Bullet Country

Three Things

Second, speaking of Barnes & Noble, I was wandering around the one in Exton, Pennsylvania, on Friday and happened to pick up the most recent The Best American Mystery & Suspense and received a pleasant surprise.

Finally, happy birthday to this little goofball!

My Newest Book

*tap tap*

Is this thing on?

*clears throat*

So it’s been a minute, hasn’t it? I’ve mostly abandoned this blog in favor of social media — Twitter, for the most part.

But if you’ve been paying attention to, well, the world, you know just how much of a shitshow Twitter has become (and will inevitably continue to be) so I figured I might as well dust off this here ol’ blog and see if I can squeeze any juice out of it.

And so, without any further fanfare, I should note that my newest book is out!

BULLET COUNTRY, the second book in the Nova Bartkowski series (a spin-off of the Holly Lin series) came out a few weeks ago.

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While BULLET COUNTRY — like the previous Nova Bartkowski thriller BULLET RAIN — is part of the Holly Lin series, readers do not need to have read any of the books in that series to enjoy it. For those readers interested in the overall series timeline, the events of BULLET COUNTRY take place between THE DEVIL YOU KNOW and HOLLOW POINT.

It occurred to me the other day that this is the first thriller under my own name that I've published in two years, as END GAME came out at the beginning of 2020. Granted, I've been publishing books under my pen name in the meantime, but still. Two years!

(Oh, yeah, for those who have only been keeping an eye out on this dusty blog, for the past several years I’ve been publishing psychological suspense under the pen name Avery Bishop. I’ve published two novels so far, GIRL GONE MAD and ONE YEAR AGO, as well as a novella published by Audible which I later released as an ebook and paperback. And for fans of the AB stuff, fear not: there will be more coming in 2023!)

Anyway, I talked a bit about the new book in the latest issue of The Big Thrill, and I was a recent guest on the Brutal Dudes podcast where I discussed the book as well.

So … I guess that’s it for now. I’m going to try to remember I still have this blog moving forward and update it on a regular basis (especially as I have a new thriller being published next year by Blackstone Publishing), but for those just dying to keep up with me on a day-by-day basis, definitely check me out on Twitter. I’ll be there until the site dies or I get suspended because, well, Fox News recently labeled me as a “liberal writer.” On the plus side about that, new blurb!