Walking With The Muse: A Collection of Short Stories
More than thirty years in the making, this collection of short stories traces a lifelong conversation with the Muse.
It began in a high school English class: a short, comedic piece about failing a driver’s test—an awkward, anxious sixteen-year-old trying (and failing) to look cool behind the wheel of an enormous 1978 Dodge Monaco. That first spark of delight at making readers laugh never faded. Years later, in C. Michael Curtis’s short fiction course, the work deepened under a sharp and generous eye.
The short story became one of the author’s great literary loves: compact, intimate, and capable of holding an entire world in a few pages. Assembling this collection felt less like editing than reunion—returning to the moment each story was born, and to the person he was when he wrote it.Through false starts, quiet triumphs, and late nights of revision, one constant remained: the Muse—patient, insistent, and full of grace. This book is the written record of a decades-long relationship with inspiration and creativity.
Alarm Clock Dawn
The novel that launched a full-time writing life—and the first novel published on a blockchain, in 2016.
Decades from now, XenTek is the most powerful corporation the world has ever known. People are no longer citizens. They are consumers, ranked by a single number: the credit score. Superstorms rise from greed and consumption. Dissenters burn their Consumer Identification Cards and leave the cities.
Adam Harkin, a loyal company man, has to decide what he is willing to become. First book in a dystopian trilogy about awakening, materialism, and the search for meaning before the clock runs out.
Cover designed by Daniel Smith.
The Perfect Pause: Meditating Your Way to the Ultimate You
Science is catching up with what contemplatives have said for a long time: meditation changes health, attention, and happiness.
Written from more than two decades of practice and teaching. Clear techniques for weaving mindfulness into ordinary days—rewiring for calm, breaking reactive habits, living with a little more intention.
For beginners and for people who have already sat.
Leon Logothetis (The Kindness Diaries): “There is a new world being built, person by person, instead of brick by brick. This world is comprised of kindness, wisdom, gratitude, and love. Read this book carefully and become one of its lucky inhabitants.”
Interior and cover designed by Lubosh Cech.
Mindful Moments: Living Your Best Life in Imperfect Times
A companion for finding peace and purpose when life will not sit still. Practical practices, poetic reflections, and hard-won wisdom for presence, gratitude, and calm in turbulent weather.
Drawn from decades as a poet, novelist, and meditation practitioner. Best read beside The Perfect Pause.
Interior and cover designed by Lubosh Cech. Illustrations by Ophelia Fu.
Ephemera: A Collection of Poems
Poems of love, longing, resilience, and the quiet beauty in things that do not last. Each piece is a small pause—an invitation to notice the threads that connect us.
Lyrical, introspective, meant to stay with you after the last page.
Book designed by Lubosh Cech.
Poems from the Edge of the Apocalypse
The poems in this collection, like the poppy on its cover, serve as both warning and requiem. The poppy is an old symbol of remembrance and the sleep of death—and one of the first blooms to rise from ash. It speaks of loss, and of renewal.
Standing at the edge of a new epoch—where machine intelligence may unravel, redefine, or somehow preserve what is human—these poems ask us to pause and remember. On the brink of a post-human world, the poppy is a plea not to forget what makes us human: fragility, impermanence, the soulful mess of feeling.
Quiet resistance. A reminder that even in a future shaped by algorithms, our fallible humanity still matters.
Book designed by Lubosh Cech.