The Books
The Doom that Came to Astoria
(Five Star Indie Today Read!!)
DOOM IS COMING… but Charlie West is too busy striving toward a more hopeful future to notice. Eager to move on from a past scarred by pain, he accepts a teaching position at a school just outside Astoria, Oregon. He’d dreamt of this his whole life. Letting go. Leaving. Building his own life free of the shadows and darkness that plagued his formative youth.
Anxieties reel as Charlie works to settle, build friendships, and find his place in a new community. Allowing himself to dream at last, he is unaware that each step he takes leads him further into an intricate web set to ensnare him.
To Chase the Sun
To Chase the Sun is a collection of work that charts one poet's journey from the darkness back into the light. This search for hope is reflected in his stages of healing from Chaos, to Order, and Beyond.
"I find that I am in love with the night, perhaps it's nought but an ache for the sun." -- Craig Randall
The Dreams in the Pearl House
A heavy fog has settled over Portland, OR, where Charlie West has returned after the devastating events in Astoria. Trapped between a lost dream and a life he hoped to leave behind, he takes up residency at the Portland City Mission. Shards of a recurring dream plague his nights, eroding his ability to sleep a little more each day. Despondent, he’s tried everything he can to manufacture rest and peace and sleep, but to no avail. He resigns to haunting the streets all night, hoping to exhaust himself into whatever few hours of restless sleep he can, each day feeling somehow thinner and more hollow than the day before.
Fall gives way to Winter, and a series of grizzly murders terrorizes the city’s streets. Deformed bodies, riddled with strange bruising, baffle the police. Following a lead, Detectives Cait Lane and Scott Donovan find themselves at The Mission meeting Charlie, who holds a vital piece of information.
Astoria’s Order is gone, but the organization is vast and its reach is long. Charlie must decide whether to pick up the reins of his own life or let them go forever and give in to the currents the world would have for him.
Follow along as these seemingly unconnected paths converge in the explosive next chapter of The Northwest Trilogy.
Among the Wildflowers
Follow-Up Poetry Collection and Spiritual Sequel to To Chase the Sun -- COMING 2023
The continued journey of healing as told through poetry. Images of growth and cultivation.
Rain Songs
What do we do when we've cultivated the life we want...and then the world spirals into a pandemic, thrusting us back into chaos.
Writing this collection helped me hold on to the hope I'd found in the previous two collections.
Coming Oct. 20th 2023
The Mountains at the Edge of Madness: The Northwest Trilogy Part 3
COMING 2023 -- Charlie's story comes to a head.
Coming...Spring of 2024.
Poetry Collection #4
Fourth and final thematic instalment beginning with To Chase the Sun.
Novella Collection
All stories are plotted and waiting to be written!
Short Story Collection
Several written. The rest plotted. Waiting to see day!
Northwest Character Spin-Off
Plotted. Ready to be written!
Untitled Fantasy Novel
A story about stories. I can't wait to write this!