Welcome

Welcome to writing.teiru.net, my writing home away from home.

Novels in progress

• The Twilight Gem: The Adventures of Giovanna Lee, 2003
• A Return to Twilight: The Continuing Adventures of Giovanna Lee, 2004
• Twilight III: Giovanna Lee and the Crime Syndicate, 2005
• Giants of the Deep, 2006
• Mageborn, 2007
• Twilight IV: The Witch of Andvarra, 2008
• Twilight V: Childhood Lost, 2009
• Unchanged, 2010
• Faerie Tail, 2011
• Dreamland, 2012
• House of Many Doors, 2013
• The Door in the Corner of the Playground, 2014 and 2021
• Shadows in the Closet, 2015
• Always Kind, 2016
• The Periapt, 2017
• When I ruled the world, 2018
• The Isle of Lost Dreams, 2019
• Walking Across the Moon, 2020 (my wuxia story)
• Twisted Westerns, 2022 (short stories for the anthology)
• The Journey Book, 2023 (about the Writing Journey)

Short stories published by the Journey

See: short story anthologies from the Journey writing group. All of my stories, flash fiction, poems and more are available as the anthology Kalerion

• Then but for you go I, a short story in the anthology Infinite Monkeys (2009)
• Neverland, (2012), a short story in the anthology The Letter
• She's just sleeping, (2012), a short story in the anthology Drops of Midnight
• The Taste, (2012), a short story in the anthology The Letter
• Fade To Black, (2013), a short story in the anthology The Day Before The End Of The World
• The World Next Door, (2014), a short story in the anthology Stories of Other Worlds
• It's A Small World, (2014), a short story in the anthology Stories of Other Worlds
• The Playground, (2014), a short story in the anthology Stories of Other Worlds
• The Wind Through The Narrow Door, (2014), a short story in the anthology Stories of Other Worlds
• Foodie, (2015), a flash fiction short story in the anthology Voices from the Dark
• The Other Side of the Cardboard Box, 2013 (unpublished)
• The Choice (2013) by Tim Yao, part of Secrets of Seifort, an unpublished anthology
• The Fix, first published online as a contest winner on Sound and Scribe.
• Foodie, In a Shallow Space Beneath The Grass, and Seven Years Ago (2015), first published in Voices from the Dark.
• Folded and Miss Lonely Hearts (2016), first published in Human.
• Rostam and Sohreb, Cassandra, Death on the Trail, and Consequences of Wishing (2017), first published in Near Myths.
• The Island, Free, and Otherness (2017), first published in Reasons for Hope.
• tmi and Awkward Silence (2019), first published in The Love Anthology.
• The Great Divide, Be Careful What You Wish For, Ready or Not (2020), first published in Stranded
• Twinkle, Twinkle and I still believe (2021), first published in Masks, Facades, and Reveals
• Kalerion 2022, a collection of short stories, flash fiction, and poems, published in 2022

Writer friends

• Catherine Brennan is a terrific writer who has an insightful blog.
• Katherine Lato is my one of my former fellow co-Municipal Liaisons for National Novel Writing Month and an author who loves to edit.
• My good friend Janet is a writer, a multi-year winner in NaNoWriMo and former Municipal Liaison.
• Bob Black, one of my friends from PALS'80 from long ago and a popular novelist, has published Liberty Girl, The Real Life Channel and several other books. See his website!

Resources

• See this page of useful references for writers from the NaperWriMo wiki (West Suburban Writers/NaperWriMo).
• Preparatory workshops given by the Journey to help prepare folks for NaNoWriMo
• writingjourney.org - an a la carte writing group
• NaNoWrimo hipster PDAs
• Idea Rings
• Comics I like -- good for that little humor break

About me

I am a writer of fantasy and science fiction stories and a co-founder and leader of the Writing Journey, a writing community in the cities and suburbs west of Chicago. I write my stories using vim and markdown, collecting the short stories in my anthology Kalerion. Many of these have appeared in the Writing Journey anthologies.

In real life, I am a Portfolio Manager for DevOps and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at a major telecommunications manufacturing company.

At one time some years ago, I explored developing Romanzo, an alternative to Papel.