FEATURED FREE SHORT FICTION
PREMIUM SHORT FICTION
- $4.99 An Aeon Ahead [Futuristica, Vol.2], May 2017. An earlier draft of this story won second place in the Conduit Short Story Contest, 2005.
- $0.99 Father’s Footsteps [Digital Fantasy Fiction], July 2016. Originally in Well Told Tales podcast, Sept 2008.
- $19.95 Psychodrome and Skyway [Love Free or Die], a romantic story set in my Torth universe, February 2015.
- $0.99 The Lion Within [Suddenly Lost in Words, vol.2] is set in my Torth universe, January 2013.
- Post-American Princess [Fantastic Stories of the Imagination], September 2016. Originally in Dark Recesses Press, issue #13, Oct 2012 (out of print).
- Shirley Knott [Digital Quick Fic], September 2016. Originally in AlienSkin Magazine, autumn 2008 – 2014.
- The Wolf Is Here, the Bear Is Here [Writers of the Future Contest] Honorable Mention, 2007.
- Leveling Mountains [Aoife’s Kiss and Wondrous Web Worlds vol.6], March 2005.
- Sunrise [Cyberpulp Magazine Issue #1], June 2004. Out of print.
- Decrepit [Flashshot] 90-word daily story of April 29, 2004. Out of print.
- Fiction [Neverary], October 2003. Out of print.
- Lightbringer’s Class Won Honorable Mention in Writers of the Future Contest 2007.
ARTICLES
- Galactic Conquistadors [Fantastic History], February 2019.
- CGI is Not Made by Computers [Putting the Science in Fiction by Writer’s Digest Books, October 2018. Original version in Science in Sci-Fi, Fact in Fantasy, May 2015.
- Is Space Adventure on the Brink of a Renaissance? [Nathan Barra’s blog], March 2015.
- Implausible Dystopias: Logic Problems in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction [The Copperfield Review], April 2012.
- How to Stock Your Magic-Fighting Toolkit [Fantasy Magazine], August 2011.
- Down the Tube [The Internet Review of Science Fiction], August 2006.
- Short Story Writing for the Novelist at Heart [Neverary], October 2004.
- Robert Jordan: Genius or Hack? [SFFWorld.com], January 2002
- Sexism in Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time [SFFWorld.com], February 2002, and later updated on my website.
- Book Review of Otherland: The Sea of Silver Light, by Tad Williams, [Nabou], October 2001.
COVER ART and BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS
- Interior Illustrations for Yoga for the Belizean Soul, by Maria Long.
- Interior Illustrations for Skeptoid 4 by Brian Dunning.
- Cover for the ebook Fried Zombie Dee-Light!, by Susan Abel Sullivan.
- Cover for the ebook Chomp, by Brian Rappatta.
- Cover for the ebook Slaves of God, by Brian Rappatta.
- Interior Illustrations for Bees in My Butt, by Rebecca Shelley. Published by Wonder Realm Books, 2011.
- Interior Illustrations for We Flushed it Down the Potty, by Rebecca Shelley.
- Interior Illustrations forĀ I Took a Burp, by Rebecca Shelley.
- Interior Illustrations for I Lost My Head, by Rebecca Shelley.
- Interior Illustrations for My Stomach Explodes, by Rebecca Shelley.
- Interior Illustrations for All I Got for Christmas, by Rebecca Shelley.
- Interior Illustrations for To Monkey With Love. Yuck!, by Rebecca Shelley.
THE UNPUBLISHED BIN
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- Novel: Torth Book 1 [title pending], approx. 120,000 words, final draft completed 2016. Five humans are torn from their ordinary lives and forced to survive on another world, ruled by mind readers, where keeping a secret can mean death. Dark science fiction.
- Novel: Torth Book 2 [title pending], approx. 96,000 words, second draft completed 2012. After escaping slavery in the alien city ruled by mind readers known as the Torth, the group of fugitives must continue to hide and survive on an alien world.
- Novel: Torth Book 3 [title pending], approx. 126,000 words, second draft completed 2009. Hunted by the powerful mind readers known as the Torth, the group of fugitives discover a secret society that can help them fight back instead of hiding.
- Novel: Torth Book 4 [title pending], approx. 110,000 words, second draft completed 2010. The group of escaped slaves and criminals defy the powerful mind readers known as Torth, causing a chain reaction of destruction and war.
- Novel: Torth Book 5 [title pending], approx. 125,000 words, rough draft completed 2013. Former slaves and rebels fight the galactic Torth Empire.
- Novel: Torth Book 6 [title pending], outlined 2010.
- Novel: The Illusionist, approx. 58,000 words, rough draft completed 2001. Young Adult /Science Fantasy. An impoverished girl teams up with a foreign businessman to defeat their mutual enemies.
- Novel: The Torth Resurgence, approx. 113,000 words, begun in 1998. Two friends become heroes in parallel universes, and when they are reunited, they can no longer tolerate each other.
- Novel: Summer of Fire, approx. 30,000 words, begun in 2008. A young aristocrat loses his family, wealth, and status all in one night, and seeks revenge.
- Screenplay Series: Darwin’s Gap — Animated work-in-progress, 2013 – 2015. In the town of Darwin’s Gap, where animals are civilized, the herbivores and carnivores in 8th grade have a problem with each other.
- Screenplay: Eden — Sci-Fi Thriller, 100 pages, rough draft completed in 2005. A team of explorers on a newly settled planet become host bodies for intelligent alien parasites.