Wyrdstones — In my spare time I like to play board games with my friends and family. Occasionally, I try my hand at designing new diversions. Wyrdstones is an abstract strategy game set on a checker-board in which your pieces are stones featuring Norse runes, and your goal is to get one of your stones across to your opponent’s side of the board. The game rules, pieces, and reference sheets are available so you can print and play, as long as you can provide a board.

Write Away! — Like Wyrdstones, Write Away! is an original game design, only this one is card-based and more suitable for parties. Using a deck of 116 unique cards, each featuring some of my favorite words in the English language, players go around the table trying to keep a sentence going for as long as they can. This one has been a lot of fun around the household, so I’ll post the cards here before too long. They’re currently undergoing some graphic design, though. 

Bird, Said Bird — This started out as a short story, and then turned into a novel, and from there became a multimedia project which ended up going just about nowhere. Sometimes When You Fall and Last Name comprise two-fifths of the project. A text-adventure called Crashtank is another fifth, with the remaining two-fifths so far uncompleted or unbegun. 

Ten Plagues — A collection of ten short stories, one for each of the ten plagues from Exodus, which I edited along with my friend Justin Conwell. We commissioned some terrific art for this project from Joanna Barnum and Matt Fendahleen. The link goes to the Lulu page, from which you can buy a paperback copy or grab a PDF for 50 cents.

Time for Bedlam — Another anthology of short stories I edited, with the general theme of revisiting or rewriting cautionary tales. This one kind of got away from me, but there are nevertheless some terrific pieces of fiction included. It’s tacky to include your own work in an anthology you edit, isn’t? Dang.

Voltage — A novel by the supremely talented Justin Conwell, which I had the honor of editing and publishing. One of my biggest regrets is that I didn’t have the time or marketing skill to promote this piece of work, but Justin has made up for my unreliability by writing a sequel of sorts which I’ll gladly count among my favorite genre stories ever. Now when he gets successful, Google will consider me successful by association. Thanks, Google!

Stumble Down the Mountainside — My first novel. Published by Apodis Publishing.