Colin Taber
November 2024 Updates:
General News
I'm getting ready for a trip to Sweden and Norway in 6 weeks. While I'm doing that, I'm also making sure that I have everything else lined up and ready for release that is scheduled. That includes Dragon Tide and heap of Patreon posts as I work through the timeline there with subscribers. A by product of all this is that USV4 and USV5 are also coming along.
On June 1st, Dragon Tide: The Rising short (previously available on Amazon Kindle) went live on all major ebook retailers.
Dragon Tide is a serial. The first instalment is only brief (a prelude). The following instalments contain bigger chunks of story, about six or more chapters long, and they go live on the first of each month. The first 6 parts of Dragon Tide are out now as I write this.
Ossard News
The Ossard series will be finalised in early 2025 and followed by a surprise fantasy release. I'm currently wrapping up the climax chapters and then will reread the whole series to ensure all loose ends that need to be wrapped up are.
USV News
In 2024, I will relaunch the USV project with a series of short stories and collections of vignettes. These will skip ahead in my alternate timeline, allowing me to reveal the full history of this fascinating universe. My main focus is now USV. I am releasing weekly articles to progress the timeline on Patreon, and this is the first step of the relaunch. Here is a link to a recent blog entry about it.
USV#4: Odin's Hall should see publication in the first half of 2025. There will also be several USV short stories as well as USV#5. USV#4 and USV#5 are being written back to back, with the publication of USV#5: Markland Aflame marking the end of the initial Markland Settlement storyline (or sub-series) for the USV.
Red, White & Blue News
My near-future science fiction series, the Red, White, and Blue setting, will see new releases in 2025. I occasionally work on a number of other projects outside of USV to give me a change of scenery and keep me fresh. I will release these when they are ready, but my priority is USV and wrapping up Ossard.
Upcoming Appearances
None Scheduled
Broadly speaking I'm taking a break from public apperances after more than a few hectic years.
If there is an event you would like me to attend feel free to suggest my name to the organisers so that they may make an approach. I do eventually want to get back to doing some, but at the moment my focus is writing. I am no longer available for book store signings.