The Lemurians and Project Hail Mary THE LEMURIANS I closed the final page of Project Hail Mary  and, almost in the same breath, returned to The Lemurians: A New Testament for the Soul .  I’m not finished yet—but the ending is clearly in sight. The timing wasn’t planned. Still, it felt quietly meaningful. These are very different books, built through very different methods. They arise from separate imaginations, separate vocabularies, separate aims. And yet, encountering Andy

DECLARATION OF A NEW DIRECTION TURNAGAIN ARM - HOPE, ALASKA The past year has brought clarity—not the heavy kind that closes doors, but the clarifying kind that opens the right ones. The forces reshaping our world are no longer theoretical. They are present, active, and shaping the conditions in which we live and work. Yet seeing them clearly has not diminished my optimism—it has strengthened it. Awareness, after all, is the beginning of choice. Yes, unchecked greed, fraying

A living, serialized novel The Lemurians: A New Testament for the Soul is not released all at once. It unfolds—chapter by chapter—in real time. This page serves as the home base for the novel: a place for new readers to begin and for returning readers to find the latest chapter drops as the story continues to unfold. At its heart, The Lemurians  is a work of metaphysical fiction that asks a radical question: What if humanity did not begin in ignorance—but in remembrance? What

A Reflection on Anomalies, Memory, and the Architecture of Awareness A close-knit group of wide-eyed ring-tailed lemurs, alert and watching. Not every story begins as an idea. Some begin as a rupture—something felt before it can be explained, believed, or named. This was one of those. For my new story, The Lemurians: A New Testament for the Soul,  it did not begin with Lemuria at all. It began with the comet known as 3I/ATLAS —only the third confirmed interstellar object ever

A DECLARATION OF A NEW DIRECTION The past year has made one thing unmistakably clear: The forces reshaping our world are no longer abstract. The unchecked greed of the powerful, the breakdown of global order, the resurgence of antisemitism, and the birth of the robots are no longer abstract. They now press into our daily life—altering relationships, testing institutions, and clarifying what endures. These shifts are not temporary. They have direction, and they are already ch

A Journey Built on the Gifts of a Father to a Son For most of you who know me—through my books, through this Substack, through the worlds I write and dream into being—there’s an entire part of my life you’ve only glimpsed in passing, if at all. It’s the part that began long before I ever wrote my first novel. Long before I understood the creation of story. An early lesson came from a broom, a floor, and a father determined to teach me how to live. Back when I was a child swee

THE WIZARD OF HOPE: THE ALASKAN ADVENTURES OF PERCY HOPE The early reviews for The Wizard of Hope: The Alaskan Adventures of Percy Hope  are beginning to arrive, and I’m deeply moved by the excitement and insight readers are bringing to this story. Returning to Alaska’s rugged frontier through Percy’s eyes—where mystery, destiny, and the unforgiving wilderness converge—has sparked powerful reflections among those who’ve journeyed with him. This novel, steeped in the real hist

A Father’s Reflection on Birth, Death, and the Soul’s Long Journey Home Today is my son's birthday. He would be 37 years old. Every year, this date rises like a tide—soft at first, then full, then overwhelming. It is a day that still belongs to the living, a day with cake, photos, and memories of his first breath. But now it also belongs to the soul world, where he has traveled these past years. In the time after his passing, I found myself searching for a language wide enoug

NOW AVAILABLE! Alaska, 1915. A land as vast and unforgiving as it is beautiful—where fortune and ruin arrive on the same tide. At its center, a bold vision takes shape: the Alaska Railroad, a steel artery meant to unite the Territory from Seward to Fairbanks. Yet beneath this dream of progress stirs something far older and far more dangerous. When journalist Percy Hope arrives to cover the railroad’s construction for the San Francisco Examiner, he expects to find grit and glo