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When autumn comes around with its crisp cool breezes and dark cozy evenings, readers everywhere often get the urge to take a hearty bite out of their towering to-read stack. Some reach for mysteries or horror, some for classics, some for fantasy, and some even start in on the Christmas romances. But what if I told you you need to were going to fall in love with a little-known dystopian series this fall?

Dystopia might not scream “cozy autumn reading” at first glance, but on closer observa...

This is my third time trying to write this post.

I guess I’m not that good with words. They kind of get in my way. Sometimes it takes me six whole books to say what I mean. I’ve said it now. I said it in the Dronefall Series.

It took me about eight years and over 590,000 words to get here. The Dronefall Series has matured into a nuanced narrative about humanity in a world where everything can be reduced to data. It’s the complex, puzzle-like story of a woman searching for—and questioning...

The people demand audiobooks.

I’ll be honest, I have never been able to get into audiobooks. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve started listening to an audiobook sample and thought, “wow, I don’t feel like listening to this person talking for hours.” The narrator is always distracting to me. Or straight-up annoying. Or they just really shouldn’t be trying to change their voice when they do dialogue from a character of the opposite gender. *shudders.* Why are people so bad at that?

Bu...

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but this blog has been quiet for months.

The good news is, I’ve been working hard. And I have something to show for it. I have proofs for the new editions of the first four books of the Dronefall Series. It’s been a long haul, but I’ve gone through all four again after rewriting book one almost entirely. Along with more rounds of edits, I reformatted them, upgraded the covers, and polished up the blurbs on the back. Once I’ve gotten the final rounds of proo...

Night falls early around Christmastime in Dreamscape. The world seems so quietly eager to go to sleep on Christmas Eve. It slips under the dark cover of snow clouds and pulls us all into soft slumber with it. And in the cold still evening, all the lights come on.

They sparkle down the streets, stringing scattered stars between the bare branches of the trees and lining the icy gutters of houses along the way to my home. I love to walk at dusk and watch the town become an unreal art display. It...

So, I realize I didn’t do an official post celebrating the relaunch of Dronefall One last week. This was due to a sudden opening of a portal to the Void, which I rapidly accelerated through on my computer chair after breaking through the last technological barrier before publication. I was tired when I escaped the Void, too tired, unfortunately to report. But, now that I’ve recovered, I thought I had better write a post.

I don’t know if you’re already a reader, or if you stumbled across this ...

Dronefall is a six-book series following a young Christian woman wo chooses not to be conformed to the ways of her dark twisted world, but instead to seek out the truth behind its web of lies and manipulation. It’s a futuristic world, but under its trappings of drone-swarmed skies, autonomous surveillance technology and centralized information control, it’s a familiar place.

I most often describe Dronefall as “Christian Futuristic Fiction” to laypeople, because I think that’s a genera every...

Readers know, even in the era of fancy collector’s editions and aesthetic bookshelf setups, at the end of the day, a book isn’t just a product—it’s a destination.

If you’re looking for somewhere to go, I have a recommendation for you. I’ve discovered a new place and time—a rare one, not overcrowded with tourists and hyped-up by reports from all your friends who went last summer without you. The world of Dronefall is something new, fascinating, and full of rich detail you’ll want to come b...

Dear Reader,

With a rush of clear crisp wind and the scent of cinnamon, vanilla, and fallen leaves, October has arrived. Probably my favorite month of the year—and one I share with many book-lovers, I think. It’s a great time to pick up a new book (May I suggest The Boy Who Called the Foxes) or an old book (Hound of the Baskervilles, anybody?) But how about one that’s not even out yet?

I’m looking seriously at November for the long-awaited relaunch of the Dronefall Series. As some of y...

I’m done being nice. I’ve been trying to write this post for days, trying to make it a manifesto, a story, an extended bio—but it wasn’t happening. Because it was supposed to be a rant. It was always going to be a rant.

Over and over throughout my time working on the Dronefall Series, I’ve found myself asking the question, “All this for a made-up story? All this for a cheap paperback? Why?”

I absolutely love Dronefall. I love my characters, my setting, the twisted trajectory of...