Awards

Honorable Mention, New Millennium Writings Fiction Award, 2018

• Flinch

Finalist, Lethal Lairs Contest, 2015

• Ambush at the Oasis

Finalist, RPG Superstar Contest Season Nine, 2015

• Round 5: Dangers of the Drowned Garden
• Round 4: The Faceweaver’s Workshop
• Round 3: Swarmwyrm
• Round 2: The Grimple Playhouse
• Round 1: Horseshoes of the Storm Rider

Top 32, RPG Superstar Contest, 2015

• Round 2: The Mekhum Temple
• Round 1: The Hero’s Breath

Finalist, BabyCenter Super Dad Blogger Contest, 2013

• Earn your Happy Ending
• Nerd Dad

Two-Time Quarterfinalist, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards

• Reality Check (2012)
• Hell: A Love Story (2009)

Winner, New Millennium Writings Fiction Award, 2011

• Eight-Bit Heaven

Finalist, Glimmer Train Best Start Contest, 2009

• Gods and Roses

Winner, Chaffin Award for Fiction, 2006 (as Charlie Martin)

• Fantasy as you Like It

Honorable Mention, ByLine Magazine Poem of Loss, 2006 (as Charlie Martin)

• Dad

Novels

• Meddling Heroes
• Conquest of Greystone Valley
• Greystone Valley
• Reality Check
• Shadowslayers

Role-Playing Games

• Starfinder Society Scenario 6-09: Ridgerock Rescue
• Pathfinder Society Scenario 2-07: The Blakros Deception
• “Corpse Thief,” Creature Codex, Kobold Press
• Pathfinder Society Scenario 9-23: The Ghol-Gan Heresy
• “A Comfortable Skin” (part of Tales from the Laughing Dragon Inn)
• Despicable Deeds
• Thirst for Knowledge
• Pathfinder Society Scenario 8-08: The Sandstorm Prophecy

Interviews

• Q&A With Elizabeth Gracen (Part 1 | Part 2)

Short Stories

• An Hour Off
• A Slice of Death
• But a Dream
• Eight-Bit Heaven
• Fallen Hero
• Family Reunion
• Fantasy as you Like It
• First Base
• Foundling
• High Society
• Matters of Faith
• My Fair Lady
• Posthumous
• Second Position (The Avalon Literary Review, Winter 2022)
• When I Grow Up
• The Winner
• With Feeling
• The Yellow Dart

Columns

• Blogger, BabyCenter.com
• Blogger, Panic in the Skies
• Beer and Pretzels, Sidekickcast.com
• Comic Book Reviewer, Complete Marvel Reading Order

Comics

• Best of the Best
• The Discount Hitman
• Femme Fatale
• Heaven

Poetry

• Dad

Articles

• “Centaur Twins of Kortos” – Wayfinder #22
• “Ooze Farm” – EN5ider #561
• “Adrift in the Astral Plane” – EN5ider #537
• “Ghost Wardens” – EN5ider #526
• “Calissa the Spirit Fey” – EN5ider #522
• “Peace in the Border Kingdoms” – EN5ider #504
• “Vault of Splintered Souls: Trials of the Storykeeper” – EN5ider #500
• “Dungeon Builders” – EN5ider #497
• “Tellara the Story Thief” – EN5ider #492
• “The Abode of Unending Comfort” – EN5ider #452
• “Massacre in the Lost Warren” – EN5ider #423
• “Villain Spotlight: Vengar the Reader” – EN5ider #336
• “The Sin Dragon’s Lair” – TRAILseeker volume 2, #41
• “Flight of the Almost-Dragons” – TRAILseeker volume 2, #34
• “The Alchemical Technician” – TRAILseeker volume 2, #32
• “Thraea: The Desert’s Flower” – TRAILseeker volume 2, #29
• “The Steelskin Warrior” – TRAILseeker volume 2, #26
• “Second-Chance Heroes” – TRAILseeker volume 2, #20
• “Elderstar Haven: City of the Fey” – TRAILseeker volume 2, #13
• “Downtime Events” – TRAILseeker #206
• “Where Dragons Fall” – TRAILseeker #201
• “Start at the Beginning” – TRAILseeker #200
• “The Secret Faces of Velsburg” – EN5ider #276
• “Enchanted Trinkets: Thanks for the Memories” – EN5ider #273
• “Head Games” – EN5ider #268
• “The Knights of Forced Redemption” – TRAILseeker #192
• “Favorable Terrain” – TRAILseeker #191
• “Social Combat” – TRAILseeker #186
• “The Fiendslayer’s Arsenal” – TRAILseeker #182
• “A History of Goblins” – TRAILseeker #181
• “Children of the Storm” – TRAILseeker #175
• “Pinespear: A Haven for Half-Orcs” – TRAILseeker #172
• “Mightier than the Sword” – TRAILseeker #164
• “Monstrous Music” – TRAILseeker #162
• “The Mines of Mooncrest” – TRAILseeker #155
• “Bestiary: Poppy Leshy” – Wayfinder #18
• “Way of the Mongrelmen” – TRAILseeker #147
• “On the Move” – TRAILseeker #146
• “Sky Pirates” – TRAILseeker #142
• “Something Wild” – TRAILseeker #140
• “The Power of Prophecy” – TRAILseeker #133
• “Fantasy Noir” – TRAILseeker #130
• “Monstrous Heroes” – TRAILseeker #128
• “Shaking Up Assumptions” – TRAILseeker #125
• “Beldenwood: The Town of Bees” – TRAILseeker #124
• “Fantasy Law, Magical Order” – TRAILseeker #115
• “Agents of the Worldwound” Wayfinder #17
• “The Misfits of Wilkesmont” – Wayfinder #15
• “The Lighter Side of Necromancy” – TRAILseeker #61
• “Epic Monopoly” – Knights of the Dinner Table #196
• “Casting Call: Olivia Tarling” – Knights of the Dinner Table #166
• “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Spirit Witch, the Soul Witch, and the Shadow Witch” – Knights of the Dinner Table #144
• “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Kira Armstrong, Reuben Cain, and Randy Black” – Knights of the Dinner Table #129
• “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Ella Grey, Tracy Lord, and Irvin Grey” – Knights of the Dinner Table #125
• “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Dakota Jack, Borden Capano, and Myrna Lang” – Knights of the Dinner Table #110
• “Wyrms of the West” – Dragon Magazine #263
• “Fashions of Palanthas” – Legends of the Lance Newsletter #5
• “Cyberdata 3000” – Shadis Magazine #51
• Review: Dragon Hordes – Shadis Magazine #51
• Review: Shockforce: Battles in the Remnants of America – Shadis Magazine #48