by authordwhawkins | Mar 7, 2026 | News
The RantThis week I went off on a bit of a rant — and I’m not sorry about it.Between the headlines, the state of modern warfare, and the technological hellscape we seem to be building for ourselves, I got to thinking about how ancient we really are under all the...
by authordwhawkins | Feb 28, 2026 | News
One of the things that happened to me after coming home from the service is that I got obsessed with military history. And I think a lot of veterans will know exactly what I mean. You pick up these books about ancient battles and great commanders and part of you is...
by authordwhawkins | Jan 18, 2026 | News, The Seven Signs, Uncategorized
This week, I finished The Heart of the Wasteland — the final book in The Seven Signs series. After years of work, false starts, rewrites, deployments, career changes, and more than a little self-doubt, the series is finally complete. The first...
by authordwhawkins | Oct 20, 2025 | News
Time for more reassurance that I’m still alive and still working on my books. The answers are–mostly, and yes. I spent my holiday week, as it turned out, tending to other matters in my life. The kinds of things that build up at the fringes when you have a...
by authordwhawkins | Sep 29, 2025 | News, The Seven Signs
Time for another writing update, folks. In my long tradition of bipolar interactions with my stories, I have come once again to bemoan the state of my current manuscript. Ye gods, how could I have let things get this crazy? So many POVs. Chapters long enough to be...
by authordwhawkins | Sep 21, 2025 | News
It’s been a while since I’ve pushed out an update. Life has been sprinting lately, and I’ve had trouble keeping up. Here we are in the Autumn of another year, and I’ve got books to publish. Lucky for you guys, two of them are finished, and the...