Battle For Harbinger

 Pierce Black is really kicking out the books! He has finished book 5 and we are editing them now! Book 6 is outlined and parts of Book 7 are started! 

Here is an excerpt from Book 3, Battle For Harbinger, which I am editing now:

They came out of the trees. The enormous spiders, the
creatures with the spikes for arms, the dog-like ones with
the bone plates and spikes on their heads. They just
charged the river with no sense of self-preservation and
seemingly endless numbers to throw at the barge and the
wharf.

There were so many of them. Had Riverside been overrun?
The town was quite a few miles upriver. Reece hoped
Riverside hadn’t been hit yet. All he could do was hope. It
wasn’t like they could afford to sail out that way and contact
them.

Men on the deck fired smooth-bore muskets, cap and
ball revolvers, and small cannons firing grape shot. It
wasn’t enough. The rate of fire was too slow, even with the
fifty-caliber machine guns mounted to the steamboat. The enormous
arachnids scurried out into the river, forming a
bridge with their bodies, and reached for the other side and
the wharf.

People across the river were firing at them, while others
were falling back. The wharf was probably lost, the first in
a long line of positions to fall to the onslaught of the bugs.
But Reece and his men were going to take as many of
them with them as they could.

Reece loaded a fresh bolt into his crossbow, lit the fuse on
the bolt, and fired. He had aimed for the bridge of bodies;
the bolt hitting one of the spike armed critters in the eye. It
detonated a few seconds later. The thunderous roar of the
explosion was as deafening as the machine guns. Its blast
tossed water and bug parts into the air and destroyed their
bridge before they reached the steamboat.

I am impressed with how well he has improved in his writing skill over the course of these books. I will have to go back and edit Book 1, Ghosts Of Harbinger as he wad not satisfied with it as it was and decided to apply his newfound skills to improve it.

I realize that I am biased, being his father, but Battle For Harbinger is as good as anything I have read from Amazon authors. If you haven't purchased a copy of his book on Amazon, just be aware that he will be pulling it and it may become a collectors item as it will be rare once the new version is released. He is looking at publishing with Aethon Books, pending their acceptance and will submit the first 5 books of the series. 

If for some reason that doesn't work out, it will be released on Amazon again as a box set (kindle version)

Be safe all, these are troubling times.