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20
Oct
Reader Review: Doors to the Stars
A 4.5-star review of Doors to the Stars from a self-described harsh grader: unsanitized YA sci-fi, a Firefly vibe, characters who are people rather than tropes, and tears on first read and reread. The only book that beat it? Born in Battle.
6 min read
03
Oct
When Your MacGuffin Has Opinions
What happens when the MacGuffin wants something? Doors to the Stars hits the commercial three-act marks to within a point, but underneath it's a picaresque kishōtenketsu whose real antagonist is the object everyone's chasing.
13 min read
30
Sep
New Release: Doors to the Stars
Doors to the Stars is a YA space opera about choosing what you’ll lose to save worlds that never gave a damn about you. For readers who loved Ship Breaker’s survival grit with Becky Chambers’s found-family heart and Patrick Ness’s protagonists who break—but keep going anyway.
1 min read
27
Jun
So, is music kinda, like, your thing?
It all began as a fun excuse to put Cannon’s shanty from The Stygian Blades to music…
28
May
A Quick Update
It has come to my attention that I don’t do a very good job of pimping my wares, so here’s an update of what you can get and where you can nab it.
1 min read
08
May
Free Audiobook Release
The audiobook of my novella Junk Rat is now available free to new subscribers.
1 min read
06
May
New Release: Junk Rat
On Miller’s World, junk rats don't grow old. They freeze, starve, or bleed out in gutters—and
1 min read
22
Mar
The Stygian Blades Exclusive Preview
The Stygian Blades is my current project, a dark and bawdy late-Tudor secondary world fantasy featuring a motley cast of mages, rogues, trulls—and a sticky-fingered actress—as they race to stop a regicide and save their own skins (they couldn’t give a clipped farthing about the queen).
6 min read
05
Mar
A Moste Terrible and Trve Discoverie
Meet the Stygian Blades—through the eyes of the man trying to destroy them. A full broadside from my upcoming historical fantasy, written in authentic 1590s pamphlet style. Complete with woodcut.
10 min read
26
Feb
Hanna
This story was originally written in response to a writing prompt at Hair Brained Press. The prompt was “Beware, for I am fearless; and therefore powerful.”
5 min read