Journal

Random thoughts and book releases by the author.

A spacecraft image used as the placeholder article image

2026-06-27

New Website Released

Finally, a jump into modernity. A github pages hosted static website with only html, css and images. Funny how moving forward sometimes means sliding backwards.

A beautiful, oxidized bronze angel sitting on a tombstone in a Dresden cemetery used as the headlining image for Shudder.  Think calm weeping angel.  Don't blink.

2026-04-05

Shudder

People disappear without patterns anyone wants to see. When Tyler, a medical examiner, begins encountering bodies that don’t obey anatomy or cause-of-death logic, she does what she’s always done: records what she can, omits what she must and keeps the system moving.

A floating green neuron in black space used as the headlinging image for Upload.  Similar to the blue neuron for Download.

2026-04-04

Upload

In a world where memories can be shared, even your identity may not be your own. Two years after the events of DOWNLOAD, Valentine Ortiz and Edward Vance are once again dragged into a struggle that will decide the fate of Loadtech—and this time, the cost is even more personal.

A blue neuron floating in black space used as the image for Download.

2025-10-24

Download

Download is the first book in the Loadtech sequence: Download. Upload. Delete. It follows an elite cryptography expert, a working-class memory modder, two police officers, and a mysterious hacker whose motives remain hidden as the machinery of Loadtech begins to expose itself.

The new cover image for The Arc. The Harbinger (Titus) stands on a hill overlooking the destruction of Rome in 410 AD.  It's a reference to Alba's paint on wood sketch of him at the time.

2023-10-27

New Cover for The Arc

I’ve decided to finally update the cover to “The Arc” to something a bit more professional. Some of the comments my readers had were a bit discouraging. Not that I'm much happier with this cover, but at least Andrew won't read it out of a brown paper bag.

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2023-06-13

Prologue to The Fall

If you haven’t read Arcworld Book 1, read no further. The following excerpt is the draft prologue of “The Fall”, book 3 in the Arcworld saga.

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2023-02-26

Heat Management

The third article my three-part-series discussing near-future technologies for spacecraft. This time, heat management, an oft ignored topic in science fiction.

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2023-02-25

Spaceship Hull Materials

The second article my three-part-series discussing near-future technologies for spacecraft. This time, spaceship hull materials we'll see in the future.

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2023-02-24

Space Battle Physics

Battles in space require different strategies considering the massive distances between combatants, making close-in combat more likely than the alternative.

Handwritten text matching some of the text from Vanir, written eons ago by the author.

2022-11-08

Look What I Found

The origins of The Arc and Vanir go back a long way. How far? Till when I was nineteen, at least. Farther, if memory serves.