Finding Drake Novak

Finding Drake Novak — 2016. Available in paperback and Kindle.

Drake Novak is a pale man with bloodshot eyes and a black suit. He owns a dark, gloomy factory. The workers don’t know it, but Drake is an alien who feeds on the misery and suffering of other life-forms. The factory is his buffet. He torments the workers and eagerly soaks up their sadness.

But Drake’s feeding frenzy is about to end. Malpheus Mallock, a young policeman from the Galactic Precinct, comes to Earth to arrest Drake. Sadly, Malpheus Mallock’s tracking device doesn’t work correctly. He lands in the front yard of an elderly couple named Carl and Christine. They provide Mallock with fried chicken, mashed potatoes, and iced tea while he struggles to fix his tracking device and find Drake Novak.

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Under the Electric Sun

Under the Electric Sun — 2013. Available in paperback and Kindle.

With rubber paws and synthetic fur, Tristan looks just like a real raccoon. But he’s not. He’s a government-issued tutor. He can talk, crack jokes, and give history lessons about World War III. Unfortunately, Tristan has developed a cynical attitude about life because his last student always abused him and swung him around by his tail. However, Tristan’s current student is a kind, gentle young man named Jake Sheldon. The two are best friends.

Tristan and Jake live in a vast, high-tech city beneath the ruins of Washington, DC. People have lived in the underground city ever since a nuclear war poisoned the surface nearly a hundred years ago. One afternoon, Tristan and Jake visit Bailey Park, a large room filled with plastic trees and tiny speakers that play recorded birdsongs. As they sprawl out on the artificial grass, an alien approaches them and says he has studied Earth for many years.

After informing Tristan and Jake that it’s safe to live on the surface, the alien leads them on a journey up a long staircase. While Tristan and Jake are delighted to see real trees and sunlight, their lives become more complicated than they ever could have imagined. As they taste freedom for the first time, they also suffer immense pain and tragedy.

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Robots, Vampires, and Bad Co-Workers

Robots, Vampires, and Bad Co-Workers — 2019. Available in paperback.

This book is made up of three smaller books. The first is Finding Drake Novak. Drake Novak is an alien who feeds on the pain of other living things. He owns a factory and feasts on the sadness of his workers. One day, a space cop named Malpheus comes to Earth to capture Novak. Due to a faulty tracking device, Malpheus stumbles into the yard of Carl and Christine, an elderly couple. As Malpheus struggles to fix his tracking device, Carl and Christine introduce him to fried chicken and baseball.

Under the Electric Sun is the story of Tristan, a cybernetic raccoon with synthetic fur. Tristan lives with a boy named Jake in a vast underground city beneath the ruins of Washington, DC. They believe the surface is uninhabitable until a mysterious creature leads them on a journey up a long staircase.

How to Make an Artist Miserable is a humorous rant about the annoying little things people say to artists.

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The Quality of Life in Outer Space

The Quality of Life in Outer Space — 2017. Available in paperback and Kindle.

Gary is an eagle with a human head. He lives in the bottom of a giant spaceship and watches old soap operas. One morning, his octopus friend looks out the window and sees an asteroid coming. He urges Gary to fly to the top floor and warn the people in charge. Gary has never left the bottom floor in his life, but he reluctantly flies upstairs on a mission to save the ship.

On his journey, he learns the ship left Earth many years ago because the planet was ruined by war and pollution. People flew into space looking for a new world. But a hooded figure known as the Law Master (who talks to his dead mother’s head) overthrew the captain, locked him in a secret place, and took over. Because the Law Master doesn’t know how to fly the ship, he keeps everyone distracted by turning them against each other, causing them to argue. The ship is flying in circles.

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