About Julie Cochrane and Faye Midsomer

I started creating stories when I was five years old. My mother began tape recording my stories for me before I learned to read or write. I have had dry spells before, but always comes back to my love of creating stories. In 2004, I got a contract with Baen Books to write military science fiction with John Ringo. That led to three books: Cally’s War, Sister Time, and Honor of the Clan. Cally’s War was a New York Time bestseller and the other two books did well, too.

But my heart just wasn’t in military science fiction and I went a number of years when I didn’t write anything, partly due to a medical condition that has thankfully been resolved. Then I realized everything I was reading was urban fantasy and why not write that? And after some noodling around with world-building, Faye Midsommer and Sean Greenwood were born. Sean and Faye are young fae detectives with a very long lifespan ahead of them, so there is infinite room for more stories and for the characters to grow and flourish with the ongoing series.

I have written four books in the series and am currently writing the fifth. All the books are in the pre-publication stages. They will be self-published, and I want to give readers the opportunity to get a satisfying series-read in a reasonable timeframe from when they pick up the first book–instead of publishing one book at a time, six months apart–which is the self-publishing schedule I can afford.

The plan is to publish the first book on Kindle Unlimited when I have six books publication ready, and publish another book on KU every 90 days until I catch up with my output. I can afford to prepare another book for publication every six months, so that puts me three years out from meeting my starting goal for publication. That puts my target release date at January, 2029.

When I reach eight books released, I plan to pull them from Kindle Unlimited and start selling direct, which means book bundles and special deals on premium content and ever so much fun and booky goodness.

When do I plan to wrap up the series? I don’t. The story arc of Sean and Faye’s development is open ended, deliberately. You haven’t met them yet, but my goal is to have readers fall in love with them and keep looking forward to the next one. The pace of new releases may slow down after eight books, but right now the first eight are firmly planned.