About

My older sibling, Ari, and I shared a room growing up and would roleplay at night while falling asleep. We loved fantasy worlds inspired by Lord of the Rings and sci-fi style worlds that followed in the steps of the Young Jedi Knights series. Whenever one story seemed to be playing itself out, we would then invent new worlds and characters to set a new point of conflict in.

On a roadtrip with the family, I first found and began to flesh out the world of Haviar and I fell in love!

Ari, fortunately as it turns out, wasn't as excited about the world as I was, so I began writing the story by hand on my own. There were many long afternoons on the floor with my best friend Alyssa where I would be writing and as I finished each page, I'd hand it to her to read. She was as hooked as I was!

I finally finished a draft of the story in college, printed and bound the final version in leather and burned the logo into the front. I gifted that copy to Alyssa to thank her for all her tireless feedback and Haviar got set aside. I always intended to come back to it and revise it. College, life in the real world and starting a small business got in the way.

But the beauty and richness of the world of Haviar has always been with me. I've been fleshing out maps, stories, characters, cultures, languages, and creatures for more than two decades now.

In fall 2021, I returned to the world and began to explore in earnest.

The novel has evolved drastically as I've found my writing style and learned more about the world, characters, and writing the kind of story I love.

It grew from a single novel into a trilogy, then a pentalogy.

I've discovered additional stories to tell along the way from these characters and others. Some in short-story form, and others as full-length, stand-alone novels.

I release my short stories here as well as try to keep y'all updated as we (hopefully) move towards publications of the longer stories starting in 2024.

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