How My Stories Connect, Why I Write Across Genres, and What the Spire Really Is
I don’t write books the way other people do.
I don’t pick a genre, plant a flag, and stay there. I can’t.
My brain doesn’t work in straight lines. My life didn’t either.
Instead, I write the way I live:
in recursion,
in fragments,
in loops,
in the mess,
in the meaning we make out of chaos.
All of my books—memoirs, thrillers, middle-grade stories, cosmic horror, dystopian satire—are expressions of the same thing:
a lifelong attempt to understand how memory, trauma, hope, and identity are all part of the same story.
You don’t have to read every book to understand the others.
But if you do, you’ll feel the shape of the whole system begin to emerge.
The Spire Is the Architecture Behind Everything
Every author has an organizing principle.
Mine just happens to be metaphysical.
The Spire is the backbone of my fictional universe—
but it’s also a metaphor for human consciousness,
my own emotional history,
and the way stories stack on top of each other across a lifetime.
You can call it a cosmic filing system.
Or a metaphysical bubble of recursion.
Or the place stories go when we aren’t pretending they’re separate.
In my world:
Every person is their own Spire.
Every story is a vantage point.
Every book is another way to make sense of life.
And each one connects.
Why So Many Genres? Because Life Has So Many Modes.
I don’t believe in staying in one lane.
- Memoir expresses the truths I survived.
- Wolf Wounds expresses the monster I could’ve become.
- Think Stoopid expresses rebellion.
- Camp Chaos expresses childhood as mythology.
- Black Wind expresses justice in a world stacked against the vulnerable.
- Mortal Errors expresses the afterlife of trauma.
- Grammar for the Dead expresses the cosmic rules behind everything else.
These aren’t separate projects.
They’re facets of a single consciousness.
Mine.
Yours.
Everyone’s.
In My Universe, Everyone Is God
Not in the “worship me” way.
In the creative way.
The observer way.
The we shape the world because we experience it way.
The Spire Cycle is my metaphysical answer to the same question Hitchhiker’s Guide, Tolkien, and The Dark Tower all asked in their own forms:
Why are we here, and what does it mean to tell a story inside a universe that tells stories back?
My answer is simple:
We are here to witness ourselves.
We are here to create meaning.
We are here to remember each other.
And stories are how we make that possible.
You Can Start Anywhere, But It All Leads to the Same Place
Read The Cancer Diet and you’ll understand the emotional foundation.
Read Empire, Nevada and you’ll see adolescence as myth.
Read Wolf Wounds and you’ll see trauma turn animal.
Read Think Stoopid and you’ll see rebellion as survival.
Read Grammar for the Dead and you’ll see the machinery of the whole universe.
You can jump into any doorway.
Every room connects.
That’s the point.
**This Is the Spire.
This Is My Work.
This Is How I Make Sense of Being Alive.**
If you want the clean version:
I’m building a literary universe where every story is part of the same cosmic architecture.
If you want the honest version:
I’m just trying to organize my life, one book at a time.
Either way—
I’m grateful you’re here.
Welcome to the Spire.
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