Now
The shelf
Three series and a fourth thing I keep circling.
The Sourwood Books
The Keeping
The North Carolina mountains my family came from.
In revision
In structural revision
Pilot Light
Bad Paper. The Keys, and a man paid to notice nothing.
Drafting
Holdfast
Characters, lore, and a spine that keeps moving.
Later
Thrillers
Same preoccupations. Fewer impossible things.
Writing
The novels are one part of it. These are the others.
Who this is
I barely got out of high school. At eighteen I’d have told you that people like me don’t write books. I was wrong, and I took my time finding out.
I served on submarines. Then I taught computer science to submariners, and after that I spent the better part of fifty years in information technology. Somewhere in there I studied at a Norbertine seminary.
None of that is a writing career. But a submarine is a very good place to think.
I never stopped reading theology either — the desert fathers, Enoch, the Gnostics, the hermetic books, the Zohar. The things in my novels that are not people came out of that reading. It’s no secret, and I’d rather you found it than had it explained.