Last Light in the Dark

For five days in July, Raven's Peak — book one of World on Fire — is free on Kindle. Here's what waits in that town, and why I start everyone here.

On Tuesday, BookBub puts Last Light in the Dark in front of 580,000 horror readers. You've had a week with it — here's your head start.

I built 37 developer tools after watching JSONFormatter leak 80,000 files worth of credentials. Here are the six I actually reach for every single day — and why privacy-first matters more than features.

A book about murder victims who turned out to be innocent became a five-book theological noir about fatherhood. Three structural decisions, the cost of book three, and what The Covenant Files was always trying to be.

An essay on what The Darklands is about underneath the plot — certainty, the question above my desk, the ending I almost wrote and threw away, and the one line I almost cut that turned out to be the only line some readers carried home. Spoilers for the trilogy.

A writer's commentary on what Graveyard of Empires is actually about — institutional atrocity, children built as weapons, and the patience of the thing on the other side. Plus the influences and the cuts.

An author-voice commentary on what World of Shadows is actually about. Institutions, not demons. Niccolo as the autobiographical character who isn't me. Why Bishop Glasser is the villain I respect most.

The trilogy I started twice. What World on Fire is actually about underneath the plot — three questions about debt, institutions, and the price of grace — plus the inspirations and the research that built it.

I spent a Saturday night wrestling with USAspending.gov's API and came out the other side with DecodeGov — 11 adapters, 6 federal agencies, and zero incremental hosting cost.