July was a genuinely productive month. Heavy on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram — the posting rhythm's finally clicking — and YouTube is officially in the works now too.
✍️ Works in Progress
The ongoing series work continues, and there's a special work in progress I'm keeping under wraps for now — more on that soon.
📖 Book Releases
Dead Man's Trail — Walker Davis Book 3 — released July 18th.
Marshal's Last Ride, Walker Davis Book 4, is coming August 15th.
And looking ahead: The Cut, my second Southern Noir standalone, releases September 5th. This one's about corruption and moonshine running through northeast Alabama, Tennessee, and northwest Georgia in the Appalachian foothills.
🎧 Audiobook Update
Both A Quiet Man and Eli Creed have been finalized for audiobook and are awaiting final approval — more soon.
🌟 Something New: Lodestar
I've been quiet about this for a while, but it's time to let you in on it. For the last several months, alongside the writing, I've been building something for other writers — a family of tools I call Lodestar.
Here's the short version: every tool in Lodestar organizes, formats, or strengthens a writer's own work. None of them write a single word for you. In a world full of AI tools that'll happily write your book for you, I built the opposite — tools that help you write your book, in your voice, faster and cleaner, without ever putting words in your mouth.
There are seven tools in the family so far, covering everything from novel planning to manuscript formatting to prose analysis — built out of the actual problems I've run into writing my own thirteen books. If you've ever wanted a peek behind the curtain at how the sausage gets made, or you know a writer who'd want tools built by someone who's actually in the trenches with them, this is worth watching.
Full details are still coming together, but the waitlist is open now — join it, and you'll be the first to know when doors open.
⭐ The Numbers, and Reader Reviews
82 books sold and just over 49,000 pages read across the whole lineup this month — the Walker Davis series leading the way. And more and more positive reviews have been coming in too. Genuinely means a lot. Thank you, all of you, for reading and for taking the time to leave one.
That's the month. More coming soon — thanks for being here for it.
— Christopher