Against All Odds: The Green Beret Guide to Epic Survival Stories

This book is a pulling together of research I did for my Preparation and Survival Guide, Area Study Workbook and Guide to 21 Great Disasters. In fact, there is a little crossover with the last book as I touch on both the Donner Party and the plane crash in the Andes.

Besides being interesting reading, there’s a lot we can learn from these 20 stories of survival, and 5 stories where people didn’t survive. We learn what they did right and what they did wrong.

I apply the same After Action Review process we used after every Special Forces mission: What happened? What went wrong? What did they do right? What do you do differently next time?

On other fronts, Howl: WT Sherman’s Monster Hunters will be out much earlier than the end of June. I’m doing final edits now and hope to have it live in a couple of weeks. I really like it, perhaps I’m a bit biased, but it’s a bit different, focusing more on the concept of evil during wartime. It’s also, as many of my books are, historical. I’ve connected it to my Duty, Honor, Country series but only because it takes place in the Civil War. It does begin on the same night as the last book in that series, the first night during the Battle of Shiloh, but only the historical characters are the same. It jumps to Andersonville, hell on earth, and then the rest takes place during Sherman’s March to the Sea.

Jenny and I have a good draft of Arresting Anna, but are haggling over details. Such as who I get to kill. We’re over halfway through the follow on, Stealing Nadine, and also have a mostly done draft of a novella in the middle, Getting Carter. So once we get past this bottleneck, there will be three titles coming quickly.

I also have a solid draft of the first book in a survival series, Slow Fall. I think it’s different than most post-apocalyptic stories in that it takes place during the ‘apocalypse’ except it’s not one, significant event. I think it shows what is more likely to happen. A slow collapse of our infrastructure and what occurs as things unravel around us. Which is way more scary than a meteor or pandemic with zombies.

So after a slow 2025 where I did a lot of writing, the pay off comes this year with a plethora of titles.

Nothing but good times ahead!