Leo X Robertson – författare

How does friendship become obsession? Why need any romantic love be forbidden? Does there exist a sound more seductive than the reedy bray of a saxophone solo? All these questions and more are posed by the diaries, emails and notebook scraps of Billy Medicine, finally made available by an object of Billy's obsessions: Leo X. Robertson. Billy is a lonely young man whose typical teen angst snowballs from mischievous trickery into the saxophone-related murders of two innocent men. The creation of this stranger-than-fiction narrative was as much Leo's personal journey to discover what it was about him that had so unbalanced a disturbed soul, how much of the fallout he was personally accountable for, and how it was that Billy's unwanted persecution led Leo straight into the arms of his soulmate. Now, for the first time ever, read Billy's side of the story.

Italo! is a rumour-packed melodrama, documenting the history of Italo disco music. Our guide through this exciting time is a former socialite whose occasionally factual account blends with rumour, speculation and complete fabrication as he tells the story of the fall of Italo disco music, the artists that made it great, and its evolution into diverse musical styles in the late 80s and early 90s. Whether they know it or not, these artists are controlled by the mysterious Japanese cartel known as Sagi-tekina Ongaku, whose media stranglehold has turned the saccharine but earnest sentiment of Italo into a money-making powerhouse, from radio in Rome to the downtown Manhattan club scene to high-end parties in Tokyo and beyond. What is to become of these artists when their former fans move on to new musical forms? What space will be left for emotional connection through music when the industry takes over? And, come on: is any of this true?

A young, grieving man sets up an avant-garde theatre project to cope with bereavement-but tensions with the cast threaten the final performance-and his sanity. A planet-sized eye appears at the center of Earth, picking a new person to look at every hour. Everyone else radiates a paralyzing shame towards the target that, in most cases, drives them to suicide within minutes. Leo Robertson and his husband hear a violent disturbance in the night. They debate what to do about it, but they can t even agree on what they heard or where it came from. A young waiter in Scotland learns that an ex of his passed away, setting him off on a nighttime odyssey through his past, where every first experience was steeped in melancholy, love seemed to offer an escape and the dead returned to the plane of the living through dark magic rituals. In these stories, characters experience inexplicable phenomena and struggle to make sense of the world around them, asking themselves: How are you supposed to heal from something when you don t even know what it was and have no way of finding out?

In a dystopian future Scotland, where psychological evaluations are mandatory and societal decay is rampant, Struan, a father burdened by his past, heads to a dilapidated family farm with his genetically modified daughter, Maisie. They seek refuge from the authorities, hiding out in the desolate landscape. Struan's story unfolds as he sits to talk with the "e;pirate,"e; a black-market android filled with the pirated software of multiple professions. He details his tumultuous love affair with the potentially psychopathic Diego and explains how it led him to the farm, where he plans to hide his illegally cloned child from the police.