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The Battle of Bear Island is entering the final stages. We have returns from test readers and have done a final content edit. My editor (and daughter) is going through it for copy-editing issues at the moment. One more round of tweaks to the cover, and we will release that. Then it is off to formatting, a final look and pass it to Amazon. Possibly by the end of Jan.

My marketing and information passage on this one is particularly crap on this one.

Limit of Advance is still chugging along. Not fast enough, but I won't belabour the point.

Happy New year everyone, and thank you for the continued interest.

Bart

Another Northern Fury novel coming out on 6 April

The Battle of Bear Island

Here is the blurb from the back of the book

The Arctic wind swept down on them from Mount Misery, it pierced every fiber of clothing and nerve they possessed.

“They’re here,” said Grimes.

“Good, let's warm this place up,” responded Foster as he crawled into position.

There, emerging from the haze of blowing snow were a group of Soviet soldiers. Evenly spaced in a long file, picking their way through the drifts and white crusted rocks. Looking. Searching for something or someone, whatever mysterious ghost had been lurking out of their reach.

Foster knew that the Russians had just found what they were looking for, but he planned to make that a costly discovery.

The Battle of Bear Island is set in the Northern Fury world where a hardline government deposed Mikhail Gorbachev and reasserted Moscow’s control of rebellious Soviet Republics. Three years later, in February 1994, the USSR lashes out against the economic strangulation imposed by the West and initiates a war to destabilise Europe and NATO.

Bear Island is a tiny speck of land between the North Cape of Norway and the Svalbard Archipelago. An island so remote and desolate few even knew of its existence until both the Soviets and NATO wanted to use it as a base to monitor each other.

Excited

SWEET! I'll pre-order once the Amazon page is up!

Looking forward to it!

Nice, my birthday is coming up...

Thanks for the support, guys.

Here is a newsletter with more information on the book:

https://mailchi.mp/dab6099e614f/the-bat ... fury-novel

So far I just see paperback, is e-book also planned?

Yes there will be an ebook.

We are not planning a hardcover or audiobook for this one, though.

Bart

Looking forward to it. I only buy paper/hard cover, so as soon as it is available, I'll buy it.

Doug

I just wanted to buy the ebook for my Kindle but I dont see it on Amazon?

I can only assume that there's been some kind of technical delay (probably with Amazon)?

Eager to order this novella once it's available!

I still dont see it

OK, guys, the book is live on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWVLZ1FT

Apologies for the delay, which was both technical and real-world.

Enjoy

Bart

Gunner98 wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2026 3:17 pm OK, guys, the book is live on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWVLZ1FT

Apologies for the delay, which was both technical and real-world.

Enjoy

Bart

Thanks alot. Bought it instantly.

FYI to everyone who may have missed it, the Paperback version is avaliable.

I ordered mine yesterday. I also got the E-Book, but that's more of a backup & appreciation purchase, as I'm going to actually read it with the physical copy.

It should arrive tomorrow, and I might suspend my progress in my current (long) read to tear into this short novel!

Thanks guys

appreciate the support

Bart

Ordering my copy when I get home and can access the right Amazon account

I just ordered mine via Amazon.

Thanks Bart.

Doug

My copy of The Battle of Bear Island just arrived!

I'm suspending progress in my current (long) read to dive into this right away!