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This October I'm packing three novels into a suitcase and getting on a plane to Frankfurt. I'll be there as part of the eBookPro/Val Cal delegation of Israeli authors - booth 3.1 / A14, if you're wandering the halls and want to say hello - pitching foreign rights and translation for three books that have nothing in common except that I wrote them. Lydia Ever After is the quiet one. Joe is eighty-three. His wife Lydia's dementia is taking her memory faster than either of them

There's a particular kind of person who can hold up an object - a painting, a photograph, a piece of string - and make you feel, without ever raising their voice, that something is genuinely at stake in whether you understand it. Sister Wendy Beckett was one of those people. She's also the reason this series exists. An Unlikely Star If you didn't grow up in Britain in the 1990s, the premise sounds almost like a joke: a cloistered nun living in an unheated caravan on the groun

When people hear the title Made in China, they often assume the novel is about manufacturing, globalization, or economics. In a way, it is. But only on the surface. At its heart, Made in China is a love story. It began with a question that refused to leave me alone: Can something rooted in one place be transplanted somewhere else without becoming something different? At first, I was thinking about products. China has become the manufacturing center of the world. Entire indust

On writing The Other Cardinal: a novel about belief, verification, and the one woman in Rome who refuses to complete the thought I have been living, for some time now, with a woman who cleans her own rooms. She is a cardinal. She shouldn't be - not quite, not by the path everyone else in the building walked to get where they are - and she knows it, and she has built a life out of the knowing. In the mornings, before the city is awake enough to watch her, she works through thr

"Lydia Ever After" - sixty years of marriage, a dementia diagnosis, and an accidentally profound AI romance novel that helps a husband rediscover his wife - one absurd scene at a time. If you've ever loved a book that made you laugh and cry in the same chapter, this one is for you. I'm offering free copies (paperback or digital) in exchange for an honest Amazon review. Amazon's own policy requires reviewers to have an active account with $50+ in purchases over the past 12 mon

The thing about killing yourself is that it's ultimately embarrassing. It's pure cringe just thinking of all the blood and gore on your clothes or the foams coming out of the mouth in weird angles, or maybe just the awkwardness of the family without you. But still, there you are, on the ledge. The wind was doing something theatrical with my hair. Of course it was. Down below, a small crowd had gathered with the specific energy of people who wanted to witness something but als

There's a particular kind of book that doesn't just offer you ideas — it offers you a new set of eyes. After you've read it, the world doesn't look exactly the same. You catch yourself mid-thought, suddenly aware of the machinery running underneath, the invisible architecture of something you'd always taken for granted. You think: was it always like this? Was I always like this? The Next Recognition is that kind of book. I'm writing today to mark something I've been looking

Some things are real. Just not reliably enough to save a marriage. Announcing The Margin - a literary novel about a family dissolving in a world where 10% of impossible things turn out to be true. " Dr. Winters' office smells like lavender and lies ." That's the first line my character Nora speaks. The Margin is a novel I've been quietly building for a long time - a literary fiction about a family fracturing, told in five rotating first-person voices across a single tumultuou

"The dawn was the color of old bruises." With those words, the final chapter of a journey three years in the making begins. I am thrilled to announce that The Quiet Convergence , the third and final book in The Echo-Realm Trilogy , is now available to the world. A World Warped When I began writing The Fractured Note , I wanted to explore a world where reality wasn't a given, but a consensus - something that could be tuned, distorted, or even erased. In this final installment,

"What happens when you steal something sacred?" That question became an obsession. Not academically - viscerally. What does cultural appropriation feel like in the body? What are the marks it leaves? What if the spiritual violence became literal, physical, permanent? The answer became SKIN OF THE NEGEV . It's a novel about an Israeli man who appropriates a Navajo ritual and becomes a corrupted shapeshifter - able to transform, but marked permanently by what he stole. It's ab

"My Life as Akama" was featured on Review Tales , a well trusted book review site. Below is the review, including the link to the review. "Akama’s Life, as written by a lifelong writer, comes to life through the voice of Akama, a complex, enigmatic, and lyrical character. In his novel Akama’s Life, Oded blurs the lines between spiritual autobiography and philosophical journey by drawing on his extensive academic background in philosophy, psychology, and digital culture. Each

I’m starting a trilogy today. Not because the world needs another story about good versus evil - but because I believe it needs one about what happens when forgetting becomes policy. This is the story of a woman who hums forbidden songs. Of a nation that rewrites its own history every month. Of a government that doesn’t silence people - it makes them uncertain they ever spoke at all. And of what happens when someone decides that memory is worth burning for. The Empty Shelf Im

A Guide to Solving Crimes When the Suspects Are Divine and the Evidence is Clay. In the city of Ur, justice isn't just about the law - it’s about maintaining the balance between the mortal world and the temperamental gods. If you’re going to walk the shadows of the Ziggurat like Enlil-Bani, you’ll need more than just a sharp wit. You’ll need the right tools. 1. The Archivist’s Oil Lamp In the pre-dawn darkness of a looted temple storage chamber, a standard reed torch won’t do

For the past few months, I have been living inside a notebook. It’s a simple notebook, filled with scribbles, coffee stains, and the story of two people I’ve come to love deeply: Joe and Lydia Mitchell. Today, I am finally stepping out of those pages to ask for your help in bringing their story into the world through my Head Start funding campaign. My Notebook The story of There's Still Time began with a strange question: What happens when the most clinical, artificial thing

The Gospel according to Uhura book cover It is a strange thing to lose your home. It is perhaps a stranger thing to lose the map that tells you who you are. For years, I have been fascinated by the intersection of trauma and storytelling. How do we survive when the narratives that once sustained us - religion, nationalism, family history - shatter under the weight of experience? What do we build in the wreckage? Today, I am proud to announce the publication of my new novel, T

I've asked NotebookLM to go through all of my works, published and unpublished, and see if it could find a common voice, a signature. If so, what would it be able to say about the author? Below is the answer. "From a literary critic and expert point of view, there is a clear and compelling common voice and thematic signature unifying these disparate sources, despite their wide range of genres—spanning ancient historical mystery, contemporary academic thriller, sci-fi espionag

Introduction: Wisdom in the Noise We are drowning in information but starved for wisdom. Every day, a relentless torrent of content floods our screens - opinions, hot takes, life hacks, and breaking news - all competing for our attention. In this landscape of endless noise, finding a signal of genuine insight can feel impossible. The search for clarity about the human condition often leads to more confusion, not less. This is an exploration of a signal found in the noise. Ima

I've asked NotebookLM to generate a video overview of The Deepfake Covenant, and I'm rather pleased with the result. See below.

I’m thrilled to announce that my new novel, The Deepfake Covenant , a philosophical techno-thriller, is deep in the editing phase. This book was inspired by the rapidly accelerating capabilities of AI and the question that haunts every corner of the modern world: What is the value of authenticity when comfort is guaranteed by a lie? It is also my extremely humble attempt to update the classic " Stranger in a Strange Land " story for the digital age, trading a visitor from ano

I'm thrilled to share an update on the next book in the Ur Noir series, The Shattered Gods , coming soon! If you enjoyed cynical scribe Enlil-Bani and pragmatic priestess Nin-Gal solving the last crisis (on " Dead Gods Tell No Tales "), prepare for the stakes to go from a city-wide conspiracy to a cosmic existential threat . Six months after the Sacred Calendar theft, the city of Ur is back to normal - or so it seems. Our investigators are pulled into a new, more dangerous c