Painting Stories… Outside the Lines.

Thanks for dropping by! I’m Dover and I’m happy to meet you.

I believe no story, no art…no body belongs in a box. I’m half author, half artist and being at the intersection of both fits me to a T. No label needed.

My books include mashups of cybersteam and secret agents (She-Wolf in Shorts), gaslamp fantasy and Hardy Boys style mysteries with kick ass girls (The Stolen Songbird), and haiku poetry and art with Haiku Hedgehogs, coloring books with thematic humor (Volume 1 – Steam Shenanigans and Volume 2 – Cubicle Chaos).

My favorite part of writing is building worlds and my art riffs off of that: logos for local coffee shops that my characters would go to, postcards from places that don’t exist, and of course hedgehogs. Because hedgehogs.

What’s on the horizon? A new novella! The working title is Plato’s Book (not a philosophy book, promise), at least until the right title asserts itself. The plot smacked me in the eyeballs out of nowhere about two months ago and wouldn’t let me go. It will also be the first book I add illustrations to. I’ll be launching it in March-April 2026 so that I can bring it to the Sacramento Book Festival on April 19.

Following that, comes Murder by Spandex, the debut novel in the Port Liberty Mysteries, a new series starring Beckett Reilly, a retired analyst, ghostwriter, and amateur sleuth in Port Liberty, the (sorta) quiet, (kinda) peaceful, coastal suburb of New Arete.

You can find my art on Instagram.