I still consider myself a working novelist, but the last time I published a novel was way back in 2021 — and that was a revised reprint edition of an earlier novel to coincide with the release of the book’s movie adaptation.
Even worse, the movie turned out to be bad.
In my defense, I’ve been very busy with other writing projects.
But I am extremely happy to announce that I will soon be releasing another novel — Infinite Drift, a YA supernatural thriller and my fifteenth novel in a little over twenty years. Even better, I think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever written.
So maybe I’m not such a writing-sluggard after all.
Here’s the jacket, which I think is pretty damn cool:
And here’s the blurb:
"It's a tank full of warm water. What's the worst that could happen?"
Seventeen-year-old Ollie is out with his best friends on a Saturday night, and they decide to try the "sensory deprivation" tanks at a store called Infinite Drift.
But when he gets out again, the world seems vaguely… different. And it feels like he's being watched.
Could he have somehow crossed over into a different dimension? Or is he going insane? After all, he's still distraught over the death of his little brother eight months earlier — an event no one knows he accidentally caused.
Ollie tries to "reset" things by going back into the tank. This time, he emerges into a world where the Yellowstone "supervolcano" erupted four years earlier, almost wiping out human civilization, and one of his best friends is dead.
But Ollie's little brother is alive again.
Unfortunately, Ollie is being watched — by the robot-like creation of a cosmic monitoring station left in operation by a civilization that died out eons ago. And the being is ruthlessly trying to eliminate a strange "disruption" in the universe: Ollie!
And so he has no choice but to go back into the tank yet again…
Infinite Drift is the latest book from Brent Hartinger, the author of the LGBTQ teen classic Geography Club, but it's unlike anything he's ever written before: a page-turning mind-bender with a bonkers bisexual love triangle.
Sound intriguing? The book won’t be out until September, but you’re in luck: the ebook version is available for preorder, and the print version will be available soon.
PREORDER THE BOOK AT BARNES AND NOBLE
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Congratulations on your new novel! Way to go !
I’ll be buying a couple copies for the library :)
Congrats, Brent!!
(I’ll also be reading it, obvs)