Modern YA Is Failing Teenagers—I’m Stealing it Back
I queried *Doors to the Stars* to over two dozen agents. Zero full manuscript requests. My 11-year-old daughter stayed up all night devouring it. My 19-year-old son texted me at 2 AM about plot twists. But publishing professionals? Not interested. The book features a 16-year-old scavenger who discov
Wanted: Advance Readers for Doors to the Stars
The artifact is changing her. Everyone who wants it wants to own 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
Wulan scavenges radiation-poisoned ruins on Miller’s World, trying to keep a handful of kids alive in a galaxy fractured by a war three centuries past. Then she finds something the Ascendancy has been hunting for decades: a Forger disk, an ancient alien key that can reactivate the gates connecting t
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
Dark Dominion: The Anointed Path
You were six years old when they took you. Cursed Anathema marked for death—until the Church saw potential. They implanted you with AI, transformed your body with nanotech, and trained you to become an Immortal: elite assassin, soldier, strategic weapon of a theocratic empire spanning 10,000 worlds.
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 week after finishing Born in Battle, reader Joanne Budzien still wakes up in the middle of the night thinking about it—and she’s read War and Peace, Blood Meridian, and Crime and Punishment this year. This is
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
Doomsday Recon: Guest Review
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
