Moonblood
Upmarket Fiction • Novel
Olive Tarkanian is twenty, broke, and living in a rotting Fresno apartment
when her mother, Mabel, calls and says come home. Mabel is a force that bends
the world around her — brilliant, brutal, tender in flashes that make the cruelty
worse. When Olive tells her about the woman who groomed her online since she was
twelve, Mabel doesn't call a lawyer. She packs a bag, calls in favors from people
who owe her, and drives her daughter cross-country to settle it her way. What follows
strips both of them to the root — past the rage, past the protection that became its
own kind of violence, to a shared wound neither of them knows how to name.
Moonblood is about what lives between a mother and daughter when love and
violence share the same body.
Psychopunk: The Jellyfish Exorcist
Speculative Fiction • Novel
Noviko Tanaka-LaCroix is a psychopunk — a wetware-assisted healer who dives into
the subconscious to clear out whatever's gone rotten. When a catatonic old man with
a bucket of live jellyfish and no language anyone can translate is dropped at her door
by a corporate agent, the job looks routine. It isn't. His mind is a centuries-deep
wound, his suffering is being maintained on purpose, and the corporations that run
Noviko's oceanic world can't agree on whether he should be healed or kept broken.
Now she's neck-deep in something much bigger than an exorcism, with her family at
stake and her sanity being spent like currency.
Psychopunk: The Girlboss Godhead
Speculative Fiction • Novel
Three hundred years after the solar flare that destroyed the tech empire of the
broligarchs, their freed slaves thrive in an anarchic, oceanic syndicate. All connect
through the wetware of a benevolent, chimeric entity masquerading as a corporation: PRISMA.
Envy, a genetically-engineered, centuries-old tablet kid turned bioweapon commando,
can't remember most of her life. As a living weapon and citizen of Syndicate, she is
voluntold to investigate potential eco-crime in the Pacific Northwest, her birthplace.
What she finds is a hungry, mind-enslaving plague with a grudge against her people.
Only with the help of a rogues' gallery of absurd characters will she survive in one
piece (or any number of pieces).
Jingle Bell and Too Much Christmas
Children's Picture Book
Jingle Bell runs Winter Wonderland with absolute sincerity and a smile that could
power a city grid. She loves Christmas so much she wants it every day — and when
spooky old Halloween won't get out of the way, Bell bulldozes right through. What
follows is a consumerist apocalypse in rhyming verse: children buried under toys,
parents worked to the bone to afford the gifts, grabby little opportunists, and a
world bleached by mandatory joy. A picture book about what happens when generosity
has no off switch, illustrated in the vein of DiTerlizzi and Froud, for kids who
can handle the dark and adults who've forgotten they need it.
Feast of the Virgin Eagle
Reconstruction-era Dark Fantasy - WIP, 100k+ words
"If you write it, a curse on anyone who reads it." A warning ignored by Jeremy
Jordan, author of the collected diaries and transcribed interviews with his own
hellbound, adoptive mother. Sidney Jordan, murderer, outlaw, fallen woman passing
often as a man in her travels, has her 1870's adventures in America documented
by a son who, through the process of writing this book, opens up questions about
his own origins, and where his mother found him as a baby in the first place.
A death and a discovery lead to Sidney Jordan seeking Alva, her mother, across
the United States in a bid for answers -- while Alva sends Pinkertons, Templars,
and even an assassin-turned-friend to make attempts on Sidney's life. Along the
way, Sidney comes to face her true inheritance -- not silver, but hunger. This
hunger, for righteous bloodshed, the suffering of men she deems evil, for any
perceived justice, is her road to Hell.
The friends she makes along the way are Jeremiah Cain, legend of the Civil War
and killer of white slavers, and Lovey Sluder, an Appalachian-Cherokee bard who
sings to guard god's secrets. Together, they brave adventures across the Americas,
from New York to Memphis, Cape Horn and Los Angeles, San Francisco and at last,
Virginia City, the violent heart of Alva's empire of bloody silver.
What awaits them there is a promised feast, a great spoiling of their spirits,
a banquet laid out to rival the excesses of the old gods. In this tale, the
question of who eats, and who is eaten, is asked of the 19th century and beyond.
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