Happy New Year!

Wishing you and your family a Happy New Year!

I wrote the first sentence for the fourth Sgt. Dunn novel (sd4) tonight. Wanted to get it started in 2014, and it is only four days after publishing the third Sgt. Dunn novel, Brutal Enemy (12/27/14).

The new Sgt. Dunn novel, Brutal Enemy published! Available on Amazon.com.

The third Sgt. Dunn novel, Brutal Enemy, is now available for Kindle! 

Description

The third book in the popular Sgt. Dunn World War II action thriller series picks up right where book two, Behind German Lines, left off.

Colonel Frank Rogers, an American intelligence officer on the planning staff for the impending invasion of southern France, goes missing in northwest Italy. Sgt. Tom Dunn, recalled from his honeymoon, and his squad of lethal U. S. Army Rangers are tasked with the impossible: find and rescue the missing colonel before he is captured and gives up vital invasion intelligence.

Meanwhile, British Sergeant Malcolm Saunders and his Commandos parachute into Italy north of the impenetrable Gothic Line in an attempt to deliver a crushing blow to the German supply line.

While Dunn and his men race across Italy in search of Rogers, the rescue operation takes an unexpected direction. Suddenly, Dunn comes face-to-face with the brutal evil permeating the Nazis from Berlin to the occupied countries.

In Brutal Enemy, Munsterman takes the reader on a terrifying journey into Nazi occupied Italy with his trademark page-turner pace.

7 December 1941 - Pearl Harbor

On a Sunday much like today, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The Japanese had completely incorrectly assessed the likely American reaction, fully expecting us to roll over and come to the table to negotiate a peace. Instead, witnessing an enraged American public, President Roosevelt and members of Congress declared war on Japan the very next day, hurtling the country into World War II. 

Here's a web site with all kinds of information:

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-1.htm

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Thank you to all Veterans!

Please join me in thanking our veterans for their service and sacrifices.

Go Kansas City Royals!

I took a 1/2 day vacation day to come home and watch the Royals game. World Series, here we come!

The third Sgt. Dunn novel's first draft is done!

Yay! I finished the first draft of Brutal Enemy.

I wrote twelve pages this weekend to finish the book. Now the fun begins: the editing and expanding the details here and there.

I can't predict a publish date, but know that I am working every single day to make the book the best it can possibly be for you.

I expect to have it in the hands of my trusted FIRST READERS in about a week. I will continue editing while they are reading it for things like story continuity, pacing, and, of course, every writer's bane of existence, grammatical errors and typos, most often words that are left out, like 'the.' At least no one has to try to decipher my even worse handwriting. 


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Ronn

Started work on the 4th Sgt. Dunn novel . . .

 . . . even though I'm still writing on the third one! How can you do that? you ask.

As you can see from the little progress bar in the upper right I'm nearly 70% done with the first draft. So why start now on the next one? The truth is I'm always thinking about the next one when I'm in the midst writing one.

I'm writing a series with main characters whose lives we are watching at different points along a known timeline, specifically World War II. What I do as a writer is zero in on this group of ordinary men from America and England who would have been teachers, farmers, fishermen . . . if not for the war. The thing is, they do extraordinary things, which is what makes the stories. 

I have to take a look at all the events occurring around these men in the world of war torn Europe in 1944. Weaving their story lines with real events helps make them become people, not just characters in the books.

So, today I came up with about five or six plot points, or events, that need to occur. It's just a start, but I'm already excited by it.

Now it's time to get back to writing the third book, Brutal Enemy. By the way, I no longer title my books until I have written a good portion of them. I learned not to do that from my first one, which, if I recall correctly, went through three titles before Operation Devil's Fire. Now, I just title them sd# for Sgt. Dunn book number. Say hello to sd4.

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