It’s been over a year since I released a book.

It’s the longest I’ve ever gone between releases. At first it just started out with a case of writer’s block. It took a few months but I pushed through and finished the first draft of Raise the Dead. The very next day, my father had a massive heart attack. He nearly died during his open heart surgery and spent 18 days in a medically-induced coma. He didn’t get to come home until 6 weeks after he was rushed to the hospital.

It was such a scary tim...