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Banner Credit: Cover for The Shepherd by Suzie O’Connell
Current Project
Vorcalix
Word Count (14 December 2025): 31,131
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.
No Good Deed…
"Goes unpunished," right? That is how the old saying goes. I suppose it's true enough. The other evening, I was coming home from... well... I can't remember where now. It's been a week-ish? Maybe? Anywho... I popped around a curve (because straight roads in West...
24 June 2023 – General Update
Hello, there, I hope the days have been treating you well. I was chatting with a cousin for a few minutes earlier this evening, and one of the threads in the conversation reminded me it had been a while since I'd posted an update. That particular thread in the...
Back on Patreon
Hello! I hope the days have been treating you and yours well. It's been a little bit of a busy weekend for me. If you want the TL/DR... I'm back on Patreon with a new model and over 300,000 words of new fiction (including the complete, unedited text of The Fall of...
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...
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