Book Blog
A place for story notes, worldbuilding discoveries, writing updates, and glimpses behind the curtain of my fantasy worlds—along with the occasional reader quiz or bit of fun.
Untold Stories from the World of Myrrah: Ty in Sardinia – Part 1
The epic fantasy novel Born of Water hints at Ty’s first visits to the illicit port city of Sardinia without providing many details. This is the story of how he fell into a life so far from what his upbringing and planned path had set.
Hurricane Dexter: The Storm of 2048
Continuing the background of my dystopian trilogy Friends of my Enemy comes the storm the tips the US towards a darker future.
Untold Stories from the World of Myrrah: Darag in Portoreayl
One of the first things you should know about me is that I love to travel. Seeing new vistas, cultures, ecologies, these are the things that perk me up like few others. And so when it comes to world building, I put a lot of thought and love into the worlds I create....
The spread and aftermath of HALO – the pandemic of 2045
Every disease has a few individuals who are resistant and a larger pool of people who will recover. HALO was the same. Though the disease ripped through populations before anyone even understood what caused it, or believed it really was a disease, there were some who...
HALO – the beginning of the pandemic of 2045
When Harvey’s Flu ended in 2039, most countries felt lessons had been learned. If another disease arose and threatened to reach pandemic status, proven precautions were in place to lessen the spread and quickly contain the outbreak. They were ready for another flu....
Who’s who in the world of Myrrah
Work on the first book of Games of Fire is going well. It, like the Rise of the Fifth Order trilogy, is set in the fantasy world of Myrrah. Games of Fire will be the fourth series I've written, though only the third published. I try to forget my first attempt at...
Hurricane Lempert: The Drowning of Miami in 2042
Perception holds that change is slow. Sea levels creep upwards, nibbling at protective dunes and the footings of beachside houses. We will witness climate change unfolding as a slow motion disaster, best seen in reverse and through time lapse. Perceptions are wrong....
The World of Myrrah: The Northern Shore of the Sea of Sarketh
It is a place where stucco buildings perch along cliffs as red as the tiled roofs. The towns and cities along the northern coast of the Sea of Sarketh are some of the oldest in Myrrah, second only to those along the Archipelago of Bellaia in age and standing. The sea...
Harvey’s Flu: how we survived the Pandemic of 2039
The oversights that allowed veterinarian Harvey Reynolds to head research on BECD, bovine enteric coronavirus disease, while ill with multi-specie infecting H7N7 and the lack of follow up for the epsilon mutation in bovine herds were the last mistakes of the pandemic...