ABOUT ME
I'm Sam (they/them)
I'm a 23yo from Wyoming
I write dark, literary-leaning fantasy and horror
I am also a stage actor, director, and playwright!!
My published work can be found HERE!
MY WIPS
"You already agreed to it. And here I thought you had a haggler’s soul in you. Your second secret better be a scandalous one or there will be collateral. I don’t want to hear about the time you skimped on fishing duty.” “Collateral?” Amsel repeats, sounding scandalized. The knife clicks against the bench by his side. “And what exactly is this collateral?” Bay shrugs. “I’ll decide if and when it comes to it.” “Oh, and that’s you being a fair and honest tradesman, is it?” “Yes. And to be clear, I never claimed to be honest,” he says, finally allowing himself to turn back to Amsel who is juggling the peeled, pith-woven pomelo between his palms. “Which is very honest of you.”
Genre: Adult fantasy adventure novel
Setting: Lake Vashik, Tarson, 05 post-Rot.
Summary: Outsider Amsel Ka-Fal and his mysterious companion Bay leave the safety of his Lake on a journey across Imahaine to bring the last of an extinct species back to the fabled isle of the Gods.
Status: Drafting / 58k
Monroe just laughs and runs her fingers over the mug's smooth glaze, wondering if that isn’t a bit like how her heart looks: warped and greenish and malformed, with June’s fingerprints all over the surface.
Sequel to Mosswood.
Genre: Adult contemporary fantasy, horror novel
Setting: The fictional town of Los Cedros, California, 2014
Summary: A decade after the events of Mosswood, Monroe moves to a small town in California where she meets Joey Hart, a self-proclaimed Paranormal Private Investigator who recruits her for his cross-country expedition in search of the supernatural, but as her past and present begin to collide, she finds herself being pulled back to Ponderosa Bay and the darkness that waits in its forests.
Status: Drafting / 19k
The light-leaks and scratches on the old film flicker over her face, masking her reflective white eyes. The video kicks back and loops. “My name is Nettie Schultz and I have died three times,” she repeats.
Genre: Adult, sci-fi mystery
Setting: Tombedel, a mysterious medieval island off the coast of England. November of 2025, but also 1983 and 1934 and 802 AD and 509 AD.
Summary: On the island of Tombedel, no one dies. At least, no one stays dead. Ex-private investigator Abe Tannen’s vacation to Tombedel takes an unexpected turn when a man is murdered in his hotel—the first person to die on the island in over 1,000 years. When he ends up being roped into the investigation, he teams up with Pippin Young, a 13-year-old ghost with a mysterious past, and an eclectic bunch of ghosts.
Status: Planning