Pride Nights are among the absolute worst forms of virtue signaling in sports. And they do far more harm than good for the market. “Baseball is for everyone” sounds harmless until you ask what everyone means. Does it mean gay fans can buy a ticket, sit in the stands, wear their team gear, cheer, boo,…
Celebrating Pride Month may be the most godforsaken virtue signal in the history of Western Civilization. So I created a same-sex couple the Left would despise. Terrian Chronicles is the biggest “shitshow” of a series that blatantly targets the Left and Leftist institutions. From COVID conspiracies to history departments telling a sanitized version on the “story…
Readers have likened Terrian Chronicles to Harry Potter, so why not list each major character from the first four books and their HP equivalents? While I didn’t intentionally create each character (or any, really) with a Harry Potter-equivalent in mind, it wasn’t hard to make connections. Some were obvious, and others took more digging, but…
Tarja Titan: Sophomore Year, Book III in Terrian Chronicles, is a Gryffindor/Slytherin-heavy book with Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff acting as the moral stabilizers. The school lockdown, security-state atmosphere, secret factions, and competing “greater good” arguments force almost every character in Tarja Titan: Sophomore Year to reveal whether they value courage, ambition, loyalty, knowledge, or control most. Many…
Forbidden love is one of the most distinguished tropes across genres. In one paranormal fantasy, it reaches a ninth level of hell. Warning: The following content contains spoilers for Tarja Titan: Sophomore Year. I won’t claim “no one has never done anything remotely similar,” because fiction has plenty of broad relatives: enemy-to-lover, killer-to-redeemed-ally, resurrection romance,…
The Harry Potter TV series trailer dropped in March and it was a hit as long as you ignored arguably the worst casting decision of all time. We’ve now had over a week to process the Harry Potter TV series trailer. While I saw a lot of negativity online, I thought the trailer was badass. Of course,…
I have not one but two Harry Potter-inspired book series. But the “other” series fuses genres like you wouldn’t believe, rendering it a true mash-up. If a few sticklers read Tarja Titan, they’d immediately scream “Harry Potter.” Hell, a lot of reviewers caught “Harry Potter vibes” when they first read and reviewed Titan back in 2022. Some even…
One emo-goth girl I briefly knew from my droning days of public school had a lasting legacy as she inspired Kaija Jokiharju and Tarja Titan. It’s funny how useful public school can be at times, even if the place itself is hell on earth. The truth is, many of my motivations for fiction stemmed from…
The Renegades Epic was supposed to be a hell of a lot simpler than what it ultimately evolved into. But it evolved for the better. I can argue that the Renegades Epic can trace its roots to 2014, when I was just 23. That year, a character named Brock Patrick walked into my mind. Brock was a…
Braden Hawk is the Sirius Black of the Terrian Chronicles. But he might just snag the reprieve Black was never lucky enough to get. Note: I’m going through all of my original short stories, novelettes, and novellas four years after I first wrote and released them. Once they’re all updated, you’ll know, and you’ll have a plethora of…
Across so many different genres, Wintersville, Ohio, appeared in four different works released between 2022 and 2026. A nod to an epic small town. If you’ve ever been to the Upper Ohio Valley Tri-State Area (Eastern Ohio/Northern West Virginia/Southwest Pennsylvania), virtually the entire region resembles something out of a Bruce Springsteen song. You’ll find gray…
A state-run agency submerged a village under Tappan Lake in the name of flood control. What if the price of “progress” is erasing a community? What happens when the government decides your home is expendable? For the residents of Laceyville, Ohio, a small but thriving 19th-century village in Harrison County, that question wasn’t hypothetical. It…