I believe the essence of fiction is to make people think; to offer perspectives that are under-explored day-to-day.

 

You will find that my work won't offer focus-group approved characters, and you'll never find me chasing trends. I will explore familiar territory, but trust that I will take you far off the beaten path. If ever you read one of my books and say 'that was just like [blank]', then I've done a bad job. I approach fiction this way because the books that most influenced myself and my writing did exactly that.

 

My story begins at Sun Valley mall in Walnut Creek, CA, and a bookstore therein. You see, when I was a child, my mother deemed no visit to the mall complete without a trip to Borders or Barnes & Noble (back in the days where brick & mortar bookstores were pretty common. It was there that I was exposed to both contemporary and classic literature. Over time, the voices and prose of those authors began to rub off on me. No one could claim that I became a prodigy or wunderkind, but the adults in my life began to take notice of my prowess as early as middle school where I earned my first creative writing award.

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After that, I was hooked. I started on my first novels in High School and while they shall remain unpublished for all time, they proved to be vital exercise for future attempts. 

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Shortly after graduating from university, I began freelance writing and enjoyed the exhilaration of seeing my first work published in the same week I was laid off from my job (well, my 'day job', anyway). That interval, while distressing at the time, allowed for a considerable amount of free time. In addition to continuing my freelance work, I started writing fiction again. 

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It was 2013 when I published my first novel Wounded Worlds: Nihil Novum. Not long after that, I started on Luck & Loose Ends as well as an article series titled Play/Write which explored how elements of game design could be adapted to service linear narrative (or, more simply, how playing video games can make you a better writer). 

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Life circumstances and a volatile job market played a role in my ability to produce for a time, but those circumstances have changed. My wife and I are now in business for ourselves which has left me with lots of road for my creative engine to run. 

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There's much more ahead of me than there is behind and I hope you'll come along for the ride!

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