I keep getting notifications that people are still hitting this site. I’m sorry for never updating it, but I’m busy writing books (yay!), raising children, slowly renovating a house, etc. Some day soon I’m going to launch a completely new site. Probably. Who knows, it might even happen now that I am finally treating my ADHD.

Projects I think you’ll be interested in:

1) Broken Binding Revised Republication of the Age of Ire series:

The Broken Binding is a killer UK special edition publisher who recently started their own full publishing operation. They have already published great authors like Ryan Cahill, Brandon Sanderson, Jesse Aragon, with many more acquisitions announced. And I’m one of them!

Their excellent Publishing Director, Marcus Gipps (formerly at Gollancz), handed me a fantastic edit on Rise of the Mages, which will be retitled “Ire” for this revised republication. I so appreciate all of you who have read and loved Rise of the Mages; this revised version is significantly better despite relatively modest changes. It’s worth mentioning that RISE was the first fiction I had ever written. I have grown considerably as a writer since then, thank goodness.

The Broken Binding will also be doing new cover artwork, special editions, etc. Most of this will be for the UK and Commonwealth markets, but special editions will likely be distributed to the US in some quantity. This is all extremely exciting! The Broken Binding team is truly top-notch. Everything they produce is so, so good. I’m incredibly grateful for this rebirth of the Age of Ire saga.

Book 1, IRE, will re-launch in January 2027. Book 2, The Fate of Silent Gods, should be re-released around late 2027, which likely puts Book 3 from both Tor and The Broken Binding in 2028 sometime. It will be better for the wait, I promise.

2) American Prophet: A Historical Fiction Novel

This one is going to be somewhat controversial with some of you from my Mormon childhood, despite my having been very openly ex-Mormon for over a decade. My journey from hardcore believer to informed human was defined by a LOT of research on the actual history of the Mormon church. History that few members are aware of, and that in many cases contradicts the official church narrative. Anyone who has trod this path can tell you that there are an insane number of WHAT THE FUCK moments involved. There are several great nonfiction treatments of the real story, and even more treatises on the historical, societal, and religious context of the origins of mormonism. I highly recommend No Man Knows My History by Fawn Brodie, American Zion by Benjamin Park, and Early Mormonism and the Magic Worldview by D. Michael Quinn. Or even Rough Stone Rolling by Bushman for current Mormons who can’t handle anything but work by active, believing mormons. Lucy Mack Smith’s 1844/45 History via the Joseph Smith Papers website is also educational.

But one thing I felt was missing from all of this was the human context, specifically as is uniquely possible to convey via historical fiction. I LOVE literary historical fiction and this story was my first major attempt at contributing meaningfully to the extant body of work. Researching and writing this took me years, and is one reason that the Age of Ire Book 3 won’t be out until 2028.

I’m incredibly proud of this book. It might be the most consequential work of my entire life. It has been subbed to some great publishers, and has yet to go out to a larger group of publishers/editors that I think are likely the best fit. News to come soon, I hope.

You can read the first 20% of the book and sign up for updates here: www.americanprophetbook.com

3) GODS THAT PLAGUE US

Continuing the historical fiction theme, but with a speculative horror twist!

Like many white Americans, with little culture of our own that hasn’t been recently usurped by putrid maggots, I have long been interested in my ancestral heritage. Specifically, that of my norse lineages, which comprise a significant portion of my genetic pool.

The stories known as the “Vinland Sagas” contain the non-contemporaneous (by 200-250 years) fables of Leif Erikson and others voyaging to North America. That’s like someone today writing down the “history” of the founding of the United States circa 1776 based on nothing but fables passed down from generation to generation. You can understand, then, why for a very long time historians assumed that these were works of fiction.

Further, these oral traditions were scribed by anonymous Christian scribes who obviously had an agenda of their own, christianity being the cultural scourge that it is. In particular, these two sagas disagree significantly regarding the nature of one Freydis Eriksdottir, sister of Leif Erikson, who held to Norse paganism as Erik the Red himself did. This despite Leif’s conversion to Christianity, which was likely for political reasons related to his relationship with the King of Norway as chief of Greenland. In one saga, Freydis is portrayed as a murderous villain who betrays and slaughters a company of christian traders, Helgi and Finnbogi, who sailed with them on their particular voyage. In another, she is described as a fierce warrior who defends her party from the skraeling (Native Americans) who attack them. There are also various mentions of strange mythological creatures, etc.

Of course, what makes this all very interesting is the 1960 discovery of a Norse settlement in Newfoundland. Turns out there were real Norse voyages to North America. There’s also supposedly DNA evidence that a female Native American or her progeny by a norseman made it back to the European settlements on Greenland. But who knows what the real story may have been?

I took this opportunity to tell an imagined, haunting story of Freydis Eriksdottir with the most accurate historic trappings possible. The (tentative) pitch for GODS THAT PLAGUE US: