Got some BIG NEWS for all you Ed Earl Burch fans cussin’ your ol’ pal Honest Jim for keeping you waiting so long for your next fix of hard-boiled Texas crime thriller goodness, The Fatal Saving Grace.

You folks have been banging on my door, ringing my phone off the hook, throwing eggs at my dog and yelling at my wife at the grocery store — all because I foolishly set a February 9 release date. In the Year of Our Lord, 2026, for pity’s sake. Much wailing and gnashing of teeth about this.

Well, the wizards at Spotted Mule Press heard your pitiful bleats and have ordered me to kick both the paperback and Kindle versions of this instant classic out the door on December 15, 2025.

You read it right — Ed Earl Burch, that smart, tough, witty and profane lawman, is coming at ya raw and raunchy the week before Christmas. Just in time for some last-second stocking stuffers. Or the perfect way to spend that Amazon gift card Cuzin’ Clarence sent you instead of the bottle of Knob Creek he owes you from that poker game last March.

And all you good people who had the wisdom to pre-order your latest Ed Earl — Christmas comes early. You’re welcome.

So, mark it down, chirren. Ed Earl’s gonna be comin’ in all his hot, nasty and hard drinkin’ glory.

Sooner.

Not later.

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