I’ve been writing my whole life, beginning with a script for a Star Wars knock-off when I was fourteen! 

Æsterverse 101

Fantasy and science fiction have always been the genres that drew my interest. I love the adventure of it all! Like most writers I have drawers full of fiction I’ve written that never went anywhere. But in 2009, I got involved in the Steampunk community and everything changed. As I started setting down story ideas as background for art objects I was creating, the stories took over. Those first ideas were the seeds of “The Tomahawk Incident.”

Once it all started, it was like the floodgates opened. There were so many stories to tell in the Æsterverse that a whole world spun out from the concepts. And from that initial rush of ideas have come other worlds that I continue to develop to this day.

I believe writing is an ever-evolving skillset. I loves the challenge of it all. Writing screenplays is a different talent entirely that I indulge in now and then, primarily in the form of short film concepts that I’ll hopefully get time and resources to actually do something with one day! And as for features… yep, they are there, just waiting in the wings too!

In 2016, the events at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota created a tectonic shift in my life’s trajectory. After watching independent media coverage of Water Protectors being brutalized by militarized police and heavily armed security contractors trying to force the Dakota Access Pipeline through their treaty lands, I joined the Veterans for Standing Rock deployment. The days I spent at Standing Rock gave rise to a new form of writing. Nonfiction, journalistic writing and a documentary short film.

Elements of what I experienced at Standing Rock now inform everything I write whether it’s science fiction, fantasy, horror or nonfiction. The Æsterverse is currently the primary world that I’m writing in, but there are several others including, modern fantasy, supernatural and modern horror, and a far-flung science fiction. They are all anxiously waiting in the wings for their chance in the spotlight.

Get to know a bit about the world “The Tomahawk Incident” and other books and stories are set it!

The Tomahawk incident

“The Tomahawk Incident” is the first book in a series taking place in the “Æsterverse.” In the Æsterverse, a strange, gaseous substance called the Æster blankets two-thirds of the Earth’s surface, it’s clouds stretching from the poles to twenty-three degrees north and south latitude...