I’m so excited to share a glimpse of what I’ve been working on. My upcoming novel, Pasture of Bones, is a blend of gritty military science fiction and claustrophobic creature...

Excerpt from Everyone Deserves Love
By John Baicich

The Barnes & Noble near campus was crowded with the nervous, frantic energy of the first week of classes, but John Mason had already managed to carve out a quiet pocket of invisibility for himself.

He stood tucked deep into the aisles of approved course textbooks, holding a heavy volume open with both hands. It was an instinct as old as his adolescence: find a corner, stay quiet, and take up as little space as humanly possible. John was...

# Welcome to Orison: Introducing *Pasture of Bones*

For centuries, humanity has projected its deepest longings onto the stars: a clean slate, fertile ground, and a second chance far from Earth’s crowded cities and authoritarian control. The pastoral myth promises an open sky waiting to receive us like children coming home. But space is never an empty canvas, and the history of frontier expansion has always been written in ledgers of blood and corporate ambition.

Today, I want to pull back the...

Announcing Everyone Deserves Love: A Novel About Finding Home in Another Person
I'm thrilled to share that my new novel, Everyone Deserves Love, is now available. This book has been a labor of love—one that explores what it means to be seen, to be brave enough to let someone in, and to believe you're worthy of connection in a world that often tells us otherwise.

The Story Behind John and Hank
At the heart of this novel are two men who couldn't seem more different on the surface. John Mason has...