At the writing desk
Novel updates, excerpts, and the path from first draft to finished book.
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At Coney Island's Dreamland in 1904, a nurse who keeps premature babies alive in glass incubators is caught between the lion tamer she's promised to and the quiet electrician who notices everything, while the park burns its way toward the fire of 1911.
One satellite breaks apart over Asia, the debris starts taking out everything else in orbit, and the people who make it home have to learn to live, and eventually fly, without the sky they built.
Mac is a modern kid who time travels without going anywhere, and while the pirate and rockstar trips are great, the ones that turn him into a cave kid fighting dinosaurs are a lot harder to come back from.
Christmas Eve, 1999, in Ocala, Florida: a teenage pot dealer watches the shadows in his pool hall start moving on their own, and has one week to turn his crew of misfits into the only thing standing between his town and something very old waiting in the springs for midnight.
In a future where people live five hundred years and every minute is scheduled, a straight-A cadet draws the one ship nobody wants and finds it full of squatters, jazz, poetry and a captain who's quietly steering them all toward the sun.
A casualty notification officer, ninety-some doors deep into other people's grief, accepts a cup of tea from a widow who knows exactly how to take him apart.
Not started yet
In 1994 Seoul, a sixteen-year-old finds out he can hit Continue on his own life, and he spends every credit trying to talk to one girl.
Viral social media challenges keep knocking out real infrastructure in North Carolina, and the engineer who spots the pattern finds something from the future behind them.
In an endless war across a cluster of planets, everyone who dies is reborn to fight again, and one soldier is the only one who remembers.
A secret program sends teenage pilots through time to patch a broken timeline, and the one leading them is being hunted by his own future self.
An old man who can visit his own past can't stop trying to fix it, and every fix costs more than the last.
A dying uncle confesses that his time travel broke history, and his heir takes the journals and the machine back to 1997 to fix it.
Written to be performed
A stage musical about young artists and service workers whose jobs are being handed to AI, and who band together to prove the human part still matters.
A grieving father lives through his son's life in reverse, from the funeral back to the night he was born.
In Ocala, Florida, a teenage acid dealer who's obsessed with staying in control grows his business from high school friends to Orlando penthouses, and falls for the one girl who could cost him all of it.
Original books, excerpts, and notes from the process.
The work The draft Next stepsWhat my novel about a casualty notification officer and the widow who takes him apart is about, how it changed between drafts, and what's still unresolved.
Notes on the novels · Note 5 ↗A short film about a father and son, told in reverse. It opens at the son's funeral and walks back, scene by scene, to the night he came home from the hospital.
The ideas drawer · Note 9 ↗A sixteen-year-old in 1994 Seoul can hit Continue on his own life, and he spends every credit on a girl.
The ideas drawer · Note 1 ↗What Falling Stars is about, why the complete draft on the site is an early one, and what the rewrite changes.
Notes on the novels · Note 4 ↗What my Dreamland novel is about, the draft I threw out, how the current one changed, and the parts I still have to fix.
Notes on the novels · Note 3 ↗A secret program sends teenage pilots through time to patch a broken timeline, and the one leading them is being hunted by his own future self.
The ideas drawer · Note 2 ↗What my Y2K horror novel about a teenage dealer and his crew is about, where it came from, how it changed between drafts, and what still needs fixing.
Notes on the novels · Note 2 ↗A game design I've worked out on paper, where dying doesn't end the mission, it hands it to the next of your seven bodies.
The ideas drawer · Note 3 ↗What my space novel about a scheduled cadet and a ship full of squatters is about, how it changed shape three times, and what the first draft still gets wrong.
Notes on the novels · Note 1 ↗Viral social media challenges keep knocking out real infrastructure in North Carolina, and the engineer who spots the pattern finds something from the future behind them.
The ideas drawer · Note 5 ↗An old man who can visit his own past can't stop trying to fix it, and every fix costs more than the last.
The ideas drawer · Note 6 ↗In an endless war across a cluster of planets, everyone who dies is reborn to fight again, and one soldier is the only one who remembers.
The ideas drawer · Note 7 ↗
