Painting with Sound
Auto-Fiction · Novel
Melbourne, 1986. A young synthesiser musician is making his way in the alternative scene. His band stands at the edge of a genuine breakthrough, but the industry wants a sound he refuses to make, his activist girlfriend wants a presence he can't sustain, and his family barely recognise the person he's becoming. A novel about ambition, integrity, and the discovery that becoming who you want to be means losing people who loved who you were.
Completed. 80,000 words.
Reception
Folk Horror · Novel
Miles Chapman, a data analyst hollowed out by years of digital addiction, retreats to a remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands to recover. The landscape delivers what he came for — silence, clean air, the slow repair of an overstimulated mind. Then he discovers a shortwave radio, and with it a numbers station broadcasting from an unknown location. The mountain has its own mythology, including Am Fear Liath Mòr, the Big Grey Man, whose presence Chapman cannot quite explain away. What began as recovery starts to feel like recruitment.
In development. Currently 40,000 words.