Short, direct answers to the questions that come up most often.
The longer versions of most of these live elsewhere on the site; this page is just the fast route to the honest answer.
No. Cassian Cole is a fictional author persona — a creative-writing showcase, not a real, checkable individual. Every book, story, biographical detail and quote on this site is invented. See about for the fuller version of this same answer.
Literary and speculative fiction — grounded characters, ordinary settings, and one small impossible thing at the center of each story. More on the approach in on writing.
A single short story is the fastest introduction — see short fiction. For a longer read, Everything the Tide Returns suits readers who like a slow build; North of Ordinary suits readers who want a single thread to pull. Full detail on books.
There's no fixed schedule; new books and stories are announced first through the newsletter as they're finished, which — per process — is an unhurried and somewhat unpredictable business.
This site is a creative-writing portfolio and showcase for a fictional persona, not a live storefront. The works described are fictional and are not being sold or distributed anywhere.
No — this is an author showcase, not a publication or a workshop. The closest thing to writing advice here is the personal, non-instructional musing on on writing and process.
As a creative-writing exercise and portfolio format — a way to present invented books, stories and craft ideas the way a real author site would, while being explicit throughout that the person, biography and bibliography are fiction.