Tag: burnandbadkarma

Blind Run is Live and Available!

Blind Run is Live!

Who thought this trip was a good idea?

Bad Karma goes to Chicago alone in search of answers about her past. What she finds is a well-funded organization with too many guns, an army of trigger pullers, and a disturbing interest in someone who may—or may not—be her. Most people would consider this a good reason to leave.

Bad Karma isn’t most people. As she digs deeper, she uncovers fragments of the truth she’s spent money and months chasing. Every answer reveals something bigger, something more dangerous, and someone willing to kill to keep the past buried.

Meanwhile Burn recovers from her injuries hundreds of miles away, where strangers are asking uncomfortable questions and following old leads about a woman they thought disappeared long ago. Unfortunately for Burn, they think she knows exactly where to find their target. Now Burn is in trouble, enemies are closing in from every direction.

With answers in reach, Karma faces a dilemma she never expected. Every step toward the truth puts more lives at risk, and every delay gives Burn’s enemies more time to close in.

Every corner presents a new threat.

The problem with Bad Karma is that she’ll charge around that corner.

Tales of the E4 Mafia 2!

So, it’s time to let the world know. Especially Ron Maurer 🙂

Tales of the E4 Mafia 2 is going live on 1 May 2026.

I’ve got some great stories in here. It all gets covered, from fantasy to science fiction to cyberpunk mercenaries getting pulled into a military unit.

As you can guess, this is all about those E4s handling business, pulling shenanigans, having fun and creating chaos!

More updates coming soon as I get through the launch process!

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#E4Mafia

#burnandbadkarma

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Motivation

Sometimes, that’s how it works.

Like many writers, I get asked how I keep coming up with ideas. The truth is that I have a lot of ideas. I don’t have enough time to write all the stories those ideas are connected with, but I do have a lot of ideas for stories. And sometimes, some event or comment or action I see gives me an idea for a story.

What I do with this ideas is make a note of them. So, it gets jotted down in a notebook, or texted to myself, or added to a page in my Notion pages. In some way, shape or manner, I document that idea.

If the idea is good, it will be there when I have time to develop it. If it’s great, I build a lot more base for it, so I can act on it when there’s time and not a dozen other deadlines and projects going. Some, sadly, go to the great note page in the sky.

One other interesting idea happens with a few of those idea, though. A rare few show up when I’m working on a story, and they fit. Not usually in the scene I’m writing, but somewhere in the story. So, I work it in.

That’s where Pheobe the Tank came from. Someone else had made a comment about sentient tank stories and I was working on Sandblaster at the time. Since there were already tanks in the story, it was fun to go back through and add a sentient tank to this cyberpunk mercenary story.

From there, I was invited to submit to the Worldbreaker anthology. Which lead to Amarillo by Fire Fight, where Phoebe the Tank catfishing an infantry soldier while in a rolling tank fight.

So, there you have it. Most of the writers I know don’t have a lack of ideas. We really don’t. We have capacity to work on one or two stories at a time, and not nearly enough hours in a day to write everything we want to, but we generally don’t seem to lack ideas.

Thanks for reading through this. I hope you enjoyed a glimpse into my process!