I grew up as a preacher’s kid I grew up as a preacher’s kid, moving from town to town, watching how different communities lived, believed, struggled, and held themselves together. I didn’t realize it at the time, but those early years were teaching me how people carry their stories — how they inherit wounds, how they cling to hope, how they shape their own meaning inside the worlds they’re given. That curiosity eventually led me to study History and American Studies, where I

Kill Your Darlings Some time ago, I came across a craft book with a title along the lines of Kill Your Darlings. I dismissed the idea at first. It felt flippant, almost cruel — the kind of advice tossed around in writing circles without much thought. But as I kept drafting, reading, and watching stories unfold on screen, that phrase settled somewhere in the back of my mind. Apparently, I’d dropped it into an idea barrel and let it ferment. Then, while re-watching John Wick, I

Kinship Covenant Kinship Covenant has lived quietly on Amazon for nearly a month. For those who walked with Jack through Waking in Sheol, this is the next turn in his long arc. For new readers, it continues the quiet, grounded fantasy that defines Social Fantasy. The book lives here: https://www.amazon.com/Kinship-Covenant-Legacy-Belonging-Prophecies/dp/B0GVNRRHNZ/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 And Kindle Unlimited readers can explore the whole Sheol Prophecies there as well.

DragonCon Author I’ll be moving through DragonCon this year — mostly in the Writers Track and the creative spaces. If you happen to spot the cowboy hat with the National Park pins, feel free to say hello. I’m always glad to meet readers and fellow wanderers who travel through a softer kind of fantasy — a social fantasy.