Four Days to Launch.

In a little over four days, Fallen Hunter is due to launch and I still haven't finished the final edit. I stayed up late last night and got the front and back cover complete, though.

Now I'm sitting in my favorite recliner with the proofed manuscript and am ready. I was planning to go into work this morning, I've been assigned a new truck at my day job and need to move all my gear into it. But, the forecast is for rain all day.

So I'll sit here and go through the manuscript and see what my proof reader has wrought. She's a retired English teacher and truly brutal with the red pen, never missing a thing. If any of my writer friends need a good proof reader, she might be available and I highly recommend her.

Okay, enough dodging the inevitable. Time to get to work.

Most Recent Review of Fallen Palm on Amazon.

By Clear Creek Press

I write Caribbean novels for a living, so I know the good from the bad, and Wayne Stinnett is an author to watch. He writes with authority, and a clean, pure understanding of South Florida that even seasoned writers would envy. Stinnett allows you to taste and feel each situation and this debut of enticing characters and dicey situations makes for great reading. Congratulations Wayne. You're on your way!

Michael Reisig -- author of "The Road To Key West" and "Back On The Road To Key West"

Release of Fallen Hunter is 6 days away.

With less than six days until the debut of Fallen Hunter, the second book in the Jesse McDermitt series, I'm getting anxious. I'm a new author and when I published the first book, Fallen Palm,I didn't really have any idea what would happen. At best, I figured I'd buy a few copies to give to friends and family and with any luck, I might actually sell a few.

That was two months ago. Currently, Fallen Palm sits just inside the top 1000 in the action/adventure genre and just inside 50,000 overall, on Amazon's best seller list. With millions of books in print, needless to say I'm very happy with that. I've given away hundreds of copies in both paperback and Kindle format and have actually sold over 200 copies.

I'm really humbled that people would actually part with their hard earned money to read my book. I'm hoping that with the release of Fallen Hunter, more people will want to read both.

Wayne

Book Trailer.

A friend put this together for me. Thanks Charlie.

Signed Copies Available for a Short Time ONLY!!

After a lot of thought, I've decided to offer signed copies for sale on my website. It'll be problematic for anyone that knows me personally. I still work a regular job. Well, not really regular. I'm an over the road truck driver and sometimes I don't get home for several weeks. That'll make it difficult to personalize a signed copy and get it shipped right away.

To that end, I decided to experiment with it and just see how it goes, since I know that I'll be staying closer to home until after the first of the year. If anyone would like a signed copy of my books, just go to my website and click on the appropriate Paypal button.

Fallen Hunter Cover Reveal.

I asked a photographer friend, Tim Ebaugh of Melbourne, Florida if he could take a low light image of Orion setting over water for me. He not only nailed the image, but created the perfect cover for me. I'm really impressed with his skills.

Release Date for Fallen Hunter Set

Fallen Hunter will be available on Amazon, in both paperback and Kindle, on December 18, 2013. The cover is finished, proof reading is complete and it's currently undergoing editing and polishing.

Fallen Hunter is the sequel to Fallen Palm and picks up four months after it. This book will take Jesse to Key West, Cuba and Cozumel, Mexico. In typical fashion, his boat Gaspar's Revenge features prominently, along with several other fast moving, wave crashing, boat chases.

This book delves deeper (pardon the pun) into another of Jesse's passions, scuba diving. Vivid descriptions of the underwater reefs of the Florida Keys and Cozumel will make you feel like you're actually there. I worked as a divemaster in both locales and the dive sites that Jesse and his friends dive on are places I've visited many times.

Mark your calendar. It will be available for purchase on Amazon and my website by noon on the18th. Buy both books, they'll make great stocking stuffers for the action/adventure reader in your family.

As always, if you buy the paperback you can download the Kindle version for free and if you buy the Kindle version, you can share it with your friends and family for free.

New Cover for Fallen Palm

I spent several hours designing my own cover for Fallen Palm. It was tedious work, especially getting the background around the two rifle rounds that replace the two L's in Fallen. I think it looks a lot nicer and the addition of the two rifle rounds gives it more of an action/adventure feel.

The End.

Fallen Hunter, the 300 page sequel to Fallen Palm, is complete. Well, nearly so. I typed those last two words last night, leaving a cliff hanger I hope my readers will enjoy until the next book comes out in the spring. The first 14 chapters have been edited and I sent the last 4 chapters to the editor last night. She should have them back in a week to ten days. So, I'm looking at a publication date a few days before Christmas. The two book set would make a great stocking stuffer.

How do you kill a woman?

Nearing the end of Fallen Hunter. I'm writing the last chapter now and there's just one loose end to wrap up. I've been thinking about how it should be accomplished and I keep coming up empty. The trouble is, I'm a moral man. The idea of the hero killing a woman is a foreign concept. But it must be done, she's not a good person. I'm thinking it'll be in self defense when she comes after him, but how? A gun? A knife? Those have been done to death, pardon the pun.

I know I don't have many readers on this blog right now. So here's your chance to contribute.

How should Jesse arrange for the female Cuban terrorist/assassin to meet her end?