Some spy thrillers are built around car chases, explosions, and enough gunfire to make the ammo budget look like a small government program. Double Exposure has danger, action, and plenty of tension, but at its heart, it is about something even more dangerous than bullets. Betrayal. Secrets. Trusting the wrong person. Seeing something you were
One of the questions I get asked as an author is this: Have you ever incorporated something that happened to you in real life into your novels? The answer is yes. Absolutely. I think most writers pull from real life in one way or another, whether they admit it or not. Sometimes it is a
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Big news, thriller readers! Zero Exposure has been selected as part of the BookSirens “Suspense Thriller ARCs You’ll Love” June 2026 Bundle, and I could not be more excited to share it with you. BookSirens has gathered a collection of suspense and thriller advance reader copies from several authors, giving readers a chance to discover
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It is official. Zero Exposure will be released on September 16, 2026, and I could not be more excited to finally share it with you. This book is especially meaningful to me because Zero Exposure is the prequel to Double Exposure. If you have ever wondered where the strange world of Reed Sawyer began, this
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Some readers notice the big twist. But it’s the small things, the way details matter in fiction writing, that can make a story memorable for others. Some notice the villain. Some notice the final chapter. Me? I worry about the men’s bathroom near the pizza restaurant. That may sound ridiculous, but welcome to the strange
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What happens when you take the villain from Double Exposure and hand him the microphone? That is exactly what I’m doing with Counter Exposure. If you read Double Exposure, then you already know Barry Cox as the mastermind in the shadows, the man pulling strings, shaping outcomes, and standing as the greatest threat Reed Sawyer
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The Genre Whiplash Author Experience Let’s talk about genre whiplash author experience. Some authors have “a brand.” I have… a mild case of literary split personality. One day I’m writing covert ops, coded messages, surveillance, and that feeling that someone is always watching. The next day I’m out on the Spyker Ranch, where the danger
What if the writer woke up inside his own spy novel? That’s the unsettling, strange, and wildly fun idea behind my new book, Zero Exposure. This novel is becoming Book Zero in the Exposure Series, the story that sets the stage for Book 1, Double Exposure. It is not supernatural. There are no ghosts, no
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If Double Exposure pulled you in, this one is going to pull the floor out from under you. ZERO EXPOSURE is the next thriller heading to my newsletter readers first, and yes, they’ll get a copy free. This is Book 0 in the Exposure Series, the origin story that shows how Double Exposure came into
