“No One Can Come” — his debut novel
An Irish-born writer building thrillers about the machinery underneath. His debut novel, No One Can Come, moves between a sealed strongroom aboard the sinking Titanic and the 2023 expedition sent to find it.
Irish-born · Thrillers about the machinery underneath
Three worlds to enter: the debut novel, the Duke Savage trilogy, and a standalone science-fantasy.
“Two crews. One sealed strongroom. A century of water between them.”
His debut novel. In 1912, a junior purser and five others are sealed inside an unlisted strongroom as the Titanic goes down. In 2023, investigative historian Ines Calloway descends to the wreck — and finds the compartment, and the ledger its keeper left behind. A dual-timeline thriller about the records power buries, and the people who keep them.
“In a city that erases people with a transposed digit, one investigator was hired to find a woman who was never meant to be found.”
Duke Savage is fifty-three — a former investigative journalist turned private investigator operating out of a cramped office above a pawnshop in Los Angeles. When an encrypted message warns that a young woman is running out of time, he begins searching for Sarah Chu, who has been systematically erased from the administrative systems that govern modern life.
A Simon J Cleary Novel
Simon J Cleary
“The city was not drowning them. It was mopping its floor.”
When the transit platform collapses in the lower sectors of Neo-Tethys, three sisters wake in the dark carrying marks that grant them new kinds of power — and start climbing toward a surface that wants its floor clean.
A debut novelist exploring how power learns to be invisible.
Simon J. Cleary is an Irish-born writer and entrepreneur. His fascination with institutional systems, public narratives, and the hidden mechanisms that shape modern life informed the creation of GHOSTS IN THE ASH — written across twenty-seven drafts and exploring administrative power, personal responsibility, and the cost of pursuing truth when the people closest to you are paying the price.
He didn't fully understand what he'd written until the night his wife's friends went quiet listening to it and told him: “The dry, sarcastic, notices-everything cynic — that's one hundred percent you.” GHOSTS IN THE ASH is the first installment in the Duke Savage trilogy.
Conversations on craft, the system, and what the city won't say out loud. Hosted by Simon J. Cleary.
A DYSTOPIAN ADULT SCIENCE FANTASY BY AUTHOR SIMON J CLEARY ABOUT THE 3 AMBROSE SISTERS TRYING TO ESCAPE THE TERRIFYINGLY CHILLING CITY OF NEO-TETHYS BEFORE IT CONSUMES THEM, LITERALLY!!
Readings, panels, and the occasional workshop. To be announced.
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