Why Ashwake?

Names matter. Ashwake is what I call the space where my stories live — where ruin, memory, and fire all stir together to shape something new.

This blog will be my ember pile: scraps of story, thoughts on writing, fragments of worldbuilding, maybe even a poem or two. Some entries will be rough. Some polished. All of them will be pieces of what I’m chasing when I sit down to write.

So — welcome to Ashwake. Let’s see what survives the fire.

Right now, I’m deep in the querying process for my novel The Soul-Sung — the first book of the Vaeritas Saga. At the same time, I’ve already begun writing its sequel, carrying forward the world of Draken, Watchers, and fractured tribes.

But I’ve also got two side projects that won’t leave me alone:

• For Scales Alone — a sharp, mythic story about survival and betrayal.

• Underworld LLC — my satirical romp through Hades’ bureaucracy, where gods and monsters punch timecards and chaos brews in the breakroom.

Between these projects, I’m always juggling. Some days it’s drafting new chapters, some days it’s tightening query letters, and some days it’s chasing down entirely new stories that refuse to wait their turn.

If you’re here, you’ll see pieces of all of it — the big sagas, the side projects, and the stray sparks that might someday become novels of their own.

Welcome to the fire.