sail the endless sea

Well, I didn't do as many snowflake challenges as I was planning. I ended up spending most of January working on edits for book 2. The exciting news is that I've put the first two chapters up to preview!

You can read them here for free (6k words): https://dl.bookfunnel.com/5i63i06kka

Title:     Chapters 1-2 of Surviving Peace
Genre:  Science Fiction
Rated:  PG-13/Teen for violence and swearing - not more than you would see on tv.
Tags:    No Archive Warnings Apply, Spoilers for my first book The Dementia (so you know what's going on), Captured/Prisoners, Interrogation, Found family, Fresh Dystopia, 





Also also! If any folks out there are interested in being an early reader please let me know!

I'll give you a free advance ebook in mid-Feb, and in the endless chase for reviews, would love it if you leave a review wherever you buy books and/or Goodreads. Surviving Peace comes out March 18. (This whole marketing thing, I swear.) 

(First a little aside for myself because I forget every year, the name of the community is snowflake_challenge not fandom_snowflake.)

#1 The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

Hello 2026. I usually do a few snowflake challenges each year, though rarely all of them. I'm tassos around the interwebs. I'm a writer, sometime vidder, and generally grew up in fandom. These days I'm not writing much fic, which I'm a little sad about, but I've gotten into self-pub original sci-fi books, so that's where my time is spent right now.

I came up watching Farscape and Buffy, the Stargates, and since then about a hundred other fandoms. In 2025, I was into the British crime series Shetland, which has a very lovely slash ship of two middle-aged men co-parenting their daughter. I subsequently read the mysteries the show is based on and they're fun, but not slashy at all. Most recently, I watched Heated Rivalry which is fabulous. Haven't gotten into the fic for it yet.

I'm doing the challenge because I'm not as frequent a poster these days, and it's always a fun celebration of fandom and our community. 

 Two weeks before I'm off for the holidays. I'm grinding through edits, and have gotten to the section of 4 chapters that need full rewrites. I'm starting to feel the pressure of getting this draft done.

What I'm reading: Babylon's Ashes and The Man Who Died Twice. The latter is a reread/listen and is my falling asleep audiobook.

What I'm playing: Still Stardew Valley. This is the first time I'm going for perfection since the last update. Just got the Big Clock and full friendship with Leo.

What I'm watching: We're onto Nova episodes on Youtube for our low stakes watching. The one problem is many of these were made in lower resolution and/or then futher compressed when they were uploaded so it's like watching without glasses on. But they're cool. I reccomend the one about the Kite structures in the middle east. 

I spent Sunday watching The Expanse season 5, that tracks to Nemesis Games and part of Babylon's Ashes. I just started reading the latter yesterday. The show continues to deliver, and my only complaint was Amos's haircut (felt too styled for a trek through the wilderness.)

( spoilers for book and show )

So my book The Dementia: A Space Adventure is on sale right now for $0.99, and it's wide, so it's available on all the major retailers.
You can get it here: https://books2read.com/TheDementiaASpaceAdventure

 This is your sign friends! If you've been thinking about getting it, it's as cheap as Amazon will let me go! This only applies to the e-book version (not paperback, which is not on sale and only on Amazon still. I'm working on it.)

Also, and very important: if just one person buys my book on Amazon, then I can screenshot 69 sales. Nice!