I grew up in Guatemala, studied electrical engineering at Cal State Long Beach, and now live in the Los Angeles area.
My day work is engineering — I run a CNC machine company and am developing Shapeoko and Nomad machines, intuitive CNC machines aimed for prosumers and light production. Before that I worked at Mattel and ran a toy-industry consulting firm.
The fiction runs in parallel. Not a hobby, not a side project — a serious second discipline, with coordinated ebook, print, and audio launches.
How I write
I'm analytical first. I outline. I track voice and register across hundreds of thousands of words. I care about what a sentence does — to the character, to the scene, to the reader's sense of what's at stake — more than how the sentence sounds.
That means I'm wary of elevated prose for its own sake. I prefer specificity over adjectives. I'd rather a moment land because it was earned than because the language reached for it.
Across all book projects I aim for the same things: characters with actual competence, registers that shift with situation, and stakes that come from continuity rather than crisis-of-the-week structure.
The work
Deadbreak is a five-book zombie apocalypse series anchored by Jay, the protagonist. Gritty and emotionally grounded — not splatter horror.
Fire of Dawn is urban fantasy with Liz Walsh, a PhD-level academic who happens to navigate the supernatural. Competence and chaos, in close third.
Seven Years Ascending is a steampunk reimagining of The Count of Monte Cristo. Lt. Alexandra Langley, three aliases, a slow-burn revenge.
Galatea is a military space opera universe — Under Shattered Stars opens it. 140K words, four rotating POVs, fleet action and ground combat with stakes. A love letter to Battlestar Galactica and Descent: Freespace. The sequel is outlined.
Outside the work
I'm physically active, follow a vegan diet, speak Spanish and German, and have a personal connection to Berlin. I like clean design. I have a strong "mom test" philosophy — if a non-technical user can't figure it out intuitively, it's not done yet.
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