Hard Cases (novel) NEW RELEASE!

Coming October 11. Pre-order today!

Hard Cases is a fast-paced thriller set in St. John’s, and escalating to a hair-raising conclusion amid the ancient fjords of Newfoundland’s west coast. Greg, a twenty-something Englishman new to the Rock, soon falls in with “The Gulls”—a gang of characters as colourful as the capital city’s famous jelly bean row houses. After finding a briefcase full of cash on a city bus, he and his misfit friends are pulled into a series of increasingly risky dares perpetrated by a mysterious, riddling benefactor. Join the Gulls on a journey that tests their friendships, their loyalties, and the limits of their morality.

Hard Cases is a Newfoundland thriller published by Flanker Press (2024).

Pedestal (novel)

A celebrated neurosurgeon is murdered in a packed restaurant, but none of the witnesses can remember a thing. Save for the two men who weren’t there at all. They saw it. Their own creation run amok. Now they must chase a digital ghost through the mean streets of the Underside, the glass towers of the Topside, and those other worlds contained within their heads. The countdown is on. But a countdown to what?

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Pedestal is a technological sci-fi thriller published by Engen Books (2020).

The Unfeeling (short story)

Amy killed two of them as she retreated up the stairs of the long-abandoned call centre. Now she lies in wait, gun at the ready, for the third of them to find her. Them. The Unfeeling. What the majority of society has become. The vaccinations were supposed to solve everything. Instead, they created them versus us. It’s kill or be killed. But will a mysterious locket hold within in it some hope for generations yet to come?

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The Unfeeling is a short story entered into the Vocal “Doomsday Diary” contest. (2021)

Watcher (novelette)

It’s hard to have a private conversation on Macron, but in the dark corners of the Medula Bar, you can just about pull it off. That’s where Patrick is meeting Friedrich – one of the colony’s many Watchers, who keep their tech-enhanced eyes on the ever-scrutinized masses. Patrick has tech upgrades Friedrich wants. In return, Patrick wants one hour of dark. But what happens in the dark rarely stays there.

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Distant (novelette)

Suanne lives on an extraplanetary colony called Obita where the liberals fight for greater privacy and more clothing. While the rest walk around heads down, zombies to their tech, she reads ‘leafies’ – love stories of Earth. Now her pizzazzy boss wants to whisk her away to the Mother Planet. By the time she returns, her own world will be turned upside down.

(Distant was a 2016 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Contest quarter-finalist.)