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Book Battles – Ep4

Watch Book Battles on YouTube. Episode 4 (May 2026) **Sci vs Fi has the Ringworld vs. the Disc World. Both franchises present incredbile worlds, but how do the books compare? Something Old features* Red Thunder* by John Varley. It won the Endeavour Award in 2004, and still gets o…

Why We All Like Story — What Fiction Does That Nothing Else Can

I was seventeen and it was past midnight and I had school in the morning and the book I was reading — Ender’s Game, borrowed from a friend who’d said “just read it” with the intensity of someone trying to share something they couldn’t explain — had done something to me I didn’t h…

When Time Breaks

The problem had a very specific shape, and I found it by running the math. Partway through Book 2 of the Technomancer series, I’d established that one day in the realm of Elysia corresponds to roughly π days on Earth — 3.14 to one. I chose π deliberately: it’s irrational, it neve…

New Site, New World, New Stories

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Signal Zero – Audio Story

The first story in the An Author’s Voice narrated series is Signal Zero — the beginning of the Integration Era, and a good place to start if you’ve never read it. Sergeant Voss has been guarding an archaeological dig on a frontier world for eleven weeks. His job is straightforwar…

The Quiet Apocalypse

Welcome to “An Author’s Voice” where I’ll discuss the craft behind writing and illustrate the points with my own work or discuss other well known examples. Episode Three : The Quiet Apocalypse This post accompanies Episode 3 of An Author’s Voice. If you haven’t listened yet, the …

The 14-Chapter Silence: Writing Trauma Without Putting It on the Page

Content Warning: This post discusses the craft of writing sexual assault aftermath in fiction. Here is a scene I chose not to write. It would have been the scene where everything that shapes Elara’s subsequent behavior in Technomancer actually happened — the event that explains h…

Signal Zero

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A Whole New Universe

I’m excited to announce a new series I’ve started working on called The Integration Era. This will be a Sci-Fi LitRPG series set in the far future. I’ll be posting short stories that form the background of this universe here for subscribers. Sign-up today to gain access to these …

Six Voices, Zero Tags: Why Character Voice is Constraints, Not Personality

There’s a test I run on every POV chapter in Technomancer: strip the chapter heading and ask whether the reader can still tell who’s talking. If the answer is no — if the voice could belong to any of the six point-of-view characters — the chapter isn’t ready. Not because the pros…

The Dirty Secret of First Person

Welcome to “An Author’s Voice” where I’ll discuss the craft behind writing and illustrate the points with my own work or discuss other well known examples. Episode Two : The Dirty Secret of First Person: Your Narrator Is Lying You know that feeling — three chapters into a novel, …

Both Ages at Once: Writing a Narrator Who Is Simultaneously 65 and 15

There are two ways to fail this particular craft problem, and they both destroy reader trust in different directions. Paul Taylor in Another Past is sixty-five years old — a physicist who died in a lab explosion and woke up fourteen years old in 1979. He has the full memory and e…