I started writing novels when I was a teenager, and fortunately for you, those novels will never see the light of day. I have learned a lot about the craft since then. Below is a lineup of works-in-progress, complete but unpublished titles, and published titles. For those interested in being a Beta-reader or ARC reviewer, please read the blurbs below and contact me.
I am currently seeking representation with a literary agent.
Books
Motus– Hard Science Fiction/dystopian. Publish date 10/9/2025
Blurb: For centuries, the people of Motus have tunneled through the rock in search of the resources they needed to survive. Until Corun, armed with his late father’s pickaxe, uncovers an unfamiliar ore in the underground city’s path.
Far from the riches he hoped for, an appraiser identifies the ore as slag from the furnace, rock long ago stripped of its useful water and oxygen. It can only mean one thing.
They’ve been moving in circles.
Faced with the prospect of retracing their steps or descending to more inhospitable depths, the city’s laborers go on strike. Corun, inspired by an outspoken Ascensionist, believes their only hope lies on the rumored Surface. But to get there, they will have to contend with cold rock, thin air, and a jaded board member impeding their progress at every turn. And what they find will test their wits and resolve and make them question everything they were ever told.
Reminiscent of Wool and City of Ember, with an adult, hard sci-fi twist, MOTUS explores the travails and triumphs of a people determined to carve an existence out of cold and unforgiving stone.
Upended. Book 1. Hard Science Fiction. Publish date 01/30/2026
Blurb: When a failed experiment renders everything within a mile completely weightless, Dr. Kyle Kessler narrowly avoids joining the countless cars, buildings, and people falling into the sky.
In the aftermath, he and the other survivors are given a choice: regain their weight with time or become astronauts in the newest space program. With the wealth of weightless materials, NASA plans to build a spacecraft capable of venturing anywhere in the Solar System without gravity to hold it back.
But for this diverse and inexperienced crew, astronaut training may prove to be as dangerous as space itself. And if Kyle can’t keep the truth of the failed experiment out of the wrong hands, it could destroy the only thing holding the Earth together.
IDLE man- Sci-fi/Dystopian. Complete but unpublished
Blurb: Hours after a solar flare casts the Seattle into darkness, earthquakes and floods tear into the city, volcanoes erupt, and all life comes to an end… and then it starts all over again.
Caught in an inescapable loop in time, Thom and the rest of the city spend the next five years reliving the end of the world. Amongst the chaos, a government is formed, jobs established, and new and exciting diversions are born. But with no fear of death and no limit to the cruelties man can conceive, it is not much of a life.
Eager to make a difference in an unchanging world, Thom quits his job as a Witness to verbal contracts to become an IDLE man. As an Instant Death Loop Ender, he must wake his clients before their imminent deaths each morning. But when he inadvertently wakes a man intended to remain in an eternal slumber, he learns that the department he now works for is not as noble and incorruptible as he first believed. Thom must choose between keeping their secrets or risk exposing the very department he suspects has the power to kill…permanently.
Short Fiction
Operation Meltwater– Published in the Baen Anthology Robosoldiers: Thank you for your servos in 2022 and for free right here in 2025.
Cephi– Published in The Colored Lens, Summer 2019. Finalist in the National Fantasy Fan Federation (N3F) writing contest.
Icarus Drowned– Finalist in the National Fantasy Fan Federation (N3F) writing contest. Published in Final Frontier. Read it for free here!
Quantum Quietus– Won 1st place in the National Fantasy Fan Federation (N3F) writing contest. Published in Eldritch Science March 2018. Read it for free here!
The Post-Apocalyptic Tourist’s Guide to Seattle– A novelette. Available on Amazon KDP.
Feldspar– Baen Books 2017. Winner of the 2017 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Contest.
Want– Off-Kilter II Anthology 2016
Blue and Green Horizons– Off-Kilter Anthology 2014
Short Non-Fiction
The Science of Aging and its Fictional Cures– Published by Dan Koboldt’s Blog in 2018. Read it free here.
Stasis: The Future of Suspended Animation– Published by Baen Books in 2017 and here in 2025.
Enclosed Ecosystems and Life Support in Sci-fi– PUTTING THE SCIENCE IN FICTION- Writer’s Digest Books- available on Amazon and Audible now. Read it for free here.
Don’t forget to check out my blog page for similar non-fiction content published right here!
