Synopsis

Grief-stricken young Thomas Fisher has lost who he thinks he is and is sinking into depression, so the part of him that wants to survive (we’ll call him Monster) has to take drastic action. Monster rips away the world like a band-aid and drops Thomas into an icy wasteland, trying to shock him into action, then pushes him through encounters with other parts of himself to regain his full identity. It doesn’t go terribly well, and Monster is accumulating these parts and getting...monstrous, while Thomas is still wandering around like a husk of a boy.

Agonising and funny by turn, this is about how your unconscious mind is your biggest, strongest, funnest friend if you’ll only talk to each other; and the importance of knowing who you are.

Middle-grade adventure fantasy, long-form.

About the author

I’m a systems nerd, fascinated by all kinds of patterns, connections and routes to success. It used to be IT but these days it’s the unconscious mind and one’s identity - in coaching/therapy and now creative writing. I’ve always liked my stories to mean something, not merely be pretty....so I’ve written nothing till now except hundreds of functional specs and occasional essays on Luck. In the interests of Identity Truth, Lettice is my pen name, and my real name is Pen.

About the book

This whole concept popped out recently fully formed, and with lots of siblings waiting in the wings. I’ve been writing the words in my head, trying to find the right voice (currently everything I write in the story sounds like Morgan Freeman, which I quite like). Now I’m getting them onto paper. It may be a while! Any thoughts about the concept are welcomed.