Upcoming Books
Books 1-2 have launched, and Book 3 comes out on 10/01/26. Soon! To get early updates on future launches, sign up for The Maqaraqan. The huh? The 1001 series’ newsletter that comes with a free Reader’s Guide and kindred readers sorting out the complex series.
Book 3, The Qaraq and the Subversive Manuscript
> The qaraq deals with the trauma of 9/11, and discovers its past lives in 1001 AD Cordova, where it created a multi-cultural version of the 1001 Nights that threatened any empire.
Second, while I’m launching new editions, I’m busy with future books. As I outline Book 7, the new ideas make me tweak the draft of Book 6, and take a new pass on editing # 5. If you like deets on my writing process compiling the 11 books of the 1001 series, sign up for The Maqaraqan.
Book 4, The Qaraq and the Unfathomable Journeys
> The qaraqis travel to Sherwoode Forest, the ovoid flies to seven destinations on the planet, and the group circumnavigates the globe in the Age of Exploration. Feuding and loving the whole time!
Book 5, The Qaraq and the Rejuvenator
> The qaraq discovers the subversive manuscript has magic healing powers. While coping in Baghdad during the US invasion of Iraq, and in their own backyard!
MORE TO EXPLORE
THE SVALBARD EXPEDITION
In Book 4, we follow the ovoid on its civilization-seeding mission around the globe. The silver-white spaceship begins in the Arctic Circle, in the island archipelago above Norway called Svalbard.
In the summer of 2025 I traveled from the Orkney Islands north of Scotland over to Norway and up the fjords to Svalbard. Along the way, I dreamed up The Journey to Svalbard—a playful retelling of my trip as if I were tracing the path of the qaraq’s ovoid.
You can take the epic journey here, illustrated with snaps of my trip — beautiful, wondrous places in the world.
I’m also delighted to share special stories with my readers!
“The Tale of the Heavenly Music Room” (published in WritingRaw, an online literary magazine) is one of the 1001 series’ Path of Heaven stories. This one appears in Book Five of the series, but you can get an early sneak peek and read it right now…
The Synopsis:
Bored with walking serenely down the Path of Heaven, two musician souls, Stint and Zucchini, come upon a room full of musical instruments from every place and time. They are thrilled with the exciting windfall, but as soon as they put their fingers on a keyboard or lips to a mouthpiece in the marvelous collection, their troubles begin.
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