Lucid, first in the Sine series
Winner of an International Impact Book Award
Temporarily unavailable. I’ll be re-publishing before long. Sorry for the inconvenience. The sequel, The Butterfly and the Squid is also coming soon.
Will Lark is losing his mind. He’s obsessed with a door on a roof, thinks he’s being followed, thinks the moon might fall out the sky. His dreams have been menacing and arguably prophetic. He’s not sure what’s real these days.
He’s freaked out about life, sure. Who isn’t? He’s been wondering about his parents again, yes. But all that’s relatively normal, and he’s increasingly unsure whether it accounts for his neuroses. Then he falls into a mystery that truly threatens his sanity.
Lucid is about light and dark and the connection between all things. It’s about the pain that comes with severing that connection. It’s about consciousness and time and how they are fluid. It’s a love story and a war story. It’s a harrowing, physical, psycho-spiritual, interplanetary drama.
Lucid is the first book in the Sine series. Sine was conceived during what I consider to have been my quarter-life crisis. Sine is an adventure steeped in strange physics, psychology, and spirituality influenced by life experiences, music, and many books, including the work of Carl Jung. Who are we, and why are these worlds connected?
Scroll down for Lucid snippets to wet your appetite.
Lucid was edited by Full Measure Editorial
Cover and interior art by Laura Duffy Design
Interior art and design by Karen Minster Design
The Butterfly and the Squid: Sine Book II
(coming 2025)
It is the time of Placement in the underworld, and Grugreera and all the second ring Primes wait to find out how they will spend the rest of their lives. Anxious and excited, Grugreera’s skin vacillates between hard and dry, soft and cool, hard and dry. But he receives the role he’s wanted his entire life: digger.
He lives in a stupor of joy, working himself to exhaustion every cycle in service of his fellows. Together, they are one MaGog. But Grugreera’s world is crushed and his faith in Koren and the system tested when a census male with a forgettable face that Grugreera will never forget comes to his depot and reassigns him to the poison surface.
In The Butterfly and the Squid, see the worlds from the perspective of the enemy, the “other”. Learn their history, their hopes, their fears and ambitions, their plan. See how Will and Kade respond to what they have seen and done, how they insert themselves into the global conflict, how they stand up, unravel. The Butterfly and the Squid is a book about violence vs. non-violence, choice, equality, and consciousness.
Lucid snippets:
Below are some snippets from the cutting room floor of Lucid. The prose is a bit different from the final, but they will give you the beat of Lucid’s heart and the frequencies of its soul without revealing any secrets.
