Novels

Long-form fiction shaped by music, myth, history, and consequence.

Some stories are written to be read. Others are written to linger.

The Year of Shadows

A tale of friendship, obsession, and the birth of darkness

Description

Paris, 1830. A young Edgar Allan Poe arrives in the City of Light, fleeing a life that has offered him nothing but loss. There he encounters Hector Berlioz, a composer consumed by his obsessive love for the actress Henriette Smithson, and Eleanor Morel, a woman harboring secrets of her own. Together, Poe and Berlioz find themselves solving murders in the shadows of revolutionary Paris—where the seeds of detective fiction and Poe’s greatest works take root.

Completed • 95,000 words • Seeking representation

The Cosmic Janitor Trilogy

An epic journey through Irish mythology, cosmic bureaucracy, and the redemptive power of music

Series Overview

When Seán O’Sullivan accidentally drops a reality-manipulating tool through dimensions and into the Big Bang, he’s recruited as a cosmic janitor—partnering with Niamh, a sentient nebula learning to be human. Together they face the Devil’s schemes, the Morrígan’s deadly tests, and the universe’s biggest existential crisis—all while proving that pub quizzes, strongly-worded letters, and stubborn Irish pragmatism might be exactly what the cosmos needs.

Book 1: An Apology to the Cosmos
WORD COUNT: 103,000 words

When Seán O’Sullivan accidentally drops a reality-manipulating tool through dimensions and into the Big Bang itself, he’s recruited by the CEO (Created Everything Originally) to repair the damage before his Devil boss can exploit the fractures to escape his earthly bounds. Partnering with Bubbles—a sentient nebula who takes human form as Niamh—Seán’s missions unfold across artistic history: preventing Leonardo da Vinci’s suicide, helping the deaf Beethoven connect with the music of the spheres, and watching helplessly as Robert Johnson trades his soul at the crossroads. As the Devil’s schemes converge on Seán’s family pub in Cork, he must learn that cosmic maintenance isn’t about preventing all suffering—it’s about conducting harmony from chaos.

When Seán O’Sullivan’s star-wife begins dissolving back into starlight, the Devil offers him a Faustian bargain. But descending through a hilariously modernized Hell—where influencers create content for zero followers and demons named Craig correct grammar for eternity—Seán discovers this was never the Devil’s game. The ancient Irish goddess Morrígan is teaching him the hardest lesson love knows: sometimes holding on tight means learning to let go.

The Devil escapes his imprisonment wielding a sentient Map his sister Serenity built before the War in Heaven, launching the final assault on reality by splintering Cork into seventeen-dimensional versions—Viking Cork, Butter Cork, Academic Cork, and more. He expects division to lead to destruction. He underestimates Cork’s stubborn refusal to unmake themselves during Wednesday quiz night. As the cosmos poses its ultimate question—whether harmony or entropy shapes existence—Seán must conduct the symphony of infinite Corks, knowing that the answer might mean sacrificing everything he’s spent three books learning to love.

Completed trilogy • Seeking representation