David Schulze
Bestselling, Award-Winning Author of The Sins of Jack Branson, Andrezj of Hollywood, and other psychological fiction.
The Sins of Jack Branson
The Sins of Jack Branson
The Sins of Jack Branson
Modern Myth Trilogy (1 of 3)
The trials and tribulations of Jack Branson, exiled Irish farmboy turned high-end London prostitute, as he struggles with the ghosts of his past and the uncertainty of his future. Inspired by true events.
Andrezj of Hollywood
The Sins of Jack Branson
The Sins of Jack Branson
Modern Myth Trilogy (2 of 3)
In the cutthroat world of Hollywood, an ambitious film student, a gentle studio intern and an unstable producer fight for the life they always dreamed of. A postmodern epic intercutting three stories using both prose and screenplay format.
*2024 IPPY Bronze Medalist*
Olive Branch
The Sins of Jack Branson
Olive Branch
Modern Myth Trilogy (3 of 3)
To save the life of the man he inadvertently put in danger, Private William Gunnison agrees to deliver a letter from Nazi-occupied Paris to a hermit named Victor in New York City, a quest that proves more perilous than anyone had anticipated.
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unplugged
The Audiobook is Here!
Olive Branch
*ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS’ BEST INDIE BOOKSr OF 2024*
2046. Fed up with humanity's increased dependence on the Internet, a cohort of college kids plan a nationwide boycott to revert America back to an analog society, inadvertently starting a culture war between the Millennials in power and Gen A.
The Audiobook is Here!
The Audiobook is Here!
The Audiobook is Here!
Inspired by radio plays, The Sins of Jack Branson: The Audiobook is a cinematic dramatization of the bestselling novel, combining the chameleonic accents of David Sweeney-Bear with tasteful background noise and sound effects for a truly unique, immersive audial experience.
The Sins of Jack Branson
The First Novel by David Schulze
England, 1881. Being gay is both a sin and a crime. Parents disowning their children is considered honourable. Consensual sex risks life in prison. Sodomy scandals ruin careers and reputations. Homosexuals have to choose between safety and happiness.
After an unspeakable incident gets him exiled from his idyllic Irish hometown, twenty-four-year-old Jack Branson rebuilds his life in fog-and-mould London as a house call prostitute for closeted members of the British aristocracy. His dangerous, lucrative profession makes him dependent on the very people who deprive him of a normal life, but he is grateful for the opportunity to finally be his true self.
Jack's rave reviews impress the mysterious Oliver Hawkett, a street rat turned entrepreneur/activist with gorgeous green eyes and a plan to change his oppressive society with the opening of a homosexual brothel. Despite a growing attraction to Oliver, Jack believes he is safer in the hands of his privileged clients, learning the hard way just how wrong he is to trust them.
Inspired by true events, THE SINS OF JACK BRANSON blossoms into a complex, ensemble-driven odyssey through the unforgiving world of Victorian homosexuals, defying genre expectations with a unique blend of plot twists, romance, dry humour, tragedy, philosophy, and modern relevance.
Available in hardcover, paperback and eBook.
NEW: Audiobook now available through Audible, Apple Books, and iTunes.
Andrezj of Hollywood
The Second Novel by David Schulze
*2024 IPPY Bronze Medalist — West Pacific Fiction*
Hollywood, the American film industry, is one of the most lucrative and competitive businesses in the world. It’s where dreams become real, men act like gods, and heroes turn into monsters... both on the screen and off. both on the screen and off.
JACOB IS CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’
Insulted by his family and emotionally neglected by his friends, Jacob Andrezj ends his Junior Year at Boston's prestigious Whitman University more determined than ever to become Hollywood’s next great auteur. But when a chance encounter with an older man turns unexpectedly personal, Jacob’s calculated plans go awry as he reevaluates who he is and what he really wants from life.
WHALE’S NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE
Gentle LA neophyte Whale has put all his eggs in one basket with his dream internship working for an Oscar-winning producer. After a disastrous first day nearly disqualifies him from winning the job, Whale finds himself fighting uphill to keep his future career alive, learning firsthand how backwards and immoral the shimmering City of Angels really is. firsthand how backwards and immoral the City of Angels really is.
DREW COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER
Executive producer Drew Lawrence is a household name worth billions in the box office. He's also a coke addicted alcoholic nymphomaniac with out of control anger issues and a crippling insecurity complex. Desperate to salvage what's left of his life, Drew decides to distance himself from his lucrative brand of derivative blockbusters and reestablish his artistic reputation before it's all too late, even if it means turning his longtime business partner into a vengeful adversary.
Intercutting three seemingly unrelated stories using both prose and screenplay format, ANDREZJ OF HOLLYWOOD is a postmodern epic with complicated characters, heart-wrenching pathos, and one bonkers plot twist after another, a deconstruction of masculinity, success, and fiction itself that explores dysfunctional relationships, fate versus free will, the relevance of tradition in an increasingly atheistic world, the sharp difference between reality and the lies we tell ourselves, and the dangers of pack mentality.
unplugged
Our parents invented it. We're weaponizing it. Our kids will want to destroy it.
America, 2046. The youngest Millennials will be middle-aged. Their children, Generation Alpha (disparagingly referred to as the “Children of COVID”), will be just getting out of college. Twenty-two years of perpetual cynicism and emotional numbness will create a generation of timid, antisocial brainiacs. There’ll be ten billion people in the world and not nearly enough work to go around.
Quentin will only know a world enshrouded by the Internet, an algorithmic world, a hindered world. A botched suicide attempt in his late twenties will inspire a revelation, an impulsive declaration online urging fellow young folk to boycott the Internet in the hopes of reverting society back to its pre-digital existence. Quentin’s manifesto will strike a chord with Gen A and the Unplug Movement will be born. But as America’s greedy present finds itself in conflict with America’s neglected future, #Unplug will explode into a generational culture war that cannot be stopped, cannot be tamed, and cannot be won.
David Schulze’s unplugged imagines a world just around the corner, a satire on nostalgia, fickle capitalism and emotional activism that’s just as relevant today as it will be when it’s all too late.
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Olive Branch
The Third Novel by David Schulze
Paris, 1941. William Gunnison, a British Private trying to keep a low profile in Nazi-occupied France, accidentally kills an old American man he mistakes for a German officer. The old man’s butler Jacques, now alone in Paris with a secret the Nazis could kill him for, begs William to help him safely escape Paris. All he needs to do is deliver Jacques’s letter of instructions to a man named Victor hiding in New York City, a letter he will refuse unless William uses the password: “Olive Branch.”
Desperate to redeem himself for killing the old American — among other things — William agrees to desert the British army at the height of World War II and deliver the letter that saves Jacques’s life… but what William assumed to be a simple journey from Paris to New York proves to be anything but, forcing the young Private to outmanoeuvre not just the Nazis and Allied forces, but ghosts of his past as well.
Utilizing David Schulze’s trademark brand of complex characters, busted genre tropes, and mile-a-minute plot twists, OLIVE BRANCH is a unique wartime mystery combining suspense, contemplation and tragedy, exploring themes of messy ethics, the limitations of the human spirit, and mankind’s life-or-death need for companionship.
Now available in paperback, hardcover, and eBook format.