Upcoming Projects (as of May 2024)
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Well Written
A collaboration series about a writer who falls in a well and finds himself kept company by the many people who have died in the well, several of whom were also writers. Each tells a story which the author promised to share with the world when he makes it out of the well.
#fiction #collaborative
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Still Searching...
A follow-on to In Search Of…
#fiction #memoir #surrealism
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I've Not Been There
A travel novel about places I’ve never been to.
#fiction #travel #guidebook
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First of the Backyard Strawberries
Set in Alaska in the 1970s, this novel follows a year in the life of seven people who have come to Alaska to help build the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
#fiction #romance #historical
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Serial Community
A novel about a journalist who catches wind of a serial killer community that meets up once a year at Kezar Lake in Maine. Did he catch wind? Or was he invited…
#fiction #thriller
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Fuck My DNA
Short stories based on pictures I’ve taken on my travels around the world. Title is based on a picture I took of some graffiti on a wall of a building in Galway, Ireland.
#fiction #short stories #collection
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The Torrey Park Escape
The entire neighborhood of a town goes missing overnight. Nothing is left but a deep crater and no one in the town seems to have noticed. That was 16 years ago and, until now, no one has bothered to look into it.
#scifi #mystery
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Lorel's Lament
Lorel plans to overthrow the king because he thinks he can do a better job ruling the country. He has a long play in mind that will limit the need for bloodshed. The problem is, two of the neighboring countries also want to overthrow the king—and they are moving faster than Lorel’s plan.
#scifi #fantasy #speculative
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Gumboot Gumshoe
It’s day one of Justin’s new gig as a private investigator and ten minutes in, he’s got a new case: who killed the woman who just bled to death on his desk. Bigger question: why is he now being harangued by the ghost of the PI who had this office before him?
File 001 of The Justin Cases
#mystery #contemporary fantasy
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Shadow of a Dying Tulip
“I've only got six seconds to live, so I'll be brief.” Justin’s second big case hit a dead end the moment he solved it.
File 002 of The Justin Cases
#mystery #contemporary fatasy
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At Your Cervus
Sandy River is new to city life and everyone knows it—and is kinda afraid to say anything. Sandy is searching for a murderer he’d captured, but then, due to a terrible misstep, he allowed the murderer to get away. With his trademark Homburg hat, and trademark giant antlers, Sandy is on the case.
#mystery #surrealism
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Art Lovers
It’s an art heist gone wrong. And yet…
#crime fiction
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What It Cost Lahmet
Lahmet lives in fear every day. It’s partly why she hasn’t left her home in 106 years. But the spells protecting her house are wearing off and she needs to leave in order to find someone to renew them—except so few practice the magic arts anymore. Lahmet will have to travel far and wide to find the protection she seeks and, perhaps, won’t need it as much when her quest is complete.
#fantasy #solarpunk?
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Memories On Toast
My second volume of poetry. Get the first!
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My Big Book Of UX
Does the world need another UX book? No. Except it does. It needs mine and it needs yours someday. More voices, please! In the meantime, I’ve been doing research and design for 25 years and I have thoughts. This will be part narrative, part reference, and part rolling my eyes at all the mistakes this profession has made over the past two decades.
#nonfiction #textbook-ish
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That Time I Realized What Racism Is
My attempt at stand up. Probably my only attempt.
#standup #yikes
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We Search For Them On Weekends And Holidays
In the mountains outside Iguala, Mexico, families spend what time they can looking for the remains of their children who have been disappeared by local gangs. Their community and efforts are led by Father Oscar Prudenciano González up to the point he is disappeared as well.
#play #based on true story
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Sex is ... Um...
Adaku, a co-founder of an AI startup, is forced out of her own company after a major funding round. Betrayed by her team and replaced by an inexperienced man, she contemplates leaving tech or starting a new venture to outshine her former partners. Amidst this turmoil, Adaku's loneliness worsens, causing her to wonder which hole in her heart to mend first.
#series #dark comedy
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Murder During The Play
An Agatha Christie murder mystery parody. It’s funny. Trust me.
#play #comedy