Stuff I'm working on

Novels

miscreation

This one's with Robert Edgar Walton (REW).

This is the first of (at least) two novels about a reimagined Frankenstein, searching for immortality, and coming up against some very familiar faces along the way. A famous vampire. A doctor who morphs into a hulking brute. A mad scientist performing strange experiments with animals on his island. A man obsessed with a portrait of himself. Even a famous scientist/inventor.

This first book covers the protagonist's birth in 1762, up to about the end of the 1800s.

We've had a lot of fun with this one.

Slated for publication through Watertower Hill Publishing, July 2026

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miscreation ii (title tba]

Also (obviously) with (REW).

We're just in the early days of bashing this one out, but we know it's basically going to cover from the end of the 1800s to present day.

Expect more famous guests, more pathos, and more surprises.

Watertower Hill Publishing gets the first look at this one.

Image by Etienne Marais from Pixabay

revelations

Another with REW.

The first of a proposed trilogy. This first book is complete, and tells a sprawling story of not just how the Horsemen came to be, but also about how they regain their humanity.

And, when God wakes up to the state of the world and orders the Apocalypse, the Four Horsemen...say no.

Slated for publication through Watertower Hill Publishing, 2027

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revelations II: Fall From Grace

With REW.

"Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can.
"No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man..."

The second book in the trilogy. This one picks up almost immediately after the events of the first book. The Horsemen...old and new...are struggling. The world is struggling with the new reality...

Then along comes a new threat, to test them all...

Watertower Hill Publishing gets the first look at this one.

Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay

revelations III: ...insert a cool title here

With REW.

It all comes down to this. All the struggles. All the changes. All the power plays. All the pain.

What will our world look like when all the powerful beings finish bending it to their will?

Watertower Hill Publishing gets the first look at this one.

Image by Enrique Meseguer from Pixabay

infestation

My next solo novel, and...finally...a standalone thing, not attached to anything else I've written.

For the longest time, I've been calling this my "possession/haunted house" novel...which is accurate to a degree. I rediscovered this novel, about halfway done, when I was doing a file clean up.

I've decided to make a few fundamental changes to it, which means...sigh...starting it all over again, right from page one.

But I'm looking forward to it. This one's gonna be nasty.

Image by Enrique Meseguer from Pixabay

short stories

the ghost cycle

A short story for an upcoming anthology.

I was asked to write a story based on a local Urban Legend, and I thought there was none better than the famous—at least in my area—legend of Ghost Road, on Scugog Island, near Port Perry, Ontario.

I first heard of the legend when I was in college, from my Photography professor, who supposedly captured a photograph of it. He tends to tell a different story.

I took all of that, and told my own story.

Slated for publication through Watertower Hill Publishing, July 2025

Image by Amy from Pixabay

haunted

Another (very long) short story for an upcoming anthology.

This time, I was asked to write a ghost story. I chose to write about an event that happened back when I was in high school. A classmate of mine was killed while riding his bicycle home by another classmate who was driving his muscle car. He crossed lanes, and drove right over the boy and his bicycle.

I gave that dead kid some revenge.

Slated for publication around September 2025

Photo by Salih X from Pexels

love sick

I don't think I can tell you anything about this story that's actually going to make it sound appealing, but dammit, I really like this story a lot.

I happened to be listening to Bob Seger, and I heard two of his songs back-to-back, which I don't ever think happened in this particular sequence for me before. First was "Night Moves" and then "Hollywood Nights" followed immediately afterward. And I thought, "huh, Hollywood Night Moves"...

And then my brain mashed those songs together, and added a supernatural element.

Just a very long short story with no home as yet. Ain't it funny how the night moves?

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - Stranger in Town album cover ("Hollywood Nights" is on this album)

Saying goodbye

A short story that is, at this point, only a few bulleted notes, and some nebulous ideas.

It's based on the events of September 11, 2001, and a weird, heartwarming episode that happened in the call centre where I worked on that day. It's going to involve death—as that horrible day demands—but I also fervently wish it will offer some hope as well.

It's also a story that's become more urgent, with me having just seen the wonderful "Come From Away" musical.

This one's just an idea that I need to get down. No market asking for it.

Image by Oliver Fuß from Pixabay

nowhere man

Another short story that is also, at this point, only a few bulleted notes on historic events, and some nebulous ideas.

In reading one of the many, many Beatles biographies I've consumed over the years, I heard an interesting fact that, weirdly, I'd never heard before. When the Beatles were about to record "Fixing a Hole" for the Sgt Pepper album, Paul brought along a guy who claimed to be Jesus...

And that was enough to get my gears turning. Weirdly, it's going to be more a John Lennon story. I'm interested in seeing if I can pull this one off.

This one's just an idea that I need to get down. No market asking for it.

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