Rachel A Ford

Hi all, So … somehow we are halfway through 2020. I'm not quite sure how that happened, but then again, I still don't know what day of the week it is half the time LOL. So what's on the agenda for 2020? Let's start with.... The Dragonland Saga A humorous fantasy trilogy full of magic, mischief and murder. Firebird's Lair Kraken's Depths Viper's Nest Up next...continuing series...

Cover reveal for book three in the Time Travelling Taxman series: MarvelousCon & Tax Cons Available April 19, available for pre-order here A routine tax audit. A panicked phone call. A senseless tragedy. He could have avoided it all. But Alfred Favero, Senior Analyst with the IRS, didn’t. To save the woman he loves, he must rewind time itself to learn the secrets that will claim her life. But fate isn’t done with him yet. To get to the truth, he must go undercover to a comic book convention. In costume, no less. The stakes couldn’t be higher. But Alfred is determined that his most challenging case yet will not be his last – because he’ll be darned if he’s going to die wearing pointy ears and face paint…

As you know, T-Rexes & Tax Law releases next week . Well, book two is written, and I'm excited to be able to reveal the cover! UFOs & Unpaid Taxes Releasing March 15th  A routine tax fraud investigation. A trip down the Extraterrestrial Highway. A chance encounter with a mysterious visitor from outer space. He should have left it there. But Alfred Favero, Senior Analyst with the IRS, couldn’t. Now he’s suspended from work and on the run from shadowy government agents as he tries to protect an ambassador from another world. Meanwhile, an old friend is taking advantage of his absence to woo his sweetheart. Alfred’s life is falling apart. And things are only about to get stranger… UFOs & Unpaid Taxes can be pre-ordered here . 

Dear readers, It's one of my favorite times: cover reveal time! Coming February 15th : T-Rexes & Tax Law , book one of The Time Travelling Taxman Series. A routine tax fraud investigation. A strange lab. A mysterious button. He shouldn’t have pushed the button. But Alfred Favero, senior analyst with the IRS, pushed the button. And now he’s 67 million years in the past, stranded out of time with a coworker who hates him and a bunch of tax cheats. Oh, and then there’s the other inhabitants of his prehistoric home: the dinosaurs that want to make a meal of him. Things couldn’t get worse. Until a mysterious visitor from an uncertain future shows up with murder on his mind… It releases February 15th, is available for pre-order here , and the audiobook version is in the works as well! Cover designed by the amazing May Dawney

Last month, I revealed the cover for Catalyst ( out next week ), a novelette and the first installment in the Tribari Freedom Chronicles series. I'm thrilled to announce the second book in the series, Uprising . Uprising is a standalone novel in the same world. About Uprising : A daughter of Grand Contributors. The wife of a reformer. A woman caught between worlds. Nikia Idan  was raised in the glimmering spheres of society’s elite, but she traded it all for the love of a man who wants to change the Tribari empire. Her new reality is harsher than she ever imagined it could be. When her husband’s push for reform is met with brutal violence, her worlds will collide with a force that will either break her – or the system that brought her to the point of breaking. Release date: March 1st. Preorder link coming soon. Uprising available on Amazon .

Dear readers, I'm delighted to announce the first of a number of releases for 2019. Catalyst is a novelette introducing the world and one of the key players in the Tribari Freedom Chronicles dystopian sci-fi series. It will be available January 15th for purchase. I'll have a pre-order link up probably after Christmas. But without further ado, the cover reveal: About Catalyst : For a week, Brek Trigan has left behind the frigid nights and icy days of life on the mining colony he calls home. He's on holiday to his ancestral planet, and he finds a sparkling, welcoming world of riches and warmth. But the longer he remains, the more he begins to see cracks in the glistening façade. When civil unrest erupts, Brek's plans for a peaceful getaway are dashed. Suddenly he's drawn into a conflict that will change the fate of his people, whether he wants to be or not. Uprising , Book 2 in the series, is tentatively scheduled for a mid-to-late March release. U...

Very cool news: "Prison Break" was featured on Speculative Fiction Showcase! Speculative Fiction Showcase: Prison Break by Rachel Ford, narrated by Jill Myer... : Release date: August 17, 2018 Subgenre: Dystopian science fiction About Prison Break :   Mercy is weakness. Forgiveness is blas...

This blog post is devoted to exploring 'changing tides' facing the characters of Prison Break and the Unholy Trinity series. What "changing tides"? There are a lot of different forces in the Unholy Trinity series exerting various pulls on the protagonists and other characters. And, of course, there's the ups and downs of life, the "wheel of fortune", that we all experience. But these are exacerbated by the structure of the world, and the extremes that dominate it: extreme wealth and poverty, extreme privilege and want, extreme "justice" and exceptions. When society is so stratified, the ups are much higher and the downs much lower. As Prison Break and later Judas Kiss tell the stories of people far nearer the bottom of society's pecking order than the top, the downs are pretty low. How low? Imprisonment and death sentence low, for starters. In the world described, how can the 'tide change' for the protagonists? This...

Which is to say, Prison Break is live and available for order on Amazon.com . Get your copy today , and please leave me a review letting me know what you liked (or didn't -- but I think you'll enjoy it! :) )

As promised, dear readers (all 15 of you! 😁 ), a special announcement about an upcoming release! Mercy is weakness. Forgiveness is blasphemy. Sin is crime. The unholy trinity - monotheists, polytheists and technotheists - rule in unison. Justice is not blind, but soulless. In a city of stratified wealth and endemic poverty, Father Edlin tries to make a difference. His little church and free clinics provide a flicker of hope to the downtrodden populace. But not for long. The men with guns show up, and it's only a matter of time before a forced confession of heresy is extracted. Now Father Edlin sits in a cell, awaiting the fulfillment of his death sentence. But somewhere in the night, a friend lurks, waiting for the chance to pay off an old debt... Available April 10th. Available for pre-order now !