2025-0310-bookrelease
March 10, 2025
A Bridge in Glass Release Date Announcement
I’m thrilled to announce the release date of my novel, A Bridge in Glass, through DSP Publications, an imprint of Dreamspinner Press, available May 6, 2025!
I’m sure I echo the sentiment of other writers when I say it’s been a long road from conception to publication, but that it’s also been an exciting and rewarding process. I want to thank the friends and family I tormented with my early drafts and the amazing folks at Dreamspinner who I’ve had the pleasure of working with these past several months. Not only do I feel that this story is seen and understood, I feel that I am as well.
A Bridge in Glass is a time-travel love story about fate and purpose, loss and discovery. It explores one man’s desire to make life better for his partner, but where the result of his choices causes him to second guess his actions and motivations. Here’s a brief description:
When Drummer Foss is thrown back in time to the year 2000, he intervenes in the young life of his future partner, Aaron Hayes, to prevent an abusive relationship that Aaron once suffered. But this intervention has unexpected consequences. Over the course of ten years from 2000 to 2010, Drummer and Aaron explore the many layers of their relationship, aware of the future events they believe are predestined, and their current actions that threaten to undo it all.
At a time when censorship has led to LGBT book bans in red states across the US, I’m proud to be putting another one right back up there on shelves. A Bridge in Glass is a very human story, built around themes most of us readily identify with such as love, empathy, and regret—themes I fear our cold-hearted adversaries sometimes fail to understand.
My sincere thanks to those of you who dive in and read my book. I’m grateful for every pair of eyes and for your word-of-mouth. Happy reading!
UPDATE: Friday, March 21, 2025
Today I received the galley proof of how the book will look in print. This is perhaps the most surreal stage of the entire publishing process for me. It means the editing is done and I’ve passed the point of no return.
In other words, the book…is finished.
Yikes.
The finality of this stirs up all sorts of insecurities. The biggest of them is how the novel’s genre/subgenre itself will be received. A Bridge in Glass, is a science fiction, time-travel love story. For the longest time, I hated saying that out loud because it always sounded, well, corny. How much mockery has been made of the time travel subgenre of science fiction after all? Regardless, deep down inside I knew that the goofy description was nothing more than a bunch of loaded words strung together, and while they might sound corny, the reality of A Bridge in Glass was much more nuanced.
I no longer bother myself with the outside mockery of the subgenre. Instead, I remind myself that what I’ve written reflects a big part of who I am. In truth, I didn’t realize what a huge fan of time travel stories I was until I’d written A Bridge in Glass. Now, 95,000 words later, it’s undeniable.
This realization has encouraged me to say aloud what I previously only thought in private, hopefully without hubris: I’m very proud of the love story in A Bridge in Glass, and I’m proud of the personal belief that this story has the potential to change the way we tell time travel stories. I don’t rely on established time travel tropes like time loops, grandfather paradoxes or butterfly effects. In fact, I did my eager best to write off those concepts as trite hooey in order to make something from a new perspective. Many of us are accustomed to time travel stories following certain “rules” that the reader expects. I’m proud to say that while I may play with those rules the way a cat plays with a mouse, A Bridge in Glass ultimately delivers the unexpected.
