Bringing Down the Neighbourhood

(In what only I would call a "momentous" personal decision - given not another soul cares a damn - I have decided to put my novel 'Pluto Belt' on hold and see if I can instead, finally and actually, bring this novel to life first. It is just a more conceptually relevant and, most importantly, less ambitious book than 'Pluto Belt' - an idea I have been mulling over some eighteen months now, and originally planned on making into a novella in a later book. Let's see if I can finally keep the flame alive and finish something, even if for nothing other than the thrill of getting one of my books to be professionally printed on order to sit unread on my parents' shelf).

Having grown increasingly disillusioned with the Sydney housing market, a group of young professionals from the southwest suburbs hatch a daring scheme to target one of the city's most affluent neighbourhoods, using scandal, fake news, scare tactics and intimidation to destroy its reputation, drive out residents, fend off would-be buyers, and so drive down the property value of its stately homes to a more reasonable level. This done, they can move in en-masse with their friends and relatives, purchasing their houses on a street that still remains a prime location.

A simple, if ambitious, plan ... depending on the brains behind it.