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.
Wanted: Advance Readers for Doors to the Stars
The artifact is changing her. Sixteen-year-old Wulan was dying on a scavenged world until she found an ancient Forger relic humming with alien intelligence. Now the regime hunts her, revolutionaries need her as a weapon, and a smuggler crew just saved her life.
Doors to the Stars: She Who Dares, Wins
Doors to the Stars is a YA Space Opera about choosing what you’ll lose to save worlds that never gave a damn about you. For readers who loved Ship Breaker’s survival grit with Becky Chambers’ found-family heart, and protagonists who break—but keep going anyway.
When Motherhood Destroys Everything You Are
Every mother knows the moment she looks in the mirror and sees a stranger. The woman she was is gone. The woman she’s becoming hasn’t formed yet. In my novel *Immortal*, I explore that identity destruction at impossible scale—a warrior with amnesia discovers she’s pregnant with a genetically impossi
Psionic Talents: Advanced Theory and Classification
You’re fourteen years old. You’ve survived eight years of training since they extracted you from your community at age six. Now you’re ready for advanced coursework: understanding the four-class system of psionic abilities that governs tactical deployment across the Dominion. From basic pyrokinesis
War Machines of the Dominion
Fifteen feet of digitigrade war machine stalked through the serf district, predator stance designed to trigger evolutionary terror. Then a matte-gray humanoid smashed through the warehouse wall. Welcome to mechanized warfare in the Dark Dominion, where three philosophies of violence compete for the
Guest Review: Born in Battle
“This is one of the top 5 books I’ve read this year. For perspective, this was book 113.” A reader who’s tackled War and Peace, Blood Meridian, and Crime and Punishment says Born in Battle is the one keeping her up at night—darker than all of them, and she couldn’t stop caring.
A True and Faithful Account of the Religious Divisions Within the Realm of Karnland
In a realm protected by the Sacred Shroud of the Flayed God, three religious factions wage theological war. Master Edmund Whitmore chronicles the bitter schism tearing his kingdom apart in my novel The Stygian Blades: the ancient Panverics who bow to a foreign Patriarch, the Crown-loyal Reformists w
Guest Review: Doomsday Recon
Goodreads review by Joanne Budzien. Doomsday Recon arrived on Friday and I was finished by Saturday evening. I changed some of my Saturday plans so I could spend the afternoon reading this book. However, the first time I read Shōgun, I missed sleep and had to set timers to remember to eat and take b
