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Banner Credit: Cover for The Shepherd by Suzie O’Connell
Current Project
Vorcalix
Word Count (4 November 2025): 1,736
They set out to kidnap a rich kid. They grabbed a princess instead.
Korvira, Crown Princess of Vorcalix, was enjoying a rare day among her people—until a moment of chaos ended in her disappearance. The crew meant to snatch a textile heir. But when one of them recognized Korvira, everything changed… and now they’re in way over their heads.
Because someone will come for her. And they should pray it isn’t him.
When word of the abduction arrives, there’s only one team the King trusts with his daughter’s life: Shepherd Security Services. Led by Alex Hawke, the crew must unravel the truth, outpace planetary politics, and find Korvira before the galaxy’s most dangerous rescue mission becomes a funeral.
Meanwhile, the long-awaited launch of the Magellan begins a search for something lost to a coffin ship’s fried datanet: Earth.
A kidnapped princess. A desperate mission. And a galaxy about to remember why you never cross the Shepherd.
Vorcalix delivers high-stakes action, layered intrigue, and the search for a former home.
3 May 2023 – Random Thoughts
My mind has been a bit splintered since I woke up today. that doesn't happen often, but when it does, my thoughts are even worse than a super-bouncy ball inside a Plinko machine than they usually are. It has the potential to make writing rather challenging, which is...
18 April 2023 — Random Thoughts
Hello, and good day. It's technically still 'night' as I write this. We won't have sunrise here for another three hours and change (as of when I'm typing this at around 3:30am). But using "good night" as a greeting has always seemed rather odd to me. We all have our...
2023-03-27 — The Fall of Skullkeep
I think the news I'm sharing tonight (or maybe this morning) is probably the best news I've had to share in a quite a while. The first draft of The Fall of Skullkeep is finished. Yep... you read that right, folks. At 11:33pm on 27 March 2023, I finished the...
First Thoughts on Qubes
Holy shit... this is gonna require a mindset shift. I received the laptop I purchased for Qubes... a day early, I wanna say. That was rather nice. It's a Lenovo Thinkpad P50. I don't remember how much RAM it came with, but it had a 512GB NVMe M.2 SSD and Windows 10....
What Privacy Has Become
I came across something the other day (maybe other week, by now?) that has had me wrestling with my reaction to it ever since. To be quite honest, I'm not even sure how I came across it at this point. What I found was a couple articles by a computer & network...
2023 — The New Year
Hello, and welcome to 2023! Yes... I will freely admit that I'm a few days behind on that, but these things happen from time to time. They especially happen when you have the first week of a new year like mine, but that's a story I shall not revisit here. Suffice it...
29 November 2022 — Q4 Challenge: Day 45
Hello, and good evening. I hope the days have been treating you well. And yes... I am horribly behind on my updates again, but unlike every other batch of updates, I wanted to write today's post first. I have already created the others as drafts, and I'll circle back...
25 – 28 November 2022 — Q4 Challenge: Days 41 – 44
To make a long story short, I didn't write anything these four days. I spent Friday (the 25th) and Saturday (the 26th) getting ready for the drive to Ohio to attend my aunt's visitation and funeral. She was one of Dad's sisters and one of my favorite aunts. I have...
24 November 2022 — Q4 Challenge: Day 40
Novemebr 24th was Thanksgiving in the United States. We have a huge amount of traditions and "history" and truth that isn't always related to "history" (even by implication) surrounding that holiday. Those who know me personally will not be surprised at all when I say...
23 November 2022 — Q4 Challenge: Day 39
I have no idea how I spent most of the day before Thanksgiving. I do know I made a small grocery run, where I bought a pack of Brown 'n Serve rolls (see the post for Thanksgiving Day). But regardless of what I did... I didn't write a single word.
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