BOOKS

The Rachel Peng novels follow OACET Agent Rachel Peng, the first cyborg liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police.

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DIGITAL DIVIDE (Book 1, 2013) is available at:

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MAKER SPACE (Book 2, 2014) is available at:

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STATE MACHINE (Book 3, 2015) is available at:

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BRUTE FORCE (Book 4, 2016) is available at: 

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BURN RATE (Book 5, 2023) is available at: 

The Deep Witches series is science fiction touched with enough magic to move an entire galaxy.

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THE BLACKWING WAR (March 2021) is available at:

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STONESKIN (Prequel to trilogy, 2017) is available at:

The Hope Blackwell novels follow Hope Blackwell, the world’s second-worst psychic.

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GREEK KEY (Book 1, 2015) is available at:

SPANISH MISSION (Book 2, 2018) is available at:

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  2. _Greek Key_ was a lot of fun, but you know, it kind of left me both satisfied and disappointed. 🙂

    First, your prose continues to improve and improve, and as it does, reading your work becomes ever more enjoyable and fun.

    As always, I could do with leaving out the F-Bomb more often. I do understand you young ones do not get exactly how disturbing it is to older folks to see the F-Bomb in print, but hey – when does the young ever listen to the older folks? (Okay, enough is enough, I think you get the point…)

    It was a little disappointing in some ways, mostly because of fore-knowledge from the comic. Tough to do that kind of stuff. Also, in part, it was a little disappointing because the story never seemed to generate the super high tension of putting Hope and/or company in a situation that was truly dire. Running away from the Minotaur came close, but you never felt that Hope (or Mike, or Speedy) was ever in a position that they could not just brazen their way out of. Somehow. Perhaps in the next novel, you can do that little more, as you seem to do in the Peng novels.

    All in all, it was a very fun read, and as much as your art has improved, I think your real talent lies more in these novels. The characters in them really shine, and are fun to mentally interact with as one reads along. They could be significantly longer though, and you could try describing a bit more of the details. The description of the greek food, for instance, was great and really connected to the characters.

    Good work. Well worth the cost of the book, and I am looking forward to more of your work in the future.

    -Paul

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  4. So after re-reading the comic archive for… the third time? Fourth time? I decided that you had more than earned me forking over some cash to see how your written work was. To that end, I decided to purchase a copy of “Greek Key” last weekend to download since I am more familiar with the Hope (obviously) than Rachel.

    I was not disappointed.

    It was very entertaining, and being ADHD myself, I enjoyed how you portrayed a character who deals with it in interesting situations. We all must truly value the shiny.

    So in conclusion; Congratulations. You will be getting more of my money since now I want to read the Rachel Peng novels. Also, thank-you for creating a fun and interesting world with some unique ideas.

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    1. Following up to my previous comment, I have now finished reading the Rachel Peng novels up to ‘State Machine’. I am very impressed with the how well you have woven together the story and I look forward to the next novel.

      Honestly, I believe you should create a written version of Volume One of the comic. I enjoy the comic but it can be sometimes difficult to get someone to read a comic whereas convincing them to read a book is strangely easier. I assume this is due to hangups about what is for adults vs children.

      Anyway, I fully believe that these books should be on the best sellers list. I understand that as a self published author you have a more difficult time making your work known, but we really need more intelligent work like this.

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  5. I’m curious – If I remember what you’ve said in the past, the Rachel Peng novels take place during the time skip. Does that hold true for Greek Key as well?

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  6. Greek Key takes place at roughly the same time as State Machine. In fact the events of State Machine (about halfway through) kick off the story.

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  9. KB…

    If your books were available via the Google Play store, I’d be happy to buy a couple. I don’t do Kindle however.

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  10. I love, love, loved Stoneskin and I can’t wait for the sequels. Thank you for the amazing new world and awesome characters!

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  11. I am waiting on books. I provided you an alternate e-mail earlier, but if that also isn’t working, please try the one noted in the field below.

    Aimee Child

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  16. I wasn’t familiar with your work, but I recently discovered, and have rather enjoyed, the Rachel Peng series at my library. (I’m almost through the fourth book.) Seems like it would make a good series of movies.

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  17. I’ve read all the OACET novel, more than once. Then I read The Blackwing War. Oh my. So different, but so very, very good. Thank you.

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  19. I loved Burn Rate, but I decided to have some fun and re-read through the whole series to that point, trying to piece together a chronology, and, oof, the timeline is a mess (especially “How old is Avery” and “How long ago did OACET go public” at any given point, resulting Avery often seeming to have been born before OACET went public, despite her birth explicitly occurring during the events of Digital Divide, six months after that revelation), with this book being worse than most in that regard. There’s nothing as egregious as when Richard Smithback came back to life between the first and second Hope Blackwell novels, but I have been arguing back and forth with myself for days now about whether this book happens about six months after Brute Force, or eighteen months.

    “Six months” makes some good points (Zia was pregnant at the end of Brute Force, and just gave birth to her first children a couple of months before Burn Rate, and during the meat of the book, Rachel refers to OACET going public as “almost three years” earlier), but so does “eighteen months” (at the start of the book, several months before the main events, OACET going public is referred to as “almost four years” earlier; Avery has aged from “not yet three” in Brute Force to “four” in Burn Rate; the contractors who have been working on the house for about eight months weren’t mentioned in the previous book; and Mare knows about the ghosts, meaning that even if this happened contemporaneously with Spanish Mission, in mid-October of the same year as Brute Force, there might still not be enough time to squeeze a week-long fight with Becca, a month after the last bombing, before Thanksgiving, which is when that fight is described as happening, nor the “almost three months” between the Agents’ deaths and Pat’s speech on New Year’s Eve).

    My headcanon at the moment is that Zia lost that first pregnancy and this happens about three years after Maker Space, rather than two, but that loss seems like a big thing to be elided, considering that the announcement of that pregnancy was part of the emotional resolution of Brute Force.

    I know the final two Rachel Peng books are coming out shortly, but if there’s time, I suggest going over the whole series with your editor, with a copy of the AGAHF/Rachel/Hope/Joshsmut chronology at hand, and making sure timing of the last few books makes sense, because the chronology only seems to be making less sense as the series goes on, and it’d be in everyone’s interest if that could be caught and fixed.

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