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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.
24 August 2025
6:18pm So, there's a slight chance this will become one of my longer posts. You have been warned. 😁 I've been working on a project for about a week now that—on the whole—I'm rather excited about. I announced this project to my newsletter subscribers yesterday, so...
23 August 2025
1:42pm The website work continues. It's going well, but it's a long slog. But that's not really what I want to discuss today. Email marketing for indie authors is gold. If you're an indie author and can cultivate a decent list of loyal subscribers, with most of them...
21 August 2025
2:00am Four days ago (plus change), I wrote a post about how I was re-considering my relationship with Microsoft Office. Matter of fact, it was the immediately previous post. When I wrote that post, I already had LibreOffice installed... and had since I originally set...
16 August 2025
8:06pm A few months ago, I went on a week-long excursion into the question of leaving both the Microsoft and Apple ecosystems behind. I concluded that the Apple ecosystem was too useful and integrated into my life to walk away from and still use a MacBook as my...
9 August 2025
12:49pm As of this writing, Torvalin is 39% complete, based on my target word count for novels. That is a damn-good feeling. I think I've rambled earlier this week about changing my focus from word count to creating the daily habit. After all, a consistent, daily...
6 August 2025
11:17am In a previous post, I mentioned my perennial Quixotic crusade to develop a consistent, daily writing habit. I will confess that my mindset on this is probably rooted in a fallacy. Most of the Pulp-era writers routinely turned out high word counts day in and...
27 July 2025
8:03am Continuing Education. Aside from my Quixotic crusade to establish a consistent, daily writing habit, the other bane of my existence is continuing education. For anyone who might not have encountered this precise term, continuing education means staying...
25 July 2025
10:49pm This should be one of my shorter posts. I'm dragging a little bit at the moment, because today's the second day of fixing my sleep schedule so that I'm on days and evenings, as opposed to afternoons and nights. I've made some changed to the homepage on the...
26 June 2025
3:35pm I'm sitting in my favorite restaurant, having just finished an excellent mid-day meal. I find I sometimes think better when I'm not home, and it's easier to come up with lists of what needs done or any number of other things. I just sent out a newsletter in...
7 June 2025, Part II
11:59pm Okay, okay... it's technically 12:03am on June 8th, but I'm adding an addendum to the June 7th post, so I'm going to fudge it a little bit. In my previous post, I only included up through yesterday (June 6th) of my Writing Log, mainly because I hadn't written...
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