David Schulze
Bestselling, Award-Winning Author of The Sins of Jack Branson, Andrezj of Hollywood, and other psychological fiction.
The Sins of Jack Branson
Modern Myth Trilogy (1 of 3)
Inspired by Homer's Odyssey, Schulze takes the underrated true story of John Saul and makes it his own, an emotionally wrought journey of a banished homosexual forced out of his native Ireland and into Victorian London at the height of its power, a story of unrequited love, guilt-ridden happiness, and passion against a homophobic society that wants to forget men like Jack, one that would do anything to keep him down.
Andrezj of Hollywood
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Modern Myth Trilogy (2 of 3)
Schulze takes the classic Hollywood rise-and-fall narrative and turns it into a R-Rated King Arthur story, the trials and tribulations of a modern kind of king, an amoral executive producer of lazy blockbusters, as he struggles to salvage his Hollywood life, the one he threw so much away in order to have, facing the consequences of ancient crimes in the process. Written in both prose and screenplay format.
*2024 IPPY Bronze Medalist*
Olive Branch
Modern Myth Trilogy (3 of 3)
Schulze’s WWII-set mystery is an intentionally unpredictable quest narrative of a British Private who, through his own error in judgement, accidentally puts a French civilian in danger, as he fights to redeem himself by delivering the letter that saves the man's life.
unplugged
"ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2024"
— KIRKUS REVIEWS
2046. Fed up with humanity's increased dependence on the Internet, a cohort of college kids start a nationwide boycott to revert America back to the analog society it used to be, inadvertently starting a culture war between the Millennials in power and Gen Alpha.
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*
An R-rated King Arthur story with a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall twist, David Schulze's critically acclaimed second novel is quintessentially grand, using three perspectives and two different writing styles to tell a story spanning twenty-two years, featuring dozens of characters along both coasts, and yet its message cannot be more grounded and relatable: in this messy modern world we live in, is there ever really a right choice?
Boston: Whitman University
Junior Year is at an end, and screenwriting major Jacob Andrezj returns from a revelatory semester abroad to find his life just as he left it: a devastating wreck. A family made dysfunctional thanks to a messy divorce two years prior. His friend group--his sole source of comfort in such chaotic times--too busy with their own lives to even bother trying to fix his. But just when it seems there's no hope, Jacob crosses paths with an older man that seems too good to be true... and his life is changed forever.
Los Angeles: The Factory
Whale just got into town, and what better way to launch his film career than with an internship at The Factory, the development company of the Oscar-winning producer known only as "The Professor." But the internship--not to mention Los Angeles as a whole--turns out to be very different than what Whale had been expecting. His future suddenly hanging in the balance, Whale quickly learns how far he's willing to go to win the job.
Los Angeles: Not That Nutty Productions
By all definitions, Drew Lawrence has the perfect life. Head of Production at one of the most profitable studios in town. Perfect physique. Constant love and praise from all the LA lemmings. But underneath that perfect sunny exterior is a man trapped in a hellish state of mind, an insecure beast drowning in alcohol, cocaine, steroids and problematic sex, with his only lifeline, his boss and supposed best friend Theo Landreth, actively enabling and campaigning to keep him down and dependent. But one devastating phone call is enough to motivate Drew into ending the cycle, to finally break free from the toxic Hollywood prison he's always called home--no matter the cost.
Revised Second Edition (2025)
Larger text size, coherant margins, new scenes, and best of all: NO TYPOS!
unplugged
"ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2024" — KIRKUS REVIEWS
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.
NEW: Now available in paperback as well as eBook formats
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.