I’ve lived several lives before settling into fiction. I’ve been a soldier, archaeologist, journalist, graphic designer, programmer, and technology leader, with more than thirty-five years in tech—most recently as a senior technical communicator and, before that, leading development teams across publishing, pharmaceuticals, ad tech, and the financial sector. I’ve worked inside large, complex systems long enough to understand how power actually functions—and how it fails.
Travel and risk shaped me early: Central America, the Middle East, West Africa, the Amazon basin, and the open Atlantic. I’ve come close to dying more than once—malaria, dysentery, a near drowning—which tends to strip illusions down to essentials. Even domestic life proved its own high-stakes adventure: raising four children taught me more about chaos, loyalty, and unintended consequences than any boardroom ever could.
That lived experience informs my fiction.
My epic fantasy novel Esztergom— explores gods who rule through fear, belief as a weapon, and the dangerous idea that faith can be rewritten. Reviewers praised it for its mythic gravitas, moral complexity, and worldbuilding rooted in folklore, metaphysics, and political violence.
My current project, Fatal Imprudence, shifts that same thematic obsession into a sharper, more contemporary register. Where Esztergom interrogates divine power and rebellion through myth, Fatal Imprudence examines modern systems—institutions, technology, ideology, and authority—and the catastrophic outcomes that follow when humans mistake control for wisdom. Different worlds. Same question: what happens when those in power believe the story they tell themselves?
I write speculative fiction for readers who enjoy moral ambiguity, systemic failure, and characters forced to act inside consequences they don’t fully understand. My work assumes the universe is indifferent, power is never clean, and survival is rarely heroic—but meaning can still be wrestled from the wreckage.
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