The Novel

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Will Streeton always wanted to be a writer. Instead he's a bored public servant with a crumbling relationship and a head full of unwritten stories. When he finally quits his job to chase inspiration his life begins to unravel</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Drunken nights turn to empty days and the boundary between imagination and experience starts to blur as Will begins writing Pursuing the Darkness-a horror/crime novel about Paul a broken musician and his uncle Fred a disgruntled policeman. But as Will writes strange coincidences occur. The people he meets begin to resemble the victims in his story. His characters' voices start whispering back.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Is Will losing his mind-or is he on his way to becoming the killer he's created?</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Nick Lachmund's The Novel is a biting blackly comic portrait of the failed artist the fragile male ego and the dangerous beauty of storytelling itself. Unflinching sharp and darkly compelling it asks: when does writing stop being fiction?</em></strong></p>