Come see me at A Bookish Market Spring 2026 📚
Saturday, April 18, 2026
5–8 PM
The Osgood — 614 Center Ave, Bay City, MI
I’ll be there with my books, and I’d love to meet some readers in person.
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I would be giddy regardless lol. Take me off this planet! Haha
Let’s settle this sci-fi question:
Which first contact would be more intimidating?
The Vulcans or the Sumerian Empire?
One feels like the start of hope.
The other feels like the start of something much bigger, darker, and unknown.
What’s your pick?
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Happy First Contact Day
April 5, 2063 gave us one legendary First Contact.
July 23, 2465 gave another universe its own.
Different timelines. Different stars. Same human question:
What happens when we are no longer alone?
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What people think authors do: sit around and write books all day.
What authors actually do: writing, editing, worldbuilding, website work, social media, promo, and about 20 other things nobody sees.
That’s a big part of indie author life, and definitely part of building First Contact.
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A lot of people see the finished book.
What they don’t see is the behind-the-scenes part:
the writing, the worldbuilding, the website work, the promo, and the constant feeling that there’s always one more thing to do.
That’s indie author life, and it’s a very real part of building First Contact.
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Ship lore:
The WarpStar had to be more than a warship and more than an explorer. It had to be both at the same time.
That’s why I think of her as a gamble turned into steel. She was built to go farther than anything before her, and dangerous enough to survive what she might find there.
Please share with anyone who loves books, indie authors, or sci-fi.
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I’m excited to announce a Meet the Author / Book Signing event at @crookednook.mi on September 26 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Come by to meet me, pick up a signed book, and chat with me about writing, science fiction, and the First Contact universe. I’d love to see you there and meet fellow readers
What pulls you into a sci-fi universe most?
The ships?
The politics?
The alien mystery?
The military side?
The feeling that history is unfolding in real time?
That kind of larger world is a huge part of First Contact.
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Sneak peek at Trinity:
John Henderson feels like the kind of man who doesn’t waste words when things go wrong.
“Stay focused. Panic gets people killed.”
“You keep moving until everyone gets home, or you die trying.”
That’s his kind of energy.
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“Mesquite, 250, six hours.”
“Never mind the horseradish; do you turn red when boiled alive like a lobster?”
That is absolutely her energy.
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Sneak peek at Trinity:
Charlene Carr under pressure is one of my favorite things to write.
While everyone else is reacting, Char is over there basically planning the recipe:
One thing I love about the WarpStar is that she isn’t just humanity’s first true FTL ship. She’s proof humanity was willing to build something insane and send it into the unknown anyway.
That says a lot about the universe all by itself.
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I think the best part is character development, theres a lot going on in Trinity!
One of the worst parts of being an indie author is spending so much time on websites, marketing, and social media that the writing gets pushed back.
I haven’t worked on Trinity in weeks, and that stings.
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One of the biggest pieces of lore in First Contact is that service leaves a mark on people long after the fighting stops.
The ships matter. The battles matter.
But so do the people carrying all of it afterward.
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They thought the stars were empty.
They were wrong.
First Contact: Book 1 — WarpStar is dark military sci-fi with first contact, mystery, and the moment humanity realizes the galaxy was never as quiet as it seemed.
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Humanity brought our wars to the stars.
The stars fought back.
First Contact is military sci-fi about humanity entering a hostile universe and learning the stars were never empty.
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Humanity stepped into the stars thinking it was entering empty space. It wasn’t.
First Contact: Book 1 — WarpStar
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Humanity’s first true FTL ship should have opened the stars to exploration. Instead, it opened the door to something much darker.
First Contact: Book 1 — WarpStar
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What makes a first contact story really work for you — mystery, fear, awe, or war?
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It was a bit of hard, tedious work, but the new website is up and live.
It’s still a work in progress, but I honestly think this is the best site I’ve had yet.
Take a look around, enjoy, and keep checking back as I keep building it out: scorpnet.com
A big part of writing First Contact was making the universe feel believable. Not just big ships and battles, but consequences, tension, and realism.
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After all these years, I can finally say it for real:
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If you’ve known me a long time, you know scorpnet.com has always been my handle. I just never actually owned the domain.
Until now.
Bluesky:
Made an image of the WarpStar entering FTL.
In First Contact, FTL doesn’t look like a white tunnel. The stars fracture into the full visible spectrum as the ship pushes faster than light.
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