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07
Nov
Cover Design Walkthrough
Indie authors issued over 3.5 million ISBNs in 2025. How do you stand out? I walk through building the cover for The Stygian Blades, from blackletter type and a stock photo to an oil-painted finish, then put it in the bestseller grid to show where it fits the genre and where it breaks the mold.
4 min read
28
Oct
A Brutally Honest Review of The Stygian Blades
Heists, jinn, ninjas, and Shakespearean filth dialed up to 11. “Worth the price of admission for the word play… Chaucer's The Miller's Tale has nothing on The Stygian Blades.”
— Joanne Budzien, Goodreads ★★★★
6 min read
21
Oct
New Release: The Stygian Blades
Katherine Tarlton is a traveling player on the lam for stabbing a nobleman’s heir in his poxied stones… and a habit of pinching things that don’t belong to her.
2 min read
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