About
- I am a senior content designer for PNC Bank; for ten years prior I was a software engineer for the company. I’ve been doing web design and development since 2001. View my UX portfolio.
- I started the Radix Fidem forum in December of 2017. It’s a sort of online church community. Related: Catacomb Resident is an anonymous writer who is sympathetic to our message. Numerous iterations of his/her blog shut down or moved from various services for attracting the wrong kind of attention. Crez’s site now is in its original flat HTML/CSS format.
- I played guitar for Concrete, Sparkle Blue, stillquietsilence, and Life In Your Way.
- I wrote for Buzzgrinder and Noisecreep.
- I live in Pittsburgh.
Books
Pale Blue Scratch
A joke-cracking nun and her reluctant protege seek out a fledgling time travel technology in alternate-history, 19th century San Francisco.
Download Pale Blue Scratch for free, from Apple, Kobo, Thalia, Smashwords, Angus & Robertson, Mondadori, Vivlio, and Palace Marketplace.
- Buy the paperback online at:
- Amazon
- Barnes & Noble
Indiebound- Book Depository
- Buy signed paperback copies:
- Paypal ($12, shipping included)
- Buy the paperback in store at:
- The Mystery Lovers Bookshop in Oakmont, PA
- Other stuff:
- Pale Blue Scratch on Goodreads
- All Pale Blue Scratch posts on my blog
- Read a sample chapter (PDF) on Common Oddities magazine
- Pale Blue Scratch on Kickstarter
The extended summary:
“I would disassemble this body and cast it onto the coronal burn of the sun if it means I get answers.” Thus proclaims the determined Elisabeth Reese, journalist, professor, and joke-cracking nun working in alternate history San Francisco. She has one goal: to rebuild a failed time machine that caused a lethal explosion during its initial demonstration.
With her reluctant protege, a young budding scientist, she searches for the machine’s plans left behind by its exiled inventor. But her pursuit is disrupted, threatened by area conflict. A faction of the deadly Al Sayf al Ahmar–the Red Sword–has been rising to power. Lead by the hulking Crazed Herald, Maalik du Mahdi, the Red Sword heed a prophecy that will culminate in a battle between two “one-armed wild men.” Du Mahdi is believed to be the first of the pair, while his counterpart could be anyone…even a small, peculiar nun from across the bay.
All Elisabeth wants is to witness the impossibility of time travel, but first she must battle the odds and fulfill the present. Part steampunk and part mystery, Pale Blue Scratch explores the conflict between the senses and logic, and the lengths one may go to resolve it.
Bored in the Breakroom
Bored in the Breakroom is a compilation of microfiction and short stories about the lives of academics and young professionals. The paperback version has stories not included in the ebook version.
Download Bored in the Breakroom for free, from Apple, Kobo, Everand, Thalia, Smashwords, Angus & Robertson, Mondadori, and Vivlio.
- Buy the paperback online for $5.38 at:
- Amazon
- Barnes & Noble
Indiebound- Book Depository ($5.75)
- Buy signed paperback copies:
- Paypal ($7, shipping included)
- Other stuff:
- Bored in the Breakroom on Goodreads
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