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Life, the world and the neighborhood as seen from the sage and sensible perspective of 80 yr/old Gordon and his friends.
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Life, the world and the neighborhood as seen from the sage and sensible perspective of 80 yr/old Gordon and his friends. Literary fiction novella (63pgs)
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Life, the world and the neighborhood as seen from the sage and sensible perspective of 80 yr/old Gordon and his friends. Literary fiction novella (115 LPE pages)
Claire and Amelia wake from cryo aboard a small escape shuttle, find themselves adrift eighty years in deep space. This is the story of their journey home. This volume contains…
Flash fiction, short stories and novellas, many of them adapted directly from short scripts, webseries scripts and pilot episode screenplays.Under an Alien Skyflash fiction adapted from short script…
A general store, old and all worn out, sits alone on a long-forgotten highway. A wooden porch runs the width of the weathered storefront.
On the porch sits the Storekeeper…
A 45 page guidebook… The purpose of this guide is to outline the steps you can take to self-publish your work. There are any number of paths to getting your…
Lieutenant Connelly is one of six Monitors sent 100,000 years into the past to study the tribes of two recently discovered humanoid species. Each Monitor lives alone in isolated outposts…
Sutherland House Episode One…
Sutherland House Matthew and Jennifer Sutherland, father and daughter, wage a secret war against a hidden society of immortals with extraordinary abilities, a society that Sutherland…
An old, weathered general store sits alone on a long-forgotten highway. Strangers gather, arriving from very different pasts, all to be welcomed by the Storekeeper. An ethereal one hour tale……
Thirteen year old Jack and his sister Amanda go in search of a mythical cavern their grandmother went looking for fifty years earlier… when her brother Bill was lost, never…
Movie Novella Series Collection Two-hour books adapted directly from screenplays. The five novellas included in At Variance are based on screenplays written over several years. Each has previously been published…
The sky darkened and the bizarre world of the forest floor turned incredibly black. There was an explosive splash of color and the hollow boom denoting another arrival.
Jim is a passenger in a small shuttle that crashes on a hostile planet. Crawling out of the burning wreckage, he finds himself completely alone. To survive, to seek out…
On October 12, 2007, a young soldier was injured in Afghanistan. For the next two years, as he was moved from Bagram to Germany to Walter Reed to Palo Alto…
The Caravan is just one more tribe traveling a post-apocalyptic landscape, foraging through the dead cities of the past. The tribe is friendly and well-adapted to the nomadic life. But…
A team of scientists travels the eighty floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger, striving to reach the top floor and…
December 1960. Thirteen year old Jenny Harper is exploring the caves with her brother Bill and their best friend Mike. They see a strange shimmering light up ahead. Bill rushes…
Present day… A man returns to a long-abandoned neighborhood. Doors stand ajar, shutters hang open, lawns and landscaping are unkempt. The man sits on the curb and opens a leather-bound…
A cluster of old buildings sits isolated on a quiet, desolate plain. Overhead, the sky is a smear of reds and purples, a shell enclosing the world. Here, strangers who…
Six short stories from the past…
I don’t get to write short stories much anymore, but I love writing them. Short stories was where I started, back when I was…
For the Shylmahn, it was a wonderful adventure
This is not ‘slam, bam, welcome to earth’ stuff. There will be no fairy dust sprinkled into the atmosphere to miraculously kill…
The invasion had ended long ago. The remnants of humanity survived as best they could on reservations or in tiny communities out of sight of the masters of the planet…
Novella adaptation, screenplay placed Finalist in a recent screenwriting competition.
Lieutenant Connelly is one of six Monitors sent 100,000 years into the past to study the tribes of two recently…
A family of wizards explores a hidden world that was taken out of the physical realm by a six year old boy with extraordinary powers, and find the boy and…
book three of the Serpent’s Keep Trilogy The Outland was pulled apart millennia ago, six disparate landscapes sent to six isolated realms of the universe… The Outland is whole once…
I bequeath to my nephew all that I own, all that I dream, and all that I am, in the hope that my life’s quest will become his quest. Traveling…
A tenuous truce between Shylmahn and Human had kept the peace for more than five years, but there was never a doubt as to who were the masters of the…
Large Print EditionDeep within the subconscious mind of The Writer dwells the Storekeeper…
An old, weathered general store sits alone on a long-forgotten highway…
Strangers gather, all to be welcomed…
Planet of Stones Connelly is sent 100,000 years into the past to study the tribes of two recently discovered humanoid species.
The Storekeeper An old, weathered general store sits alone…
A soldier returns home to the damp, gray streets of Willow City to search for his missing brother. Willow City, one of the eight authoritarian city-states of the Federation. Willow…
John Smith is the first person ever sent downstairs due to a mix-up in the paperwork. While this is sorted out, he is assigned to work at Hades’ local television…
The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning Serpent’s Keep. Book two of the trilogy.
fantasy / dark satire John Smith is the first person ever sent downstairs due to a mix-up in the paperwork. While this is sorted out, he is assigned to work…
Scientists and soldiers travel the eighty floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger, striving to reach the top floor and the…
Brings gritty realism to the nightmare of an overwhelming invasion of Earth. Intelligent, epic science fiction.
Book 2 in the Shylmahn Trilogy
Book 3 in the Shylmahn Trilogy
Connelly is sent 100,000 yrs into the past to study the tribes of two recently discovered humanoid species. 2 yrs in, his mission is not what he thought it was…
Claire and Amelia wake from cryo aboard a small shuttle, find themselves adrift 80yrs in deep space. This is the story of their journey home.
