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While all of my fiction takes place in the same fantasy world, the stories themselves can be quite diverse. Consequently, I’ve separated my fiction into mood categories, or skip down to the full list just below:
Fan Favorites: Some of my most popular.
Ian’s Favorites: My own preferences, but I’m biased.
Set Roaring War!: Pack a sword and pistol.
Made Readers Cry: Verified.
Humorous: Looking for something risible?
Creepy Stuff: Leave the light on for these ones.
There’s Love Involved: For those who like their stories flavored with romance.
One-Man Army: The stories of men who defended the breach.
We’re Being Hunted: Watch your back.
Magical Creatures: Great and small, benign and deadly.
The Might of Gods: Powerful and terrible.
Tales of Redemption: There’s always hope.
The full list:
To God’s Tower by Dawn: Three children. A stolen urn. One night to reach the highest tower.
The Shadow that Follows: A starving and unwanted monk, and the creature lurking in the darkness.
Wyrmslayer: A traditional draconid hunt gone sideways — predator becomes prey.
A Harlot’s Tale: A story about a lady of the night, and loneliness, and the decisions that shape us.
The Wolf-Man’s Trail: He joined the shepherds to flee the law, but something far worse awaits him in the unforgiving mountains.
The Myr Has a Thousand Eyes: An fleeing expedition pursued into the vast swamp known as the Myr, where death awaits intruders among the tall grass.
The Iceman’s Daughters: The ice season’s over, but this will be the most important delivery of their lives.
The Forester and the Child: After a woodsman rescues an infant from a failed ambush, he must deliver it to safety.
How a Magister Fights: Their enemy has an army, but they have a man who is monk, scholar, and warrior; they have a magister.
Blood in the Siege Tunnels: A fort in the desert mountains. The enemy is seeking to undermine their walls. Cat-and-mouse through soil and stone. Bloody, unforgiving combat.
Of Teeth and Heart: To end the war, this city will be torn apart…. unless she can stop it.
The Ghost’s Theatre: It’s the night of their debut performance, but actors are dying onstage like their characters and there’s a ghost among the audience. Who can make it out alive?
Her Faerie Treasure: To keep her title, she’ll have to rob the faerie king. And she’ll need his help.
The Shadow that Follows: In early winter, a starving monk seeks work. But amid the apathy and along the unforgiving road something follows him.
Ice & Candlelight: The sunless weeks of an arctic winter. Why is her son coming home wearing bloodstains? What’s that light across the frozen lake? And what is that incessant noise I hear on the wind?
The Midwife’s War: The battle’s over. Execution crews scour the countryside. But she has a child to help deliver.
When Gods Came Rollicking to Our Isle: Told from the locals’ standpoint, three gods throw a party on a rural isle. Mayhem ensues.
The Beast in the Castle: A Baron plays host one night to both a monster and a prince he seeks to destroy. Nothing goes according to plan.
The Puck’s Favor: He freed the goat-man and earned a wish – one he might pay for with his sanity.
The Spurned King: An Epistolary: A prison missive recounts the legend of The Spurned King of Grova Marna, a god bent on ruling by might alone. But can he keep his crown?
My Brother’s Second Burial: A dusty, oppressed town, and the lone gunman who rides in one night.
A Luten in the City: A dissolute immortal must reckon with love and life, suffering and death, and eternity.
The Lass and the Firth’s Pilot: A young woman hires a local pilot to help steal a mysterious item from a brutal seal hunting crew.
Nonfiction
Worldbuilding Guides
Nitpicking Worldbuilding: That Darned Wagon: Here’s how it works… take a worldbuilding thread. Pull on it. Ask the hardest questions you can. I do that here with a wagon.
Worldbuilding Guide: Premodern Agriculture: To understand the premodern world, we should understand how they got their food. There’s more to it than you think.
Worldbuilding Guide: Nautical: The first step to writing your sea-faring story is reading this.
Writing and Storytelling Advice
The Forgotten Narrative Tool: Variable Zoom: Almost no contemporary storytellers use this tool, but it’s honestly one of the greatest advantages of the written word.
The Vegetable Model of Exposition: Plenty of advice on how to exposit, but let’s step back and categorize different types of exposition and their applications. The only bad one is the “salad.”
The Limitations of Second-Person POV: Second-person (“You went to the store…”) is often selected by writers for its offbeat, eclectic style. Style is a personal choice, but second-person comes with limitations that ought to be understood and appreciated.
On Writing: A Needless Text Debate: Just for fun, a transcription of a texting conversation between me and a friend in which we get into a big fight about writing philosophy.
Horror: The Salt of Storytelling: As a genre, horror often gets overlooked or depreciated. But grains of it end up in almost every genre, and that’s a good thing.
