I’ve written seven novels, some of which are ready for publication. If you’re a literary agent, drop me a line. I’d love to send you one of the following manuscripts:
Millbrook is a “big book” rooted in America’s early psychedelic movement. South Bostonian plumber Callum Quinn meets Dr. Timothy Leary in the spring of 1961 while working a facilities job at Harvard. Three years later, newly remarried, Cal brings his wife Sophie to Leary’s Hudson Valley mansion, “Daheim,” a 38-bedroom Bavarian Baroque residence in Millbrook, New York. Cal is out of his element there but assimilates to protect his marriage, an onerous task in the face of free love.
Shady Maples, aka Looking Out, is a tale of art, addiction, and divorce centered around neighborhood swimming pools, written in vignettes á la Renata Adler’s 1976 classic Speedboat. It pulls from my lifeguarding career and a four-year stint on Yale’s diving team.
Leo Says Yes satirizes dystopian office culture in near-future Seattle. A send-up of Big Tech and e-commerce, it follows 26-year-old Leo Howell into a voluntary program set on increasing worker efficiency. ThinkApple’s Severance crossed with 20-something romance, served with a side of AI subterfuge.
Children of the Wend is the first in a YA/adult-crossover fantasy quintet. High school rivals Jude and Gayle find their way from rural Vermont into the world of Minn, a place of widespread psychic malady and brewing civil war. The classmates are either the key to Minn’s future or a precursor to its demise. Beware the Shilk!