Here’s what this is: the unvarnished truth about building The Legendary universe. Twenty-two years of character development, plot architecture, and transforming personal hell into archaeological storytelling. I’ll talk about the creative process, the publishing grind, the research that informs everything from combat choreography to mythical symbolism.
What this isn’t: a carefully curated author platform designed to sell you books. I mean, I want you to read the books but that’s not why I’m writing these posts. I’m documenting the actual work because someone needs to show what indie publishing really looks like when you refuse to water down the difficult parts.
Expect posts about character psychology, behind-the-scenes development decisions, everyone who inspired these characters, and occasionally some frank talk (pun intended) about trauma, recovery, and why representation matters even in superhero fiction.
If you’re looking for writing advice blogs or marketing tips, there are better resources out there. If you want to see how someone builds a fictional universe while working a day job and raising a family, you’re in the right place.
Let’s do this.
We’re 5 Days In. Here’s What I Want You to Know.
First — thank you. Every single one of you who backed this project took a chance on something with no big publisher behind it, no marketing machine, just a guy who spent 22 years building a universe because the story needed to exist. That means everything to me. Here’s where we stand and what’s coming:…
Something More
The Kickstarter for The Legendary Volume 1 has launched as of Sunday, March 8th at 8:00 PM CST. The Legendary: Volume 1 Kickstarter I want to tell you about something I’ve been working on since you were in high school. Twenty-two years ago, I started writing stories about broken people who refused to stay broken.…
It’s Go Time
The Legendary: Volume 1 is now live on Amazon as an ebook for $2.99. [link] If you want to know whether this story is for you, here’s how it starts. This is chapter one, the ambush that kicks off everything. No false advertising, no bait-and-switch. This is what you’re getting. Chapter 1: The Truck Driver…
🎶 Bezos Take The Wheel! 🎶
(Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust the Algorithm) So here’s the thing nobody tells you about publishing your debut novel through Amazon KDP: after you spend 22 years developing characters, convert eight comic scripts into a 65,000-word novel, survive an editor who tried to rewrite your entire manuscript without permission, create all…
The Cast
Twenty-two years ago, I started building a world. Not on paper at first—in a video game where I met people who would become friends, collaborators, and eventually, characters in the story that’s consumed half my life. The faces you see above aren’t just character designs. They’re people I’ve known. Fought alongside. Laughed with at 2…
Kickstarter Prelaunch
The Kickstarter Prelaunch is HERE! I’ve spent 22 years building this universe. That’s not marketing hyperbole—I mean literally two decades of character development, world-building, and turning real events into mythology. The Legendary started as superhero fiction and somewhere along the way it became something bigger. It became proof that even the most broken among us…
The Legendary 