33 % MORE: Tripple Trouble now Quadruple Trouble

Lots of news: I decided to include the previously published Trouble at Christmas with my Troubleshooter novella collection. There will be now four stories and my estimator told me "about 180 pages" of storytelling.

The four novellas in this collection show faces of Paul Trouble you have not seen before:

• Fast Trouble: Paul Trouble and his trusted young sidekick Tom Chan need to solve a Strom Industries corporate issue in Brazil during a short stop-over.
• Private Trouble: Paul as a cocky young Marine helping out his girlfriend after a robbery.
• A Trouble Termination: Paul is back on the job after he lost his left hand to the hammer-blows of mad arms-dealer Picard. A Parisian operation tests his operational skills to the limits.
• Trouble at Christmas: Trouble will find Paul during his Christmas vacations back home in Montana, reconnecting him with a life he thought he had left behind twenty years ago.

Pieces of Trouble - Cover Reveal

You saw the new cover with minuscle pixel count in my previous post. Here is the final cover for "Pieces of Trouble", my upcoming novella collection from the Troubleshooter universe.

I wanted to keep the boxy, slightly outdated, retro-looking cover design of TROUBLESHOOTER, just update it with some more colors to support the diverse story backgrounds.

Private Trouble — Showing up on Wattpad

A Troubleshooter universe Novella is out on Wattpad. In the next days I will bring up the various chapters for the small story about Troubleshooter Paul Trouble.

I brainstormed a series of Troubleshooter shorts, or novellas as Amazon classifies them. Private Trouble is the second, the first being Trouble at Christmas. Where Trouble at Christmas was to present a glimpse into Paul Trouble’s roots, back home in Montana in the present day, Private Trouble is taking us twenty years back when Paul was just becoming a Marine, waiting for his first deployment overseas. It’s not the Paul Trouble we know from Troubleshooter, that world-weary, very resourceful but crippled and burned out forty-year-old version of the soldier we meet in Private Trouble. Young Private Paul Trouble enjoys time off, flirts with local college girls, and, of course, gets into local trouble. It shows his early deduction capabilities and his action-oriented approach to life, still somewhat unsure about his abilities, but confident that he will get there.

Private Trouble will be part of a small Novella anthology of Troubleshooter short stories called "Pieces of Trouble". More the next time.

Tripple Trouble

My Five for Forever submission might delay the publishing throughout the nomination process of maximum of 45 days. But I've got other things to keep me busy. The editor returned three short stories from the Troubleshooter universe which I will do some stuff with.

First is a print edition called Pieces of Trouble that will collect the four existing Troubleshooter novellas in one book. To be honest, this one is a pure vanity thing to have a copy of those novellas sitting on my shelf. It will be a thin one with around 160 pages, but again, more for haptics than for reading.

Second channel then is eBook teasers through KDP Select. Maybe the shorts will fly in a give-away scenario.
Third channel will be a bit-by-bit chapter-by-chapter publishing on Wattpad and maybe some other platforms. I have no high hopes, but maybe I can kindle some interest to the Paul Trouble adventures.
Then, after all is said and done, a Pieces of Trouble eBook collector through Smashword and others.

Maybe a good reminder: there is already a Troubleshooter Novella out there. Even though we are all glad that Christmas is behind us, it is a winter season book foremost. Available on Amazon and on Wattpad.

Five for Forever ready! But not yet out...

That took a while! September! Suits me right. But a lot of things happened during the four months, mainly around my latest book titled Five for Forever. Wrote the whole thing, finished after a tour de force before Christmas, shipped it to the editor, ran through the whole thing again and back, and I am now ready to publish. The cover is done, too, I'll reveal that in a few days, hopefully.

To market my new book I will turn to a new service from Amazon called "Kindlescout". I submitted my book just a few minutes ago. It goes through three stages, if all goes well. Firstly, a check on Amazon's side for formality. Secondly a nomination process by potential readers like you (and me). If after 45 days a book has received enough votings, the book will be contracted by Kindle Press and marketed in the big mean Amazon machine.
Let's see how that works out.