Last Light in the Dark

I spent $3,500 on my first audiobook and waited eighteen months to see a return. Here's the honest cost-benefit breakdown I wish someone had given me before I started.

A defrocked Jesuit resolved eleven hybrids on the Church's word. The lodger at his kitchen table is the twelfth, the priest, or the assassin. A standalone theological-noir short story in The Covenant Files.

A Council Hunter alone at an Idaho safehouse opens a wooden box hand-delivered by a half-possessed stranger, and the last rite the dying network can still perform comes due before sunrise. A World on Fire short story.

An essay on what the series is about underneath the plot — the Pact's logic, the long table of New Haven, the painting that does not know your name, and the question I was writing into and against on the hard days. Spoilers for the entire series.

Last Light in the Dark is live on Amazon. Nine-book sci-fi horror series starts today. $2.99 or free on Kindle Unlimited.

A free Last Light short story to read this weekend — and Last Light in the Dark lands Monday, June 15. Pre-order's open.

Every novel I've published is now on Kindle Unlimited — one subscription, the whole catalog. Here's the full story: why I held out, what changed, and what it means for readers.

A cut chapter from Sins of the Father: Joseph Kramer at Polonus Bakery at 3:47 AM, eating a cinnamon roll that no longer tastes like cinnamon. Non-canon, but every word was true to the manuscript.

I hit a writing wall two years ago. Morning hikes before my desk sessions fixed it. Here's the science behind why — and how I built trails into my process.