Welcome to my website. I write fantasy and science fiction. If you’re looking for a place to start, my Evenmere fantasy series begins with the award-winning novel The High House, followed by The False House, then Evenmere. Each book is a stand-alone novel, though I recommend starting with the first one. Evenmere Tales and Other Stories contains short stories, including an Evenmere novelette.
I’ve also done a rewrite in more modern language of William Hope Hodgson’s SF/Fantasy masterpiece, The Night Land. The Back of the Beyond is a stand-alone about a world where literally everything is sentient. Liberty Bell and the Last American is a happy post-apocalyptic novel of America. Readers tell me its funny, exciting, and moving.
While you’re here, I’ve created a list of what I consider the 100 Best Fantasy Novels, available for your browsing pleasure on the pull-down above.
This October, I’ve joined with several other local authors for a bit of Halloween fun. Scan the QR code to find out what it’s all about.
In 2024, we released a 25th Anniversary Edition of The High House in paperback, hardback, and Kindle. I’ve written a new introduction for it, and am quite pleased by the cover and interior design. It’s hard for me to believe it’s been twenty-five years since I wrote it. It continues to amaze and gratify me that I still get emails from readers about it.
We’ve also updated the other two Evenmere books. The new version of The False House, which includes a new Introduction, is available in hardback, paperback, and ebook.
The third volume, Evenmere, with its own Introduction, is now out in ebook, paperback, and hardback.
For several years readers have been asking for a collection of my published short stories. As of October 2023, it’s finally available. Following each story, I’ve written a short note describing how it was written or other insights. For this volume, I also wrote a novella entitled The Leechmont, set in my Evenmere universe. The book also includes The Battle of York, the original short story that was the inspiration for my novel, Liberty Bell and the Last American. A number of the stories were originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Besides writing books, I’m also a musician and recording engineer. A number of years ago, I wrote an album’s worth of music based on my novel, The High House. At the time, I was raising my family, teaching fulltime, and writing books, so I tinkered with recording and producing the music off and on. Now that I’m no longer teaching, I’ve finished the album. Is it any good? Beats me. But it’s now available for download on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, etc. Cover art by Scott Faris. Additional mixing and production by Chris Neal. To hear snippets, go to my Music tab.