Bibliography
2024
Skaventide – Black Library
My third Black Library book. Of Skaven and Ruination. The Hour of Ruin begins.
The Shortest Night – Last Ditch – A ZNB Anthology
An assassin, a slave, a star.
Lazarus: Emnity’s Edge – Black Library
My second Black Library book. Lazarus, Master of the Dark Angels Fifth, has problems within and without the Legion.
2023
The Last Volari – Black Library
My first Black Library Novel! Nyssa Volari deals with curses, fanatics, and family.
Of Blood and Guts – Black Library
A different vampire story.
A Limited View – Stupefying Stores 25
Dinosaurs and academics.
2022
The Waste, the Witch, the Worm – Black Library
Nyssa Volari begins to deal with troubling family dynamics
Also part of the Untamed Realms anthology
Anger & Ashes – Black Library
An introduction to Nyssa Volari
Also part of the Untamed Realms anthology
Memories of Blood and Sand – Black Library
A Story of Rostus Oxenhammer
The Gangs Beneath – Cthonia’s Reckoning – Black Libarary
Beneath the surface of a besiged planet, strange alliances are formed
The Buried Beast – A Lazarus Short – Black Library
Lazarus, Master of the Dark Angels Fifth, must come to terms with his resurrection
Knives in the Deep – Harrowdeep – Black Library
Pirates in a kind of Hell.
Part of a Warhammer Underworlds anthology
Patience Kills – The Successors – Black Library
New strength is taught old wisdom
A Space Marine anthology
2021
Heart of the Beast – Direchasm – Black Library
There is hunger in the Beastgrave
Part of a Warhammer Underworlds anthology
The Perfect Assassin – Black Library
Never bore an assassin
A Maleneth Witchblade short story for Warhammer Age of Sigmar
Also found in the Conquest Unbound anthology
Walls of Teeth and Iron – When Worlds Collide – A ZNB Anthology
Alternate histories, alternate fates. A rather bloody fantasy short
The Verdant Sun – Broken City – Black Library
Life and Death beneath the city of Varangantua
Part of a Warhammer Crime anthology
Confessions in Fire – Sanction and Sin – Black Library
More Trouble in Varangantua
Part of a Warhammer Crime anthology
2020
Spark of Revolution – Black Library
Change isn’t easy. Especially for an Ogryn
A novella set in Necromunda, from Warhammer 40K
Also found in the Deliverance and Damnation anthology
His Terrible Visage – Uprising – Black Library
There are all kinds of blessings, even for the meek and the weak
A story set in Necromunda, from Warhammer 40K
Curse of the Lucky – Inferno 5 – Black Library
Cutty always thought he was lucky. But he’ll need more than luck to survive the underhive
A story set in Necromunda, from Warhammer 40K
2019
Hot Times at Shady Pines – DreamForge – Issue 4 – December 2019
Problematic immortaility, retirement homes, and drone shenanigans
Formless – Analog – November/December 2019
Body modification, AI’s, and the seduction of belief
2017
Revolution Days – Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores – December 28 2017
Haircuts, magic, and revolution
Interchange – Clarkesworld-Issue 124 – January 2017
Highway construction, sexbots, snakes, and possible apocalypses
2016
Llamacide – Futuristica: Volume 1
My only story about a killer camelid. So far
Chicago Blues – SciFutures Presents The City of the Future
Music, sewage farming, and morality
Saints, Beasts, and Zombies – Escape Pod Episode 532
No saints, beasts, or zombies actually appear in this story. Sorry
2015
My first novel! You could call it sword & sorcery, but it’s really spears and spirit magic and lots and lots of fire
The Gem – Pathfinder Tales-Paizo Publishing
This is the lead in story to Firsoul. It’s not necessary to read it before the novel, but why not? It’s free, fun, and contains a Grootslang!
What if class distinctions just keep growing, and growing, and growing
2014
The Golden Glass -Escape Pod-Episode 431-January 17, 2014
Interdimensional evil twins, booze, and fireworks. No goatees though, sorry
Last Dance Over the Red, Red World – Apex-Issue 64, September 2014
Star Towers and pastiches. Or is it a homage? Inspired by? Ripped off from? One of those
Shooting Aphrodite – Streets of Shadow
Okay, the title is a bit misleading. Aphrodite does not appear in this story. It’s a different goddess. And the shooting is different too
Changeling Fall – Crowded Magazine – Issue 3
Not fitting in, speciesization, and star towers again
2013
Conjugation – Daily Science Fiction
AI’s, dating at interstellar distances, and comparisons to bacterial genetic exchange
2012
From Their Paws, We Shall Inherit – Clarkesworld-Issue 66, March 2012
Again with the alien invasions. This one is monkeys though, instead of wasps. And maybe they’re really friendly! Maybe…
Riding the Signal – The Intergalactic Medicine Show-Issue 29, July 2012
Another monkey in this one, but now there’s no maybes. This story is my take on Alien. In the movie the tag line was- In space no one can hear you scream. For this story, I guess it would be- Under Albuquerque no one can hear you scream
2010
Mayfly – Warrior Wisewoman Three
There have been a lot of stories written dealing with inequitable immortality. This story is a variant on that. Plus, there is kung-fu. Okay, only a very little
And the Blood of Dead Gods Will Mark the Score – Fantasy Magazine, Monday August 9, 2010
I wrote the first draft of this in less than 24 hours, in the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. It was an assignment for the Writers of the Future Workshop. I really like how it turned out. Maybe sleep deprivation is my muse
Sympathy of a Gun – Intergalactic Medicine Show-Issue 20, December 2010.
A story about alien invasions, unwanted pregnancies, giant robot crabs and Florida
2009
Adam, Unwilling – Jim Baen’s Universe, Issue 19: Vol 4 Num 1, June 2009
The idea- A lot of science fiction focuses on what changes technology will bring to culture. Take mind uploading– that’s a gift that keeps on giving for sci-fi. When your characters can load their brains like software into a network, it opens up a world of possibilities.
An author can go two ways with this. They could focus on the problems this new tech could solve. Like making generation ships possible. Or they could focus on the problems this tech could create. Like how long will it be before someone decides to go all HAL on everyone else in the network?
Most of the time, like in this story, it’s best to do both
The Farthest Born – Writer’s of the Future Anthology XXV
The idea- I liked the idea of a setting where space travel was stuck at sub-light speeds, but there was faster than light communication. Earth’s first extra-solar colony could be a mix of the poor schmucks who had gone through the long slog all the way there and a bunch of gawkers from Earth who popped in over the communications system. My initial idea was to try this as a strange form of long distance romance between a colonist and a researcher whose physical presence was that of the robot she was running from Earth. Nice idea, never really went anywhere.
Then I remembered something I had watched as a kid, about the biologists who were rebuilding the California Condor population. They were taking condor eggs and incubating them, and then raising the chicks in a safe setting. To keep them somewhat attuned to a natural state, they fed them using puppets that looked like adult condors.
Mix these two ideas, add some teenage resentment and an alien predator, and the story gels