In January, I decided to hire a Managing Editor, to allow myself the time to concentrate on some other projects. Hugh Latimer assumed the day-to-day responsibilities of editing and posting SurvivalBlog two months ago. He has done a truly commendable job of maintaining the continuity of the blog.

Not one to rest on my laurels, I have been quite busy with completing two contracted book manuscripts:

Liberators: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse– a contemporaneous sequel to Patriots. It will be released October 21, 2014, by E.P. Dutton. It is set primarily in western Canada. It is longer than my other sequels, and it ties together several storylines from other installments in the novel series that intersect in Bradfordsville, Kentucky; Moscow, Idaho; and near Bella Coola, British Columbia. If you enjoyed the resistance warfare sequences in "Patriots", then you will really enjoy this novel. (Without spoiling it for you, I can mention that it describes two waves of invasion and subsequent resistance in Canada.) Tools for Survival: What You Need to Survive When You're on Your Own. This book is a guide to the selection, use, and care of tools. It should be released in December, 2014, by Penguin/Plume Books. (This is the same company that published the bestselling How to Survive the End of the World As We Know It.)