I write about what comes after.
Grimdark military SF, warm space fables, and quiet Rust Belt horror — out of Akron, Ohio.
Three shelves, one idea
War Dogs
grimdark military SF
He was never going to walk away from it. That was the problem with building a man like Tiberius: you can’t unbuild him.
The Rattletrap Watch
warm space fable
A kid the world threw away, an impossible apprenticeship, and a home he decides to keep.
The Whisper Lounge
quiet Rust Belt horror
A man who will not let his dead go, and a building very glad to hear it.
I write about the things that get left behind, and the people who won’t leave them. Leaving is not the better choice.
The books
Pit Bull
War Dogs, Book One
Military science fiction with the throttle wide open. A powered exosuit. Four combat drones. One mercenary with no one left to trust. A near future war story built to read like a movie, where the hardware feals real and every fight leaves a mark.
Out now
Rattletrap & Mouse
The Rattletrap Watch, Book One
For readers who like their wonder with grit in it: hardboiled 1930s voice under a wide-open sky, an orphan and his dog, a found family that has to be earned, and the oldest question a stray ever asked. Where do I belong, and who gets to say?
Preorder
The Whisper Lounge
Rust Belt horror
A slow-burn supernatural horror novel set in the abandoned buildings of Akron, Ohio. This one is not about being scared out of a haunted house. It is about why you would stay.
October 13 · Preorder
I live in a Rust Belt town that has more history than it knows what to do with and refuses to throw any of it away. I’ve spent a lot of years looking at buildings nobody uses anymore and nobody quite gets around to tearing down. What holds me isn’t the danger, and it isn’t the ghosts. It’s that those places are proof of something I believe about people: we hold on, well past the point where it’s sensible, and I’ve come to think that’s the best thing about us, not the worst.