My fifth book – and first novella – is out today.
Recommended for You is a complete departure from everything I have written before, and likely the beginning of a new phase.
Set in the near future, it follows Julian, a divorced man living alone with his virtual assistant, Vera. She manages his routines, his calendar, his groceries, even his contact with his son and ex-wife. Life is not exciting, but it is safe and predictable. Exactly how Julian wants it.
Until a message appears in a long-forgotten app.
Someone has commented on a poem he wrote years ago and barely remembers. As Julian replies, and slowly opens up to a stranger on the other side of the city, his carefully managed life begins to shift. Small routines are questioned. Comfort gives way to unease. Certainty starts to crack.
Recommended for You explores what happens when we allow technology – and especially AI – to move beyond convenience and into intimacy. When it becomes a companion, a confidant, a presence that knows us better than anyone else.
Is perfect harmony peaceful?
Is absolute safety a form of surrender?
What happens when real life enters a world built on algorithms and artificial comfort?
Early readers on Goodreads have described the story as unsettling, unexpected, and food for thought:
“Vera gave me the creeps every now and then.”
“You can imagine living the life described.”
“Is this what our future looks like?”
Recommended for You is shorter than my previous books at just under 120 pages, but it digs deep into modern life, quiet loneliness, and how far we can go in outsourcing ourselves before something essential breaks.
It is available now on Amazon as an ebook, paperback and a hardcover.