Oops.

 I fell behind.  Really, really behind.  

(We're still tinkering with my natural thyroid dose--and it was too low, this time, so I fell behind on a LOT.)

I have a new book out.  This one is a coming-of-age story, suitable for as young as 11 or so.  It's also an end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it, and a set-up for a development of a new civilization.  It's doing a lot for a middle-grades-and-up story. 

The Passing of the Age (if cover doesn't link)

Once, gods and Titans went to war because humanity existed and the Titans...didn’t like that. Will, the blacksmith’s apprentice, was born long after the war’s bitter, destructive, last gasp. It left the land scarred, leaving behind the Wastes, a massive pit in the landscape, dug by poisoned magic. The old world was lost in the ashes, and survivors were left with so little that any who didn’t pull their weight (or had something someone powerful wanted) were exiled to starve in the Wastes.

Just. Like. Will.

Cast out to the Wastes because his father remarried and his stepmother had wanted her children to inherit, he turned to his master, the smith. The smith, who had held Will back to keep using his labor for free, refused to go against the rest of the village, angry though he was to lose Will’s labor. In lieu of the honestly-earned status of journeyman that would have protected Will from exile, his master gave him a bag of grave goods: a hammer (but not a good one), tongs (that were rusting to pieces), and a file (more than half worn out). And two small coins to pay the ferryman when he reached the river dividing life from death.

Will entered the wastes with the clothes on his back, inadequate grave goods, and determination to live through it, in spite of his village. And a mission given him by the Land, and by the god of the wild places, to take the knife he made with his grave goods to the very center of the Wastes. There, he will find his destiny.

Mind you, this isn't part of the Modern Gods series.  This just...jumped me, while I was trying to write something else. 

The Passing of the Age is already live.  It dropped last week.  It's available, right now, for either sale, or borrowing through Kindle Unlimited.