[1] He spent over a decade working as a lawyer for companies including Micron Technology before opening an independent firm in 2010.
[3] His steampunk Western novel, City of Saints, was a 2012 Whitney Award finalist in the speculative fiction category.
[2] In 2017, Baen published the first of Butler's American epic flintlock fantasy series, Witchy Eye, set in an alternate 1815 America.
[11] Alternate history Civil War era featuring secret agents Samuel Clemens and Edgar Allan Poe trying to obtain the plans for airship and ray gun technology.
The writing in Time Trials, co-authored with M. A. Rothman, was described as "highly enjoyable" and "entertaining", having well-developed characters, and praised for "refreshingly [showing] respect for ancient civilizations and their accomplishments".