Brick by

Brick by Brick is a visual nonfiction book about refusing drift, building proof, and becoming through evidence instead of waiting for belief to arrive first. It starts with a 3 a.m. fast-food shift, frozen Uncrustables, Fortnite, and the strange moment when an old life stops working. From there, Tom Ryan turns the private logic of building apps, songs, a body, a career, and an ugly wall of attempts into a field record for anyone trying to place the next brick before the world agrees the wall is real. This is not a guru system. It is not a promise that every brick will hold. It is a book about pressure, tools, taste, health, proof, risk, repetition, and the decision to keep going when belief has not caught up yet. Some of them broke. Some of them held. I kept going.

Pages: 112, Paperback, Independently published