From Short Story to Something More: The Curious Evolution of A Boy Alone

I didn’t mean to write a novel. Honestly. A Boy Alone began as a short story. A back story for a major character from the first book in my new series coming out in 2026. So this story began as a quiet little piece starting on a child's eighth birthday. I wrote it in a rush of instinct, no outline, no plan, just the pulse of something that felt true, and a vague recognition that this dark beginning had always been lurking in my imagination, just waiting to come out. If you’ve been following...