Blood Vortex - Part One of a New Science Fiction Series - Sample Available Now

So, the first one hundred pages of my third novel, Blood Vortex, are out now to read for free. I've been working on this for so long, and there is still a long way to go, but for now, I think I have something somewhat ready to read.

While I go to agents to hopefully get this book professionally published, I will continue working on the editing side of things. I have a lot of world-building left to figure out when it comes to the later books. I have the groundwork laid out, but not the complete story. I am sure that by the time Blood Vortex is available to buy, every aspect of the world will be carefully crafted to ensure the story comes to a complete conclusion.

As stated in a previous post, this will be the first in a series titled HUSK. HUSK, to me, represents the atmosphere and feel of each of the books; that being a lonely, empty system full of lonely, empty people, looking for some sort of meaning in their hollow lives.

For a long time, I had the idea of a solar-system-sized stage ready for a story I did back in 2020, called The U.S.S Maurer Experiments (Unpublished). This was the bones for Blood Vortex, and my first step into the world, but it wasn't exactly HUSK yet, at least not in name or spirit.

What I did gleam from it was the concept of the husks present in the book. I had an idea of a conscious machine that counteracts the protagonist of the story.

This was taken from two inspirations at the time, one being a 2017 movie called Life, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, and Rebecca Ferguson. The film is very effective at showing the struggle between human and alien. While I won't say what happens later in Blood Vortex, I took a lot of my feelings about the ending, and put them into The U.S.S Maurer Experiments. If you've seen the film, you'll know what I mean. The second inspiration was a videogame I played in September of 2017, that being Soma. (I even left a review for it on Steam!) The game is incredible, and I used a lot of those ideas to create my own artistic vision. The way artificial intelligence is portrayed in Soma is unique and interesting, and I had similar thoughts on the nature of artificial life and living. From the first few pages of Blood Vortex, I wanted to get across that humanity should not tangle with technology, and that playing with fire will always cause a few burns.

So, in 2023, after writing all of ideas up, I put them into organized folders and began mapping out the contents. This would be molded and formed and crushed into new shapes each month. Events came and went, history took on new meaning, characters' names changed. Hell, Milly was originally called Geppetto. I thought it too uninspired, and Deena wasn't a character in the story yet, so thus, it remained.

After everything began to form, Blood Vortex was edited many times, but finally, in late 2024, I had something I could work with.

Which brings us to today, 17/02/25, where things are becoming a bit more real. For the first time, I don't think self-publishing will be the way to go. Of course, if I am unable to find an agent right for me, or if no agents find me right for them, I will inevitably move to Amazon, which is by no means bad, as many of my readers have gotten to read my work through there. But hopefully I can find a passionate editor and agent to help me along my publishing journey. I am very excited to share my workwith friends, family, and strangers, and I hope everyone enjoys reading my new book as much as I do writing it.