Over 90 per cent of proceeds from a new novel will go to benefit developments at Kingston General Hospital (KGH).

Local writer, business-owner and actor Phillip Brown said he sees his novel Critical Care as a personal project, not one for financial gain.

The money from his book, released in November, will go toward improving KGH’s intensive care unit.

“I’m a firm believer in community, commerce and culture,” Brown said, who’s family business Brown’s Dining Solutions owns the Tim Horton’s franchise in the BioSciences Complex. “As a local business owner myself, I know the importance of fostering culture so that the community can thrive and then our economies will also follow suit in that manner.”

Two of Brown’s family members received care and assistance at KGH. While KGH will receive the benefits of the book’s sales, Critical Care was actually set in a Boston hospital, depicting Peter Douglas who after a tragedy must fight against the doomsday clock.

The journey of writing Critical Care began nearly eight years ago. Two thousand hours of writing and 2,000 hours of editing later and the novel was released in November 2011. Almost 300 copies have been sold to date.

Brown said he was supported by the Queen’s Writing Centre and the Queen’s department of English.

He hired for technical editing, English students Justin Tisdale and Brandon Crilly to comb through his manuscript. “You have no idea just how extensive the editing process really is until you’ve tried to publish a book,” Brown said. “I gave the manuscript over to two other people, and suddenly you’re told all over again just how far you are from the finish line.”