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As we look forward to a busy 2025, I wanted to stop and reflect on how amazing 2024 has been for us.

AUDIOBOOK: The audiobook of The Holocaust Engine was released with the amazing talents of Storm Browne, courtesy of David Lane and Evolved Publishing. It’s available here: https://books2read.com/THE-TheHolocaustEngine and across all your favorite formats, including Spotify, Apple Books Audio, Audiobooks.com, Barnes & Noble Audio, Chirp Audio, Downpour, Everand Audio, Google Audio, Hoopla Audio, Rakuten, and Libro.fm. It’s the perfect introduction to the world of The Holocaust Engine.

CONVENTIONS: We also had a busy con season, with David Rike attending his first-ever con with FENCON, 2024, followed by SoonerCon, 2024, and P-Con-2024. He did an amazing job on his first panels and I enjoyed my opportunities to moderate panels with him and a wide variety of local and national authors, creators, and fans. Our thanks to everyone who planned, plotted, schemed, attended, managed, or enjoyed any of these wonderful events. We’ll be back in 2025.

LOCAL EVENTS: One of our favorite things is to talk about writing with authors and readers. The Half Price Books flagship store is one of our favorite places, and we were there TWICE, selling and signing books, talking about stories, and deploying the Genre Fight board. Thanks to the folks who stopped by and placed any of the 100+ stars on the board.

Books 1 and 2 of The Holocaust Engine trilogy are also now available at the Wylie, TX Urban Farm and Market, as part of their local authors section featuring talents from across the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.

LOOKING AHEAD: We started work on our next trilogy (a historical fantasy set in the age of sail) while also plotting a scary little horror novel that we are prepping for 2025. More to come on those, but our notebooks are overflowing with all sorts of creativity that we’re hoping to share soon.

Happy New Year, everyone!

As the holidays approach, I wanted to share that Book 1 and Book 2 of The Holocaust Engine trilogy are available from Evolved Publishing:

The Holocaust Engine (Book 1): It begins with disease… A brain-rotting virus, which leaves its victims disoriented and hyper-violent, rages out of Cuba into the Florida Keys. The Audiobook is also available at  https://books2read.com/THE-TheHolocaustEngine and across all your favorite formats, including Spotify, Apple Books Audio, Audiobooks.com, Barnes & Noble Audio, Chirp Audio, Downpour, Everand Audio, Google Audio, Hoopla Audio, Rakuten, and Libro.fm.

Fluid Shock (Book 2) – A team of investigators and military operators join the survivors in a race to stop the spread of an otherworldly plague.

Unda Sanguis (Book 3) – (coming soon) Chaos descends inside the quarantine zone as a hurricane threatens to finish what the disease started.

The first two books in The Holocaust Engine, my trilogy with David Rike, will be available on the shelves of the newly opening Wylie Urban Farm and Market at 2315 E Stone Road, Wylie, TX 75098.

They will be opening soon and have a terrific local space for shopping, gathering, and more, including the perfect place to find local authors. The space will be perfect for classes, readings, autograph sessions, and even special events for and by local authors (including me and David). We are excited to be part of this new adventure and opportunity for local DFW authors.

Amazing day with Stephen Patrick and David Rike at the Half Price Books flagship in Dallas, courtesy of the Half Price Books. It’s still a bucket list item to be invited to our hometown bookseller (more than a few of our stories were inspired from pieces we found there). We had our best single day of sales as well as dozens of chats about our series, our writing, and our next projects. We also sold my favorite “survive” bookcharm, courtesy of the bookmark collection of poppingcharmsjewelry.

As promised, “Genre Fight” returned for round 3 and picked up dozens of new stars, with Horror closing ground on Fantasy (maybe thanks to Halloween).

We were blessed to share the time and space with Jenna Hartley, who was gracious enough to tell us about her romance writing and her projects.

If you’re local to Dallas-Ft. Worth, or just passing through, don’t forget to check out their local author series which brings talented writers from across the area to talk about stories, storytelling, and have a great time with writers, readers, fans, and families!

It’s hard to believe it has been 4 years since our series started. With the audiobook for Book 1 in production and Book 3 out for edits, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on how thankful David Rike and I are for this journey. It has taken us from Texas to Key West and back, with side trips to cons and signings and memorable times with our family, friends, fans, and strangers from all over the world.

A special thanks to Dave Lane and Evolved Publishing (https://evolvedpub.com/). He picked one of my early short stories for an anthology many moons ago and that push helped me get this far.

For those that haven’t jumped in, the water is still fine in our part of Key West, although things change a bit in Books 2 and 3. Book 1 is available on Amazon (link below) and at Evolved Publishing (https://evolvedpub.com/books/the-holocaust-engine/), where it is currently a “best price E-book”, meaning you can save 50% at https://evolvedpub.com/best-price-ebooks/the-holocaust-engine/.

Recently, Tim Ward and Evolved Publishing asked us about the story BEHIND The Holocaust Engine, “why Key West?”, and a few other deep dives about our series and our writing process.

That interview has been posted by Andy Peloquin and the great folks at FanFiAddict:

Guest Interview with Post-Apoc Author Stephen Patrick — by Tim Ward

This answers a lot of the questions we get at cons, signings and other appearances, and may give you some insights into our flavor of the writing craft!

Sometimes, it takes a bookmark to remind you that the best horror stories involve folks that are less like heroes and more like survivors.