I just finished my first draft of Privileged Access. It came in at approx 89000 words, which given its scope seems correct. The layers of this case, the emotional stakes, and the technical detail all warrant the page space. I enjoyed taking this one slightly slower, although the pace was still very fast by normal…

November Sunrise has had a few more beta readers finish and the results have been positive. The biggest compliment I got was from two readers who said they have never read crime before and enjoyed it. One of them said she would be interested in reading more about Mercer, and has added some crime fiction…

I’m about 10,000 words into After Image and I have to say I’m more excited about it than the last two. I think its got a hook that’ll bite a lot harder. Listen Closely is a slow burn descent into a male protagonist. November Sunrise is a character driven crime procedural manhunt. After Image is…

I am extremely happy to have finished my first novel recently. It is a psych-suspense called Listen Closely. Its been a long way to get here. Originally I wrote it over six months in 2019. It was a far more supernatural story at that time, but in the recent revisions has grown into something far…

I am extremely grateful and happy to report I was offered the Security Analyst job. I will be starting in about a month on October 27th. The trajectory my life has taken since 2022 has been quite…sharp. I went from a long social services career to moving, changing to IT, and meeting my goal of…

As of the time of this writing I have been living in New Jersey for a week. My old house is under contract, and I have an interview for the job I have been going after since I made the switch into IT. Lots happening. Lots all at once. To say a year ago I…

Last month after a little bit of a longer study time frame than Id have liked I passed CySA+. With that, I reached the goal of having the certifications I’ll need to become a security analyst. Hopefully the right job is around the corner but until then, its being the best Help Desk Technician I…