My Stories
Novels
Writing as J.P. Oakes
In this fast-paced dark fantasy debut, the Fae seek to rebel against their Goblin oppressors over one long bloody night.
The Iron City is a prison, a maze, an industrial blight. It is the result of a war that saw the Goblins grind the Fae beneath their collective boot heels. And tonight, it is also a city that churns with life. Tonight, a young fae is trying to make his fortune one drug deal at a time; a goblin princess is searching for a path between her own dreams and others' expectations; her bodyguard is deciding who to kill first; an artist is hunting for his own voice; an old soldier is starting a new revolution; a young rebel is finding fresh ways to fight; and an old woman is dreaming of reclaiming her power over them all. Tonight, all their stories are twisting together, wrapped up around a single bag of Dust--the only drug that can still fuel Fae magic--and its fate and theirs will change the Iron City forever.
Writing as Jon Hollins
A brand new adventure fantasy: imagine Guardians of the Galaxy planning a heist on Smaug's gold, for fans looking for something with a modern twist and some humor.
Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Hobbit in this rollicking fantasy adventure.
It's not easy to live in a world ruled by dragons. The taxes are high and their control is complete. But for one group of bold misfits, it's time to band together and steal back some of that wealth.
No one said they were smart.
The Dragons who once ruled over the land are dead.
The motley crew that stumbled through that revolution are rich and praised as saviors.
Everyone gets to live happily ever after, right?
Right?
Well, it might have worked out that way if the dragons in Kondorra had been the only ones. If they hadn't been just the tip of the spear about to fall upon the whole world...
Will and his comrades went to war to overthrow the reign of dragons, winning battle after battle, and acclaim as conquering heroes.
But now they've angered the gods, and may just need the dragons to help them this time. . .
Writing as Jonathan Wood
"What would Kurt Russell do?" Oxford police detective Arthur Wallace asks himself that question a lot. Because Arthur is no hero. He's a good cop, but prefers that action and heroics remain on the screen, safely performed by professionals. But then, secretive government agency MI37 comes calling, hoping to recruit Arthur in their struggle against the tentacled horrors from another dimension known as the Progeny. But Arthur is NO HERO! Can an everyman stand against sanity-ripping cosmic horrors?
Another day. Another zombie T-Rex to put down. All part of the routine for Arthur Wallace and MI37—the government department devoted to defending Britain from threats magical, supernatural, extraterrestrial, and generally odd. Except a zombie T-Rex is only the first of the problems about to trample, slavering and roaring, through Arthur's life. Before he can say, “but didn't I save the world yesterday?” a new co-director at MI37 is threatening his job, middle-aged Russian cyborg wizards are threatening his life, and his coworkers are threatening his sanity.
As Arthur struggles to unravel a plot to re-enact the Chernobyl disaster in England's capital, he must not only battle foreign occult science but also struggle to keep the trust of his team. Events spiral out of control, friendships fray, and loyalties are tested to their breaking point.
When it rains it pours… monster machines. That attack during a funeral and ruin everyone’s day. MI317—the government department devoted to defending Britain from cosmic horrors—is under siege, so Arthur Wallace and his team must travel to Area 51, ably—and oddly—assisted by Agent Gran. But their travels don’t end there, not when there’s an Arctic town populated entirely by spore zombies and the 2.0 version of Clyde has some funny ideas about how to save the world.
How’s a secret agent meant to catch a break? If it’s not a demi-god going through puberty, it’s a renegade Nazi clockwork army going senile. Or a death cult in Nepal. Or a battery-chewing wizard’s relationship problems. Arthur Wallace, agent of MI37—Britain’s agency for dealing with the supernatural, the extraterrestrial, and the generally odd—has to pull everything together, and he has to do it before a magical bomb tears reality apart…
Short Stories
All the Truth the Ocean Holds - Dark Matter Presents The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird
Anna in the Moonlight - The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures
Between the Lines - Farrago’s Wainscot
Cans of Laughter, Jars of Tears - Underland Arcana
Début-de-siècle - Fantaasy Magazine
Elder Bods - Even Cozier Cosmic
Ephemera - Farrago’s Wainscot
Javapocalypse - The Cozy Cosmic
Last Drink Bird Head - Last Drink Bird Head
Notes on the Dissection of an Imaginary Beetle - Electric Velocipede | The Best of Electric Velocipede
Preservation - Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Shuffle - Chizine
Summer’s Crimson Shadow - Strange Locations
The Behemoth - Kaiju Rising
The Blank Card - Weird Tales
The Histories of Now - Behind the Wainscot
The Mathematics of Faith - Beneath Ceaseless Skies / The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Year One / Ceaseless Steam: Steampunk Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies
The Nyarlathotep Event (original) - Wired Magazine
The Nyarlathotep Event (continuity rewrite) - The Book of Cthulhu II
The Urbanization of James Trumbull - Baltimore Review
Wolf’s Clothing - Underland Arcana