I live with my husband of 25 years (Mark, below right) in a leafy Sacramento, California suburb, in a little yellow house with a brick fireplace and a couple pink flamingoes out front.
I’ve always occupied the space between the here and now and the what could be. Indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by my mother at the tender age of nine, I devoured her library. But as I grew up and read the golden age classics and more modern works as well, I began to wonder where all the people like me were.
After I came out at twenty three, I decided that it was time to create the kinds of stories I couldn’t find at Waldenbooks. If there weren’t many gay characters in my favorite genres, I would reimagine them myself, populating them with a diverse universe of characters. I would subvert them and remake them to my own ends. And if I was lucky enough, someone else would want to read the things I wrote.
My friends say my brain works a little differently – I sees relationships between things that others miss, and get more done in a day than most folks manage in a week. Although I was born an introvert, I learned to reach outside himself and connect with others like me.
I write stories that subvert expectations, that seek to transform traditional sci fi, fantasy, and contemporary worlds into something new and unexpected. I also run both Queer Sci Fi and QueeRomance Ink with my husband Mark, sites that bring people like us together to promote and celebrate fiction that reflects our own reality.
My writing, whether romance or genre fiction (or a little bit of both) brings a queer energy to my stories, infusing them with love, beauty and power and making them soar. I imagine a world that could be, and in the process, maybe changes the world that is, just a little.
I was recognized as one of the top new gay authors in the 2017 Rainbow Awards, and my debut novel “Skythane” received two awards and an honorable mention, and he alwo won the award for his books “Lander” and “The River City Chronicles.”
In August, 2019, I qualified to join the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America with my sale of “Across the Transom” to Galaxy’s Edge Magazine, and in March 2020 I became a full member.
To date, I have published twelve novels and more than forty stories in total.
You can find me at Goodreads here, on Amazon here, on QueeRomance Ink here, at Liminal Fiction here, and on Facebook here. Contact me by email or via Facebook messenger.
Publishing History:
- August 1988: Raising Each Other (Non Fiction contributor, Hunter House Publishing)
- August 2014: The Bear at the Bar (Novella, Dreamspinner Publications)
- November 2014: Autumn Wind (Short Story, Poplorish Journal)
- November 2014: A New Year (Short Story, Candle in the Dark anthology, Inkstained Succubus)
- May 2015: Avalon (Short Story, Mischief Corner Books Quarterly, Mischief Corner Books)
- May 2015: Tight (Short Story, Sibling Rivalry)
- July 2015: Between the Lines (Novella, Dreamspinner Publications)
- July 2015: Homecoming (Novella, Less Than Three Press)
- August 2015: Translation (Short Story, Mischief Corner Books Quarterly, Mischief Corner Books)
- November 2015: The Autumn Lands (Novella, Travels Through the Scarlet Equinox anthology, Mischief Corner Books)
- January 2016: The Autumn Lands (Audio, Mischief Corner Books)
- March 2016: Repetition (Short Story, Mischief Corner Books Quarterly, Mischief Corner Books)
- May 2016: Through the Veil (Novella, Myths Untold: Faery anthology, Wilde City)
- June 2016: The Autumn Lands (Audiobook, Mischief Corner Books)
- June 2016: Flames (Novella, A More Perfect Union anthology, Dreamspinner Publications)
- July 2016:
- December 2016: Wonderland (Novella, This Wish Tonight anthology, Mischief Corner Books)
- February 2017: Skythane (Novel, Oberon Cycle Book 1, Dreamspinner Publications)
- June 2017: The Great North (Novella, Mischief Corner Books)
- October 2017: The Stark Divide (Novel, Ariadne Cycle Book 1, Dreamspinner Publications)
- October 2017: Revolution (Essay, The People’s Victory, Marriage Equality USA
- December 2017: I Only Want to Be With You (Short Story, Mischief Corner Books)
- January 2018: Translation (Short Story rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- February 2018: Lander (Novel, Oberon Cycle Book 2, Dreamspinner Publications)
- June 2018: The River City Chronicles (Novel, River City Book 1, Other Worlds Ink)
- July 2018: Morgan (Short Story, Other Worlds Ink)
- August 2015: Tight (Short Story rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- October 2018: The Rising Tide (Novel, Ariadne Cycle Book 2, Dreamspinner Publications)
- October 2018: Gargoyle (Short Story, Other Worlds Ink)
- November 2018: ReLife (Short Story, Other Worlds Ink)
- November 2018: Ten (Short Story, Other Worlds Ink)
- December 2018: Spells & Stardust (Collection, Other Worlds Ink)
- December 2018: Slow Thaw (Novella, Mischief Corner Books)
- January 2019: Repetition (Short Story rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- February 2019: Ithani (Novel, Oberon Cycle Book 3, Dreamspinner Publications)
- July 2019: Homecoming (Novella rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- August 2019: The Last Run (Novella rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- October 2019: The Shoreless sea (Novel, Ariadne Cycle Book 3, Dreamspinner Publications)
- March 2020: Eventide (Short Story, Galaxy’s Edge Magazine)
- April 2020: Chinatown (Short Story, Other Worlds Ink)
- May 2020: Across the Transom (Short Story, Galaxy’s Edge Magazine)
- June 2020: The River City Chronicles Dual Language Edition (Novel, Other Worlds Ink)
- June 2020: Il Fiume della Città (Novel, Italian, Other Worlds Ink)
- July 2020: The Stark Divide (Novel rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- August 2020: The Rising Tide (Novel rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- September 2020: The Shoreless Sea (Novel rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- October 2020: Skythane (Novel rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- November 2020: Lander (Novel rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- November 2020: Lamplighter (Short Story, Galaxy’s Edge)
- December 2020: Ithani (Novel rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- December 2020: Wonderland (Novella rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- January 2021: Between the Lines (Novella rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- March 2021: Ariadne Cycle (Trilogy Box Set, Other Worlds Ink)
- March 2021: Oberon Cycle (Trilogy Box Set, Other Worlds Ink)
- March 2021: The Emp Test (Short Story, Rework and Rerelease of Autumn Wind, Other Worlds Ink)
- May 2021: Dropnauts (Novel, Redemption Cycle Book 1, Other Worlds Ink)
- April 2021: Rise (Short Story, Fix the World anthology, Other Worlds Ink)
- June 2021: Flames (Novella rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- June 2021: The Last Human Heart (Short Story, Postapocalipstick anthology, Nocturnal Sirens)
- July 2021: Lamplighter (Short Story rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- September 2021: Firedrake (Short Story, Other Worlds Ink)
- October 2021: Prolepsis (Short Story, Other Worlds Ink)
- December 2021: Tangents & Tachyons (Collection, Other Worlds Ink)
- June 2022: Shit City (Short Story, Save the World anthology, Other Worlds Ink)
- December 2022: Androids & Aliens (Collection, Other Worlds Ink)
- December 2022: Las crónacas de River City (Novel, Spanish, Other Worlds Ink)
- February 2023: Skythane (Audio, Other Worlds Ink)
- March 2023: Tales From Tharassas (Collection, Tharassas Cycle Prequel, Other Worlds Ink)
- March 2023: The Dragon Eater (Novel, Tharassas Cycle Book 1, Water Dragon Publishing)
- March 2023: Dropnauts (Audio, Other Worlds Ink)
- May 2023: The Autumn Lands (Novella rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- July 2023: The Great North (Novella rerelease, Other Worlds Ink)
- September 2023: The Gauntlet Runner (Novel, Tharassas Cycle Book 2, Water Dragon Publishing)
- September 2023: ReHome Inc. (Short Story, Transform the World anthology, Other Worlds Ink)
- December 2023: Love & Limitations (Collection, Other Worlds Ink)
- February 2024: Lander (Audio, Other Worlds Ink)
- March 2024: The Hencha Queen (Novel, Tharassas Cycle Book 3, Water Dragon Publishing)
- April 2024: Suck a Little Happy Juice (NonFiction, Other Worlds Ink
- May 2024: The Last Human Heart (Short Story rerelease, Earth 2100 anthology, Other Worlds Ink)
- May 2024: Flawless (Short Story, Water Dragon Publications)
- September 2024: The Death Bringer (Novel, Tharassas Cycle Book 4, Water Dragon Publishing)