I am thrilled to announce that my second novel, Fram, is forthcoming in January 2015 from Ig Publishing. Thanks to Robert Lasner and Elizabeth Clementson at Ig for deciding to take a chance on it, and to the friends who have helped me get the novel to this point.

Fram is the story of Oscar, an employee in the US government’s Bureau of Ice Prognostication, created to compete with the Soviets during the heyday of polar expeditions and still operating in the present without the public’s knowledge. BIP is tasked with imagining what might be in the Arctic and creating the paperwork and digital records to prove it, preventing the inconvenience and expense of actual exploration. That job is the closest Oscar has come to his boyhood dreams of being a polar explorer, but lying about what he does for a living — and his obsession with all things Arctic — has become a strain between himself and his wife Julia. Then Oscar and his partner get sent on an errand to the actual Arctic and drawn into a tangle of rival agencies, secrets, absurd espionage, and histories of other explorers both real and imagined.

An excerpt has appeared at 3:AM Magazine as “Three Arctic Relics,” and another at Fiddleblack as “Deadfall.”