Field notes from writing stories that make tomorrow feel a little more buildable.

This newsletter is my creative playground — a place where stories, questions, and futures take shape in public. If you’re curious how near-future novels are made and put into the world, and how today’s technologies quietly reshape what it means to be human, you’ll feel at home here.

You’ll find bonus material from the worlds of my books, short pieces of fiction, early drafts, and reflections from inside my writing and publishing process — alongside thoughts on the near future: emerging technologies, social shifts, and the ethical tensions that keep finding their way into my novels.

It’s not a publication in the traditional sense. Think of it as a writing studio with the door left open. Some posts are polished. Others are exploratory by design. All of them are part of the same ongoing conversation about stories, progress, and the choices hidden inside both.

You can expect:

  1. Behind-the-scenes reflections on the craft (and chaos) of writing — the sparks, the stumbles, and long middles.

  2. Bonus material from my books and idea-driven micro fiction born from real-world trends and plausible what-ifs.

  3. First looks and early reads of new stories before they are public.

No fixed cadence. No doom for doom’s sake. Just thoughtful fiction, curiosity, and a touch of wonder.

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Selected Posts

Letting a Book Travel

Notes on promotion, resistance, and learning to ask for help.

Read it here →

Building a Plausible Future

How research shaped Birthright — and where I had to stop.

Read it here →

On Choosing Birthright's Cover

Or: how it taught me to trust a quieter idea.

Read it here 

Including Why We Still Need Novels (Even in an AI World), The Man Who Never Climbed the Mountain, and A Story About A Forest Sound You Just Can’t Place.