TANYA H. VAN COTT, AIA ARCHITECT/WRITER
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  INTRODUCING
 LITERARY NOVELS
THAT
 EXPLORE TIMELY
ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL & GLOBAL
​ISSUES


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  Education, Success, and
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Big Pharma 
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Marriage, Infidelity, and Escapism 
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Death, Dirty Water, and
Emerging Water Tech
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Digital Connections, Ai and the Climate Crisis 
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NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS IN ACADEMIA
LEGAL DRUGS ARE EVERYWHERE,
TRUST IS TENUOUS
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​AND TRUTH
, ELUSIVE.
SUCCESS COMES AT A HIGH PRICE,

MAYBE, TOO HIGH.
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August 2015, days before the start of a new semester, MIRAND J. WRIGHT, a poor, Columbia University, sociology graduate student, originally from Florida is found dead inside her upper west side dorm room.  Her only goal was to acquire an Ivy League education and publish her dissertation on ‘The Medicalization of Success’, a body of work that would expose the depths of the amphetamine epidemic on college campus’ and in the bellies of children across America.  Yet, Miranda’s secret involvement in the 65 billion-dollar unregulated Assisted Reproductive Technology (A.R.T.) Industry in the U.S., as a highly paid, repeat egg donor, injecting herself daily with hormones and subjecting herself to increasingly invasive procedures is her own non-negotiable path to success.
 
So, who or what caused Miranda’s untimely and shocking death? And why? 
 
PROFESSOR LIN YANG, Miranda’s cut throat Asian-American Advisor; JT, a fellow coed and part time sexual partner; CLARISSA, a needy off campus best friend; JEN, a jealous fellow RA (resident advisor); or NATURE NUTURE INC., Miranda’s egg donation agency? Each with an agenda of their own. 

The preceding eighteen months holds the answer, but things aren’t always what they seem in higher education. Are they?
WHEN 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER' IS FACING A DEATH SENTENCE
IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE COOL? 
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August 2015, along a piece of highway somewhere in America, at the tail end of a family road trip, EVANGELINE, a young mother, wife and daughter to a recently deceased mother hits her emotional rock bottom. 

While stuck in traffic, she escapes her family’s moving vehicle and runs toward her version of freedom, another man, a motorcyclist. Within a few hours a tragic accident leaves her moving in and out of consciousness with a serious head injury. 

Over the course of three hours, as others work to save her body, she works to save her life by traveling through the landscape of her mind. 

She is joined on her journey, which travels to Rome, Sicily, the Tuscan mountains, New York City and its outer boroughs by the voice of THE MOTORCYCLIST, everyman, yet no man in particular.  With her captive audience, she shares a lifetime of stories of sex, infidelity and escapism from all vantage points equally; man, woman, child and even mistress. While exposing the increasingly complex layers of infidelity, Evangeline searches for an answer to a question she has yet to verbalize.

But can she save herself? Even if the doctors can't? 

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY?
THE GLOBAL WATER CRISIS IS NOT JUST POLITICAL, 
FOR ONE MAN, IT'S  PERSONAL.


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August 2015, on an Upstate New York Farm, NOAH PRESTON, a solar farmer, father of four young adults and recent widower is convinced the recent finding of dirty well water on his property caused his wife’s untimely death. While in the throes of grief, with his youngest child, EVE as an accomplice, Noah attempts to build an entirely a new water technology that farms water from thin air.  His only intent is to protect his family from the impending water crisis and the increasingly corrupt world around him.  Though, Noah’s efforts are thwarted at first by local government and religion, but as his creation begins to take shape, he also unwittingly peaks the interest of Corporate America, who has an even bigger reason to stop him. 
 
A fictional origin story of an existing water technology and a modern reimagining of the timeless Flood Myth.  It’s a story of one man's attempt to withdraw from a society he views as crippled; morally, politically and environmentally, but more importantly about the power of grief in the creative process.

But withdrawal isn't really possible? Is it?  
WHEN A CONNECTION IS MADE, IS IT TOO OBVIOUS TO ASK WHY AND FOR HOW LONG?
AND WHEN ITS LOST, TO GO LOOKING FOR IT?

THE GEOPOLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IS UPON US AND Ai JUST GOT INVOLVED.
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The year 2032 finds New York City’s architectural landscape under dramatic redesign due to the ever mutating COVID virus and an even more recent global threat, an extreme increase of daytime temperatures.
 
As the world shifts toward the unrecognizable, SARAH, a childless middle-aged widow, owner of an elite Lower Manhattan STEAM boarding school and the creator of a proprietary set of abstract design lessons is being  controlled by a new authoritarian regime in order to protect its most valuable assets, Sarah’s students, future solutions architects.
 
Lonely and desperate for a respite, Sarah finds herself involved in an intense, yet, accidental digital connection with ABRAHAM, a young man she's never met, a reverse engineer, who tirelessly travels the globe trying to solve the latest climate crisis threatening life as they know it. 

When Sarah's youngest and brightest student, CASSI, an orphan, is put in danger, Abraham coordinates an escape for both to his home in Rome, Italy.

Sarah’s determination to protect Cassi and end her own loneliness sets her on a dangerous, frustrating and eye-opening journey.  But was their digital connection really accidental? Or provoked by something bigger than both of them?  And what does Cassi, the climate crisis, water and Ai have to do with it?

A reverse engineered, inside out, upside down, modern look at the biblical love story of Abraham and Sarah and a critical look at the power existing technologies have to connect, disrupt and destroy.

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