As a kid growing up in one of the scores of small industrial towns in Western Pennsylvania, I remember the pleasure of reading serialized novels in popular magazines or pulp productions with the gaudy, racy covers. Not many houses had bookcases and buying hardback books of the day was out of financial reach.

Nowadays, as print media is giving way to the desktop and mobile screens, I wondered if it might be a good thing to recreate the serialization of novels. For people who are too busy with the responsibilities of raising families and finding a good-paying job, maybe a ten- or 15-minute read on your home computer screen or, more likely, the screen of a smart phone, once or twice a week would be a way for me to get my stories to a wider readership and maybe put a smile on a few faces. My sales manager and I decided to try serializing my novel Run to Freedom. This is a story that is chronologically the first book in the Justice Series that features my hero Jack Brandon, though it was written fourth. Run to Freedom starts in Siberia in 1920 with a member of the Brandon family missing in action along the Trans-Siberian Railroad in President Wilson’s ill-fated deployment of American troops to Russia after WWI.

We will publish one or two segments a week. All you have to do is sign up to get an email alert when a new installment is published. There is no charge and no obligation. You can follow along from beginning to end (we will be publishing the whole book over time) and forward the segments to friends and family members if you think they’d like it. You can quit at any time. If there is enough interest, we may serialize my other books.

All my books are for sale as print editions in your local bookstore and ebooks in nook and Kindle formats. If you’d like a sample of the Justice Series and how it all began, sign up, sit back, and enjoy some espionage, action, and even a little romance.