When Your MacGuffin Has Opinions
What happens when the MacGuffin wants something? Doors to the Stars hits the commercial three-act marks to within a point, but underneath it's a picaresque kishōtenketsu whose real antagonist is the object everyone's chasing.
New Release: Doors to the Stars
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’s found-family heart and Patrick Ness’s protagonists who break—but keep going anyway.
Free Audiobook Release
The audiobook of my novella Junk Rat is now available free to new subscribers.
New Release: Junk Rat
On Miller’s World, junk rats don't grow old. They freeze, starve, or bleed out in gutters—and
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.
Doors to the Stars: Chapter One
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.
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’s found-family heart and Patrick Ness’s protagonists who break—but keep going anyway.
