Welcome to my webpage!

Worlds of adventure and wonder await!

My name is JD Cowan and I am a writer of the weird fascinated with the light. I have written many books and have been in a number of magazines and anthologies both with stories and essays of the bizarre and the exciting.

I am the writer of the best-selling Pulp Mindset, the weird adventure stories of Grey Cat Blues, Brutal Dreams, and Y Signal, as well as the Gemini Man series, on top of the controversial Last Fanatics which traces a lot of the damage done to wonder stories over the years. I also have works in Cirsova and StoryHack magazines as well as the Sidearm & Sorcery and Planetary Anthology series of anthologies.

Action and adventure are my primary fascinations which has rolled over into the Cannon Cruisers podcast with a friend of mine. We have covered over 200 movies over the years, and it has been a blast sharing our finds.

The neocities page is meant to be a place where one can easily find the books I worked on in one place.

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- List of published short stories -

1. Someone is Aiming for You
2. Lucky Spider's Last Stand
3. Under Suspicion in Summerside
4. Inside the Demon's Eye
5. Knives in the Night
6. Cold Heart of Ouranos
7. Judgement Sun
8. Black Dog Bend
9. Endless Nights in Villain City
10. Last Exit to Shadow City
11. When the Sunset Turns Red
12. Duel on Dalpha
13. Mad Wind
14. Golden Echoes
15. Living Land
16. Dead Planet Drifter
17. Ghost of a Distant Star
18. City Eater
19. Three Gifts of the White Wolf
20. Mirage Carousal
21. Armageddon Spring
22. Cold Finger Girl
23. Midnight Machineguns
24. Slow Death on San Sebastian
25. What's It Like in There?

• *#1-3, #5, and #9-11, available in Someone Is Aiming for You & Other Adventures
• *#4 available in StoryHack #3
• *#6, #7, #14, #16, and #21-24 available in Star Wanderers. #6 originally published in Planetary Uranus and #7 originally published in Planetary Sol. #14 also available in StoryHack #7 #16 also available in Cirsova #11
• *#8 available in StoryHack #5
• *#12 and #19 available in Two Adventures Across Eternity
• *#13 available in Pulp Rock: A Musical Anthology
• *#15 available in Sidearm & Sorcery, Volume One
• *#17 available in Anvil #2
• *#18 available in Sidearm & Sorcery, Volume Two
• *#20 available in upcoming Cirsova #20
• *#25 available in upcoming Sidearm & Sorcery, Volume Three

All of my stories connect together in some way, but it is not explicit nor is it necessary for enjoyment. Feel free to read any of them in any order you want, but below are the stories directly related to each other.

Stories of the Magic City of Summerside, hundreds of years after an unnamed apocalypse and the rise of both magic and world-ending abilities in humans. This story cycle follows heroes piercing the dark of the uncertain world and trying to build a brighter tomorrow.

1. Someone is Aiming for You
2. Endless Nights in Villain City
3. Under Suspicion in Summerside
4. Knives in the Night
5. Last Exit to Shadow City
6. Lucky Spider's Last Stand
7. When the Sunset Turns Red

On a distant planet centuries after man has traveled the stars, there exists a backwater world forgotten by progress. There where ships pass by for refueling and little else exists a rockabilly band traveling the back roads. Though they hope to revive this ancient musical style they are faced with insurmountable odds given to them by the intangible darkness hiding underneath this unassuming world's surface. Earth might be far away, but there are some things that transcend space and time!

     *Includes*

1. Mad Wind
2. Black Dog Bend
3. Living Land

*More to come!*

The universe is a wild untamed frontier where both good and evil flow freely between the worlds, and the spaces in between reality itself. Ronan Renfield is a Galactic Enforcer, a space cop from an order renowned for its sense of Justice. He travels the vast chasm of the galaxy seeking signals of distress--though not always from the places anyone might suspect. With his revolver and his fists, he plunges into the darkness. But will that be enough to combat what hides in the abyss?

     *Includes*

1. Dead Planet Drifter
2. Golden Echoes
3. Cold Finger Girl
4. Midnight Machineguns
5. Ghost of a Distant Star

*More to come!*

He has no name or known origin, a swordsman with blade of fire and a hair of gold that arrives from nowhere and disappears back into it before you know it. Simply known as The Agent, his mission to scorch that which flames cannot touch is undefined. Just what does he hope to find in places that have already allowed themselves to die?

     *Includes*

1. Cold Heart of Ouranos
2. Armageddon Spring
3. Judgement Sun
4. Slow Death on San Sebastian

1. Gemini Warrior
2. Gemini Drifter
3. Gemini Outsider
4. Gemini Destroyer

*All 4 books are compiled in Gemini Man: The Complete Series omnibus*

1. City Eater
2. Mirage Carousal
3. What's It Like in There?

*More to come!*

I've long maintained that adventure stories are meant to be shared long and far and with as many people as possible. This is what made them work so well as both campfire material and for general oral communication. It only stands to reason that the best way to carry this forward in the physical format is in paperback form, but one paperback style in particular.

As a result of the above, I've always thought the Pocket Paperback form was the perfect format for adventure tales and portability. Unfortunately, not only has the old publishing industry left them to die, their books are far too long and overstuffed to fit. That said, I have recently taken to Lulu in order to make Pocket Paperback editions of my own.

You can find the complete list of them here.