DROWNTOWN began as a screenplay but quickly evolved into a novel due to the fact that I found myself really getting into building the world and I wanted a limitless format to dive into my imagination. I’m a big fan of the hard boiled detective and film noire genres and even more so, when they merge in the realm of science fiction. This story takes the tried true traditions of those styles and turns them on their head in a world that has been that has been overturned by climate change and political upheaval. There is homage made to the classics and Easter eggs abound for those that know what they’re looking for. But I promise I won’t tell.

DROWNTOWN is set in what was the City of Vancouver, a couple centuries in the future, after major sea rise and massive flooding that has left the city largely submerged in the Pacific Ocean. Despite the fact that it’s set in this new landscape, it is not an apocalypse novel, but rather a story of how people adapt and thrive in their evolving environment.

I started writing DROWNTOWN in the summer of 2021, which was a kind of crazy time in British Columbia. I live in Vancouver, but the entire province was on fire and we were in the thick of a COVID wave. The sky was orange and everyone was wearing masks. Then in the fall and winter of 2021 there were endless storms, a freak tornado and what they coined an ‘atmospheric river’, which was just a shit ton of rain. Ironically, for me, though tragically for many other people, in the midst of writing about Vancouver after the flood, Vancouver flooded. A huge swath of the Fraser Valley east of the metropolis was completed submerged by rivers swelling their banks and non-stop rain. The highways were washed away by mudslides leaving hundreds stranded in the middle of the mountains, people died, and Vancouver was effectively cut off by land from the rest of the country. So I started writing faster.

I’m 240 pages into the novel and I planned for it to be about 400. So, we’re almost there. I’m very excited to share this novel with you all and I think this form of audience owned NFTs is the future of all art. It empowers audiences and creators, democratizes and encourages the creation of new works and decentralizes the structure and power of financing and profit. It is truly a revolutionary medium for all artists and audiences and to be part of it is to be part of the future.

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