Category: Uncommon Stock

• THE UNCOMMON SERIES gets a new look

  My first novel came out four years ago and quickly grew into a trilogy. The Uncommon Series is a fast-paced, deeply-researched near-future thriller that follows the irrepressible Mara Winkel as she leads her brand new tech startup from garage to IPO and gets caught up in an international conspiracy along the way. The series remains the…

• The Uncommon Series is now available on Kindle Unlimited

  That’s right, The Uncommon Series is now available on Kindle Unlimited. You can dive in and start reading right here. The trilogy is the #1 top-rated financial thriller on Amazon and follows a kickass entrepreneur as she takes her tech startup from garage to IPO and gets caught up in an international conspiracy along the…

• Audiobook of Uncommon Stock: Power Play is available now

  You can find it here: http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/Uncommon-Stock-Power-Play-Audiobook/B01GUE4PLO/ Power Play is the second book in The Uncommon Series, the #1 top-rated financial thriller on Amazon (you can find the audio version of the first book here). The story follows an entrepreneur, Mara Winkel, as she leads her tech startup from garage to IPO and gets caught up…

• Audiobook of Uncommon Stock: Version 1.0 is now available

  Audiobooks hold a special place in my heart. Since I was a kid, I’ve always loved listening to stories. My parents entranced me with bedtime tales and one baby sitter read me The Hobbit over the course of a number of extended sessions. As I got older, we started to listen to books-on-tape on family…

• Interview on The Eastern Shore Podcast

  Brock Winstead interviewed me for The Eastern Shore, one of my favorite podcasts that focuses on creativity, new ways of thinking, and Oakland. As a fan of the show, it was really fun to come on as a guest. Brock actually lives a few blocks away so I walked over to his place and we recorded…

• Uncommon Stock: Exit Strategy launches today!

  Drum roll… Uncommon Stock: Exit Strategy is here at last! Mozaik is the fastest-growing startup in America and the envy of the Silicon Valley. But just as Mara and her team are rocketing towards their IPO, the conspiracy that’s been haunting them since day one swoops in for the kill. I’ve got a feeling you’re…

• Interview on the Breaking Biz podcast

  Fred Williams was kind enough to ask me to return as a guest to his Breaking Biz podcast. The show normally covers entrepreneurship topics but Fred wants to start exploring lessons are generally applicable to all creative types. We talked about the lessons I’ve learned over the course of writing The Uncommon Series (i.e. the mistakes…

• Art makes the world smaller

  A couple of weeks ago I got a cold email from Phil Ruggiero. Phil said he had never written to an author before but he had just finished reading Version 1.0 and Power Play, loved them, and saw bestselling author Dave Eggers mentioned in Power Play (bonus points if you can find the reference!).Dave worked…

• Interview on The Notable

  Brandon Sneed is an author and veteran journalist who maintains a blog called The Notable about “how and why people make and do great things.” He asked to interview me for the series and although I can’t even pretend to lay claim to an archetype that lofty, I was happy to oblige if it could…

• What it feels like to finish writing a trilogy

  Yesterday I sent the rough draft of my third novel, Uncommon Stock: Exit Strategy, to my editor and first cohort of beta readers. Exit Strategy is the final book in the Uncommon Stock Trilogy which follows a college student who drops out of college to launch a tech startup and gets sucked into an international money…