Young Adult Novels

You Are SO Cursed! Available now at a bookstore near you!

Chloe, Queen of Denial Available July 2004, from Smooch.

Beaner O'Brian's Absolutely Ginormous Guidebook to Guys Available December 2004, from Smooch.

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Excerpt from The Wild Lands

In a land of mechanical horses and enormous airships, the Baron’s mysterious Company clutches even England’s King in its grasp. Can two children from different worlds discover for what treacherous purpose Lord Byron intends his factory’s looms?

Excerpt from The Horns of Cassaforte

Cassaforte—an ancient city of canals protected by a web of enchantments. When one man’s lust for power puts a noble glassmaker’s family in peril, can his outcast daughter and her only friend navigate a maze of treachery to lead them and her city to safety?

Literary representation for my novels is through Three Seas Literary Agency.

Essays

Genesis of a Snob

In which the author discusses his connections with Sir Charles Grandiose.

The British Crown Affair

Sir Charles Grandiose, Princess Diana, and the end of the world as we know it.

Excerpts from Don't Put Your Elbow Out Too Far: A Memoir

Planting the Garden

A Spock baby recalls his sexual education

The Hoddit & Me

The author kicks Tolkien. Tolkien kicks back.

Short Stories

From the Oven

Originally published in the Baltimore Sun Magazine, December 24, 1990. No, 1989. No, 1990. One of those, anyway. I just remember it was Christmas Eve.

Poems

Green Lake

14 Ways

Making You

Sibyl

Lullaby

Zodiac

Red Pitcher

Poetry Reading

Criticism

The Credit of Truth: Thomas Hariot and the Defense of Raleigh

They Don't Know About Us

A Common-Sense Guide to TinyPlotting