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Hey friends and readers

Big update from my creative corner of the universe! I just wrapped the first draft of the very first HARSH book, and I’m now deep in the editing stage. Writing a choose-your-own-adventure again was so much fun... it brought back all those childhood memories of flipping pages to survive one bad decision after another. It’s wild being the one writing the twists now instead of just reacting to them!

I’m brainstorming the next HARSH story. I’m torn between two themes:

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If you’ve been following The Lotus Mark series, you know it’s never shied away from the dark corners of the human experience—addiction, trauma, psychosis, and survival. But The Green Lotus? This one cuts deeper.

This is the hardest book I’ve written so far.

Not because the words won’t come. They do, sometimes in floods. But because The Green Lotus forces me to sit with a kind of pain that’s all too real: the slow burn of alcoholism, the crushing cycle of domestic abuse, the grief of watching...

If you had told me years ago that I’d be writing a gritty crime fiction series, I would’ve laughed—probably on a 3-minute break between trauma alerts. But life has a way of shifting. After decades in emergency medicine, witnessing the full weight of human suffering, I realized something:

Some truths are too heavy for a chart. But they still deserve to be told.

That’s how The Lotus Mark series began. Not with a writing degree. Not in a workshop. But in the quiet moments after code blues. In the...