Now Available On Amazon: Shinkei


In a frighteningly realistic future, Identity Theft has become the most common form of crime there is. Banks, businesses, and Law Enforcement all fight a constant war with the omnipresent grifters and hackers, each trying to keep ahead of the other.


In the middle of this ongoing struggle, is Marcus Doyle. A low-level Identity Thief, just trying to get by in a world where the legitimate options grow fewer and fewer, for himself and his family. When he's approached by a Client that offers him a huge, final score; he can't help but think this might just be his final job.

From the Author of 'The Lostkind' and 'The Welcome Back Diner' comes a novelized, "Expanded Edition" of a full cast Audio Drama from Decoder Ring Theatre.


NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON: SHINKEI


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"Are there any two phrases in the English language that offer as much delight as 'mildly dystopian' and 'not-too-distant future'? If there are, they can only be 'career criminal' and 'one last big score'. And yet for all those comfortable tropes, expect the unexpected from 'Shinkei'!" -- Decoder Ring Theatre


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I self-published my first novel in 2013. At the time, I was also a big fan of an Audio Drama Series called ‘Black Jack Justice’; produced by an outfit called ‘Decoder Ring Theatre’. They’re still active, putting out audiobooks, with a back catalogue of hundreds of episodes of audio drama; mostly in two long-running shows. Between these two shows, they would put on more ‘variety’ shows, and one day back in 2009, they put a call out on the message boards for people to submit audio scripts.

Well, I did so. The result was my first legit ‘credit’, for a full cast Audio Drama called ‘Shinkei’, available for free download now on Decoder Ring Theatre’s website.

About six months ago, I was cleaning out my computer, and came across a folder of (mostly unproduced) audio scripts. I decided it was time to do something with them; and started adapting them into novellas.


I have to admit, going back and seeing the way I wrote more than ten years ago is a bizarre learning experience. I’ve cleaned up some of the dialogue, added several scenes to make the plot clearer, and removed the ‘length limit’ that I had to keep in mind when writing a twenty minute script.


You may consider this the ‘Improved Director’s Cut’ of one of my very first original stories.