Ken Reynolds

Sequel to Colour.

Answers to Colour. What happened to those characters in Colour that never made it to the end? What was the fate of the lawyer, Stuart Albright after he was arrested? And Thabisa, his live-in maid, who likely suffered a worse fate than her employer, where is she?  And what about Ed and Gail's good friends, Mark and Chantal? Both were wanted by the police officer Van Greuning, for their role in the escape of the former couple. What about Gail and Ed themselves, and their future aboard the Hesperus? 
Rest assured, yours truly, the author, has been worrying about these questions too. And right now, they are being answered in the coming sequel to Colour. progress is being made, and be assured that I am hard at work. 
The sequel is tentatively titled: The Escapement Train. It follows events immediately after the ending in Colour, with two new viewpoints, Chantal's and Mark's, and we also get some answers to the villain, Van Greuning's preoccupation, from his own viewpoint.
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                                                                                THE TRESPASSERS

       Stephanie Black's latest book: The Trespassers will be released on September 5, 2023. 
I think this one is her best yet and it's a real nail-biter. It will keep you reading through the night.
I am extremely proud that Stephanie asked me what I thought of it long before it was published and sent me the first draft. Of course, I loved it then and the finished, polished, published version is even better. 
What an awesome feeling it is to make it to the Acknowledgements page of a publication of this calibre. Thank you so much, Stephanie.

As it appears on the acknowledgements page of The Trespassers:

                                                                       Acknowledgements
          For generously answering my questions and sharing their expertise, thank you to Mikki Helmer, Traci Abramson, Marshall McConkie, Shauna        Rasband, Gregg Luke, Monique Hickman, Dianna Hall, Rebecca Hall, Justin Rasband, Nicholas Welch, Shari Phippen, and Gracie Dunster. Thank you to the members of my Facebook Mystery Chat group; you’re a great source for helpful and entertaining suggestions. 
          For providing feedback on the manuscript, thank you to Sue McConkie and Ken Reynolds; I greatly appreciate your insights.
          Thank you to my editor and dear friend, Samantha Millburn; Sam, you are my hero. Thank you to Kevin Jorgensen for the fantastic cover design, to Shara Meredith and her team for all their marvellous work with marketing and publicity, and to everyone at Covenant Communications. As always, it’s a pleasure to work with you, and I’m so grateful for everything you do to bring my books to readers.


The Horrors of Research.

I have been doing the necessary research for my sequel to Colour and it's leaving me washed out, morbid and depressed.

In Colour, I found it necessary to sacrifice a very pleasant character, a Black South African, Thabisa, by having her arrested by my villain SAP police officer Van Greuning.

For my sequel, Escapement Train, I need to bring her back. But what was it like for her to have been incarcerated in a South African jail in 1970, Apartheid times? I knew by having her jailed, I was subjecting her to a host of horrible experiences, but today's research revealed just what level of horrors she had to go through. Believe me, it isn't pretty.

Review of Codes of Courage by A. L. Sowards


I found this to be a very well-written book, set in WW2, and includes quite a bit of action. People get hurt and/or killed, but the writing is never overly gory. It is a clean read with nothing offensive, but be prepared, because it gives the emotions a real workout. 
Millie finds a job as a codebreaker. Karl works on ships, first for the merchant navy and later for the Royal Navy. Rolf works for the German navy. We read from the points-of-view of all these three, thus any biases are from the characters themselves. There is no trace of author bias. Also, the heroes are seemingly real people. Millie does not single-handedly break the Nazi codes and the result of the war is not solely due to Karl’s heroics. Through Rolf, we get the POV from the German side. The author does a skilful job of showing what the war was like and what it was not. The heroes are fictitious, but seldom have I read of any who are more realistic.  
There is not too much of the plot that I can tell in a review without creating spoilers, but you can be prepared for a very well-researched and accurate account of life and romance in the real world. I can at least tell you to be prepared for a thorough emotional workover, especially in Chapter 60.