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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.
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...
19 January 2025
2:40am Right, then... the first piece of news is that I have extracted the text from the January 4th post from a database backup and restored it. I grabbed the screenshot of my Writing Log that was already in my Media library a few days ago when I put up the filler...
14 January 2025
6:09pm (Eastern) I was originally going to use this text to replace the content of the January 4th post (read on for an explanation), but about eight minutes in, I figured out how to recover the post content I lost. (More on that below) When I'm owning a dumbass...
4 January 2025
11:41pm Since I'm starting this with just nineteen minutes before midnight, this will probably end up being posted at 11:59:59, which is code for "I'm a wordy little cuss and wrote way too long and had to edit the post date and time afterwards." Right, then... moving...
28 December 2024
5:56pm Well, we're two-thirds through the holiday season, and I hope it has treated you and yours well so far. By the by, I don't count it by a strict number of days; I count it by milestones. We're past Thanksgiving and Christmas with only New Year's remaining......
6 December 2024
11:20pm Before I get into the update on Cole & Srexx, I wanted to make an announcement regarding Colfyr. A reader informed me of a rather nasty continuity error in the final chapter of the story, and I have uploaded the new, corrected version. It could take a few...
11 November 2024
9:08pm In the comment thread of Saturday's post (9 November 2024), Kevin asked a couple good questions that I feel require a more in-depth answer than a reply in the Comments thread. So, I decided to start today's post by answering those questions. To save you time,...
9 November 2024
11:46pm Given the time at which I'm typing this, the post's date when I finally finish and publish will probably be 10 November, but I imagine that's largely academic. Back in June, I attended my very first writing retreat. While there, I met someone I have added to...
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