Human Cost

Roughly a month ago, I sat down with a young lady named Samantha, who had just graduated high school. She talked about how she’d been nervous coming to a new town, she talked about her friends’ struggles with mental health, and she talked about her own plans to go on to college and study clinical … More Human Cost

Deleted Scene: [Machinations] Meeting Mrs. Rusval.

This is a bit from my steampunk novel about Iosif Rusval, a young boy pulled into service of the Automated Postal Department’s Enforcement Division.  His supervisor is in the midst of a nail-biting investigation into mail tampering, which leads Iosif and his fellow Enforcers into all sorts of dangerous situations. It’s a fun story, but … More Deleted Scene: [Machinations] Meeting Mrs. Rusval.