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Explore my work here or get a copy of my short story The Singing Rock by clicking the link below.

I write a bi-monthly newsletter in which I talk about writing and post updates about my creative projects. From time to time, I'll include one of my short stories before I share it anywhere else in the world. I also talk a lot about worldbuilding and how I go about it in my fiction and the table top games I play with my friends. If you want to see more of those things, please sign up or read samplings from past letters below:

I'm currently hard at work on a novel about whales and a protagonist who tries to talk to them using a bathymetric listening machine he built himself. Look for notes and updates about that on the pages here, or sign up for my newsletter to get more detailed glimpses behind the curtain.

If you don't know me already, let me introduce myself. I'm Nikolas, a writer of fiction and creator in other spheres. I write stories about strange worlds with characters inspired from this one. Most of my stories fall into the sci-fi fantasy or speculative realm. You can read more about me and my inspirations at the link below.

For a small sampling of my newsletter/blog content, here are two links to previous posts:

Mapping whale song with machines
What does whale song look like when we transcribe it like sheet music?

The niche phenomenon of hyperdiegesis in worldbuilding
What is the opposite of lukewarm or watered down immersion in fiction or table top gaming settings?