A quiet corner for the work that lives outside the business, my forthcoming trilogy, Gaia’s General.

If you’ve arrived here, you’ve stepped into a different part of Dr Layla Dillon's world.

In another timeline I chose medicine instead of astrophysics.
In another I paint.
In another I chose music and singing and the medium of dance as expression, not as a rock or pop star per se, more like vocalisation to tribal belly dance music and drumming!

But in one life in particular, I spend my life in my library, surrounded by old editions and manuscripts, writing on a white Adler Tippa S typewriter where the “i” sticks no matter how often I fix it… “All work and no play…”

In this lifetime, I have collapsed all those passions into hobbies, but that life of writing, where words form images unique to every canvas of a person’s mind, that still calls to me.

For me, writing came long before governance. Before systems. Long before XSAIA.

It’s how I process ethics, futures, philosophy and life.

Gaia’s General is the story that grew from that earlier version of myself.

A story of a woman living in a mythic parallel-world. The narrative shaped by promises to a moon by a little girl in love with the stars, the Earth, and the myths of the mother of life.

If it doesn’t make sense… that’s okay.
It won’t. You’ll have to read the book for that.
It covers governance and ethics, AI of course, love across dimensions (yes, you read that right), and the powerful human need to derive meaning in a universe devoid of it.
Also a field manual for leadership.
Yes, that too.

That’s why it’s a trilogy.

“Sometimes to survive a life, you have to create a legacy that will outlive it.”

Publication due date: September 2027.

What can I say, finding an agent is like trying to find a good husband.
I’m anticipating 15%, still cheaper than a divorce! (I think maybe deluded!)

And the publisher?
I hear they have the best lawyers...