Roderick D. Turner has been writing fiction for almost thirty years. He has created over 150 short stories, three novels, as well as three full-length audio plays. 22 of his stories are available as web postings through Aphelion Webzine. A number of his stories have also been entered in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest. His stories have received 7 Honorable Mentions (top 2%), 1 Silver Honorable Mention (top 50) and 1 Semi-Finalist (top 15) ranking in this contest. His first novel, The Snow is Black, reached the third round of the WeBook Novel contest in 2010 (the first 50 pages of the book). It also reached the quarter finals (last 250 books) in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest for 2012.

His most recent three novels, part of the Manipulative Empathy series, are currently available on Amazon.

A new novel entitled Engineered is undergoing final editing.