GOOD MOOOORNING NEVERLAAAND!

How this all began...

For most of my life, I have felt as though I existed somewhere between worlds.

I was always drawn to the dark, the strange, and the misunderstood—not because I wanted to escape reality, but because those stories often felt more honest than the world around me. Monsters were rarely just monsters. They were outsiders, survivors, and people who had been rejected, transformed, or forced to discover their strength in the dark.

I understood them.

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Long before I became a published author, storytelling was already at the center of my life. I created characters through video games, wrote short tales, and wove stories wherever I could. But the journey that would eventually become my career truly began when I started telling stories as a game master for Vampire: The Masquerade.

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From there, I began acting out my own story on TikTok as an interactive web series.

The original idea was ambitious: to tell Jack Townson’s story through a form of alternate-reality roleplaying. The internet would be introduced to the Vampire of New York and invited to interact with him directly. People would not simply watch his story unfold—they would live inside it, influence it, and gradually uncover his history alongside him.

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Over time, I met other creators and performers who inspired me to move beyond the original interactive format and develop the project into a more traditional web series. Thousands of people entered Jack Townson’s world, grew attached to its characters, and returned each day to discover what would happen next.

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What began as an experiment in immersive storytelling became a living universe.

Eventually, I realized that the story needed something permanent. The mythology had grown too large, the characters had become too important, and the world deserved an established lore and canon of its own.

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Although I had always loved writing, becoming a novelist was not initially part of the plan. I had already published two bestselling poetry anthologies: Blood and Roses, and Death and Lilies, with a third collection still waiting somewhere on the horizon. But it was a mentor who encouraged me to recognize that there was far more to Jack’s story than could be contained within short videos.

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With that guidance, I began writing the story of Jack Townson and his beloved crew of monsters, known as the Degenerates.

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That journey began with Fame Has Its Price, an introductory novel exploring Jack’s origins and the life he lived before entering the world of Draconia. It tells the story of James Donovan, a man who loses everything in a single night before falling prey to the illustrious and beautiful vampire Alexander LaMont.

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The novel also became a way for me to explore my own trauma through fiction. By placing pieces of my experiences inside another world, I could tell difficult truths in a form that felt safe, purposeful, and ultimately transformative.

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Fame Has Its Price became a bestselling novel and received an award from Readers’ Favorite.

Its success gave me the courage to take the next step.

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I began writing Everdusk: The Lightslayer, the first true installment in Jack Townson’s larger adventure. At more than six hundred pages, it became a vast dark-fantasy epic filled with monsters, magic, romance, mythology, and characters who refused to remain confined to the roles the world had given them.

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To my astonishment, The Lightslayer went on to receive multiple awards, including an IPPY, and was later adapted into an audiobook brought to life by an extraordinary, award-winning cast.

The world continued to expand through Everdusk: Sidequests, a companion and prequel series exploring the characters, histories, and adventures surrounding the events of The Lightslayer.

What began at a gaming table had become an award-winning literary universe.

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Along the way, the community surrounding my stories continued to grow. I have connected with nearly half a million followers on TikTok, close to forty thousand subscribers on YouTube, and more than ninety thousand people on Instagram. Those numbers represent far more than an audience to me. They represent people who chose to enter these worlds, care about these characters, and become part of something that once existed only inside my imagination.

Today, I work as an author, actor, narrator, musician, and independent creator. Every medium gives me another way to tell a story and another doorway through which people can enter the worlds I build.

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Every project carries a piece of my life within it. They are shaped by trauma, survival, obsession, imagination, love, and the refusal to remain trapped by the person I once believed I had to be.

I create for the outsiders, the survivors, the dreamers, and the people still fighting to become themselves. I create for anyone who has ever felt too strange, too intense, too damaged, or too different for the world around them.

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Because sometimes the darkness is not where we lose ourselves.

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Sometimes it is where we finally discover who we are.

So. Enter my dark kingdom of misfits and monsters. Join the community in the Patreon and across social media.

And most of all...

Help me in giving a massive thank you to the FANGFAM community, for without them none of this would exist.