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Writing YA Fiction

Imagine your whole school can see your stats A sixteen-year-old, one humiliating half second, and the reckless thing he does to prove it wasn’t the whole story. You already know where you rank. Somebody decided years ago, the label stuck, and most days it feels settled. The athle…

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Naming as Theme

A few episodes ago, I told you about a moment in a short story I wrote called “Signal Zero.” A military sergeant gets ambushed by an alien intelligence — and inside that ambush, the system gives him a designation. It calls him Sentinel. And next to Sentinel, a number: Frame: Seve…

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New Site, New World, New Stories

Integrationera.com is live. Check it out and let me know what you think. The form you have selected does not exist.

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Signal Zero – Audio Story

The first story in the An Author’s Voice narrated series is Signal Zero — the beginning of the Integration Era, and a good place to start if you’ve never read it. Sergeant Voss has been guarding an archaeological dig on a frontier world for eleven weeks. His job is straightforwar…

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The Quiet Apocalypse

Welcome to “An Author’s Voice” where I’ll discuss the craft behind writing and illustrate the points with my own work or discuss other well known examples. Episode Three : The Quiet Apocalypse This post accompanies Episode 3 of An Author’s Voice. If you haven’t listened yet, the …

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Signal Zero

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A Whole New Universe

I’m excited to announce a new series I’ve started working on called The Integration Era. This will be a Sci-Fi LitRPG series set in the far future. I’ll be posting short stories that form the background of this universe here for subscribers. Sign-up today to gain access to these …

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