Author of spiritual YA science-fiction novels and the occasional post about Atari games
I have been hard at work on the third novel in the Jack Dinero Chronicles. It’s going to be a holiday-themed comedy called Christmas in Creosote Canyon. It’s a little bit lighter in tone and a little bit cozier in scope than my previous novel, Coffee After Church With Cyborgs. It’s kind of a homage […]
I’m doing an amazingly bad job at promoting my novel writing. But it has been an extremely difficult year for me, not just for things going on in my personal life, but the grotesque dumpster fire we are all burning in as Americans right now. I’ve tried to get on with Book 3, but for […]
“Nonsense,” said Zat, dismissingly waving an orange tentacle in Ĉii’zz’s direction. “Humans are just stupid bk’gawk’frups. He beat the game and got the high score, so he’s the Chosen One. Congratulations, kid. You have been chosen by fate and destiny and certainly not random chance. You have been recruited by the Galaxy Wizards Organization to defend the universe from the Evil Wizards…
Going through some of the disorganized files on my Google Drive and OneDrive, in an attempt to consolidate all of my online backups onto a new service that would theoretically both work well with Linux and respect the user’s privacy, I came across this little gem from 2014, the year I first started in earnest […]
My long-awaited sequel novel to Your New Church Family is out now! Enjoy another adventure into the rough but quirky world of Creosote Canyon as seen through the eyes of spiritually seeking 15-year-old Jack Dinero. I listened to everyone’s feedback about the first book, so this sequel has over 90% less whining, 50% less working […]
After almost a year of writing, deleting, rewriting the things I deleted, editing whatever was left, and agonizing over margins and headers and footers and PDF export settings, I am now ready to share my sequel to the world. Following straight on the heels of the end of Your New Church Family, Coffee after Church […]
I’ve always been more of a visual medium guy than a literature guy. I’m almost embarrassed to say it, but I’ve watched far more movies than I’ve read books in my life. I prefer scenes with dialogue and action over long-winded descriptions of natural settings. I find it hard to actually do something unless I […]
What must it have been to be a Christian convert in the first century? Just imagine you’re an average Greek guy living in Hellenized Asia Minor around the year 60 or so. You’ve heard all the stories about the Greek gods since youth, and you sacrifice the firstlings of your flocks at the Temple of […]
I have been going through all my old content throughout the years to find stuff to add to my portfolio of writing and I came across this little story I wrote in the dark days of 2009, when I was a night auditor at Zion Lodge in Zion National Park. I was obsessed at the […]
I know I haven't posted much in the last month. I have been working very hard on the draft of my next novel, which is tentatively titled Cyborgs In Search of a Savior. In this book I'm leaning harder into both the sci-fi aspects of Carrie Layson's cyborg identity and using it as a metaphor to describe my feelings about the quest for identity in general, especially given all of the terrible things…