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Gas Giant Gambit: Kirkus Review

If you follow me on my various social media platforms, you may already be aware of today’s topic–but my book is coming out in ten weeks, and this counts as marketing, so you’ll just have to bear with me! On July 1st, I got an email from my publisher letting me know that we had […]

Fear(Hope)ful Summer

Perseid Prophecies Issue 7: Summer 2025 It’s the first of July, which means the summer issue of my speculative fiction magazine Perseid Prophecies is out (and a happy Canada Day for my fellow canuckleheads)! I’m really proud of this issue. We hit a record for most submissions ever, and I’ve decided to expand the magazine […]

Why I’m Publishing Gas Giant Gambit Traditionally

One of the things I dislike about the writing community is the negative discourse regarding trad vs self-publishing. We’re all writers, are we not? Of course, I can see where the soreness comes from on both sides, but I think it’s all noise, really. In my opinion, neither traditional nor self-publishing by themselves says much […]

Gas Giant Gambit: The Arm

About eighteen months ago, I shared a post about the main setting of Gas Giant Gambit: Las Ráfagas, the fuel mining outpost where all the action takes place. Now I want to pull back a bit, and introduce you to the larger world, in which Las Ráfagas is just an insignificant speck: the Arm. The […]

Gas Giant Gambit ARCs!

Keeping it short and sweet this week because of the big news: Gas Giant Gambit’s Advanced Review Copies are live! You can read my debut, genre-mashup novel right now! Alex Parker Publishing is using NetGalley and BookFunnel for ARCs, so anyone can sign up and download a free copy for review. Sign up with NetGalley […]

Gas Giant Gambit: Moe

Way back in November of 2023, I wrote a little bit about the protagonist of Gas Giant Gambit, Gus. Now, with the release date coming in hot (September 16, 2025!), I feel it’s time to get back to that topic, and introduce you to a few more characters, starting with the one that may be […]

Book Research

One of the things I love most about being an author is the research. That may sound boring to many, but I have a passion for learning. I love that “aha!” feeling when you understand a new concept or learn some interesting or fundamental factoid. If I could have remained a student after graduating university, […]

Gas Giant Gambit Book Signing Event!

It is official! Gas Giant Gambit comes out on Tuesday, September 16th, 2025, and I will be doing a book signing at the Oshawa Centre Indigo on Saturday, September 20th! I’ll be there from 12:00 PM until they kick me out! So, if you’re excited about science fiction, and space westerns in particular, and you […]

Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?

I’m going to do something this week I rarely ever do–here or anywhere else on the internet for that matter–give a short, but hopefully somewhat hot take. My takes on the usual pop culture subjects tend to be lukewarm at best, but I think I have a unique perspective on this particular topic, so why […]

The Next 5 Books on My TBR Pile

I’ve been so busy with editing Gas Giant Gambit lately (plus the whole “adopting a new dog and then creating a new routine to accommodate their needs,” as well as more beer league hockey than I can shake a stick at) that I’ve fallen a little behind on my reading goals for the year. So, […]