I'm a retired special agent and multi-genre novelist, humorist, and columnist, with publications ranging from academic papers (ornithology and colon cancer research) and information security technical papers to speculative fiction, hacker fiction, fantasy, and humor. I wrote the technology humor column '/dev/random' for ;Login: magazine from 2006 - 2020.

I was first runner-up for the Robert Benchley Society Humor Writing Award in 2011 and a semifinalist in 2012. I was also a finalist for the 2012 Atlanta Review Poetry Competition and a narrative nonfiction category finalist in the 2012 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.

I have one fantasy series, The Tol Chronicles, consisting of 'Goblinopolis' (2013), 'Gathering of the Titans' (2015), and 'Gumnil’s Deception' (2016) in print, Kindle, and Audible formats. My 15-part hacker serial fiction series 'Chasing the Wind' was published on the website SecurityFocus.com from 2000-2002.

I have pieces in five print anthologies of humor and two of dark fiction. I've released two self-published books: a science fiction novel called 'Tangent' (2004) and a compilation of humorous belles-lettres on history titled 'Ex Mentis Saxonicum' (2012).