The Music of Razors
"The Music of Razors is a nightmarishly imaginative debut from a writer of real assurance and vision. Watch him: he's going to go places." – Neil Gaiman
"Dark, disturbing, and filled with moments of real charm and magic, The Music of Razors is the best first novel I've seen this year." – Locus
In nineteenth-century Boston, a young doctor falls in with an British confidence artist. Together – and with dire consequences – they bring back to the light something meant to be forgotten.
A world away in London, an absent father, haunted by the voice of a banished angel, presents his daughter with an impossible friend – a clockwork ballerina.
For two centuries a bullet-removal specialist has wielded instruments of angel bone in service to a forgotten power... and now he vows to find someone else to shoulder the burden, someone with a conscience of their own, a strong mind and a broken will. For a hundred years he has searched for the perfect contender, and now he has found two: a brother and a sister, Walter and Hope. Either will do.
Last night something stepped from little Walter's closet and he never woke up. Now he travels the dark road between worlds, no longer entirely boy nor wholly beast, but with one goal in mind: to prevent his sister from suffering the same fate as he. Only the creature he has become can save Hope. But is it too late to save himself?
"Cameron Rogers writes like a magician." – K. J. Bishop, author of The Etched City
The Music of Razors is superior fantasy, fast-paced and seductive. It digs deep for effect and delivers." – Sean Williams, author of The Resurrection Man
"Packed with surreal images that haunt you long after you've put down the book." – Storm Constantine, author of The Wraeththu Trilogy
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Cameron Rogers
Cameron Rogers lives in Melbourne. The Music of Razors is his first novel.
He's been an itenerant theater student, a stage director, a stand-up comic, a motion-capture model for an elf who needed food badly, and had a question mark instead of a photo in his highschool yearbook. He spent three months cutting up vegetables in stainless-steel cubicle with a defecting Soviet weightlifter, and almost got suckered into working in what turned out to be a Yakuza-run all-gay bowling alley in Kyoto. His last Real Job was with the Crime Management Unity of the Queensland Police Service.
He also writes children's books under the pen-name Rowley Monkfish.