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The Sun Chasers was released last week world-wide!

Confident and cocky junior air race champion Alexander Gates is on his way to becoming a national air race celebrity. But when a gun-blazing bandit intrudes on a local event, Alex uses a loaned plane to take down the pirate in a desperate attempt to save those below. Only after the encounter does Alex learn his chances of going to the nationals are now shattered.

Despondent over his future prospects, Alex gets a surprise visit from his...

Share the news far and wide! Resurgence, the first book in my new Cobalt Rose series, is now available!

Kristin Glasco, dedicated first officer aboard a corporate bulk trader, was content to ply the backwater routes of Duscinda Sector and eke out a modest living for herself, her dream of commanding a ship of her own well within her reach. But when she’s betrayed by the people she trusted the most, Kristin is left penniless, unemployed, and with a mark on her record that would assure she would...

Share the news far and wide! Resurgence, the first book in my new Cobalt Rose series, comes out in 2 days! You can pre-order your digital copy now and it’ll be automatically beamed to your Kindle or Kindle App on the 31st.

Set in the distant future, when interstellar commerce is commonplace, and the Unified Government is preoccupied defending the frontiers of charted space, unchecked acts of aggression threaten to upset the delicate trade routes that span the backwater corners of Beta Sector....

I’m excited to announce that Resurgence, the first adventure in the new Cobalt Rose series, is set for release on August 31, 2019.

Set in the distant future, when interstellar commerce is commonplace, and the Unified Government is preoccupied  defending the frontiers of charted space, unchecked acts of aggression threaten to upset the delicate trade routes that span the backwater corners of Beta Sector.

When Kristin Glasco’s brother is murdered while investigating a series of mysterious vess...

It’s been far too long since I last posted, so I wanted to get everyone up to speed on all things Beta Sector:

I’m currently working on a new Beta Sector series of short stories, the first of which is tentatively tiled The Vanished. This new story is the first in what I hope will be a new series of adventures for the crew of the Cobalt Rose. The short stories will be roughly 30-40,000 words each, so they would be defined as novellas and not novels. The style will be more like pulp novels, so...

We’ll be at the Seattle Museum of Flight on Wednesday, April 12th 2017 from 5pm to 9pm for a LEGO build event! We’ll be walking kids through how to build some of the aircraft from our latest book, When Bricks Get Their Wings. You can learn more about the event by clicking here.

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Fan Club? Subscriber Service? I’m not sure what to call the new project I’m rolling out, so I’ll let you decide for yourself what it is and if you’d like to be a part of it.

The Basics

What is it? That’s the big question. In a nutshell, the new [insert your favorite term here] is a place for you to get in-depth information on Beta Sector, while simultaneously allowing me to create new and exciting content to include in that universe. Sound confusing? It’s pretty straightforward. Imagine getti...

Starship Factory, a fun and easy reference for creating and staffing your own fictional spaceship, is in review by Amazon right now! It should be available in the next 24 hours.

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Icarus, the second novel in the Kestrel Saga, has been completely updated! A new version will be on Amazon in the next 24 hours.

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