Club Nine Tails follows Connor Carby, a wealthy biracial Korean American student whose twenty-first birthday turns into the beginning of a chaotic journey across the United States. What starts as a family financial scandal gradually becomes a story about Connor’s estrangement from his Korean identity, his uncertainty about his sexuality, and his relationship with his […]
Tea & Time Loops is a cozy fantasy murder mystery about Wen Ashwood, the anxious, accident-prone owner of the failing Gilded Cup tea shop in Marrowind, who gets trapped in a repeating day after the town magistrate, Lady Orlaine, is poisoned in their shop. It wants to be a whimsical time-loop detective story, a queer […]
Diana is a theatrical confession novel about Annie, a failed or former actor in her early forties, living with her two children in her parents’ New Jersey outbuilding after her husband Scott has abandoned her for a wardrobe woman in New Zealand, while her old best friend Diana has just won a major Broadway acting […]
Kitten is a claustrophobic coming-of-age novel about Katie, a twenty-two-year-old recent graduate in New York who has no job, no stable home, an estranged mother in Little Rock, a first boyfriend named James, and a disastrous attachment to his family’s cat, Silver. It wants to be a sharp novel about mother-daughter enmeshment, class shame, dependency, […]
Switzy is a short, death-bound novel about David Hastings, an elderly wealthy American with advanced cognitive decline, traveling by private jet from the United States to London and then Zurich, where he has arranged an assisted suicide. It wants to be a devastating late-life interior monologue, a study of dementia, a reckoning with class, fathers, […]
Peculiar Stars is a billionaire-survival romance about Callista Moran, a frightened, self-erasing woman engaged to golden heir Darren Knight, who is forced onto a luxury sailing yacht, shipwrecked for eighteen months with Darren’s estranged brother Dominic, and rescued only to discover that the real disaster was not the storm but the Knight family’s money, image […]
Fallow is a near-future reproductive-capitalism satire about Natalie Gallagher, a woman who hates work so much that she signs a ten-year contract with a corporation to become its in-house gestational carrier. It wants to be a savage comedy about labor, pregnancy, bodily autonomy, corporate feminism, family, social media, surrogacy, class, burnout, utopian communes, and what […]
The Tulip Poplars is a sprawling Appalachian historical romance about Tom Foster, Amos Lewis, Maeve Day, and Paschal Collins, four people whose lives are shaped by forbidden love, religion, race, shame, trees, music, exile, and the long, punishing work of surviving in a place that mostly refuses to let them be fully human. It wants […]
Wonderkin is a near-future robot-child custody novel about Charles Wright, a lonely widower who rents two artificial “temporary units” from a company called WonderKin, keeps them past the end of the contract, calls them his sons, and eventually destroys his own life trying to save them from being returned, recycled, or legally erased. It wants […]
Death of a Clown is a manic lowlife circus confession about Eugenio Lovecraft, a failed professional clown, opioid addict, fugitive, prisoner, amateur day-trader, gambling addict, husband, corpse, and posthumous narrator. It wants to be a grotesque comedy, a prison memoir, a circus novel, a romance, a capitalist nightmare, a family-curse saga, a pandemic novel, a […]