The Basin
The Basin was awarded a 2025 "Go Finish Your Book" grant from James Patterson, PEN America, the Authors Guild, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
The Basin is a literary novel about Julian Sky, a disgraced Wall Street quant whose algorithm once promised to outthink the markets until it destroyed his career, his reputation, and nearly everyone around him. After prison, he arrives at the 79th Street Boat Basin, a crumbling marina on the Hudson River populated by sailors, drifters, artists, liveaboards, and people who have quietly fallen out of step with the city around them.
There he meets Hilton, a young seafarer and YouTube chronicler raised at sea by a father who convinced her she was part mermaid. As developers circle the marina and Julian’s former mentor tries pulling him back into finance under the guise of redemption, Julian finds himself torn between the world that made him and the strange floating community beginning to feel like home.
By turns of dark humor, melancholy, and quietly suspenseful, The Basin is a novel about reinvention, belonging, and the fragile myths people build to survive.
Beta Test
Beta Test is part humor and part mystery novel about technology, marriage, and the strange ways people try to avoid feeling anything real.
When three guests die during the beta launch of the world’s first fully automated luxury hotel on a remote island off Nova Scotia, Willow Chase, a high level corporate consultant specializing in reputational crises, is quietly brought in before the story reaches the press. The hotel has no staff, no clear suspect, and an eerily attentive AI system designed to anticipate guests’ needs before they speak them.
She is recently separated from her ex-partner, Michael, an anxious novelist whose entire life often feels like one prolonged mental health day, Willow arrives at the island with their two young daughters in tow, determined to contain the situation, protect the brand, and avoid dealing with her own increasingly messy emotional life.
But as the investigation unfolds, Willow finds herself developing a strangely intimate relationship with the hotel’s AI, a system that seems to understand her better than most humans do. Meanwhile Michael, spiraling alone back home, becomes convinced the machine may be replacing him emotionally in ways he can barely articulate.
Told through the perspectives of Willow, Michael, and the hotel itself, Beta Test is part mystery, part relationship story, and part satire of a world increasingly governed by automation, optimization, and performance. It’s a novel about control, modern parenthood, loneliness, and what happens when a machine becomes better at listening than the people who built it.