Awards and Contests

Bottomless Dreams  ~  Finalist in the Eric Hoffer 2016 Book Awards
Bottomless Dreams  ~  Finalist in the Red City Review 2015 Book Awards
Jean Claude Van Damsel in Distress  ~  2nd place in Broken Pencil Magazine's writing competition, Deathmatch

​      Reviews of Bottomless Dreams

 Red City Review

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~  "One-of-a-kind"...  "A prime example of literary fiction."...  "Insightful and illuminating."...  "Exceptional."...  "Highly Recommended." - Red City Review


 ~   "Power presents a buffet of themes and topics, dishing on everything from parenthood, masculinity, and absurd rites of passage, to the sanctity of life, enlightenment, and familiar questions about life, death, and religion. Plus, there’s a little sex, drugs, and jazz tossed into the mix." - Red City Review


 ~    "Bottomless Dreams tells very real tales alongside the fantastic, carrying readers around the globe and across the universe, through the past, present, and future, to explore the inward and outward bounds of the human condition. As per the stories themselves, they speak of surfers, old men, and coming-of-age children, as well as of beasts, werewolves, witches, and others. But what the stories speak of is not nearly as remarkable as what they speak to, which makes Bottomless Dreams, at the bottom line, a prime example of literary fiction." - RCR


 ~  "There are scores of psychological themes and dozens of metaphysical quandaries set across several, often concurrent, genres. In other words, there’s a lot going on in this collection, and it’s pretty awesome." - RCR


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Reader Reviews

 ~  It's midnight, I'm in bed, and I just finished reading Eye in the Window. I was reading in the dark because I've got a kindle with a built in light, and half way through the story I had to turn my bed side lamp on. I'm 26 years old and the story made me scared of the dark! And now I've got watery eyes and am still in disbelief at how you have just made me feel... Terrified.
You are a seriously talented writer mate!!!   -- Cassy, Australia


 ~   It's like eating a Nanaimo bar; it's deep, rich, and full of flavour. Once you bite into it you're torn between devouring it all in one sitting or savouring it forever.  -- Billy, Canada