Books

PHASE ONE
No.	Book	Publish date 	Genre 	Blurb
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Blank Earth
----	April 2021 	Transgressive,Drama,LGBT 	In the rainy and rusted suburbs of Beacon Hill, six troubled girls from different walks of life share two things in common; a run-down house they call home and a dream to escape the grasp of poverty in a cold world which has deemed them degenerates and outcasts. In an attempt to abandon the complexity and hostility of the American lifestyle, these characters try to free themselves from societal standards and expectations, hiding behind labels, stereotypes and facades from their doubts and insecurities; all the while growing furthermore comfortable with the mediocrity of their own lives.
Influenced by the works of Lydia Lunch, Bret Easton-Ellis and Hubert Selby Jr., Blank Earth serves as a gritty and unflinching look into the life of Ryley Summers, an eccentric and rebellious young girl looking to escape her childhood trauma through a life of petty crime. At her side, her girlfriend, struggling author Alex Peterson, and roommates Jay Sanders, Dawn Anderson, Emily Kaufman and Ami Richards are each compelled by their own lust, rage and desires to indulge in an egotistical downward spiral of sex, drugs, alcohol and nihilism. Like a cigarette, their youthful care-free lifestyle burns away, grotesquely manifesting into a bleak gut-wrenching Freudian nightmare.
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Of Cigarettes & Copulation
----	December 2021 	Noir,Erotica,Thriller 	One year ago, Jacob Delsin's wife passed away. It doesn't matter how, or when, but Jacob, now withdrawn into a solitary life of alcoholism and promiscuity, finds his meaning in each day at the bottom of the bottle and monotonous repetition, and time slowly blurs away until one cold winter night.
That night, a pale, fragile and snarky young girl named May, walks into his bar, the two stir up some banter and connect for a seemingly meaningless hookup and Jacob thinks nothing of it when she disappears the next morning, but, strangely, it isn't very long before trouble begins to follow in her wake and interfere with Jacob's otherwise menial existence. Whether he likes it or not, Jacob has found himself at the heart of a burgeoning and bloody street war in the middle of a mass corporate conspiracy of political extortion, nepotism and human trafficking under the thumb of a rich and imposing secretive criminal empire. Forced his hand in violence; Jacob is sent down a reluctant path of brutal vigilantism, fighting alone against the world around him before he ultimately finds assistance from the elusive femme fatale herself; May Lawson.
As the price for their lives becomes ever higher, the duo find aid in a secretive motley crew of others who wish the see the kingdom collapse; such as retiring police detective Chuck Garland, alcoholic private investigator Lyla Painter, notorious street gang leader Elijah T. Cole and motorcycle club vice-president Travis Renton, who supply Jacob and May with a steady arsenal of weapons as they plan a violent counterattack, but with goons in almost every corner of the Big Apple's infrastructure, it's truly on left to Jacob and May to forge an unsteady alliance, keep their heads down and trust no one but each other as they slowly work their way closer to victory from the shadows, one kill at a time.
'Of Cigarettes & Copulation' serves as a loosely connected sequel to Todd Cooper's transgressive drama debut 'Blank Earth' and follows closely in the footsteps of classic hardboiled pulp noir legends like Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Mickey Spillane, combined with a tinge of smutty erotica and a splash dose of Cooper's signature foul-mouthed switchblade wit and streetwise grit that will no-doubt charm and shock readers new and old alike.
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Snow In Summer
----	2022 	Romance,Teen,LGBT 	September 5th, 2006. Alexis Peterson is unusually eager to start her first day of eighth grade, her routine is the same as always, and it's not a surprise when her usual friends are there to greet her with warm smiles. You see, in the small town of Aurora Creek, nothing ever really changes. Well, that is, until ten minutes into the first period when Ariel Reitman awkwardly waltzes into her classroom.
Sure, a new face is extremely rare in these parts, but there's something more than that, Ariel's face is that of a fiery ginger punk from the big city, and at that moment, something deep inside Alexis flutters. She tenses up, her cheeks turn red, her hands get clammy and an anxious sweat drops from her brow. What is going on? Just what in the world is happening? She tries to tell her friends and parents about how she's feeling, but the words just... don't.
Then, the next day, when Alexis goes to close her locker door - there she is again, this time, asking her if she wants to hang out. The words hardly form, but yes, she wants to know everything about this new girl, and what sparks beyond that is an incredible feel-good story of ardour and endearment, and many, many firsts.
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Apocalypse
----	September 2013	Action,Horror,Supernatural	It's the end of the world, demonic creatures have risen up from the depths of Inferno, unleashing with them a hellish spiritual infection that turns humans into mindless cannibalistic husks. After barely escaping Cramburg, Montana by the skin of her teeth, Rachel Trau and a small faction of survivors on the road including veteran Dontey Bailey, officer Wilfred Cunningham, and tech-assistant Vishal Siddiqui find themselves the backroads of America's heartland. Starving, exhausted, and in need of refuge, they stumble across a silent and mysterious ghost town in the woodlands of Minnesota. There, they cross paths with thirteen-year-old Liam Kendall, Lyla Painter, Nick Brooks and their rag-tag group of adolescent survivors.
With the night fast approaching, the two groups agree to temporarily work together for their mutual benefit, securing a shelter and warming up to one another in the brief period of safety. It isn't long, however, before tensions rise and the supposed sanctuary is intruded upon by several new and hostile faces. As the horrors of human capability through bloodshed and ravishment in this new world lead the remaining survivors down a long emotional, moral and psychological road through hell, only one question remains:
Does enduring another day merit the torment of staying alive?
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Nihilist Apathy
----	2022 	Drama,Crime,Romance 	A series of short stories in the three years before, between and following the events of Blank Earth and Of Cigarettes & Copulation, some stories also tie in with the events of The Rain of April, Uneven Odds, The Lost World, Crestfallen and Holmes. 'Four Left Alive' takes place in the Farewell Abodes continuity, while 'The Melancholy of Separation' takes place in the Reawakening continuity, bridging the gap between Reawakening and Apocalypse.
PHASE TWO
No.	Book	Publish date	Genre 	Blurb
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The Lost World
----	TBA 	Adventure,Survival,Action	After celebrity archaeologist Dr. Connor McArdle's elder brother disappears while traversing through the depths of the Amazon rainforest, McArdle becomes devoted to proving the existence of cryptids in the South American jungle. However, despite being mocked by the scientific community, McArdle uses his acquired fortune to charter an expedition into the unknown. McArdle is soon contacted by Edward Clarke, a journalist who claims to believe McArdle's claims, animal biologist Kim Summerlee, mercenary survivalist John Roxton and freelance photographer Alisa Hungerton to the ever mysterious lost world that awaits them.
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Farewell Abodes
----	TBA 	Survival,Tragedy,Drama 	Wesley Knight, his sister Amber and younger brother Ben are three children in a seemingly average upper-middle-class family, they go out for dinner every Thursday, attend church on Sunday, and have a rainy-day jar of money that never seems to empty. But outside of the everyday routines that follow them everywhere they go, Wesley is an irresponsible trouble-making rebel, Amber is an insecure tomboy pressured into the world of teenage life, and Ben seems to be following in their footsteps as a chaotic hyperactive child. However, when the chance arrives for their parents to take a long-awaited honeymoon vacation from work, they take the chance and head to the Carribean, leaving the children a chance to prove their maturity and responsibility once and for all.
Things quickly change when reports begin about riots all across the United States, and in no time, the issue reaches their front door, and it is then that the children realize that the chaos outside their home isn't rioting at all. Equipped with only their dad's shotgun and little ammunition, they attempt to not only escape their hometown but contact their parents and rescue their friends. When all fails miserably, the siblings end up scavenging for supplies, jumping from group to group, while desperately trying to avoid the less-than-sympathetic bandits, rapists and murderers that stand in their way, with the hopeful plan of reaching New Orleans, where they believe they will find safe refuge and hopefully their parents, but on the trail of survival, the kids face starvation, dehydration, exposure, illness and the emotional burden that comes with surviving the downfall of civilization.