The Morning After
Most space opera ends when the tyrant falls. Maybe there’s a coronation, definitely a kiss. But the real question isn’t whether you can overthrow a three-thousand-year theocracy. It’s what seventy trillion people with competing agendas do the morning after the god-emperor falls.
The Anointed Path
Immortals are taken as children, remade, and deployed as weapons. This is what that process sounds like from the inside—not from the perspective of the institution, but from the voice that lives in every Immortal’s nervous system. The voice that raises them. The voice they trust most in the world.
Mešvi 2.3 Conlang Update
The Mešvi language has expanded with Version 2.3, adding 157 new words and establishing a distinction between sacred and everyday speech. It now features 423 vocabulary entries and 53 phrases, enhancing theological terminology and cultural expressions. These developments support the upcoming seriali
Mešvi 2.2 Conlang Update Notes
Mešvi 2.2 formalizes three mechanics revealed by stress-testing: (1) Geminates—when compounding creates identical consonants at morpheme boundaries, both are retained and pronounced as lengthened consonants (bîn + nêf → bînnêf, "BEEN-nayf"); (2) Four-morpheme limit—standalone compounds max out at fo
Introducing Mešvi 2.1: Language as Culture in Dark Dominion
The first iteration of Mešvi was Persian with centuries of simulated linguistic drift. But as I developed the Mešvi people—their matriarchal society, prophetic traditions, and goddess worship—I realized the language needed to be rebuilt from scratch. A language shapes and reflects the culture that s
Designing a Conlang Backwards
I invented an alien accent by ear, then went back and reverse-engineered the grammar that would naturally produce it. The end result? A new conlang for Doors to the Stars.
Love in the Wasteland: Mikhael and the Art of Gentle Defiance
Mikhael was engineered to be the Dominion’s perfect weapon—a super-soldier who can teleport through combat and heal from anything. When they sent him to kill a rogue operative, he made a different choice: he saved her instead. The woman is Sarai, pregnant with the god-emperor’s child and marked for
The Dark Dominion Sequence
Sarai’s pregnancy is biologically impossible—and proof a god-emperor’s three-thousand-year tyranny is built on a lie. Every faction is hunting her for what she carries. Only one person wants her for who she is—and he was sent to kill her.
Guest Review: Death or Glory
Goodreads reviewer Joanne Budzien calls Death or Glory one of her top 10 books of 2025—so compelling she reread it within a month, finishing both times in under 24 hours. This middle book in my Doomsday Recon trilogy masterfully blends military action, fantasy, and literary fiction without typical s
Doors to the Stars Sample Chapter
Sixteen-year-old Wulan has weeks to live. Radiation poisoning from her last salvage run is killing her, and the only thing that might save her is selling the ancient Forger disk she found in the wreck—alien biotech that hums with her dead mother’s lullaby.
