Jason Ladurantaye

Writer. Builder. Storyteller.

Former tech exec letting my creativity fly. Currently querying my debut novel.

Read My Work

Literary Fiction Complete

Lucky Strikes and Bubble Gum

A 15-year-old in 1983 suburbia discovers that first love and first loss arrive in the same package, and the self-destructive choices that follow. Van Cassidy processes his Vietnam-veteran father's dying days through vinyl records, mixtapes, and the analog culture of an era that felt simpler than it was.

At its core, this is a story about finding your voice when the world is falling apart, and learning that growing up means accepting the imperfect, beautiful mess of being human.

83,000

Words

1983

Setting

Querying

2026

About

I spent my Massachusetts childhood toggling between Star Wars epics and Atari adventures until the streetlights called me home. Thirty years and a science degree later, I left technology consulting to chase that same magic full-time.

My fiction tends to start with an ordinary person and an improbable situation, then see how far the premise can stretch before it breaks. I like characters who missed the memo about how life is supposed to work. I like plots that start as jokes and end as something else entirely.

When I'm not writing, I'm woodworking, sailing, or building software that probably doesn't need to exist but does anyway.

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What's Next

Currently working on my second novel while querying the first.

Bare Essentials

Comedy / Upmarket Fiction

After thirty years of marriage, a retired couple still loves each other deeply. They just can't figure out how to start anymore. Convinced they're both secretly inadequate, they stumble into a solution so far outside their suburban comfort zone that it might finally force them to be honest — or at least naked — with each other.