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15
Feb
The Morning After
Most space opera ends when the tyrant falls. Maybe there’s a coronation, definitely a kiss. But the real question isn’t whether you can overthrow a three-thousand-year theocracy. It’s what seventy trillion people with competing agendas do the morning after the god-emperor falls.
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14
Feb
The Anointed Path
Immortals are taken as children, remade, and deployed as weapons. This is what that process sounds like from the inside—not from the perspective of the institution, but from the voice that lives in every Immortal’s nervous system. The voice that raises them. The voice they trust most in the world.
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05
Dec
Mešvi 2.3 Conlang Update
The Mešvi language has expanded with Version 2.3, adding 157 new words and establishing a distinction between sacred and everyday speech. It now features 423 vocabulary entries and 53 phrases, enhancing theological terminology and cultural expressions. These developments support the upcoming seriali
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26
Nov
Mešvi 2.2 Conlang Update Notes
Mešvi 2.2 formalizes three mechanics revealed by stress-testing: (1) Geminates—when compounding creates identical consonants at morpheme boundaries, both are retained and pronounced as lengthened consonants (bîn + nêf → bînnêf, "BEEN-nayf"); (2) Four-morpheme limit—standalone compounds max out at fo
8 min read
23
Nov
Introducing Mešvi 2.1: Language as Culture in Dark Dominion
The first iteration of Mešvi was Persian with centuries of simulated linguistic drift. But as I developed the Mešvi people—their matriarchal society, prophetic traditions, and goddess worship—I realized the language needed to be rebuilt from scratch. A language shapes and reflects the culture that s
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17
Nov
Designing a Conlang Backwards
I invented an alien accent by ear, then had to reverse-engineer the grammar that would naturally produce it. When Vylaraian pickpocket Lari said “I’s tryin’ t’ be you friend,” I wasn’t thinking about linguistics—just making her sound right. But months later, writing a reader magnet, I needed actual
10 min read
09
Nov
Love in the Wasteland: Mikhael and the Art of Gentle Defiance
Mikhael was engineered to be the Dominion’s perfect weapon—a super-soldier who can teleport through combat and heal from anything. When they sent him to kill a rogue operative, he made a different choice: he saved her instead. The woman is Sarai, pregnant with the god-emperor’s child and marked for
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30
Oct
The Dark Dominion Sequence
Sarai izt Kviokhi wakes on a desolate moon with no memory, severe injuries, and a pregnancy that shouldn’t exist.
4 min read
30
Oct
What Actually Makes YA Literature “Young Adult”
A reader challenged me after I posted about “Doors to the Stars,” my YA space opera: aren’t you just writing adult fiction with a teenage protagonist? It’s a sophisticated question that cuts to the heart of YA’s current crisis. The genre has been captured by adult readers, and publishers responded b
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26
Oct
Guest Review: Death or Glory
Goodreads reviewer Joanne Budzien calls Death or Glory one of her top 10 books of 2025—so compelling she reread it within a month, finishing both times in under 24 hours. This middle book in my Doomsday Recon trilogy masterfully blends military action, fantasy, and literary fiction without typical s
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