Welcome to my fiction page. I would say that most of my fiction is part of my Starbreaker saga, but I don’t publish the other stuff here. The other material was smut written for my wife’s pleasure, and is for her eyes only (unless she tells me otherwise). If I do write other fiction, you will find it here as well.
Everything here is available under a Creative Commons license. It seems only fair that I do so, since my fiction is essentially fanfic despite not using existing characters or settings. It is instead a pastiche on and a tribute to much of the media I’ve enjoyed since I was a kid.
Much of my fiction was published by the late and mostly unlamented Curiosity Quills Press. All of the rights to my commercially-published work reverted to me in 2020. I now present my work here, on my own website.
The following are outtakes from a project I worked on in 2023: Spiral Architect.
My work is influenced by works like the following.
My fiction is most likely for fans of these creators and works as well, but these are not exhaustive lists and I know better than to insist that I am the ultimate authority on my inspirations and influences.
I have an ‘about’ page for my fiction, as well as some old blog posts about why I write. They may be of interest.
I am also willing to negotiate for commercial publishing, syndication, or adaptation. Email me for details. Serious inquiries only, please, on pain of public mockery in my blog.
Current Project
This is what I hope will be a new epistolary and hypertextual take on my Starbreaker saga, in its characters’ own words. Instead of trying to weave a narrative, I want to dump a huge pile of puzzle pieces in front of you and let you put it together.
Previous Projects
novels
After one member of his old band is murdered and the police try to frame another member, Morgan Cooper sets out to find answers. He gets them, good and hard, but they only raise darker questions.
After a petty dictator says the quiet part out loud, Morgan Cooper must prove that he isn’t the Phoenix Society’s assassin. The hard part is that he’s guilty as sin.
All Naomi Bradleigh wanted was time away from her day job as an Adversary. What she got was a post-breakup working vacation from Hell. Curiosity might just kill the cat this time, but Naomi’s got claws of her own.
shorter works
A series of small-town murders lead Naomi Bradleigh to a dark secret of the old world.
It’s a final ordeal for those who would serve as Adversaries.
To hunt down a predator, Morgan Cooper must become the prey.
A missing kid just before Winter Solstice: what could possibly go wrong?
If Morgan Cooper thinks your business endangers his world, your ass is on the line.
How does one live with the unforgivable?
screenplays
Morgan Cooper is apparently dead, leaving Naomi Bradleigh and his other friends to carry on the struggle without him...
Restored into a new body from a partial backup, Morgan Cooper has some serious catching up to do.
An unfinished Starbreaker screenplay: a duel between Morgan Cooper and a former friend and rival may have set the stage for worse to come.
unfinished/abandoned work
An unfinished Starbreaker screenplay: a duel between Morgan Cooper and a former friend and rival may have set the stage for worse to come.
A year after the breakup of Crowley’s Thoth, its members meet on the night of the Winter Solstice to figure out how it all went wrong, only to learn that the truth sets no one free.
Morgan Cooper knows that Isaac Magnin is behind the trafficking of devil-killer rifles and the attempted coup d’état in Boston, but he can’t prove it. He must therefore pin upon the smoothest criminal he’s ever faced a charge that he can prove. Wage theft and the possible disappearance of a scientist in Magnin’s employ will do nicely.
This is an attempt at a Starbreaker novel from a different angle, explicitly making its villain Isaac Magnin the narrator. Readers familiar with my previous work will eventually find elements from those stories in this one. Old characters may act in new ways and face events previously unwritten.
When attempts by a biotech startup to claim artificial humanoids as corporate property draw the Phoenix Society’s attention, they put Morgan Cooper on the case even though he’s supposed to be on vacation. That alone would make it personal, but Morgan himself is a potential target. When the law is no shield, only the sword remains.
outtakes
This is a partial synopsis, and I reserve the right to deviate from it as I write the story.
This was the original outline for the first chapter of Spiral Architect. I might reuse it for something else.
This was the original draft for the first chapter of Spiral Architect. I might reuse it for something else. It involves Morgan Cooper busting a techbro after one of his captive hackers dies on the job. Things get weird. There’s an angel named Clarence involved, and it’s not a particularly wonderful life for anybody.
in which Morgan Cooper is late for a band rehearsal because his day job won’t let him go…
in which Morgan Cooper gets yet another choice mission…
in which Morgan Cooper begins to understand the stakes involved…
in which Morgan Cooper finds an unexpected sense of kinship…
in which Morgan Cooper agrees to help a friend in need…
Influences
books
music
movies
video games
television
comics
manga and anime
Further Information
an explanation of the origins of my science fantasy saga
Inspired by a Gemini post by Case Duckworth, I explain that my writing had become a response to a youthful existential crisis.
Commercial Publishing