July did not mess around, and August is about to get hectic, but I'm still afloat. I feel like I really worked on making decent use of my time this month. Anyway, here's what's up:
Dungeons & Dragons: Bard Campaign - Session #7 fully planned. No new update. We haven’t played session 7 yet. In short, no update.
D&D Single Adventure - No progress, which hurts, but I'm prepping for my first pro DMing session. I think once I start seeing how modules really work, I'll be better set up to really write my own.
Criminal from Birth sequel - This was where most of my effort went. I got a good deal of time spent on this, all things considered. Second Draft Status: 35 of 37 chapters edited. (5 since last update.) Only two left! Then it's off to my editor. Third draft will be once they're done with it.
LitRPG book (working title Subscription: Life) - Bare bones outline is pretty well done, but there will be a good bit more detail to add as I start developing characters. The prologue is actually already a paragraph long, so there are words to this project. The meat of the story is going to need to be more outlined. The prologue is solid enough for me to have started writing, so I'm thrilled!
New Short Story (My Stories) - I got some work done on it this month! Really trying to finish this one so I can share it, but I didn't quite make it this month.

I need to make some short writing exercises happen. It's been a bit.

I probably should've done this last week, but it's fine. Final post of my outlining process series will be next week. For now, here's how progress went in June 2025.

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Dungeons & Dragons campaign 1: Bard Campaign - Session #7 fully planned. No new update. We haven’t played session 7 yet.

D&D campaign 2: Tootskies Campaign - Session 2 is in prep. Sadly, this campaign has fallen prey to the worst big bad evil guy: scheduling. My new work schedule has ruled out Wednesday play, and the party couldn’t manage to find another day we’d all be able to make work once we got through summer, so we had to call it. It sucks, but the planning I did gave me some good fodder for future individual adventures to write.

D&D Single Adventure - No progress. June brought some serious changes, and I haven’t managed to find time to work on it yet. I’m trying.

Criminal from Birth sequel - I didn’t get as much work done as I wanted, but what work I’ve done has been good. I’m managing to get about an hour most mornings to work on it, so progress is steady but slower. Second Draft Status: 30 of 37 chapters edited. (4 since last update.) I’d hoped to be done by end of July, but might be more like end of August, which is fine, as long as I keep the quality up!

LitRPG book (working title Subscription: Life) - I’ve gotten the basic bones of an outline worked up, and I’m really excited to get more into developing the idea. Really hoping this project will be as much fun as I anticipate. 

New Short Story (My Stories) - No progress this month. Tried picking at it at the tail end of June, actually, but couldn’t get my brain to it so I worked on Criminal’s sequel some instead. 

It's been a long time. Five and a half years since my last post here. The world has changed dramatically since I updated this website, and along with it, I have changed drastically. So much for the better.

Confession
Since the last of the Deadly Studies books released in late 2019, and the second collection in early 2020, I have been extremely burned out on a creative front. While I felt accomplished and continue to hold a lot of price in the written works I produced in the 2010s, looking back on that decade has been very bittersweet to me. For more than a couple years since then, I've been overcome with a sense of loss and grief for what I couldn't manage to do anymore. Putting down words grew hard, then impossible. 

Simply put, I burned myself out pretty hard on putting out the Deadly Studies. What was originally planned as a 7-novella plot turned into 10, and my desire to complete the series with books releasing every 6 months until it was finished was a tall order. While I did meet that criteria, and I remain pleased with the work I put out, it was a massive bite to chew, and it took a long time to digest afterwards.

So I honestly spent most of 2022 and 2022 finally forgiving myself. I made peace with the fact that the words might not ever return. 

Imagine my surprise when they came back.

The Future
I turned 40 last summer. To my surprise, I don't feel that age. Months of introspection, more than a little pain, and more sunshine than I deserve had put me in the mindset to make a new Act 3 for my life. And writing is coming back into it. 

I couldn't be more pleased by that. Despite the current horrific political climate we find ourselves in, the future is so bright that I can't look at it head on. And if even in some small way, I can contribute to that light, then goddammit, I am more than willing to throw my candle into the blaze of humanity.

However, I do know my own tendency to bite off more than I can chew (see that confession) so I'm taking things slow. For now, I hope to add more to this website. My initial plan is weekly updates. Might be a simple observation, might be a bit of prose. Probably, things will include a monthly project update. Because I am writing again. Expect to see projects come onto and fall off the radar as they're explored and cast aside as needed.

Expect to see more than just novels. I'm trying to refine and upgrade my skills as a Game/Dungeon Master in ttrpgs, particularly Dungeons & Dragons. Some of my writing work these days is in homebrewing campaigns... but I have mid-to-long-term hopes of eventually developing and releasing my own one-off adventure content. 

In short, I'm trying to stop letting life get in the way of my truest passion: creating. Thanks for coming along for the ride and for being here now that I'm back!

I don't update nearly as often as I should, but I hope to remedy that going forward. I'm working on figuring out a way to get project progress bars on the side of my homepage, but for now, here's what's been going on lately:

DEADLY STUDIES SERIES
Lesson 4, Assassin's Lover, is currently available for preorder and will be released officially on September 4, 2017.
​Lesson 5 is currently at the editor awaiting notes. Once that's done and back in my hands, I'll make changes. It should release in January 2018
Lesson 6 is undergoing first draft writing. One chapter written so far.

So far, the Deadly Studies series have been released only in ebook form. However, once Lesson 5 is released next year, I plan to release a paper version of Lessons 1-5, so keep your eyes out for that!

STARSIGNS
I am working on an audio version! No ETA as of now.

CRIMINAL FROM BIRTH
Criminal is a fantasy courtroom drama, a project I wrote back in 2010 and finally found a publisher for. Stitched Smile Publications will be releasing it within the next year. More info as it comes.
Also, I am currently working on a sequel for it. I'm one chapter in.

TEGG
I am currently working on several projects for The Ed Greenwood Group that I cannot talk about yet.

COLD READS LIVE
I will be submitting a short story to Cold Reads LIVE, a youtube live show that I've had the honor to be a voice actor on several times. More info as it arises.

VAMPIRE NEEDED
An audio dramedy I co-wrote with the astounding Michael Corley is currently in its recording phase!

OTHER
I finished the outline of a sci-fi horror novel. No ETA on when I'll begin writing it, but it's waiting for me.
I'll be on the ARCHIVOS Brainstorms sometime soon to workshop another novel (Faithful) I've been wanting to write for a few years.