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What You’ll Find in My Writing
With Gas Giant Gambit out now, as well as several of my short stories, including the sci-fi/noir “The Stuff Legends are Made of” in RARE, and my followup novel Shallow Trenches/Open Skies well into its initial draft, (not to mention a larger audience as of late) perhaps it’s time to give you readers an idea…
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My Story Road Map
Hello and welcome back! I hope you all had a great holiday season! Mine was less productive than I had originally hoped, but between attending two comic conventions to sell Gas Giant Gambit, and embracing the extra family time with my wife Jessie, I don’t regret a second of it! But now that the season…
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Writing Journey: 2025 in Review
It’s the week of Christmas, and let’s face it, one of the most chaotic times of the year–second, perhaps, only to next week, in the limbo that is the time between Christmas and the New Year. All that is to say, I very likely will be taking next week off, and there probably won’t be…
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Kirkus Reviews Names Gas Giant Gambit Among 100 Best Indie Books of 2025
Finally, the big news I have been holding on to since October 1st has been announced! Gas Giant Gambit: A Tall Tale From Beyond the Cygnus Rift has been named one of Kirkus’s Best Indie Books of 2025! This is an incredible honor to receive with my debut novel, even more so when you consider…
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The 5 Year Plan
With 2025 drawing to a close, I thought I would share with you my five year writing career plan, and in doing so, commit it to the world so it’s no longer just something in my head I say I’m going to do. The Status Quo The current status quo of my life is one…
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7 of My All-Time Favorite Books
I’ve been an avid reader since I was young, so there’s no way I could accurately rate every book I’ve ever read. There are definitely some that should be on this list that I have forgotten, and certainly more that I haven’t read yet. So, let’s just call these 7 of my all-time favorite books today. Some have inspired…
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The Freudian Trio
Before I get into the meat of this topic, I have some exciting news to share! Both RARE: A Dark Anthology of Unusual Secrets (featuring my sci-fi/noir short story “The Stuff Legends are Made Of”) and Gas Giant Gambit were submitted to the American Writing Awards by Alex Parker Publishing; the former in the anthology…
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Upcoming News!
Following last week’s Short Story News Roundup, I thought I’d catch you up on some other upcoming news! The Laramie Awards Every year, Chanticleer Book Reviews gives out awards to books in a wide variety of genres. There’s the Shelley Awards for paranormal fiction, the Cygnus Awards for science fiction, and the Clue Awards for…
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Short Story News Roundup
Got some news on a few upcoming short story publication dates! “Mortem Moratus” First up, my 2,000 word short horror story “Mortem Moratus” is scheduled to be published by Exquisite Death in their December 2025 issue. This story was originally written for the 2024 NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge. This contest assigns contestants a genre,…
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My Author Bucket List – Revisit
(I know, I wrote about this topic back in February, but that was before Gas Giant Gambit came out, and before I became an actual published author. So, I’m doing it again, this time with a little more knowledge, experience, and appreciation for what I have already done!) While on the one hand it feels…
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Gas Giant Gambit: Master Blog List
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