CHRONOLOGY OF WRITTEN WORK

For more information on current and upcoming books, visit my BOOKS page.

For a full listing of published stories, including online and magazines, visit my STORIES page.

For a complete BIBLIOGRAPHY of my published work, click HERE.

Below (to the best of my knowledge) is the timeline during which I completed - both published and unpublished - novels, short stories, screenplays, and other miscellaneous work. The list does not include my non-fiction work such as essays, articles, podcasts, etc.


Novels

  • The Egotist (1999)

  • Happy Holly (2002)

  • Don’t Let Them Get You Down (2007)

  • A Child Alone with Strangers (2017)

  • Gothic (2.20)

  • Boys in the Valley (6.20)

  • The Blue Butterfly (7.21)

  • The Third Rule of Time Travel (10.21)

  • Sarafina (6.23)


Stories (2014-2024)

A majority of the short stories written during this time period have either been sold for publication or published (although some of the original publications have gone out of print) in anthologies, magazines, or standalone books. Many have been collected in Behold the Void and Beneath a Pale Sky, or will be collected in the upcoming No One is Safe. The rest are uncollected as of 2022.

  • The Taker (2.14)

  • *Mother (3.14)

  • *Surfer Girl (5.14)

  • ***The Rejects (8.15)

  • *Altar (10.15)

  • Eleven One (1.16)

  • *Fail-Safe (2.16)

  • *The Horse Thief (2.16)

  • ^Sacculina (4.16)

  • *Coffin (5.16)

  • **Soda Jerk (5.16)

  • *The Baby Farmer (5.16)

  • *Soft Construction of a Sunset (6.16)

  • **Fragile Dreams (7.16)

  • *Mandala (8.16)

  • **Death, My Old Friend (8.16)

  • **Ateuchus (9.16)

  • **ID (3.17)

  • King Mob (3.17)

  • **The Wheel (5.17)

  • The Body (6.17)

  • ***Overnight (6.17)

  • **Symphony (7.17)

  • ***Over 1,000,000 Copies in Print (11.17)

  • ***The View (3.18)

  • ^Shiloh (3.18)

  • Moving Graves (4.18)

  • My Love, Do Not Wake (3.19)

  • **Harvest (4.19)

  • Ergamul (6.19)

  • ***The Wish (7.19)

  • As I Sit to Write this Story (1.20)

  • ^Commodore (3.20)

  • Point Oh One (4.20)

  • ***The Guardian (6.20)

  • I Think My Treehouse is Haunted (8.20)

  • The Astral Key (8.20)

  • ***Marmalade (8.20)

  • The Judge (9.20)

  • ***The Last Haunted House Story (9.20)

  • ^The Fate of Nero (11.20)

  • ***Serial Numbers (2.21)

  • ***Autumn Sugar (3.21)

  • ***Aquarium Diver (5.21)

  • The Black Rider (6.21)

  • ***Murder by Proxy (9.21)

  • ***My Father’s Ashes (10.21)

  • The Hunter (2.22)

  • The Resident (5.22)

  • Fortune (6.22)

  • Specter (9.22)

  • ***Row (1.23)

  • Red Leather (2.23)

  • Hot Red Dress (4.23)

  • The Prodigy (8.23)

  • The Visitor (12.23)

  • The Mummified Corpse of Reese Witherspoon (1.24)

  • D7 (3.24)

* Collected in Behold the Void

** Collected in Beneath a Pale Sky

*** Collected in No One is Safe

^ Standalone book

Other Works

  • The Boy with the Blue Rose Heart – children’s book (2010)

  • Tomorrow’s Gone - poems (published 2021; poems written 2000-2020)

Screenplays

Most of the titles below are either work-for-hires (meaning I wasn’t given a credit) or spec scripts that were never produced, with the exceptions being Santa Paws 2 and Girl Missing.

Gothic, Boys in the Valley, Vintage, and Observe were later adapted into novels.

The Tide and Death, My Old Friend were adapted from my own short stories.

  • Missionary (1992)

  • The Belfry Miracle (2008)

  • Spooky Buddies (2010)

  • Wooly (2010)

  • Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups (2010)

  • Super Buddies (2011)

  • Surf Buddies (2011)

  • John Cassese (2012)

  • American Porno (2012)

  • Dimensions (2013)

  • Escape the Night (2014)

  • Cabin Trip (2014)

  • Gothic (2014)

  • Boys in the Valley (2014)

  • Girl Missing (2014)

  • The Chariot (2015)

  • Black Money (2015)

  • Native (2016)

  • The President (2016)

  • Vintage (2017)

  • Observe (2018)

  • Ransom Hollow (2018)

  • The Tide (2018)

  • Death, My Old Friend (2022)

Music Videos / Shorts

  • Tony’s Song (2012) (music video) (co-written w/ Dick Thompson)

  • Island Universe (2012) (music video) (co-written w/ Dick Thompson)

  • Claw (short) (2016) (co-written w/ Dick Thompson)

Early Short Stories (1990-2013)

These are stories written before I was first published in 2015. Most of them are pretty old and will never see publication. Two have been published or have been sold for publication. These are “Home Again” and “Quad”.

They are listed below in no particular order, as I could not confirm all of their original writing dates.

  • Home Again

  • Her Best April

  • Pretty Girl

  • Quad

  • Mir and the House of Wants

  • Fire Eaters

  • Reflection

  • The First

  • White

  • Breakfast

  • Crime

  • Guest Room

  • Living Inside

  • Lost

  • Mess

  • Napkin

  • Drag

  • Plow

  • The Wonderful Man

  • Santa Monica

  • Bus Stop

  • God and the Surgeon

  • Goldfish

  • Hand of a Bright Whisper

  • Intoxicating Web

  • Last of the Applause

  • Origins of Light

  • The Reality of Self

  • The Moors

  • Moments Following an Incident

  • Like Joe

  • The Wind in Her Dress

  • Santa