Waterspout

The Pink Sheep Novels: Book 2

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Genres

LGBT Fiction, Dark Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Suicide, Profanity, Sex, Death, Violence, and Abuse

Type of Ending

Series

The Pink Sheep Novels — Book 2

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Publication Date

Jul 14, 2026

Page Length

278 pages

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Waterspout

The Pink Sheep Novels: Book 2

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Blurb

Some storms don't pass. Some storms drag you under.

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.

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Genres

LGBT Fiction, Dark Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Suicide, Profanity, Sex, Death, Violence, and Abuse

Type of Ending

Series

The Pink Sheep Novels — Book 2

Series Read Order

Reading prior books is not required

Author Prefers A Review On

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Publication Date

Jul 14, 2026

Page Length

278 pages

Available Formats

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Author

Troy Ford is an author, editor, and the publisher of two prominent newsletters: the writing-focused Ford Knows Books, and Qstack, an LGBTQIA+ Directory, Platform, and Community of newsletter writers and readers. As a creator and advocate, his mission is to give voice to queer people and issues by promoting their visibility through media projects and collaborations, and through his own fiction and essays. He is the author of two books in his Pink Sheep Novels series, Lamb and Waterspout.

Troy’s writing explores the joy and pain of queerness through the lens of gay men who struggle in a world that views their lives as other and less than. His themes include love and sex, romance and friendships, community and family, growing up and bullying, substance abuse and self-destructiveness—all with a touch of humor to lighten otherwise difficult topics.

A native Californian, he grew up overseas in the Middle East and eventually settled in the San Francisco / Bay Area where he earned a B.A. in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley. Since 2019, he has lived in Sitges, Spain with his husband and AmStaff Terrier.