I WROTE A FREAKING BOOK
This was a passion project that was written over the last year while my daughter slept. I wanted to tell a story that explores the consolidation of power and money and the effects it can have on those without. It’s an adventure sci-fi novel set in a dystopian future where the church controls almost everything. I’ll post the blurb below and link a blog post with the first couple of chapters so you can get a taste and see if it’s for you. I hope you dig it as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you’re a fan of my music, this ties in with my newest album (I don’t like me either) really closely. They both share thematic elements and it was awesome being able to explore that headspace from two incredibly different perspectives. While not intentionally overlapping, I think it’s pretty damn cool. Here’s the blurb:
Those that shape heaven are also creating hell.
“In the beginning, God was said to have created everything in fairly short order. Some say 7 days. Others say 3. The truth is that God created nothing. God flipped a switch. The machines have been building ever since.”
In the crowded techno-religious city of Aberthene, almost everyone is augmented by biomedical modification. Part machine, and part human. The church rules the state and controls everything from production to housing.
Addeleigh Simmons works in a religious building cleaning out suicide booths during the day while attending classes and studying at night. She hopes to soon afford the costly surgeries for the biomedical modifications that all of her friends have. She's singled out as only human: a no-mod.
Her drab existence is upended suddenly when an armed group of Red Guards breaks into her dormitory. She escapes through a third floor window with her pet mute-cat, Bruce, and begins a journey that will expand her entire world.
She doesn’t know why she is being chased.
She doesn’t know who to trust.
But no one outruns the church.
Addie is being hunted.
Addie is hiding from God.