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I’m Elsie, from the planet Caelum.

It’s 96% ocean, but that’s okay. Out of all six planets (or seven, if you believe the myths), we’re the only people with gills. I can breathe underwater for minutes at a time, discovering the secrets of the deep-sea. Diving is my first love.

But not everybody understands.

Each year they run a competition—a single black pearl is dropped into the ocean, and graduating students dive to find it. It sounds easy, but it’s not. The ocean is a dark and dangerous pl...

I’m Elsie, from the planet Caelum. It’s 96% ocean, but that’s okay. Out of all six planets (or seven, if you believe the myths), we’re the only people with gills. I can breathe underwater for minutes at a time, discovering the secrets of the deep-sea. Diving is my first love. But not everybody understands. Each […]

IRRADIATED told the story of Jade and Pearl, sisters fighting for their lives in an harsh and twisted wasteland.

DEGENERATED delved into the tunnels–a twisted underground society, at odds with the outside world.

ABERRATED is the epic conclusion.

Humanity is on its last legs. Only outlaws and outcasts remain. They are mutants, mongrels, and orphans. They are experiments, degenerates, and visionaries. Every last one is aberrated.

Will they tear each other apart? Or will humanity find a way to...

Clear your weekend, because ABERRATED–the final book in the Tunnel Trilogy–launches Thursday (16 April 2015). I can’t wait to see this out in the wild. I’ve loved writing this trilogy, and put a lot of heart into this closing novel. I hope y’all enjoy it. PRE-ORDER NOW:http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VOMVY4E

“Strong, dramatic and thought-provoking stories, all with a powerful take-home message.” – E. E. Giorgi Out Now. *** Back in July, Lucas Bale and Michael Patrick Hicks invited me to join an indie writing group. The premise was simple:we form a simple, informal alliance and help each other. I was familiar with both Lucas […]

Stories From Which There is No Escape.

Nothing terrifies us more than being stranded. Helpless, forsaken, cut-off. Locked in a place from which there is no escape, no way to get home.

A soldier trapped in an endless war dies over and over, only to be awakened each time to fight again – one of the last remaining few seeking to save mankind from extinction.

In rural 70s England, an RAF radio engineer returns to an abandoned military installation, but begins to suffer hallucinations, shifts in...

Michael Patrick Hicks was reckless enough to nominate me for the Work-in-Progress Blog Tour, or the WIPBloT–an abbreviation I just made up and will never catch on, despite sounding like an art-related whiplash injury. Michael is the insanely talented writer of Convergence and Consumption.We appear together in the upcoming anthology No Way Home, curated by […]

So, I don’t particularly care about the Grammys. I think the only time I’ve watched excerpts is when The White Stripes are playing, because Jack White transitioning seamlessly from Seven Nation Army to Death Letter is awesome. So why even talk about it? Because, somehow, Beck won a Grammy. And, somehow, people are surprised. I’m […]

Aberrated, the final novel in The Tunnel Trilogy, is currently with my editor. The good news is this has given me time to work on the second part of my post-apocalyptic western Once Upon a Time at the End of the World. To jog your memory, Part 1 looked like this: And now…*drumroll*… I present […]