I'm a new writer of science fiction and adventure tales. I also make occasional forays into fantasy and realistic fiction. I love post-apocalyptic settings, utopias and dystopias, coming-of-age stories, and stories about underdogs struggling against the machine.
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i think i’m addicted to character alphabets

Ack, somebody stop me from compiling … an alphabetical list of quirks, traits and/or other aspects of personality (positive or negative) that best describe your character. Try to avoid words that are synonyms of each other. For the tough letters (X and Z) you can use words that contain the letters versus starting with [...]

Spring 2010 update

Accepted!

Algae, my story about love, art, and iron mining on the frigidly cold planet Diamanta, was recently accepted to the Distant Worlds anthology of novella-length science fiction (to be published by The Library of Science Fiction and Fantasy Press). This will be my second published story, and my first story to appear in [...]

Progress report

I’ve made it to Chapter 3 in my rewrite of The Outerlands. The core of the story is the same–that is, most of the same events are occurring, in the same order. The way they’re told, on the other hand, is really drastically different. I’m using almost all new words. There’s very little from [...]

It's a long way to the Outerlands, but I have a map - Part 2 of 2

(continued from Part 1)

I revised The Outerlands again. This time, I went through every chapter, every scene, every sentence, picking everything apart, editing and polishing word by word. I’d never scrutinized my writing so closely before. By this time I had lost count of how many revisions the book had been through, so [...]

It's a long way to the Outerlands, but I have a map - Part 1 of 2

Did I say I was revising The Outerlands? What I should have said was: I’m rewriting the entire thing from scratch.

The first couple of times I tried to write this story, I didn’t get very far. Sure, I knew what the story was about. There was a female protagonist who was more or [...]

Gung Hee Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year!

As of December 2008 I’m officially a published author. I have one (1) short story out there in the world. I guess it’s a very small thing, but it feels pretty good.

The piece is called “He Learned How” and you can read it online here. In the story, A.J. is sixteen and gay [...]