My Work

Crime, General Fiction and Niche Writing

I focus on crime stories and what I think of as "crime adjacent," explicitly or implicitly through a Christian lens, explicitly or implicitly about Michigan or the Midwest. My work in crime has appeared in Black Cat Weekly, MysteryTribune.com, and Yellow Mama, among others. My "general" fiction has appeared in such places as The Saturday Evening Post,  BULL, and Hidden Peak Press. 

Kendo is the art and sport of Japanese fencing with bamboo swords. Kendo World is an international English-language magazine. It's been my privilege to have more than a dozen stories published there, as well as nonfiction. 

I've got a story in the anthology Larceny & Last Chances from Superior Shores Press. I got to interview Superior Shores' Judy Penz Sheluk for Killer Nashville and Kings River Life, and was interviewed for the anthology along with several other contributors on the House of Mystery Radio podcast. 

Other places my work has appeared include issue 2 of  Sweet Tea Dichotomy,  Wrong Turn Lit, The Rye Whiskey Review, Hoosier Noir, Punk Noir, and Trash Cat Lit. I was honored to be the subject of a writer Q&A at Trash Cat. 

Here is a piece I wrote for Art of Manliness on martial arts for beginners, and this is a piece at the Electronic Journal of Martial Arts and Sciences comparing martial arts to chess (I'm mediocre at both). 

Photo by Louie Kondek