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Nomad Redeemed (02)
Nomad Unleashed (03)
Nomad Supreme (04)
Nomad’s Fury (05)
Nomad’s Justice (06)
Nomad Avenged (07)
Nomad Mortis (08)
Nomad’s Force (09)
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Risk Be Damned (01)
Damned to Hell (02)
Hell’s Worst Nightmare (03) coming soon
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Awakened (01)
Activated (02)
Called (03)
Sanctioned (04)
Rebirth (05)
The Age of Magic
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Restriction (01)
Reawakening (02)
Rebellion (03)
Revolution (04)
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Shades of Light (01)
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Storms of Magic
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Storms Raiders (01)
Tales of the Feisty Druid
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You Don’t Mess with John’s Cousin
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Bitch’s Night Out
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