Fiction & nonfiction

Two kinds of book. One question underneath.

On one shelf, Southern supernatural horror and a satire of the modern workplace. On the other, leadership and the psychology of what organizations do to the people inside them. Different rooms of the same house — what a place does to the people it is supposed to hold.

Southern horror Workplace satire Leadership & org. psychology

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Fiction

Southern horror, and a workplace that eats its own.

Two Southern supernatural horror novels about towns that are very good at forgetting their own, and a satire of the modern workplace where the machine never stops.

Southern Horror · A Novel

The Usual

Nobody Leaves Hungry

In a garrison town that has perfected the art of forgetting its own, the kindest man in Fayetteville runs the diner where nobody leaves hungry — and the thing beneath the floor has been feeding on the unmissed for forty years.

Southern Horror · A Novel

The Good News

You’re Not Alone Anymore

In Marion, Missouri, the missing don’t leave tracks — and a kind old man goes door to door with the good news that you’re not alone anymore. The town has always been good at forgetting. It’s about to learn what it forgot.

Satire · A Novel

Sisyphus.gov

A Workplace Comedy About Impossible Tasks

A sharp, funny, uncomfortably accurate novel about the mythology of the modern workplace — and a serious diagnosis of why good organizations break good people.

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Nonfiction

The leadership work.

A research-grounded body of work on why some organizations make people more while others make them less — the framework for diagnosing it, and the practice of staying whole when the systems above you contradict themselves.

The Framework

The Lost ARC

Autonomy, Relatedness, Competence

A synthesis of five decades of motivation and trust research into a single diagnostic system built around three questions any leader can ask about any person they lead.

The Practice

Quiet Strength

30 Maxims for a Balanced Life

Thirty short meditations on how a person stays whole when the systems around them do not cooperate — a quiet companion for the reader who already knows the loudest voice is rarely the wisest.

All the leadership work

An unusual combination

The reason the observations land.

Whether the subject is a haunted town or a broken org chart, the same four credentials sit underneath the work — and they are the source, not the ornament, of what it has to say.

The Operator

Senior executive in federal government technology, leading enterprise-scale modernization programs across Agile delivery teams and complex cybersecurity environments. Fifteen-plus years of hands-on experience.

The Scholar

Ed.S., Educational Leadership (Summa Cum Laude). M.A., Ethics and Psychology. Six years teaching philosophy at the college level.

The Veteran

U.S. Army Non-Commissioned Officer and Team Chief. Multi-channel communications, readiness, leadership under field conditions.

The Author

Published books across two shelves — Southern supernatural horror and workplace satire, and nonfiction on leadership and organizational psychology.

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From the work

“Leadership is the sustained practice of creating conditions in which other people's identities form rather than fragment.”

— The Lost ARC

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