“The heart of The Burden series.” Every story needs an anchor, someone who carries us into the world before we even realize it’s becoming our world too. For The Burden of Honor, that anchor is Richard Matheson. Richard begins as many of us do: young, hopeful, convinced that with enough effort and integrity he can shape the world into something better. But the world he inherits is war-torn, politically fractured, and haunted by the decisions of the generation before him. In many ways, Richard’s journey becomes a collision between who he wants to be and what the world demands he…
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The Origin of The Burden of Honor
How a college assignment became a 10-year journey to publication. Every story begins somewhere — sometimes in a moment of inspiration, sometimes in a quiet spark you don’t recognize as important until much later. For The Burden of Honor, that spark came from an elective college course on high fantasy analysis. One of our assignments required creating a short story set in an original world. At the time, I had no idea that simple assignment would eventually grow into the foundation of an entire series. Today, TBH bears almost no resemblance to that early work… but the encouragement from my…
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Welcome — And Thank You for Being Here
Hi everyone, I’m incredibly excited to finally launch this site and begin sharing my journey with you. For the last few years, I’ve been pouring my heart into my debut novel, The Burden of Honor, the first entry in a multi-book saga I’ve dreamed of bringing to life for a long time. Now that the manuscript is moving into its next stage of refinement, I’m officially stepping onto the path toward traditional publication—which starts with the search for a literary agent. This website will be the central hub for everything I do as an author: updates on the books, behind-the-scenes…