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NEWS AND VIEWS - JUNE 2026 - SPFBO, Signal City Adventures, Masters of a Million Stars
NEWS AND VIEWS - MAY 2025 - Hardcore, Signalverse shorts
NEWS AND VIEWS - ARCHIVES
This is a series of prose superhero novels I've been writing since 2014. The books take place in a superhero universe, full of aliens, magic, and so on, but the stories themselves are often about the ordinary people who live in this world, or about rookie heroes trying to find their place in it. For more information on this series, check out the dedicated website at www.jackandmiraclegirl.com.
Lillandra is an epic fantasy about a hero and villain who are forced to work together after they're transported to the other side of the world during their final fateful encounter. The novel was originally serialized on Royal Road. You can learn more about it here.
Hardcore is a LitRPG set in a parallel world which has been taken over by zombies. Ordinary guy Stu is brought to this apocalyptic world against his will and finds himself forced to fight for his life against the undead hordes. Like Lillandra, this story was originally serialized on Royal Road. Read more about it here.
Playground Noir is a collection of six short mystery stories starring Pip Fencer, a fourth-grade detective, which are set in the 1980's and which are written in an amusingly hard-boiled style, reminiscent of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald. You can learn more about the book here.
This is a fantasy trilogy I started writing in 2019, which takes place in a world reminscent of late 18th century Europe, but with an alchemical twist (you might call it a gaslamp or flintlock fantasy). The first book, The Demon in the Metal, was released in March 2020; the second book, The Brassfire Fleet, was released in April 2021, and the third book, A City Burnished Silver, was released in October 2022. For more information on this series, check out this link right here.
Sam Fortune is a pulp-inspired action-adventure series, set in the 1920's. The first book, Sam Fortune and the Wisdom of the Ancients, was released in 2018; the sequel, Sam Fortune and the Hazards of the Game, was released in early 2024. For more information on the series, click here.
The Azuraan series follows the adventures of a group of orphans living in a huge, gloomy, enclosed city called Azuraan; the protagonist is Lan, a boy who seems to have lost his memories. These are whimsical, lighthearted fantasy novellas, each about 20,000-25,000 words. I originally planned to write ten of these stories, but no one really seemed all that interested in the series, and I eventually decided to set it aside. So Azuraan is currently incomplete and currently on hiatus.
