Launching Idyll Lost

I just published my first book, titled Idyll Lost. It's an adventure story about a 16-year-old boy living on a planet that has been lost, figuratively and literally. Idyll was a colony planet. But a series of events led to it being abandoned, and all the people on it were stranded.

Deven, the main character, is a prospector. He searches for materials from an earlier era. And he finds something, a piece of technology that could change the direction of his shrinking colony. This is an adventure story. The camera follows Deven and no one else. I categorize the book as a young adult book because it contains nothing that would require a parental warning. It's also a young adult book because I wrote it for the 13-year-old version of me. I would have liked it at that age.

I began writing the book at the tail end of the pandemic, and I like to think it was one of the few positive things that came from that period. For much of my working career, I was a journalist and published thousands of articles over 20 years in the business at The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, The State Newspaper and the Ann Arbor News, among others. But I have never published any fiction.

I will be publishing regular prequel stories on the blog for fun, so keep checking back for more stories if you are interested!