I spent three months researching moon bases before writing a single chapter. NASA announced a $20 billion lunar base plan the same month my book launches.
A Graveyard of Empires short story. On a dead colony world sixty years after the bombardment, salvage captain Ria Velko finds something in the ruins that was never meant to be found — and something out in the deep places notices her.
A World of Shadows short story. Four years before the basement at Saint Joseph's, Father Niccolo Paladina stood in a shanty in Tondo with the wrong rite in his hands. He has never written the case file. He writes it now.
A side tale from The Ashen Kingdoms. The night before conscription, an old hedge witch reads the embers for the mothers of boys being marched off to war — and sees the mouths under the world.
A Forest Service ranger's Tuesday morning stop at a small Rocky Mountain town goes wrong. A side tale from the Raven's Peak era of the World on Fire trilogy.
A Last Light short story. Dr. Marisol Vega is alone on Listening Post Seven when a transmission comes in from a moon nobody pronounces out loud. She is the first to hear it. She will not be the last.
I've run over 11,000 AI agent tasks this year with a 99.4% success rate. Here's what actually works, what fails spectacularly, and why boring agents beat brilliant ones.
Eighty lines of TypeScript and an MCP server turn Terminal Bridge into full AI terminal access — the code, the patterns, and a hard lesson learned at 2 AM.