Works in Progress
Books I am currently writing and/or actively sending queries for
Dead Waters
The crew of a Nantucket whaling vessel turned merchants, find themselves stranded in becalmed waters after a vicious attack from an unseen enemy. With food stores emptied, the young Captain Owen orders the 8 survivors to draw lots. An order that causes 14 year old Carter to execute his surrogate father and only friend. But these Dead Waters hide something far worse. An ancient book corrupts the Captain’s thoughts. A cosmic entity strikes up a deal with the traumatized Cabin Boy. A Place stirs beneath them on the ocean floor, awaiting a cosmic even that can only be described as Judgement Day. A coming-of-age story wrapped in cosmic horror that gleefully watches the dissolution of masculinity, power and hope.
Current Draft: Beta
Current Page Count: 235
Current Word Count: ~94,000
Started Writing: 09/25/2023
Darker Things
Ned finds himself back in Nebraska after the death of his grandfather where he inherits the old family farm. While determining what to do with it, he opts to live in the home. An attempt to be closer to his mother. But the Bennet curse may be more real than Ned realizes. Struggling with the loss of his wife and daughter, he starts to see their ghosts. Unable to determine reality from his own thoughts, he slowly falls into a spiral of madness only to learn the stories of monsters in his Grandfather’s basement, may be more true than even the Bennet Curse.
Current Draft: 1st Rewrite
Current Page Count: 11
Current Word Count: 3986
Started Writing: 02/12/2015
The Creature on Ominous Rock
Harry got out. He will sing that until the cows come home. Despite his upbringing, despite his maimed hand and invalid status, he. Got. Out. Now he finds himself in the unincorporated company town of Raven’s Cove, manning a lighthouse alone. A lighthouse with a dark past. A job known for its ridiculous suicide rate…
Current Draft: 1st
Current Page Count: 11
Current Word Count: 5114
Started Writing: 09/25/2023
Derelict
The world we knew is gone. In the early 2000’s an event known as The Collapse dissolved civilization as we know it. For nearly a century Earth lived in pure chaos, until The Company crossed the churning, unpredictable seas. Civilization was reestablished and through their guidance, humanity reclaimed their place in the starfield.
Jason Graves is a fantastic doctor. The best there is. So good that his discovery of an illness known as Delirium caused by The Company’s Cryo-tech effectively eliminated his own job. So, with the help of his wife, Graves purchases his own ship.
But that was years ago. Now Jason finds himself in her employment, struggling to keep and maintain his stake in their operations. A messy divorce complicates his feelings for both her and the crewmate she was sleeping with behind his back. With his finances, career and life at stake, he and Lara accept a job from The Company. Retrieval of a pre-collapse vessel capable of faster-than-light travel.
But when they go to collect, they quickly learn how little they understand and that they were never alone in the vast void.
Current Draft: 1st Rewrite
Current Page Count: 10
Current Word Count: 3961
Started Writing: 03/11/2011