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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.
15 March 2025
9:47pm It's time for the weekly writing update. Lynxeen and The Crystal Plinth have continued to speak to me, as you'll see below. I'm making all kinds of progress on them, especially Lynxeen. I'm having all kinds of fun writing these stories, even though there is a...
14 March 2025
4:31pm Greetings and Salutations! I hope this Friday is treating you and yours as well as possible. I have a few different topics I wanted to cover, and I figured I might as well write them up while I wait for the sun to set. No... I am not a vampire or any other form...
13 March 2024
7:45am I'm writing this from my Linux computer while I take a food break from writing. I'm only 1,500-ish words into my writing day, but I'm hungry enough that I can no longer concentrate on the story. I took that as a sign. I'm writing this post for two reasons: (1)...
10 March 2025
6:14am Either a week or two weeks ago (I'm too lazy to search my email to find out), a reader contacted me and asked if I read any of Jerry Boyd's stories. They said my writing reminded them of his. The answer is... yes, of course! I love Jerry Boyd's stories. I...
8 March 2025
5:07am Yep... you read that right. I'm starting this post at five o'clock in the morning. 2025 has been an interesting year so far for me. I did not meet my writing goals for January or February, despite exceeding the monthly word counts for last year. Matter of fact,...
6 February 2025
6:47am This may be one of my less coherent posts. I've been awake since around noon yesterday (February 5th). The reason I am still awake is that we've had a lovely storm blow through. It started raining around 9pm-ish last night and rained fairly constantly up until...
4 February 2025
11:49pm Given the time, this will probably be another "11:59pm" post... given how much I have to discuss. So, the Linux Switch-over that I was so excited about was... largely pointless. I burned an entire week, and for all of that, the only thing I came away with was...
23 January 2025
7:29pm This is the third post in a series chronicling my switch-over from my MacBook to an Ubuntu 24.10 install on my desktop (i.e. my former Windows gaming box). If you arrived here without reading the previous two posts in this series, you might wanna go back and...
22 January 2025
9:27am Okay. So, this is the second post in the series about my feelings and response to Big Tech's push to get more of who we are. I'm not going to re-hash everything I wrote yesterday. If you haven't read yesterday's post, you can find it here. You should probably...
21 January 2025
12:18pm For those of you who have known me across more than a few years, this post might surprise you. I have reached the point that I don't like Windows. It's slowly getting to the point that a more accurate statement is that I don't like Microsoft. The latter isn't...
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