"You hear that, Mister Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability."

This is how I feel these days. After years of writing draft 1 of this amazing and heartbreaking saga, I now find myself in a new mindset, one that I know quite well by trade: Project Management.

Draft 2 of Book 1 is almost done. Amazing how fast this is compared to the actual writing of draft 1. Trims, rewrites, Book 1 now flows extremely well. The action, the quieter moments, the romance, the incredible technological reveal... It all works now.

I will be posting those draft 2 chapters on my Patreon soon. Those of you who've already stuck with me since the beginning are in for a treat! As for my free members and those who haven't taken the leap yet... You're missing out!

On the novella side, things are moving according to plan!

Dissociation Delirium, first entry into my Digital Gods and Fallen Angels universe, has been published in both English en French. Those who've read it LOVED it.

Jon Richter, author of Auxiliary, had this to say about it:

"Gritty, gripping, visceral and nasty - with a particularly memorable corporate pep-talk! I thoroughly enjoyed this novella and look forward to more from Phil’s new cyberpunk universe."

Matt Adock, author of Complete Darkness, joined in with this:

" There’s a particular flavour of cyberpunk that doesn’t care about neon cool, trench coats, or whether your katana glows in the dark. It just wants to drag you face first through a poison corporate sewer and leave your nervous system twitching in an alley somewhere behind a biotech nightclub. Phil Stitelmann’s Dissociation Delirium is very much that.Be warned: This is mean little fiction. Lean, poisoned, angry and excitingly - just the start of a series!!Stitelmann takes the well-worn cyberpunk staples including augmentation, burnout, corporate ownership of the soul and strips away the romanticism until all that’s left is panic sweat and malfunctioning meat. Think cybernetic psychosis and identity fracture with a kind of grim conviction that feels spiritually descended from early Neuromancer alleyways, filtered through the body-horror migraines of David or Brendan Cronenberg.What really works is the nastiness of it all. Every page feels like somebody trying jam an infected neural link directly into the skull.Cyberpunk often disappears up its own augmented backside with endless lore dumps and fetishistic worldbuilding. Dissociation Delirium instead behaves like a panic attack in prose form. Fast. Claustrophobic. Ugly in a deliberate way. The brevity makes it hit harder because there’s no escape hatch, no comfortable distance from the collapse.This is a drunk 3am after too much tequila and caffeine, where your thoughts are sponsored by a pharmaceutical company.Delightful I AM A PIG stuff.Stitelmann GETS that the best cyberpunk isn’t really about technology GETTING inside the nervous system.DO YOU COMMIT?"

Needless to say, such endorsement from actual, modern cyberpunk writers made my day!

English version on Kindle HERE. French version on Kindle HERE. FNAC.COM version HERE. Kobo Store version HERE. Get your copy now and experience the madness of the near future!

No Future Tonight, my second novella, was published a few weeks ago and has already received praise from a new cyberpunk media website, cyberstopia.com!

This novella leaves the corporate madness of Dissociation Delirium and takes the reader in the gutters of Neo Los Angeles, where two young street kids try and survive the night in the city that takes everything and gives nothing back.

This one holds a special place in my heart. It is tragic, beautiful, dark, violent, and follows the cathartic tropes of Greek tragedy. You will cry and you will rage when reading it. And you will ask for more, I guarantee it!

You can get your copy of No Future Tonight on Amazon Kindle HERE.

The French version is scheduled for August 20 and will be available on both FNAC.COM and Kob Store.

So, what's next?

Mid September, I will publish my third novella: Worst Case Scenario. This one is set to be a real banger. Fun, dark, full of mercenary team banter, and a perfect example of Murphy's Law!

More on this, later!

Until then, I wish you all the best!

Phil, jacking out.