Overview
I'm a former archaeologist now working as a freelance writer specializing in fiction, history, and travel. I provide ghostwriting services for a number of clients in a wide variety of genres. I can offer twenty years of experience in traditional and independent publishing. My fiction is known for its rich settings, inspired by my extensive travels in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Services
Fiction
Action & Adventure
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Mystery & Crime
Science Fiction
Thriller & Suspense
Non-Fiction
History
Travel
Languages
English (CAN)
English (UK)
English (US)
Awards
- Winner of the Society of American Travel Writers Award in 2013 for my Iraq reportage.
Certifications
- Master of Arts in Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005
- Master of Arts in Anthropology, specializing in Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia. Minor in Medieval Studies, 1997.
Work experience
Self-employed
Apr, 2014 —
Present
Projects include ghostwriting various genres of novels including action/adventure, military, young adult, urban fantasy, science fiction, and horror. In nonfiction, I have so far written more than 50 short history booklets for Charles River Editors on military history, archaeology, exploration, and folklore.
Gadling.com (subsidiary of AOL)
May, 2009 —
Oct, 2013
(over 4 years)
Responsible for posting travel news and features. Work included several adventure travel series with on-the-ground reporting from destinations such as Iraq, Somaliland, and Ethiopia.
Portfolio
Mitch Ayers thought he was part of a new start for the human race.Now he might be there as we go extinct...After dropping out of hyperspace in the wrong place at the wrong time, we learned we weren't alone. We were in a fight. We just didn't know who with.Now ... read more
The Earth is dying.Her people have fled.And Mitch Ayers is having a real bad day.Fifty years ago, our home was dying. We identified worlds that might be able to support human life. We built Ark Ships: huge colonization vessels carrying thousands of crew. And w... read more
They thought the case was solved.When an eminent Egyptologist is murdered giving a lecture in front of a packed hall, Cairo’s chief of police quickly rounds up those responsible.Or at least some of them.Sir Augustus Wall, antiquities dealer and amateur sleuth,... read more
An Old Kingdom coffin. A body from yesterday.Sir Augustus Wall had seen a lot of death. From the fields of Flanders to the alleys of Cairo, he’d solved several murders and sent many men to their grave. But he’s never had a body delivered to his antiquities sho... read more
Long after Rome fell to the Germanic tribes, its culture lived on in Constantinople, the glittering capital of the Byzantine Empire. For more than 1000 yeras (AD 330-1453) Byzantium was one of the most advanced and complex civilisations the world had ever seen... read more
Osprey's examination of guerilla tactics employed during the American Civil War (1861-1865). While the giant armies of the Union and the Confederacy were fighting over cities and strategic strongholds, a large number of warriors from both sides were fighting, ... read more
In the early 14th century, a new weapon entered the arsenals of European armies. This first generation of black powder weapons put fear into the heart of the enemy and in 1453 Ottoman cannon succeeded in pummelling the once-impregnable walls of Constantinople.... read more
In the late 19th century, the new nation-state of Italy was eager to join her European neighbors in creating an international empire. Italy's eyes turned towards Africa as a source of potential colonies. Most of the continent had already been carved up between... read more
In July 1863, with the Confederacy still reeling from the defeats at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Union forces pushed deep into Arkansas, capturing the capital of Little Rock. In response, Colonel Joseph O. Shelby launched a daring raid to disrupt the advance. Ta... read more
A spectral dinner party goes horribly wrong. . .An immortal warrior hopes a final battle will set him free. . .A big-game hunter preys on endangered species to supply an illicit restaurant. . .A new technology soothes First World guilt. . .Here are four dark t... read more
It was the beginning of the end for the James gang. In the past ten years Frank and Jesse James had risen from unknown ex-Confederate guerrillas to become the most famous outlaws in the world. A string of daring robberies had brought them fame, admiration, hat... read more
Can a drug-addicted sorcerer sober up long enough to save a kidnapped girl and his own Duchy?In an alternate 18th century Germany where magic is real and paganism never died, Lothar is in the bonds of nepenthe, a powerful drug that gives him ecstatic visions. ... read more
The Gunfight at the OK Corral on 26 October 1881 is one of the most enduring stories of the Old West. It led to a series of violent incidents that culminated in the Vendetta Ride, in which Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and several other gunslingers went after thei... read more
It Happened in Missouri takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Show Me State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
True stories of the Show Me state’s most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.
A rat hunter on the Western Front suspects his prey are plotting against him…A routine trip through the trenches leads to an unexpected insight…A soldier discovers the most dangerous enemy can't be killed…A bereaved woman performs a forbidden ritual to avenge ... read more
In the waning days of the Civil War, a secret conflict still rages. . .Lieutenant Allen Addison of the USS Essex is looking forward to the South's defeat so he can build the life he's always wanted. Love and a promising business await him in St. Louis, but he ... read more
A Confederate guerrilla and a Union captain discover there’s something more dangerous in the woods than each other.Jimmy Rawlins is a teenaged bushwhacker who leads his friends on ambushes of Union patrols. They join infamous guerrilla leader Bloody Bill Ander... read more
No Man’s Land—a hellscape of shell craters and dead bodies. Soldiers have fought over it, charged across it, and bled on it for a year of grueling war, but neither side has dominated it.Until now.An elite German raiding party is passing through No Man’s Land e... read more
October 1914: The British line is about to break.After two months of hard fighting, the British Expeditionary Force is short of men, ammunition, and ideas. With their line stretched to the breaking point, aerial reconnaissance spots German reinforcements massi... read more
September 1914: The British Expeditionary Force has the Germans on the run, or so they think.After a month of bitter fighting, the British are battered, exhausted, and down to half their strength, yet they’ve helped save Paris and are pushing toward Berlin. Th... read more
Christmas 1914In the cold, muddy trenches of the Western Front, there is a strange silence. As a crack English trench raiding team enjoy their first day of peace in months, they call out holiday greetings to the men on the German line. Soon both sides are frat... read more
A law doesn't work if everyone breaks it.For forty years, New City has been a bastion of order in a fallen world. One crucial law has maintained the peace--it is illegal to place responsibility for the collapse of civilization on any one group. Anyone found gu... read more
When you only have one shot, you better aim true.In a ravaged world, civilization’s last outpost is reeling after fighting off the fanatical warriors of the Righteous Horde. Sheriff Annette Cruz becomes New City’s long arm of vengeance as she sets off across t... read more
In a world shattered by war, pollution and disease. . . A gunslinging mother longs to find a safe refuge for her son. A frustrated revolutionary delivers water to villagers living on a toxic waste dump. The assistant mayor of humanity's last city hopes he will... read more
In a world shattered by war, pollution, and disease, a lone scavenger discovers a priceless relic from the Old Times.The problem is, it's stuck in the middle of the worst wasteland he knows--a contaminated city inhabited by insane chem addicts and vengeful vil... read more
From the 1840s onward, United States military forces clashed with the Apache, a group of Native American peoples associated with the southwestern part of North America. US territorial expansion and conflict – first with Mexico and then during the Civil War – l... read more
Arizona 1846Nantan, a young Apache warrior, is building a name for himself by leading raids against Mexican ranches to impress his war chief, and the chief’s lovely daughter.But there is one thing he and all other Apaches fear—a ruthless band of Mexican scalp ... read more
He came to Tangier to die, but life isn’t done with him yet. Tom Miller has lost his job, his wife, and his dreams. Broke and alone, he ends up in a flophouse in Morocco, ready to end it all. But soon he finds himself tangled in a web of danger and duty as he’... read more
An ancient mystery. A modern murder. Sir Augustus Wall, a horribly mutilated veteran of the Great War, has left Europe behind to open an antiquities shop in Cairo. But Europe’s troubles follow him as a priceless inscription is stolen and those who know its sec... read more
