Books and Stories

Having claimed my truth as a trans man, I fight for justice and equality through my books and explore the weird and whimsical through my short stories.

I write speculative fiction, with a specialization in fantasy. However, I don’t just write adventures. In my books, I dive into worlds and people and explore the struggle to do what is right, to fight prejudice and oppression. I explore the desire to cling to the status quo and the determination to obliterate it that can be born of facing the truth.

I am also a worldbuilder and a lover of the weird and whimsical. Even as I explore the depths of the active struggle for peace in my books, I use short stories to dive into a multitude of worlds and explore a quirkier, often lighter expression of my art.

WORLD OF EVON

Welcome to a world of magic, dragons, and gods! Dive into stories of quests for peace, tangles of secrets, and the struggle to trust oneself and others.

WORLD OF MOON SHIFTERS

Welcome to a world of duality! Day vs. night. God vs. goddess. Humans vs. beasts. Dive into stories about defining family, facing the truth, and finding strength in the unexpected.

WEIRDLY WHIMSICAL WORLDS

Welcome to my Weirdly Whimsical Worlds! Above all, I am a worldbuilder, and while I practice the deeper aspects of worldbuilding through the worlds of Evon and Moon Shifters, short stories allow me to explore the myriad possibilities of the broader aspects of worldbuilding.

FICTION TINKER'S GUIDE

Want help exploring your own worlds? The Fiction Tinker’s Guide series provides editing tips on the go. Each guide contains twenty-one tips on a specific topic, including worldbuilding, creatures, fantasy, science fiction, and the mechanics of writing.

WANT TO SEE WHAT I'M WORKING ON NOW?

Get access to a new excerpt from my current work in progress on the fifteenth of every month for $3/month at www.patreon.com/TheodoreNTinker. Signing up for this tier also gets you access to a growing database of excerpts:

October 2021: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
“Returning to Monalof and Hehmona Hall
September 2021: Excerpt from Forgotten Goddess
“Ferez Katani’s Memory Dreams”
August 2021: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
“Pleoh’s First Hunt” (Post-Rewrite)
August 2021: Excerpt from Forgotten Goddess
“Ferez Remembers He’s King”
July 2021: Excerpt from Forgotten Goddess
“Saving Gemi”
March 2021: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
“The Coronation”
November 2020: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
“New Moon Execution”
June 2020: Behind the Scenes of Moon Shifters
“Beorn Finds the Howler Camp”
May 2020: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
“Pleoh’s First Kiss”
April 2020: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
“The Day of Pleoh’s First Full Moon”
March 2020: Excerpt from Moon Shifters (Reading)
“Pleoh’s First Run with the Pack”
February 2020: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
“Sweet Interlude”
January 2020: Behind the Scenes of Moon Shifters
“Interview with Lodyma”
December 2019: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
“Passing Memories between Howlers”
November 2019: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
“Pleoh Wakes in the Howler Camp”
October 2019: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
“Pleoh Lands in the Dungeons”
September 2019: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
“Pleoh Faces Beorn”
August 2019: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
End of “Pleoh and the Street Crawlers”
July 2019: Behind the Scenes of Moon Shifters
“A Plague in Eardamon”
June 2019: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
Beginning of “Pleoh and the Street Crawlers”
May 2019: Excerpt from Moon Shifters
“The Healer”