October 11, 2025

Introducing my non-fiction book, Your First Investing Playbook


I mentioned in my last post that I was working on a new non-fiction book. Well, it's completed and published! Introducing... Your First Investing Playbook: A Beginner's Investment Roadmap.

What led me to write this book was wanting my kids to be financially prepared when they enter adulthood. Unfortunately, financial literacy isn't something that was taught to most of us in school, and we either learned it through trial and error or didn't learn it at all. I experienced the former path, so I wanted to pass along what I learned to my kids and to all beginning investors out there.

The book is short, only about 60 pages, but it covers the essentials, allowing readers to take the next steps on their own based on their interests. 

You may have noticed that the author name on the book cover isn't H.S. Stone. I chose a different pen name for this book to avoid confusing readers who may wonder why an author of speculative fiction also wrote a book about personal finance. I definitely didn't want anyone to think that Your First Investing Playbook was fictional. 

I enjoyed the experience of writing this book and being able to write for pleasure again. I don't know if I'll write any more non-fiction books in the future, but this first book was definitely fun. I hope you'll find it educational yet entertaining.