A 13 year-old boy finds an easy-to-read, how-to manual for magic. Now he just has to prevent everyone else from stealing it.

One eventful middle-class childhood behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet Leningrad.  A mix of a fun memoir and social history of the years preceding the collapse of the USSR. (The book is finished.)

A preposterous fantasy crisis with resolutions remarkable and losses lamentable.  May contain minotaur tea parties.

Inspired by my love of medieval history, mythological fantasy, and good old-fashioned monster stories.

Surviving abuse leaves no soul unscathed, and this is especially true of Ptielieren, an elite elvish bodyguard involuntarily integrated into an aversive-heavy culture.  Strength can exist absent a ringing victory and weakness does not signify defeat.