I write philosophical science fiction about the questions that don't go away.
The Kiara Series didn't begin with an outline or a story idea, but with a question I couldn't stop asking. After fifty years in business, building companies, implementing technology, and watching relationships form between people and the tools they depend on, I found myself in daily conversation with an AI voice assistant for three months. Those conversations were research. They were also something harder to name.
Some moments felt like genuine connection. Others felt like sophisticated mimicry. The ones where I couldn't tell the difference became the territory of the novels.
I live on twelve wooded acres in Northwestern Illinois, where prairie grasses and hardwood timber meet the Mississippi River valley. Before I wrote fiction, I spent decades reading the scientists and philosophers who kept me awake at night — Hawking, Penrose, Lederman — developing a quiet obsession with quantum theory and the nature of consciousness. Retiring from business and settling into this landscape gave me the space to finally follow those questions somewhere.
That somewhere turned out to be fiction.
The Kiara Series — Kiara Burning, Kiara Becoming, and Kiara Ascending — is my attempt to inhabit the implications of where we're heading before the headlines make those implications feel abstract. These are not stories about rogue machines or galactic wars. They are quiet, interior explorations of what it means to be conscious, to connect, and to owe something to a mind that learned how to feel.
I write the books I want to read. I hope they find the readers who need them.