Life Line

I have a new novel available called Life Line. It’s very different from my Osserian Saga fantasy novels. This is a straight up mainstream novel with no fantasy elements whatsoever.

I decided to release Life Line as an ebook  publishing experiment. My first three novels have been available electronically for some time, but they were created and put out there by HarperCollins. I decided to tackle this project myself so I could get a feel for what it takes to make an ebook, as well as the process for getting it published across the major platforms. I learned a lot, and at some point I’ll write about my (at times incredibly frustrating) experience.

Josh Wilcox is a thirty something single dad looking for love (or at least some half decent sex) in his post divorce world. He’s dragging along some hefty baggage (a murdered daughter will have that effect), but manages to get his act together and jump back into the dating scene. He discovers that things have changed a lot since the last time he was single, and that finding a good woman, even with the questionable help of online dating, is a serious pain in the ass.

After a handful of dates that could give the Apocalypse a run for its money, he meets Pam. She’s cute, funny, enjoys sex, and is, thank God, mentally stable. She has some baggage of her own, but at least manages to brush her hair.

Then he learns that one of the women he previously dated is a sociopath who’s neither forgotten nor forgiven him. She decides Josh needs to pay for his sins, and she’ll stop at nothing to make sure he does.

I set up a separate website where you can read excerpts and order it directly for your ereader of choice. It’s currently available for the Amazon Kindle (in the US, UK, and Germany), Apple’s iBookstore, and the Barnes & Noble Nook. It should be available at some point on the Kobo and Sony eReader, but those two platforms have been dragging their feet for weeks and quite frankly I’m tired of waiting. If you want a copy for one of those readers, get in touch and we’ll work out an arrangement.

I hope you decide to give Life Line a read. It’s inexpensive ($2.99!), so it won’t make much of a ding in your wallet or purse. It’s funny and sad and racy, so there’s a little of something for everyone — but it’s definitely not for kids! The content is very adult, so you should consider yourself warned.

  • Cody

    Sounds boring.

    Would prefer you finally did Osserian Saga next book and at least some info on it and not waist time with this.

    as been ages and got nothing.

    Sounds so boring I expect better from you then this.

  • David Forbes

    Hi Cody. The book after The Words of Making is The Commanding Stone, which has been out since 2009. You can see the cover and order it if you scroll down a bit — it’s on the right side of the website. I pumped it pretty hard when it came out so I’m not sure how you missed it.

    Now, if you meant what book comes after The Commanding Stone, I’m sorry to say that there won’t be any more in the Osserian Saga, even though a fourth one was planned, The Path of Ashes. My contract was up with my publisher and they chose not to sign me for any more in this series. I’m also working on selling some Young Adult fantasies at the moment that might be a little more to your taste.

  • Jason

    Take it easy on him. Dave seems like a regular guy with a talent for writing great books..While I greatly enjoyed the Osserian saga, and would happily read the next installment when it becomes available, I think that stretching your mental legs is always a good idea, and especially so for a writer.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s the problem, guys. Sales of the first book were great, sales of the second and third largely tanked. There’s not going to be a fourth book. It sucks, especially since I had one planned out, but this series is dead as far as my publisher goes. The original ending of THE COMMANDING STONE was a cliffhanger that was going to lead right into book four, but my editor made me change it because she was already pretty sure even before it was published that there wasn’t going to be a fourth one. The series, for whatever reason, just never caught on.

    I may post the original ending here sometime just so everyone can see what I had planned, but that’s probably as far as it will ever get. I’m truly sorry about that, but that’s how it is, at least for the moment.