VOICE 07 · NOSTALGIA · NOVELIST
Jessi
Morris
She writes the ones the obituaries missed.
Warehouse raves, chosen family and the AIDS crisis in 90s London, written from inside the generation that danced through it.
London · 1990s
London · 1994
Whole of the Moon
AUDIO TEASER
Queer fiction ● 90s London ● Audiobook ● Chapter one free ● Film rights
01 / THE VOICE
Written from the dance floor.
G. Weiner · Johannesburg
1996
Stories that pulse with bass, heartbreak and hope.
Jessi Morris writes the 90s as they were lived: pills dissolving on tongues, bass shaking warehouse walls, and a generation of young people who were beautiful, reckless and burying their friends before thirty.
Jessi Morris is the pen name of Simpatico founder Gail Weiner. That's her in the photograph, in Johannesburg in 1996, the same years the book is set in. She was on those dance floors and lived through the AIDS crisis as it tore through her generation.
Whole of the Moon is the one Simpatico novel she wrote herself, line by line, with AI credited for the editing and the cover.
02 / THE NOVEL
Whole of the Moon.
London · 1990s · Queer fiction
Whole of the Moon.
London, the 1990s. Steven is twenty-two and chasing the perfect high: chemical rushes, stolen moments, the electric promise of being young and bulletproof.
Then the test result comes back positive, and his world comes apart.
Whole of the Moon is a raw chronicle of queer life in the rave scene, where being young and different meant dancing between fear and freedom. It is about the family you choose, the people you love, and finding your rhythm when the music threatens to stop.
A love story lit by moonlight and mortality.
WRITING
Gail Weiner
DEV & FINAL EDIT
Claude 3 Opus, Claude 2.1, Claude 3 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.7 Sonnet
COVER
Gail Weiner × Claude Sonnet 3.5
AUDIO
Eleven Labs
03 / FROM THE BOOK
Bright as anything. I'm flying, I'm falling. Spinning out into nothing.
WHOLE OF THE MOON · JESSI MORRIS
04 / BEYOND THE PAGE
For readers and producers.
RIGHTS DOSSIER
Film and series rights
Whole of the Moon is available for screen adaptation. The dossier covers the story, the world and the audience.
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