Imaginative Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels

Yeah, have I got books for you!

Self-published:

Gold Dragongirl and Pizza Boy (May 24, 2026)

Mercy Jefferson really likes the mysterious new transfer student at her high school, but she’s got a big secret to hide: Mercy’s a Magical Girl who fights enemies called TIGER in a mysterious world called the Aether. But new student Milo, whose uncle owns the pizzeria across the street, has a big secret, too!

The Space Guard trilogy: (Expected starting June 2026)

Space Guards Away!
Ever Higher
Forever and a Day

The Baddies are coming to attack Earth with their deadly Bogey spaceships. Goofball Jay Ji and pacifist Sylver Aleph join the other Space Guards in defending the planet in their cyborg Battle Suits … and maybe even end the war, if such a thing is possible!

Currently seeking publishers:

How to Date a Venusian

Dating a Venusian is easy: All you have to do is help her save her planet. That’s easy for high school senior Alfonso Silva to say, but when the plant is really threatened and his friend Hidomi needs his help saving it, can the two of them pull it off? Young Adult science fiction.

Turning the Golden Key

Cinderfella Charley’s life turns upside-down when he gets a new job where he meets seven short dudes who have a lady friend who sleeps all the time, two people sworn to silence until their sentences in Charley’s world are done, and one fellow who owns a goose with golden feathers. Is there a place for Charley in this world, or maybe in the fairy tale world next door next to ours? Adult contemporary fantasy

Don’t Call Me Giraffe!

“The graceful crane soars/Rising sun lifting her wings/Heart beats so quickly.” If only Tokyo high school senior Hikari Yoshikawa could see herself as that graceful crane. She’s a head taller than the other girls, with a stick figure and huge hands and feet. She wants to build a store that will sell clothes giving self-confidence to oddly-shaped Japanese women like herself – but first she needs to get out of high school! New Adult coming-of-age

Sibley’s Gold

During the American Civil War in the eastern states tens of thousands of men are led by fabled generals. Out west in New Mexico Territory, though, Confederate General Henry Hopkins Sibley has a ragtag army but a huge dream: Making the Confederacy safe by grabbing the all the gold in the Denver mint. But he’s got to stay sober long enough to pull that off … Adult Alternative History

Coming Real Soon Now

The Captain Percy Whitaker-Smythe series

Curse of the Rhubidium Rhuby, or, The Spacer Who Loved a Lass

Captain Percy Whitaker-Smythe may be the only honest man on the desert planet Deltha or in her space navy, so of course he’s the one who has to save the mighty liner Queen Gertrude from pirates, find his long-lost daughter, and keep the Rhubidium Rhuby of Rhoomba III out of the hands of the notorious cross-dressing cat burglar Lady Penelope Sigurdsdottir. Piece of cake.

The Royal High Inquisitor, or, Pyramids at Play

When the Pharaoh of Deltha goes to his next life, the Council of Ministers and the High Priest(ess)hood try to tilt the scales of succession to their respective devices. Oh, and then there are the members of the royal family who want a say in who’s going to be in charge around here, too. Can Percy Whitaker-Smythe, the only honest man on Deltha, become the Royal High Inquisitor and sort it all out? Piece of cake.

The Pirate Pharaoh, or, The King Who Would be Boy

Pharaoh Rameses of planet Deltha doesn’t really want to sit around pharaohing … he’s thirteen and he’s BORED! He wants to be a pirate and the only honest man on Deltha, Captain Percy Whitaker-Smythe, is elected to make it so. But when real pirates nab Rameses, can Percy win an interplanetary Battle of the Bands to get him back? Piece of cake.

Standalone book: An Airshipman of the King

In a steampunk world when the Pax Britannica has held since the days when England defeated the American rebels, World War breaks out in 1970. Royal Flying Corps Lieutenant Lawrence Peabody, on leave in Naples, capital of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, is given an enemy secret weapon and told to get it to London. Oh, and the easy way to the west is cut off by the French and Spanish enemies. Peabody has to go all the way around the world, by automotile, boat, airship, train, submersible, and experimental rocket, fighting off Neapolitan turncoats, French spies, femmes fatale, and Nihonese cavalry with the aid of allies like Russian/Inuit sea captain Sergei Tinglook and Kiowan Captain Quanah. Full scale action/adventure all across the globe!

H-Space Wars (planned series of five)

The Pirates of H-Space
Pirates II is drafted and needs a title. Okay, I suck at titles.

The Continuing Adventures of the Battlecruiser Arkansas

Welcome to Interplanetary War
Return of the Empire
Repulse
Counterattack!
On Old New Annapolis
Paree Liberee
Heat Death
Pawns, the Princess, and a Texas Ranger

It has come to dueling spies and battling battleships as the Federated Republic of Planets fights off the Empire of Galactic Space, with the battlecruiser Arkansas and her intrepid captain Buck Coolbaugh right on the the bleeding edge every time. Good, old-fashioned space opera action against one of the great villains of the genre, Emperor Maximilian III Glendower!

The Southern Sands series

The Shifting Sands of Time
The Tides of Sand
Sands Through the Hourglass
The Limits of Sand

And more to come!