Today’s the day — JINGLED is officially out in the world.

I started writing this book during a moment when it felt like the country had split into two parallel realities — not just politically, but emotionally and socially. You’d turn on one channel and hear about one version of America; switch to another, and you’d think you’d landed in a different universe entirely. Families stopped talking, conversations turned brittle, and even the smallest things — a holiday greeting, a yard sign, a news headline — became loaded with tribal meaning.

JINGLED grew out of that sense of disconnection. It’s a satire about what happens when those cultural divides become so deep that we stop recognizing each other at all.

The story follows Matt Daughtry, a young man who returns home for Christmas to parents who live in an entirely different world — one fueled by talk shows, conspiracies, and “common sense” platitudes. But what starts as a familiar family tension quickly spirals into the surreal: Americans across the country begin celebrating Christmas every day. Flights stop running, offices close, and millions quit their jobs to stay home and live in an endless holiday loop.

Through humor, absurdity, and just a touch of heartbreak, JINGLED explores what happens when ideology becomes identity — when the stories we tell ourselves about “us” and “them” become so powerful that they override reality itself.

It’s a satire about our collective echo chambers, but it’s also a story about family, forgiveness, and the faint hope that maybe, beneath all the noise, we’re still capable of finding one another again.

I wrote JINGLED for anyone who has ever argued at the dinner table, muted a relative on social media, or wondered how two people can live in the same country — or even the same house — and see entirely different worlds.

I’m incredibly proud to finally share it with you. If you enjoy dark humor, speculative fiction, or novels that hold a cracked mirror up to our culture, I think you’ll find something to love in this story.