Books

I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy and I'm a huge fan of world building and magic systems. Currently I'm reading Curtis Jobling’s Wereworld series loving the wear lore, and the world. Mercedes Lackey and Anne McCaffrey are two of my favorites, Lackey in particular wrote gay characters into classic dragons-and-castles fantasy that really touched me. The multi-volume sagas I’ve read the longest are Terry Brooks’s Shannara books, Raymond Feist’s Riftwar saga, and Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time. Here are some books I’ve enjoyed.

Another author I really enjoy is Jim Butcher the Dresden Files and Codex Alera series are excellent. I really enjoy the world building in both series. The fairy and Demon arcs in the Dresden Files are some of my favorite stories of all time. Codex Alera is a great series as well think the Roman Legion meets Pokémon.

I'm horror fan as well. Stephen King’s It is the blockbuster for a reason, and The Tommyknockers delivers the same kind of long, small-town unraveling. Dean Koontz’s Dragon Tears, Ticktock, and Phantoms never fail to fill me with dread while making it difficult to put the book down. Raymond Feist is known for epic fantasy, but Faerie Tale is his detour into supernatural horror, rural dread and things half-glimpsed.

I’m also drawn to LGBTQIA+ literature—romance, lit fic, story collections like Rebel Yell, whatever shelf the story lands on when the voices and relationships feel honest. The Gay Literature filter on my books page gathers the queer titles I’ve highlighted there; it’s the fastest way to browse those write-ups.

I write a bit too: a couple of my poems have been published, and I’d still like to finish a novel someday. I have a notebook of ideas.