Writer · Software developer
I write science fiction, I build the tools I wanted while writing it, and for a few years I pointed a camera at a puppet. All of it is still here.
Software · in private beta
Outlines, scenes, characters and the thousand small facts a novel accumulates — in one place, so the continuity error happens to someone else. Built because I kept losing track of my own books.
Software · pre-alpha
Seven small desktop tools behind one keystroke — scratchpad, clipboard, calculator, calendar, timer, generator, colour picker. It runs locally and stores locally. No account, no sync, no telemetry, no ads, no AI, no network at all. Press a key, do the thing, get back to work.
Toy · coming soon
Words that don't exist, and their definitions. Each one turns up with a pronunciation, an etymology that sounds entirely plausible, and a usage example — all of it invented on the spot.
Start here
Libby Carter buys a one-way ticket to the asteroid belt expecting a fresh start and finds a company town with better lawyers than life support. The one people still email me about.
A street kid is taught to counterfeit nobility, in a future where getting above your station is a capital offence.
The forged noble lands in the worst possible posting for a con man: the king's own palace.
A stranded crew makes rent performing miracles for the locals. Then a royal commission asks for a big one.
A traveller between dimensions keeps arriving at the hinge moment of somebody else's life, looking for his own way home.
Shorter things
Give the Devil His Due (2012) — three bargains, each with a contract so reassuring you'd sign it twice. Walk The Fire (2012) — a shared-world anthology. Plus stories in FlagShip Science Fiction & Fantasy (2010, 2012).
Smaller credits along the way: voiceovers on X-COM: Interceptor (1998) and a thank-you in Vexx (2003). Two others never shipped at all — Tank Platoon III at MicroProse, Crimson Order at Kinesoft. That happens.
Full credits on MobyGames ↗The premise is the whole joke: a being of unknowable malevolence runs a phone-in advice show, and the callers' problems turn out to be depressingly ordinary. I wrote it, directed it, and did the voice.
Made on a card table against a green cloth backdrop, which is exactly how it looks. It also predates everything else on this page.
