His short story "What Went Through Data's Mind 0.68 Seconds Before the Satellite Hit", set during Star Trek: The Next Generation, was published in the anthology Strange New Worlds in 1998 . In his career, he has published a variety of poetry, science fiction, fiction, and nonfiction. He also founded the Ones and Zeroes Pixelshow film festival and the Build-A-Brickbuster Lego film contest. His first novel, Taking Over, was a finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. He won the Writers of the Future contest in 2002. [1]