Upcoming Novels
Out of the Bassline: a story of baseball, sex, drugs, and rock & roll
(completed, looking to publish in 2025)
Art credit: Anze Ban Virant - ABV Atelier Design
Haggerty University is so emo, even the eyeliner wears eyeliner, and no one quite knows why. The college’s culture is dominated by a love for 2000s pop-punk music, with the biggest idol being Trevor Green of the iconic band Rise In Girl. When bumbling freshman Dexter Byrd pukes in front of Trevor at a concert, he’s sure his life is over, but his journey is just beginning. Dexter and his baseball-playing buddies are soon drawn into Trevor's world, where they learn of the dark secrets surrounding the ultra-cool school they attend. The fallout of Trevor’s messy past lands the gang in a whirlwind of fistfights, arrests, blackmail, and corruption, one they can only conquer by unleashing their inner rock stars.
A love letter to emo music and baseball, Out of the Bassline captures both the angst and the adventure of early adulthood in a snappy coming-of-age dramedy.
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Read this official review by Annika Porter from OnlineBookClub.org, who gave it 4/5 stars: https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?p=2833724
Sleeping with the Goldfish (in progress)
A black comedy crime thriller that lampoons clout-chasing culture while paying homage to classic pulpy crime stories.
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We all know reality TV has gone too far with humiliating people, but Sleeping with the Goldfish — the show — takes it to a whole new level. In a dystopian hellscape, murder has been declared legal if it’s in the name of entertainment. The Scarlet Spiders street gang runs the show and will stop at nothing to scar the contestants physically and emotionally, whether it’s through Chinese water torture, solitary confinement, or flat-out murder. Their rival gang, the Blue Nightmares — led by world-famous rapper La Pesadilla — infiltrates the show with a determination to right the wrongs done to them by the Spiders, only to enter a world of unspeakable suffering ... all for the sake of spectacle.