Inspirations

Every story begins with a spark—an image, a line of dialogue, a piece of music that hits too hard to ignore. This page is a tribute to the voices and visions that shaped me: the authors who cracked open new ways of thinking, the films that haunted me in the best ways, the songs I looped while writing, and the artists whose work made the world feel just a little more alive.

Here you’ll find the creative DNA behind Empire, Nevada, The Cancer Diet, Unto a Golden Dawn, and Civil War #7. These are the stories, songs, and strange, beautiful things that stirred something in me—and maybe they’ll do the same for you.