First post, bitches.

So you found it. Good on you, internet user! The reason you're here is because you either read my book and went to the website or you Googled my name and ended up with a Bulgarian Folk Dance guy who bought Larryweiner.com before I had a chance to. To quote Vonnegut, "So it goes."

First, thanks for reading "Paradise Rot." If you didn't read it, here's the link to buy it.

THE BOOK

Go there. Now.

This book took two years, then six months to write. The idea came to me a few years back while I toiled away in the advertising industry as an art director. That one of the main themes of the book is deception is no accident. I wanted to do two things: write a book about a guy placed in a precarious situation - think "North by Northwest" - and I wanted to mess with the zombie genre -  "Shaun of the Dead." I also wanted to take a character and take him down a dark hole and see if he could redeem himself. For kicks, right?

Two years, then six months?

I started writing the book without any inkling of where it was going or how it was getting there. This went on and off for a couple of years. I even tried to serialize it with the notion that it would push me to completion. But with work and divorce and other distractions, the book never went beyond 180 pages. I scrapped it along with the idea of writing altogether. I told stories with imagery, not words. Funny thing is I always enjoyed coming up with a great headline instead of a great layout. Pissed off a few copywriters with that notion.

But then I had some life changing events: I divorced (see above), my freelance art direction career started to dry up, I went kinda bonkers. So I found I had time on my hands. Thought I'd try writiing again. This time I concocted a storyline and setting based on my original idea (see above) that allowed an ADD/Bipolar I to actually keep track of where he was headed.

The book flowed. And flowed. And was rewritten. A shit ton of rewriting. And now it's here.


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