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Vincent wakes up in an apartment in New York City with no recollection of having arrived there. Back in the UK, his girlfriend, Emily, has been murdered. Guided by mysterious phone calls which lead him to a series of clues, he soon suspects he has travelled to New York to find Emily’s killer.
Meanwhile, an explicit video Emily made is going viral. When she shared it with Davison in a private forum, she never expected him to upload it. But she’s only ever spoken to him online, and he might not be who he says he is.
ESC&CTRL is a metafictional murder mystery examining the loss of identity in the virtual world of the Internet; a self-begetting novel for the 21st Century.
Steve Hollyman was born in Stoke-on-Trent. His debut novel, LAIRIES, was published by Influx Press in April 2021. His second novel, ESC&CTRL, followed in October 2022. He is represented by MMB Creative.
His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Big Issue, Flash Fiction Magazine, Brand Literary Magazine, The Routledge Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory, The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, Convergence, Bewilderbliss, The Sentinel, and Culture Compass. He is a Doctor of Philosophy and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing.
Aside from his writing life, Steve is the vocalist and guitarist in three-piece crepuscular rock outfit CreepJoint.
Steve Hollyman 