All of the blurbs for my work are already available, but maybe what you’re after is not the hook, but a bag of tropes, or a feel, or an aesthetic.  That’s what this is for.  So here are most of my works followed by their genre/subgenre/inspirations/influences/aesthetics.  As a reminder, all of my works are completely free to read, please check any out that interest you.

Book Series

Captain Rob Series – (Pirates of the Caribbean, Army of Darkness, Lord of the Rings, Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

Planet in Theory Series – (electro swing music, space opera, southern gothic, murder mystery)

Declaration Series – (American revolution, The Dark Crystal, Finnegan’s Wake)

Standalone Books

Labor of Ruby and Pearl – (space opera, melee combat)

The Caloric Kiss: A Pseudoscience Tryst – (early twentieth century America, quackery and pseudoscience, automatons, Jules Verne, alternate history, cryptids)

Collapse of Colduvai – (far future, tragedy, Metropolis, genetic engineering, early man, Africa, bees)

Fortune Underfoot – (post-apocalyptic, robots, guns, social satire)

The Green Knight and his Guests – (Arthurian fantasy, retelling)

Through the Bottom of the World: A Choose-your-own-Speed Run – (video games, speed running, choose-your-own-adventure, fantasy)

Juicy Stardrop – (1990’s, soft scifi, Y2K, SSX Tricky, Mortal Kombat, Power Rangers, Pokemon)

Twenty-Four Days of Ringworm and Religion – (Christmas, paganism, fantasy, advent calendars, Catholicism)

Night Skier – (Stephen King, slasher films, Full Moon Features, ski resort)

Invoke the Bloody Mouth – (post-apocalyptic, stone age, beasts, gods)

Novella/Novelette Series

Justice Backers – (superhero team, digital epistolary, crowdfunding, internet culture, soft scifi)

Snakewaist – (urban fantasy, fairies, Power Rangers)

Challenging Handful – (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, tabletop war games, early twentieth century)

Heirs of Cain – (Venus in Furs, paranormal romance, gothic horror, Lord Byron’s Cain, Horror Express)

Standalone Novellas

The Public Domain – (film noir, public domain works)

Manifest of the West – (western, fantasy, surreal)

The Detectorate 7/6c – (police procedural, network television, fourth wall shenanigans)

Ditch Dogs – (dogs, bats, World War I, tragedy)

Taxa Disaster – (dinosaurs, Transformers)

The Moneyed and the Mystic – (Harry Potter, Fyre Festival, micronations, academia, privilege)

Pantry Castle Salamander – (Japanese Iron Chef, Castlevania, competition)

Tourney at the Hanging Gardens – (E-sports, fantasy, lost civilizations, competition, internet culture)

Watery and Grave – (ice sculpture, fantasy, unreliable narrator)

Pineberry Lights – (cozy fantasy, farmer’s market, autumn, alternate history, early 1990s, coming-of-age)

Standalone Novelettes

Austentatious Punk: Attorney-at-Genre – (fourth wall shenanigans, anthropomorphic books, chaotic collage, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, slice of life, light romance)

Cardiac Zack’s Healthy Human Shack – (animatronics, horror comedy, edutainment)

Franklin’s Monster – (Frankenstein, American revolution)

Big-Saw-in-Law – (sports mascot, horror comedy)

Brawny Blue Blerkafeld – (dragon, renaissance fair, time shenanigans)

The Field Guide to Fantasy Birding (for enthusiasts only) – (bird watching, fantasy, nature)

Eyelids of an Aristocrat – (plastination, gothic horror)

Mary Annette’s Big and Beautiful Dog and Pony Show – (wild west show, Dolly Parton, fantasy)

Feisty Faustus Ferret in “Machine Works” – (rubber hose animation, post-apocalyptic, show business)

The End Times were Published in 1979 – (vintage science fiction, clutter, Faustian bargain)

Phages of the Free Radical – (far out, sparse, strange, biological chaos)

The Tree’s Shadow – (nature, evolution, allegory)

Marathon Discovery – (space travel, running, empty planet)

Paused Fire – (scifi, blue collar, mining, time shenanigans)

A Long Wait for Meatballs – (Scifi, blue collar, time shenanigans)

Bookworm – (childhood, fantasy)

Head Chef at Cave Gouch – (alien, survival, dark, culture clash)

The Hollowcry – (high concept, fantasy, quiet, experimental, conspiracy)

Pron – (cyberspace, sleaze, exploitation, neon)

Timeless – (fantasy, romance)

Devilheart Diamond – (European Christmas party, dark forest, monster)

Pop Goes the Shepherd – (fantasy, silly, chaos, experimental)

Panic in the Mumgrass – (far future, nature, genetic engineering, beasts)

Born-Again Birth Defect – (religious dogma, junk heap, quiet rebellion)

The Neofates – (empty space, transformation, enlightenment, transcendence, far out)

Short Stories

The Pick-Knows – (Pikmin, I Spy books, nonsense literature)

I have more shorter works, but that’s just the one with the clearest aesthetic.  You can head to those tabs if you want to check them out.  Thanks for giving this a look, and I hope you found something worth reading.