**COVER REVEAL** So pumped to share the epic cover for my upcoming adult novel KING OF DIRT. 🤩🤩 KING OF DIRT is a gritty and heartfelt gay coming-of-age story set in the world of FIFO workers & tradies in Western Australia. 🤠🛻 KING OF DIRT is in stores 3 Jun 2025 & available for pre-order now! 🥳🥳 - ThreadSky

v8sheppard.bsky.social • 3 days ago

**COVER REVEAL** So pumped to share the epic cover for my upcoming adult novel KING OF DIRT. 🤩🤩

KING OF DIRT is a gritty and heartfelt gay coming-of-age story set in the world of FIFO workers & tradies in Western Australia. 🤠🛻

KING OF DIRT is in stores 3 Jun 2025 & available for pre-order now! 🥳🥳

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v8sheppard.bsky.social•3 days ago

Giacomo Brolo, aka Jack, is a mess. He works piecemeal construction gigs in remote WA, drinks himself to oblivion and is estranged from his family and friends. He’s consumed by a self-loathing all too common for closeted men who have grown up in a world of hate and shame.

v8sheppard.bsky.social•3 days ago

But then Jack returns to his regional hometown of Geraldton for a family wedding. He hasn’t been back since he fled at the age of eighteen, and his past soon catches up with him.

Turns out Jack’s deeply conservative Italian family would prefer he remained in the closet.

v8sheppard.bsky.social•3 days ago

Then he finds out he may have conceived a son with his teenage girlfriend, and now Jack needs to convince her and her new husband that he’s fit to be a father figure.

v8sheppard.bsky.social•3 days ago

And whatever happened to Xavier, the former schoolmate who Jack was in love with and whose rejection spurred him to leave Geraldton in the first place? Is Jack doomed to live a dead-end life – or can he open himself up to the possibility of love, found family and connection?

v8sheppard.bsky.social•3 days ago

KING OF DIRT is published by Pantera Press & is available for pre-order now: https://www.booktopia.com.au/king-of-dirt-holden-sheppard/book/9781763516595.html