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The Release Date Is Set: Eulogy for the Stripes Arrives 06.25.26

Updates: The top of my page now has a link to Pre-Order on Amazon Kindle. In addition, there are countdowns that were inspired from my novel. There are even enhancements done to the look and feel on PC and Mobile devices. I have completely overhauled my website once again, with nearly 20 languages for translating my content. Just click the plug-in located in the bottom-left corner of the page to select your language. In the bottom-right corner, there is a Dark Mode button, but I personally like the parchment and such. Please explore and let me know what you think. I designed it myself as a fiction fan using AI, but I have previous experience with C++, HTML, and XML.

I finally have a release date.

Eulogy for the Stripes will be released on June 25, 2026.

Seeing that date locked in is one thing. Seeing the hardcover jacket come together is something else entirely.

This story has lived in my head, my notes, my late nights, and my prayers for a long time. Now it has a cover. It has a date. It has a path forward.

At its core, Eulogy for the Stripes is a dystopian Texas novel about family, faith, collapse, institutional failure, and the cost of holding the line as the country begins to come apart.

The hardcover jacket features the novel’s central image: an American flag laid across a coffin in a cold institutional rotunda. It is not subtle because the story was never meant to be.

The question behind the book is simple:

What happens when the systems meant to protect a nation become the instruments that break it?

That question sits beneath every page of this novel. It follows a small church-built community in the Texas Panhandle, families trying to endure, and people forced to decide what loyalty means as the institutions around them begin to fail.

At its heart, Eulogy for the Stripes is about what remains when comfort is stripped away.

Faith. Family. Duty. Conscience. Sacrifice.

It is about the fragile line between order and control, and the harder line between survival and surrender.

This novel is dedicated to my wife Céline, my children Victoria and Michael, and my parents, Angeles and Edgar. It also carries a special acknowledgment for military personnel, law enforcement, and first responders, the people who stand guard when others sleep.

The road to publication has officially begun, and I’m grateful to have you with me for it.

Save the date: 06.25.26.

Subscribers can now read the first three chapters on my website and follow the journey behind the book as it moves toward release.

Read the first three chapters and join the transmission list here:


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