In 1994, Connor Kelly is the most famous sixteen-year-old in America.

Everybody knows CK. The teen singer who came out of nowhere and is suddenly...

Static & Signals by Michael Manosca

Books

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Across the Arno (THE OLTRARNO PASSAGES Book 1)

Graham Tierney has spent thirty years writing the Oltrarno series—sweeping historical romances set in Renaissance Florence that have earned him critical acclaim, a devoted readership, and a Hollywood option. But since losing Simon, his husband of three decades, Graham hasn’t written a word. He’s been sitting alone in his Maine cottage, waiting...

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The Far Bank (THE OLTRARNO PASSAGES Book 2)

Eli Pelletier has finally built a life that fits him. A small apartment north of Portland. Niles, the boyfriend he wasn’t sure he’d ever find. Graham Tierney down the road, the father figure he hadn’t known he needed. Then, on an ordinary Thursday afternoon, it all goes away.

Kieran Callahan, a twenty-two-year-old Portland paramedic, becomes the...

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The Other Shore (THE OLTRARNO PASSAGES Book 3)

The final novel in the Oltrarno Passages trilogy.

The story that began when Eli found Graham comes at last to Levi — the one who watched it all from the edge.

Two years ago, Levi Bauer had nowhere to go. Now he has a seat at Graham Tierney’s table and a place in the family that assembled itself around Eli — close enough to belong, careful enough...

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Blog

July 14, 2026

A year after I wrote A Language of Water, and months after it went out into the world, I found a flaw in it.

Not a typo. Those I can forgive as they...

July 7, 2026

The Oltrarno Passages, Book Three

When I wrote to you at the end of Book Two, I said there was one more bank to go. This is it. The Other Shore is...

May 27, 2026

The Oltrarno Passages, Book Two

When I sat down to write Across the Arno, I knew there were three books. I knew which characters carried which...

March 10, 2026

Last October, I finished a novel.

It had been through multiple rounds of edits and revisions. A cover was designed. The Library of Congress issued a...

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