Starring world-weary nightclub magician Galaxy Greg, Pocket Full of Stars is a murderous scifi romp across the galaxy. Featuring a passionate queer love story, a shotgun-toting trick shooter, and a little girl whose knowledge of astrography is frankly terrifying, it’s the book I’ve been building to ever since I first picked up a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Because it’s rooted in outlandish pulp scifi, I chose to serialize Pocket Full of Stars through my newsletter Strange Pulp. If you’ve ever stared at the night sky and wished that you could travel across it, you will love this weird, heartfelt, deranged novel.

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A love letter to the joys of tabletop gaming, Critical Hit is a mindbending mystery about murder, magic, and mayhem at a games store in East Tennessee. Its hero is Callie Myles, a store clerk whose world is turned upside down when her brother/GM burns to death in a bizarre fire. Her attempts to keep his weekly roleplaying sessions going lead her into the game itself, giving her a chance to avenge his death by playing the game she loves more than anything else.

The fusion of my two passions—tabletop gaming and crime fiction—it’s a novel only I could write, and I am intensely proud of it. Although this game is a love letter to tabletop gaming, no knowledge of the hobby is required. At its core, Callie’s story is about a grief-stricken young woman trying to right a hideous wrong. There is nothing more universal than that.

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“It’s like a literary shot of Prohibition-era rotgut moonshine—bracing, quite possibly hallucination-inducing, and unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Superb.” —New York Times

Westside is my debut novel: a supernaturally-infused mystery novel set in a twisted version of Jazz Age New York, where a towering fence runs the length of Broadway, dividing Manhattan’s thriving eastern half from the dying Westside. It stars Gilda Carr, a private detective who specializes in “tiny mysteries” in order to distract her from asking questions unanswerable about her city, her family, and herself.

Featured on National Public Radio and favorably reviewed in countless national publications, Westside is, simply, a hell of a lot of fun.

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A masterpiece. —Library Journal

The first sequel to Westside, Westside Saints picks up Gilda Carr’s story just a few months after the cataclysmic events of the first novel.

In the winter of 1922, Gilda Carr is out of heat, out of hope, and out of work. When a family of eccentric street preachers hires her to find a missing saint’s finger, she thinks she’s found a reason to keep going. But after her long-dead mother comes back from the dead, she realizes she’s gotten much more than she can handle.

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The conclusion—for now, at least—to the Gilda Carr series, Westside Saints leaps ahead over a year, finding Gilda living a lazy life on the revitalized Westside waterfront and hating absolutely every minute of it.

When her pet seagull vanishes into the District, Gilda throws herself into the search for the missing bird. When her search for truth leads her to a massacre, she must find the killer to prove that she was not the one who hacked her closest friends apart.

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