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Project Scope: Self-directed from concept through multiple structural revisions to final edit. The manuscript required building an evidence base across neural plasticity, neurodivergent cognition, and music therapy, then synthesising peer-reviewed research and turning those technical findings into a narrative framework that engages across 55,000 words with literary merit.

Why I wrote it: Two reasons. Late-diagnosed adults rarely encounter their own cognition described as anything other than deficit, and that account seemed worth articulating through literary expression. The second reason is professional: research, structure, voice, and revision sustained across long-form publication are the disciplines I bring to ghostwriting and editorial work. The manuscript is complete; what it taught me transfers directly to B2B communications.

Alongside the novel: Audience definition and positioning for the title, together with the website build as its beta and launch platform (covering publication strategy, information architecture, content structure, and release sequencing).

• Primary: Late-Diagnosed Adults
• Secondary: Clinical Practitioners, Parents Processing Child’s Diagnosis
• Tertiary: Musicians, Academics, Creative Professionals

Blurb: In a society that ‘corrects’ minds, and where the art of improvisation has been outlawed, a woman looks back at age twelve, when she had three weeks to save her younger brother from mind-altering treatment – learning that protecting her brother’s mind meant mastering freedom within structure.

Genre: Adult literary fiction, ~55,000 words
Subgenres: Neurodivergent cognition, musical metaphor, speculative dystopia

Beta read release of the novel is planned for October 2026; publication 2027.