Saga Novels

Saga Novels

This is a list of the novels as of this date. Like all things, it is subject to change, based upon any number of factors, including my interest in writing one or more of the stories. Right now, there is a strong possibility that I'll not write the Chato Demtris story, but possibly will add a story on cloning, based upon a short story called "Clones to Us."

Over the course of three years with an agent, I became unhappy with the results and realized that unless I could get meaningful feedback, all I was doing was paying for someone to do clerical work. When the agent started to increase their fees, I decided it was time to bail. After three years, I asked that our agreement and contract end.

I attended a seminar (sometimes it takes only one) in which a published author talked about her experiences with agents and I had the opportunity to ask some revealing questions. Basically, long books, while they may be good, will never sell easily and almost never from an unknown author. I knew that I was in trouble and had to go back and revisit the stories - I needed to reduce them in size to 120,000 words (the upper limit placed on submissions by Del Rey) or less.

But I wasn't in the mood for doing any rewrites at that time and so tackled three more stories in the series, limiting them to 120,000 words or less. During the year 2005, I rewrote the first two stories and split the third into two distinct books.

Here is a current list of the novels in the Saga:

Star Spawn 1 The Waken Incident
Star Spawn 2 The Stormy Island Incident
Star Spawn 3 Rebirth Matthews
Star Spawn 4 Rebirth Eclipse
Star Spawn 5 The Cleric
Star Spawn 6 Clerics World
Star Spawn 7 Visit to a Small Planet
Star Spawn 8 Second Encounter
Star Spawn 9 Mutant
Star Spawn 10 The Final Battle
Star Spawn 11 Return of the Sky People
Star Spawn 12 Carrollton
Star Spawn 13 The Order of the Knife
Star Spawn 14 The End of the Matter
Star Spawn 15 Eve
Star Spawn 0 Prime Contact

A more complete list of the novels and their current status is found on The Novels page.

Updated: April 22, 2007