Book Launch!

Quicksilver is out today!

You can read more about it here.

I’m so excited that this story I’ve been telling myself for years is finally available for anyone in the world to read! It’s also eligible for Kindle Unlimited, so if you are a KU member, you can download it for free, which is also pretty awesome.

I would give my books away for free if I could. I don’t have any intention of making money from them, I just want people to read them. I really hope this book reaches the people who need to read it, and that cost isn’t an issue. So take a look and see if you’re interested. And if you want to read it, it doesn’t matter if you buy or share or download it for free. Welcome to my story.

My second book, and why I write

My second novel, Quicksilver, will be released in about two weeks, and it’s available for preorder on Amazon right now!

I published my first novel over two years ago. It was largely a learning experience for me, and I’ve tried to incorporate the lessons I’ve learned into Quicksilver. I’ve tried to make the world and characters believable, the pacing and plot smooth and satisfying — and of course there are strong gay characters. Actually, a world full of them.

Here’s the synopsis:

After global war left planet Gaia largely uninhabitable, the survivors built a new life underground. But the subway system they inhabit was never meant for long-term habitation — and now it’s collapsing. When metalworker Gerel Marens learns of a material strong enough to withstand the brutal conditions above ground, he sets off on a journey to find it, and hopefully start rebuilding the world.

This novel means a lot of different things to me. It is about another world, but it is also about the one we live in. It allowed me an escape from my life and also a new perspective on it. I hope it means as much to readers as it does to me. I think that’s my real goal as a writer. Not to publish or sell or any of that, but to find a way to share the things I find meaningful.

I hope you find characters and ideas to connect with in Quicksilver. I hope it means something to you.

Frozen Soundscapes

The Canadian winter has been brutal the last couple of weeks, with temperatures plummeting to -40 degrees. That’s so cold it evens out the Farenheit and Celsius scales. Numbers are insufficient to represent these temperatures. Your eyelashes and nosehairs freeze in moments. Simply put: It’s really freaking cold!

As I writer and a dreamer I spend a lot of my time viewing the world around me through the filter of my imagination. I create worlds in my mind and watch as the world in front of me transforms around my thoughts.

You know those moments when something inside you makes the outside world look different? That’s what helps me get through the cold. That and Sigur Ros. Their bizarrely beautiful otherworldly sounds inspired by the torn and jagged volcanic landscape of Iceland transform the bitter Canadian winter into a land apart from geography. Wild icy lands stretching endlessly until the horizon fold in on itself.

This transferral of the real into the imagined somehow makes the cold more bearable. It distances it, yet makes it more profound. The air becomes a haunting cold that whispers through the ghosts of explorers who met their deaths in the brutal freeze of winter.