TROY FORD

Delighted to announce that my second novel, Waterspout, is available for preorder – the ebook exclusively on Amazon for a while, and the paperback through most retailers.

While not a sequel to my first book, Lamb, this one follows young Jimmy Traywick a generation later with the same Bay Area setting and many of the same themes.

Some lovely words and a summary of the story:

“[A] dollhouse of complex, deeply realized characters.” 
— Chris Tebbetts, bestselling co-author with James Patterson of the Middle School series
“Raw and sophisticated … sassy and unflinching.” 
— Gail Marlene Schwartz, author of the National Indie Excellence Award-winning novel, Falling Through the Night

A struggling painter. Reckless desires. One last chance.

Struggling painter Jimmy Traywick is running out of options.

Job, apartment, boyfriend, and gallery in San Francisco—gone. Retreating to a quiet town across the Bay, he’s hoping for a fresh start when a charismatic insider offers a shot at the New York art world.

Desperate to seize the opportunity, he begins painting the new lovers and friends who have pulled him into their orbit, transforming passion and chaos into a raw new body of work.

But when secrets surface and relationships fracture, he discovers too late that inspiration can come at a devastating price.

As Jimmy embarks on a precarious odyssey, he’ll learn that—
– Ambition demands more than talent
– Intimacy blurs the line between love and exploitation
– Resentment poisons everything it touches

Because some storms don’t pass. Some storms drag you under.

Pillion meets The Goldfinch in this dark literary novel about art, ambition, and the volatile people who become our muses.

The Pink Sheep Novels explore the lives of gay men who never quite found a flock—men who grew up feeling out of place not only in the wider world, but sometimes even within the communities meant to welcome them. These stories follow characters who carry that estrangement into adulthood: restless, searching, and drawn toward the beautiful and destructive forces that promise belonging, intensity, or escape.

Set against shifting landscapes—Bay Area towns, restless cities, and the quiet interiors where old wounds echo—the novels trace the emotional weather of men trying to build lives from fractured beginnings. Families who never understood them, lovers who hold too much power, and substances that blur the line between relief and ruin all shape their journeys.

While each Pink Sheep Novel stands on its own, together they form a loose constellation about alienation, ambition, longing, and the fragile possibility of transformation—stories of queer outsiders who may never fully belong anywhere, yet still find ways to create meaning, connection, and beauty from that distance.