Writing

I've been writing since I was eleven. I wasn't very good at that point, but I like to think I've improved. I was first paid for non-fiction in 1999 and my first published fiction work was in 2007 - a short story called By Zombies; Eaten in GUD Magazine Issue 2. I have independently published five highly-regarded novels: the II AM Trilogy of urban fantasy books, the Young Adult science-fiction novel The Broken God Machine, and the near future thriller Elixir.

My previous literary agent, Kirsten Carleton, represented me first at the Waxman-Leavell Agency and then at Prospect Agency. Unfortunately, she had to leave the business, and I am currently seeking new representation for my work.

Novels

Current Project

  • Piety the Knife

    Piety the Knife is one of the Seven Servants of the Ageless Queen, a group brutally winnowed from their peers and trained for a singular purpose: to return the Queen to her throne. But Piety has no interest in serving a Queen he’s never met. He plans to turn from his mission and abandon the others, whom he’s always held at arm’s length, to do as they wish. Why, then, when he finds himself at last freed from his training and set upon the quest, can he not bring himself to leave them? Is it possible he’s begun to care?

    • Genre: Dark Fantasy
    • Length: Roughly 400 Pages
    • Series: Intended as the First In a Trilogy
    • Status: Shopping to Agents

Published Work

  • Elixir - $2.99

    Elixir His country is shattered. His city is dying. Clay Foster is fighting a losing battle against the dark tide that threatens to engulf Brooklyn. Science stopped the rising of the ocean waters at seven meters, but it has found no answer for Elixir. The drug has infiltrated every stratum of society.

    Terry is dead. at first he believed his wife’s death was an accident, but then he found the hair … [more]

    • Genre: Near-Future, Dystopian Revenge Thriller
    • Length: 410 pages
    • Series: Standalone

  • The Broken God Machine - $2.99

    The Broken God Machine Pehr is sixteen, strong and fit, about to take the Hunter's Test and become a man when a horde of vile beast-men known as the Lagos descend upon his village. He finds himself thrust into an unlikely adventure, journeying through jungles, mountains and plains to find the land of the ancients and the advanced technology they left behind … [more]

    • Genre: Science Fiction
    • Length: 360 pages
    • Series: Standalone

  • The Blood That Bonds - FREE

    The Blood That Bonds Two is Trapped. She’s hooked on heroin, held as property, forced to sell her body to feed the addiction. Time brings her ever closer to what seems an inevitable death and Two waits, uncaring, longing only for the next fix. That’s when Theroen arrives. The only problem? Theroen is a vampire … [more]

    • Genre: Urban Fantasy
    • Length: 350 pages
    • Series: 2 AM Trilogy Book 1

  • Blood Hunt - $2.99

    Blood Hunt It's been six months since the events of The Blood That Bonds. As Two Majors and Tori Perrault struggle to adapt to their new realities, they are drawn into a world that neither knew existed. Two must deal with the machinations of the vampire council, while Tori must make a decision that will change not only her life, but the lives of all of the vampires in America, and perhaps the world … [more]

    • Genre: Urban Fantasy
    • Length: 500 pages
    • Series: 2 AM Trilogy Book 2

  • The Children of the Sun - $2.99

    The Children of the Sun Two and a half years have passed since Blood Hunt, and in that time a fragile peace has been maintained by the American council of vampires and their allies. Two Majors has spent the years focusing on rebuilding the life that was torn away from her. When the Children of the Sun, the militaristic cult of vampire hunters, strike at a trio of vampires visiting Chicago, the peace is shattered … [more]

    • Genre: Urban Fantasy
    • Length: 550 pages
    • Series: 2 AM Trilogy Book 3

In the Trunk

"In the trunk" means that a manuscript is complete but for one reason or another, has neither been published nor is being actively shopped to agents/publishers. If you're looking for reasons why that might be the case, feel free to contact me.

  • Pulse

    When Raine pulls herself from unconsciousness and rises up off the cold marble floor of the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia, she finds that her city has been transformed as she slept. Gunfire, screams, and a strange singing echo in the streets, and grim horror awaits her as she journeys out into the broken, chaotic world that she used to know. Still, all of this is nothing ... nothing at all, compared to the thing in the sky. Is it new? Or has it always been there, and only now can she see it?

    • Genre: Science Fiction
    • Length: Roughly 450 pages
    • Series: Untitled Series Book 1

  • Divergence Point

    Humanity picked a fight with the first alien species it encountered, and those aliens kicked humanity’s ass. That was twenty-five years ago. Things have been difficult since.

    Askana Liáng has never known anything but the life shaped for her by her Ymmrii masters. They’ve made her into a weapon and pointed her at their enemies. For years she’s struck without considering anything other than their desires. Now, something has unlocked within her mind, and a compulsion she can’t resist bids her return to the human race. Two words have been seared into her brain: “Come Home.”

    David Ashe spent twenty years in the resistance before he was finally captured. Now he’s trapped, slaving away in an asteroid mine until his body finally fails him and brings about his execution. Fortunately, he possesses a nearly singular talent: the ability to work with low-level Ymmrii code. That makes him valuable … and someone wants him.

    Martin Trujo was born after the war. For him, a city full of Ymmr, Zhaksarai, Shenj-tzu, and Hjarad is merely the status quo. It’s the AI grafted to his brain that’s unusual. Not that he has any way of investigating it; poverty and isolation on humanity’s most distant colony make anything beyond the scrabble for survival nearly impossible. Plus, now he’s got this whole murder accusation thing to deal with.

    The assassin, the terrorist, and the hacker, recruited by a government that doesn’t technically exist and tasked with a mission that few believe can be accomplished. The fate of humanity rests on their shoulders.

    If only they liked each other.

    • Genre: Science Fiction
    • Length: Roughly 400 pages
    • Series: Untitled Series Book 1

  • Possessed

    Some girls go to college after graduating high school. Amber joined a cult. It was all fun and games until the new guy showed up with the book and started ordering people around. Now she's about had her fill of demonic rituals, especially after that last one. That whole thing was stright-up weird … even before the voice started speaking in her head.

    • Genre: Modern Fantasy
    • Length: Roughly 400 pages
    • Series: Standalone

  • The Werewolf at the Window

    When the werewolf broke down her front door and killed her parents, thirteen year-old Morgan Skylark was supposed to die, too. Instead, she found within herself an inexplicable ability to focus to the point that time seems to slow. Now, the werewolf lies at her feet, a smoking silver letter opener punched through its throat, and behind her stands a man who will invite her to be trained as he has: to find the monsters that prowl the world, to study them and, when necessary, to hunt them down. Morgan embarks upon a new life as a monster hunter, but there is a problem: Morgan Skylark was supposed to die, and someone out there knows it.

    • Genre: YA Modern Fantasy
    • Length: Roughly 300 pages
    • Series: Monster Hunters Book 1

Short Stories

Non-Fiction

The vast majority of my non-fiction is ancient and only available via archived versions of the websites for which I wrote it. You can find all of my cocktail writing listed over at the cocktails page, though!