So because I have a disorder called "I can't stop trying to make things in various creative genres" I'm working on a novel, the working title is "Barnacle Boy" but I think that may change. It's set in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea sometime before the local volcano erupted and buried the town in ash (I lived in PNG for five years as a kid.) The story explores the place where faith and pain and money meet, and is told from the perspective of a young MK who spends seven years drifting around the island after his father is killed. It's still rough, I finished the first draft but it's too short and needs quite a bit of work. I may try publishing it myself on Lulu when I get it done.

Check out a short sample here.
BarnacleBoy-excerpt.pdf

Photo by Mangiwau.

Labels: novel, PNG, publishing, Rabaul, writing