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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.
23 February 2024
8:58pm Finally finished Chapter 22 of Tempus. It took me a little over a thousand words to get to feel complete. I'll dig into Chapter 23 tomorrow. I had to do some driving around today, or I would've gotten an earlier start on the writing and might have even moved...
22 February 2024
9:59pm I have not been as productive the past two days as I would like... at least in terms of writing. Yesterday (Wednesday the 21st), I drove Dad to a doctor appointment. I wrote 935 words Chapter 22 of Tempus while I waited for him. Today (Thursday the 22nd), I...
20 February 2024
8:03pm It's a good thing I decided to update my 2024 Writing Goal to a "best effort" setting. Leaving aside how fatigued with writing I was after I finished Hyperion last month, I lost yesterday to the First Day of Driving. I racked up something like two hundred or...
18 February 2024
8:35pm Hello, and good evening! Well, it's evening here in West Virginia as I write this. I can't guarantee it's evening where you are. 🙂 It's been a while since I've posted an update here, and that's mainly because I didn't really have anything post-worthy to...
1 February 2023
12:16pm Hi! It's been a while. When I finished Hyperion back on January 6th, I was all jazzed to keep right on writing... and I managed that for a couple days. Then, I started missing days. And eventually, I realized that I just wasn't eager to write. That I felt...
20 January 2024
The last several days have been interesting. I survived Publishing Hell, even though I made a few mistakes along the way, and I get to do it all again as soon as I work up the back cover copy for Hyperion. My Go-To Reader, the amazing Teralyn, says it's even better...
13 January 2013
4:41pm I need to duck on on a mini supply run before nasty weather hits, but I wanted to explain the date change on the pre-order for Dawn of the Sorcerer while it was on my mind. I originally planned for it to go live on Knightsfall Press the day I published it (so,...
11 January 2024
4:24pm So, I want to start today's post with a topic that is near and dear to my heart: keeping your head during a crisis (whether perceived or actual). My grandfather recited the poem If by Rudyard Kipling to me when I was... still in grade school (or elementary...
8 January 2024
9:23am Today is... interesting. I was so damn tired last night that I only fought it until around 1am or so. I have no idea when I went to sleep... not precisely. And I was awake around 8:16. Slept the whole night through. Considering that I've been on the '4am to...
7 January 2024
7:12pm I have already finished my writing for the day. Yeah... I know. I'm kinda surprised, too. I'm not used to saying or writing that, let alone so early in the "day." After the massive word counts and writing time of the past two days, I decided that the plan for...
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