Dark Fantasy & Horror Author

About Me:

Somebody once asked me “When did you decide to become a writer?” and I didn’t have an answer.  Because, honestly, I have no idea.  It might have been in fourth grade, because that’s the year my teacher assigned us a story to write every day.  After that, I kept on writing them, though not regularly.  Or maybe it was when I was in junior high and I fell in love with The Lord of the Rings and developed an itch to write a novel of my own.

However, I can tell you when I decided it was time to become a professional writer.  It was my senior year in college, and I figured if other people got paid to write, then there was no reason I shouldn’t be paid for it, too.  After all, I’d been writing stories in my spare time for years.  Of course, my stories were completely awful.  But, like most beginners, I didn’t know it at the time.

That was 1987.

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New cover art

And now for the reveal for Jewels of Darkover, due out May 2 2023.

Merciless Mermaids

Here's the cover art. Anthology due out August 2 2023.

Rook and Thorn Will Return

The five books in the Rook & Thorn alternate history series are coming back! They will be re-issued by Untreed Reads. Look for them to return to Amazon soon. The titles are: Perdition Purgatory Perfection Paradise Promised...

Two Shorts Coming Up!

In 2023, look for two short stories from me: "Goldeneyes" will be in the Darkover anthology Jewels of Darkover, edited by Deborah J. Ross. "Europa's Children" will appear in the anthology Merciless Mermaids, edited by Kevin J. Anderson. Also keep your eyes open for...

Rook & Thorn Will Return

I have received the official word that the rights to the Rook & Thorn books (Perdition, Purgatory, Perfection, Paradise, Promised Land) so I will be uploading them to Amazon at some point in the near future. So those books will soon be available again.

Ring of Fire Press

The passing of Eric Flint has precipitated a lot of changes for Ring of Fire Press. As in, it is currently defunct. If you go to any of my Rook and Thorn books on Amazon (Perdition, Purgatory, Perfection, Paradise, Promised Land) you will find they are currently "out...

Rook and Thorn

The fourth and fifth books in my alternate history series set in an alternate twenty-first century United States, should be out soon. Book 4: Paradise Rook and Thorn are introduced to the dangers of bioweapons. Who is behind the latest attack on the United States...

More Traveling

I went to Bukhara for a weekend. Here's some of the cool things I saw. It's more walkable than Samarkand, and my hotel was right in the heart of the old town, so the cool restaurants, historic buildings, and bazaars were right out the door. Nilufar explaining this is...

Exploring Around

I've been trying to keep up with classes, writing, sightseeing, YouTubing...there's so much to do! But here are a few pictures to show what's up in my life at the moment. Here I am helping Nigina chop the carrots and onion for the plov. The plov cooking on Nigina's...

Plov

On Sunday, Shokhsanam came by Mary's apartment to show Mary and me how to make plov. This is useful (especially for Mary and her daughter) because it is very difficult to find vegetarian meals here. Even if you order something without meat, it's going to be cooked...

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