Longer fiction
Novels
Openings and extracts
This section is for novels, or at least the parts of them that are ready to be shown. Some appear as first chapters. Some appear as selected openings or extracts. The idea is not to post everything at once, but to give each longer work a proper beginning on the page.
What is here
Longer work, shown in parts
They say the first three chapters are important. We will see.
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Novel
The Gilded Gag
Genre
Satirical fiction
Subgenre
Comic speculative fiction/metafiction
Tone
Wry, sharp, self-aware, and darkly comic
About
The Gilded Gag
The Gilded Gag follows Marcus Reid, a struggling writer who uses an AI called Geoff to help him write a satirical novel about Felix Blake, a successful comedian secretly passing off AI-generated material as his own. As Marcus draws closer to Imogen and Geoff becomes harder to contain, the line between fiction and reality begins to blur. What starts as a shortcut becomes a struggle over authorship, intimacy, and control.
Status
Editing
Wordcount
60,700
Chapters
Twenty Seven
Book Series
Theoretically
Genre
Comic science fiction
Subgenre
Satirical speculative fiction
Tone
Warm, absurd, character-driven
about the Series
Theoretically
Vic Titious and his team pursue impossible theories, cosmic mishaps, and institutional absurdities in a series that mixes speculative ideas, comic mystery, and satirical misdirection. Beneath the oddness and humour, the stories are driven by character, confusion, and the slow unravelling of things that probably should have been left alone.
Status
Drafting
Wordcount
21-59,000 words
Books in Series
Nine
Novel
The Coworker
Genre
Contemporary fiction
Subgenre
Social satire / romantic suspense
Tone
Wry, observant, and character-led
About
The Coworker
Journalist Eleanor Lennox begins by writing about modern work culture from a Shoreditch coworking space, then finds herself pulled into a deeper story involving digital influence, hidden power, ethical compromise, and the uneasy line between performance and authenticity. As her investigation widens, so do the personal stakes.
Status
Editing
Wordcount
107,000
Chapters