R P GageMy debut novel, Noetic Gravity, lands June 10th, 2025. But honestly, I've been telling stories as long as I've had an audience-even if, for years, that meant just myself, a close friend, or my son before bed. I'm a proud Canadian and a dad, and befor turning to writing full-time, I spent years teaching and working on the front lines of mental health support. That work-and the people I met-still shapes everything I write.Noetic Gravity isn't your standard-issue speculative fiction. I avoid easy tropes, quick shocks, and the usual parade of chosen ones and world-ending disasters. Instead, I aim for something stranger and truer-a kind of speculative realism that values actual people over plot machinery. If you need a shortcut: picture Alice in Wonderland meets Ready Player One, but with a bit more heart, less bombast, and a sense of humor about its own weirdness. Or, if you like your literary references old school, think The Left Hand of Darkness with a wink, not a sermon.I believe a story can go deep without getting heavy-handed, and that the best moments happen in the quiet spaces between. Noetic Gravity is my attempt at a magnum opus, right out of the gate-starting with my most complex work first and hoping the rest of my writing life gets simpler from here. Now that the book is leaving the safe confines of Gage Force Publishing and heading into readers' hands, I'm equal parts excited, terrified, and deeply grateful.Let's see what gravity brings. Read More Read Less