While the current available novels are largely standalone, there are details and events that are best appreciated if the books are read in a certain order.

Here are a couple suggestions.

Release Order

In Search of the Legendary Phineas Ray (April 1, 2012)

Dan’s Lame Novel (December 1, 2012)

Bloody Love (December 21, 2012)

Bad Fiction: With a Meaningless Subtitle (October 31, 2016)

A Moderately Peculiar Tale of Wizards vs. Vampires with Aliens for Good Measure and the Mistimed Inclusion of a Killer Robot to Boot (October 21, 2019)

Arcturus Storm (August 11, 2022)

Storyline Order

Start with: In Search of the Legendary Phineas Ray or Dan’s Lame Novel.

Followed by: In Search of the Legendary Phineas Ray or Dan’s Lame Novel (whichever you didn’t read first).

Next: Bad Fiction: With a Meaningless Subtitle.

And then: A Moderately Peculiar Tale of Wizards vs. Vampires with Aliens for Good Measure and the Mistimed Inclusion of a Killer Robot to Boot (October 21, 2019)

Arcturus Storm (August 11, 2022)

Bloody Love can be read first, last or anywhere in between.

I’ll Never Tell

Will you be the first to catch things that others may have missed?

Phineas Ray was, perhaps, the greatest baseball player who ever lived.

You don’t remember him?

That’s because they never wanted you to remember.

But things don’t always go as they planned.

Authors usually don’t set out to write a bad novel. Neither did I. Instead, I elected to write a completely lame novel.

A collection of four romance short stories, none of which end well.

In good fiction, the protagonists would achieve their goals and live happily ever after. Bummer for them.

A wannabe-wizard and his two friends embark upon an epic quest to save their magical world from a vampire threat.

A retired starship captain must team up with an unreliable rogue to save galactic civilization from an ancient threat.

A series of essays and pointless meanderings masquerading as chapters in a book that may help you to be more creative or at least kill a few hours of bathroom time but hopefully not all in one sitting else you should probably see your doctor about that.

Reading Order

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