I’m thrilled to announce that Elizabeth Klett, who did such a stellar job narrating Into the Dark, has agreed to narrate Mutineer as well. She’ll be working on it in June and July, so expect a late-Summer / early-Fall release.

Alexis Carew #3, The Little Ships, is on track and should release at about that same time, followed soon after by Planetfall, a novella prequel to the series that will tell Denholm Carew’s story and the founding of Dalthus — along with the root of that feud with the Coalsons.

Also releasing this year will be Of Dubious Intent, the first in a new series, Dark Artifice, which will be a slightly more traditional Steampunk series set at the very beginning of the steam era.

Cat has grown up as a cutpurse on London’s streets — pretending to be a boy to stay clear of the procurers, but that ruse is getting harder to maintain and she needs a new plan. One that will get her free of the streets and give her the hope of a new life. Then she finds that her plan was someone else’s all along.

As a thank you for following me, you can download a preview of Of Dubious Intent here. This is the first four chapters in rough, unedited form.

Mutineer releases tomorrow (2/14) and I see that Amazon has already started processing the UK presales. Thank you everyone who preordered it — I hope you enjoy reading the story as much as I enjoyed writing it. 🙂

Alexis Carew #3, The Little Ships, is well underway and being targeted at a Summer release.

I just approved the files for the audiobook of Into the Dark, so that should be available soon. It’s the first audiobook I’ve done, so I don’t know how long Audible’s review process will take.  I’ve listened to the whole thing several times now to review it myself and I have to say that I’m really pleased with Elizabeth Klett’s narration. She did a spectacular job.

I’m sorry to announce that Mutineer will not be available under the Kindle Unlimited subscription service, and Into the Dark will no longer be in the program as of 2/17. This was a difficult decision, but it came down to Amazon’s requirement that a book be exclusive to Amazon in order to be included in the program. That means I couldn’t sell the books through Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iTunes … anywhere other than Amazon.

I know this may disappoint some readers who first read Into the Dark under Kindle Unlimited and were looking forward to doing the same with Mutineer. I hope you’ll understand the decision. If Amazon would allow me to place books in KU without being exclusive, I would — and they do allow this for the “big name” authors — but there are a lot of readers out there who buy through other stores and I’d like to be allowed to reach them.

J.A. Sutherland

Yes, Mutineer is now available for preorder on Amazon and I’m happy to reveal the new cover!

Just as Midshipman Alexis Carew thinks she’s found a place in the Royal Navy, she’s transferred aboard H.M.S. Hermione. Her captain is a tartar, liberal with the cat, who thinks girls have no place aboard ship. The other midshipmen in the berth are no better. The only advice she’s offered is to keep her head down and mouth shut – things Alexis is rarely able to do.

With Into the Dark at the editors and available for preorder on Amazon, I’ve been hard at work on the second book in the series. Tentatively titled Mutineer, work on Book Two topped thirty thousand words today and it’s targeted for release in the first half of 2015.

Meanwhile, Into the Dark will release on 11/20/2014 in both Kindle and trade paperback editions. I’m also soliciting and reviewing auditions from narrators for an audio version. This is a much more involved and expensive undertaking than the book itself, as Into the Dark’s eighty thousand words comes out to between eight and ten hours of finished audio.

The manuscript has been sent to the editor and the editing date has been moved up to 9/8. With that milestone, the book’s been opened for pre-orders at Amazon (http://amzn.to/1pQjgOn) with an “official” release date of 11/20. 🙂

The editor and I will be working hard to get everything finished and move that date sooner, but as of right now you can pre-order Into the Dark and it’ll be delivered to your Kindle at midnight on the date of release.

The updates to the Into the Dark from beta-reader feedback are almost complete and it’s scheduled to go to the editor on September 15th. So I’m anticipating that it will be available for purchase in digital format sometime in October. The print version might take a couple weeks longer, as the formatting’s more complicated. 🙂