From the Publisher
At seventeen, I had two choices: join a convent or the Marines. The mother superior—herself a veteran—strongly recommended the Marines. Good call, because if you've read even one page of my work, you know the quiet contemplative life isn't exactly my style.
After an injury cut my service short, I traded combat boots for college, earning degrees in English and curriculum design. But what I really wanted to do was write the kind of stories I couldn't find on bookstore shelves—fiction about ordinary people whose lives get turned upside down when they discover something impossible lurking just beneath the surface of reality.
The Mason Timeline series is my dystopian time travel saga. When humans think they can "fix" history and remake the world in their image, everything goes catastrophically wrong. Straddling the lines of historical fiction, alternate history, and dystopia, the series is three books in, with the final installment in progress.
The Siren Song trilogy is my paranormal mystery series, one that takes a fresh look at witchcraft and what happens when it's an unbalanced teen boy who gets his hands on it.
And now, The Twitter Crush (launching January 2026) and the Dead Letter series are psychological thrillers that show how happy the average person is to silence the truth if it makes them uncomfortable.
I write about rebels. People backed into corners. Characters forced to make impossible choices. The kind of protagonists who'd rather burn it all down than compromise on what matters.
Beyond fiction, I've spent years analyzing storytelling through Fictional Influence, a publication examining morality and culture through the lens of film, television, and literature. I also run The Nonsense-Free Editor, helping independent authors publish work that doesn't fit traditional publishing's preferences. This experience—reading thousands of manuscripts, studying what works and what doesn't—makes me a better storyteller.
Black Market Fiction is where all of that comes together: serial fiction for readers who want stories with teeth, along with reviews and news of what's worth reading and watching.
I live in Kansas City, drink too much coffee, and believe the best stories make you feel something real—whether that's rage, hope, fear, or the satisfaction of watching someone fight back against impossible odds.
Since you're here, you probably do too.
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