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It’s release day for Last Contact, the second book in the Sunset Station series! Book two picks up right where the first book, The Wrong Side of Sundown, leaves off, with Astronaut Kris Standard and her team investigating their new next door neighbor. Who’s inside? And why won’t they say something? Pick up your print or…

This may sound like a peculiar confession, but I love writing short stories. “Peculiar,” because up until five years ago never really tried shorter fiction, and I have been a writer for a really long time. So you’d think I would have. The first thing in my way, was that every time I thought up a new story and got…

So! You’ve gotten yourself a copy of one of the Immortal series books. It could be one of the novels (hopefully the first one) or one of the novellas. Or, maybe it’s one of the two novella collections (which are duplicative) or the novel collection (which is three novels) or maybe you don’t have any of them yet…

Rthing It Up Happy to announce that this month (May, 2025) Lightspeed Magazine features a new short story of mine, with the somewhat awkward title, Rthing It Up: An Oral History.  Yes, I know the awkward title is entirely my own fault, but I promise it makes sense almost immediately. So run on over and read it—or listen,…

It’s release day for The Wisdom of Sand! The Wisdom of Sand is the fourth book in the Tandemstar: The Outcast Cycle series, and you can pick it up as of today, in all formats: ebook, print, and audiobook. Here are some links: Amazon Barnes & Noble Kobo Apple Google Play Audible Apple Audio Catching Up If…

Sunset Station, book one It’s release day! The Wrong Side of Sundown, book one in the Sunset Station novella series, is officially available for your enjoyment. Here are some links, and then we’ll talk some more. The Wrong Side of Sundown on Amazon The Wrong Side of Sundown on B&N The Wrong Side of Sundown…

Tandemstar: The Outcast Cycle, book four At long last, the fourth book in the Tandemstar series has a cover and a release date. The title is The Wisdom of Sand, and it’s set for release on April 8th. You can preorder the ebook more or less wherever ebooks are sold. Here’s the Amazon link. Print…

Get Hyped! I have a new short story in Lightspeed Magazine this month! It’s called “Get Hyped!” and it’s about what happens when a writer spends too much time on his Peloton, wondering if the instructors can see him. (Well, kinda.) It’s the usual blend of funny-but-dystopian you may have come to expect by now.…

The Hole in the Garden News! I have a new short story out in Lightspeed Magazine. It’s called The Hole in the Garden and you can read it online right now.  I loved writing this story, which came to me as I was recovering from a minor surgery and could not (because the surgery was on my…

Great news! The audio edition of Graffiti on the Wall of the Universe is now available! I know a lot of you only know my work from the audio editions, so I’m really happy to (finally) have this version out. And just like the other books in the Sorrow Falls series, it’s narrated by the one and only Steve…