My Books

NOVELS

- What Was Your Name Downriver? (The Shattered Frontier #1) - Evaline Cartwright and Trivan Esterhazy are newly-met on a steamboat heading north, but a rogue mage and mutinous passengers have ensured their rather hasty alliance. Beset by foul magicks, the women will have to work together to have any chance at reaching their destination with their lives.

Follow along on an adventure through a Tolkien-esque world that has advanced into the age of steam, gunslingers and gold rushes.

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- A Bad Rune at Angels Deep (The Shattered Frontier #2) - Runes: a form of deployable magick that caused untold devastation during the war. With the stroke of a pen, entire cities were demolished, entire armies decimated—and now one such rune may have come south to Ariasun County.

Acting on scant clues left behind by the vicious lynching of a smuggler, Evaline Cartwright and Trivan Esterhazy head north to track the rune’s passage through the county. All in the hope of destroying the rune—or its possessor—before it can be used for catastrophic ends.

- The Outcasts of Vampire Flats (Lore of the Reluctant #1) - An undead army has been unleashed upon Shiloft by a rogue necromancer, and an encrypted counterspell in the friends' possession is the only way to halt the coming apocalypse. With only days until the zombified masses reach the first townships, the trio must venture deep into the wilds of the Mythrin Forest in search of the one person who can translate their counterspell and save the world.

They just have to convince themselves to get out of bed first.

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- Blades in Elsingr (Lore of the Reluctant #2) - An unexpected detour on the long road to Vellonae drops the companions in the middle of the labyrinthian coastal city of Elsingr, where they are attacked by the most vicious, most regicidal assassins guild in the land: the dreaded Backblades. Now, they must plot their way through the winding roads of Elsingr, and survive long enough to determine who paid such a large price for their heads... Also, they're suffering from hunger, sleep deprivation, and they're generally pretty annoyed with each other, so there's a good chance they'll kill each other off before the Backblades can.

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ANTHOLOGIES / MAGAZINES

- Alien Artifacts - Stories of all shapes and sizes that describe first contact with extraterrestrials, edited by Joshua Palmatier and Patricia Bray of Zombies Need Brains Publications. My entry is a weird western titled, "The Haint of Sweetwater River," which puts a twist on the Old West legend of Cattle Kate.

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- Brigands: A Blackguards Anthology - Published by Outland Entertainment, Blackguards returns! This is a brand new edition of the dark fantasy anthology containing "The Lonesome Dark," the first story I ever sold! It's been updated with a nice, new physical edition with additional editing. If you like it, check out the two companion anthologies: Knaves and Scoundrels.

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- My Battery Is Low and It Is Getting Dark - My second time working with Zombies Need Brains Publishing! Edited by Crystal Sarakas and Joshua Palmatier, this anthology is themed around various forms of technology that find renewed purpose in obsolescence. My contribution, "Ain't Done Haunting," follows a group of android entertainers who rather suddenly discover they've been performing to an empty city for years.

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- Mystery Weekly Magazine (February 2020 issue), "We Suffered Such a Man as This" - Arriving in the small mining town of Copperopolis in fall of 1899, Georges Armadale, self-proclaimed detective extraordinaire, has taken it upon himself to solve a murder recently committed in a local church. At the standard rate, of course.

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- Blackguards: Tales of  Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues - After a very successful Kickstarter, Ragnarok Publications announced a number of slots in their dark fantasy anthology for open submissions. To my surprise, a fantasy/Western short story of mine called "The Lonesome Dark" was able to make it in. My first paying job as a writer!

"The Lonesome Dark" was previously only available in the ebook version of Blackguards, but with this edition going out of print due to the rights changing hands, it's now only available in both the ebook and paperback versions of Brigands: A Blackguards Anthology.




SHORT STORIES

 - "All the Stars in My Eyes" - She's a doubler. Hired to take the place of imperiled celebrities.

She lives in the spotlight that isn't hers, revels in adoration she never earned. A composite of a failed actress and state-of-the-art disguises, she's lived the celebrity life for so long that she's starting to believe she deserves it.

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- "Our Sun Is Shining on the City" - They came with machines taller than mountains and left with the planet's core, dooming the native civilization to a slow death. Those that survived took refuge inside the now-abandoned machinery, where some captured atmosphere, water, and scant nutrients remained.

Two young scavengers, born into this life of darkness, are looking to pick over an abandoned settlement for their benefactor. But now the alien machinery they've made into a home is beginning to show signs of death throes, signaling the last gasp of their already crippled civilization.

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- "Alive in Obsolescence" - The world is dying. Thick smog chokes the skies and the oceans are acrid and toxic. As a pleasant alternative to riding out extinction, humanity is retreating into battery-powered VR simulations.

Unfortunately for Shilo, his battery has run out -- and hard reality awaits.

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- "In the Land of Dead Dragons" - Orin the Dragonslayer has vanished from The Realm of Avarill -- the most popular VR-RPG in the world. In his place, Valystra de Fere approaches.

She comes seeking Orin's legacy, tales of his heroics, and the cold trails he left behind. All so that, back in realspace, she might better understand the brother she fell out of touch with so many years ago.

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