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Current Projects



  • Anise and Arsenic
A Young Adult fantasy story about the youngest child from a family of assassins. Ardus only wants to be a chef and not a hired killer. But his family just assumes he wants to specialize in poisons. A comedy and probably a romance, and like nothing I've ever written before- pray for me.

Long Ago in the future, when time was a wheel and not nailed down by priests and crucified for the entertainment of Kings, a story prospered that told all of life how to live for as long as possible. The story contained gods and monsters, heroes and villains, storytellers and all of the readers and listeners who ever read or heard the story. The story was the universe to those who knew it, the guide to those who walked it, and the way out of the Ten Thousand Years of Darkness. Do you know the story of the Firebird in the Darkness?

Volumes of The Firebird Nested in Darkness

In the dark ages that followed the twilight of oil, North America Balkanized and split into warring factions. On the west coast of North America a small neo-primitivist tribe; The Redwing Tribe, finds themselves locked in a deadly conflict with the Winter Wolf Clan. At the center lies the young orphan Cooper and his half-brother Pike. Cooper must solve the mystery of his heritage. But can Cooper survive what he must learn?

Discharged and disgraced former Military Officer Dahlia Crowe knows no art other than war and has no idea how to make a life amongst civilians. When her father calls in a favor to find her employment from an eccentric old friend: the notorious detective and would be exorcist Freeman Harbinger, Dahlia is unsure whether to thank her father or curse him. Dahlia is quickly drawn into the murky criminal underbelly of post-apocalyptic New Jericho as she must help help Harbinger catch a murderer who forces victims to kill themselves, uncover a smuggling ring, exorcise a rampaging spirit; all while trying not to get arrested by Dahlia's ex-girlfriend and still pay Harbinger's rent on time! Action! Suspense! Vodka! Adventure!


 Children know when the adults around them are lying. And the children of Safehope Bluff no different. Something is wrong, the adults are hiding things, stockpiling food and weapons, arguing and jockeying for power. Ominous rumblings are on the news. Grocery stores shelves are emptying. Something is coming and for Owl, Viper, Raven, Wolf and Rabbit- the adults around them seem less like their parents and more like predators. but what can children do if adults lose control?


 When the beings from the sky came and brought fire to the Mountain, and know the people must struggle to find out what has happened to their world.

  • Salt Waste Tales  
The Hungry Empire has fallen. The Locust King is absent, and the Ribcage Castle is a shadow of its former self. Across the blighted landscape walks Eris Ella-Cyrus,The Raven of the Wasteland. The daughter of Vanora the Stone Wolf and the Butcher of Brinebarrow, she has abdicated the throne and left behind her mother's court. She wanders the wasteland assisting the downtrodden, always one step ahead of her mother's favored Hunters.
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