My latest book (and second novel) is Slaughterhouse Frome, a seriocomic science fiction story about a stressed expectant father who suddenly suffers a break from reality and imagines himself to be a futuristic warrior fighting in a cosmic war.
Your response to this announcement might very well be, "Didn't this guy just announce the release of a book?" Scrupulous time management and great (perhaps excessive) perseverance kept me going in the last three years while I worked to simultaneously complete three books - The Funny Parts, Eighteen Comedians of Silent Film and Slaughterhouse Frome. For my purposes, multitasking has its benefits. Whenever I needed to step back and take a breather from one project, I was able to conveniently redirect my attention to one of my other projects.
I was allowed by my Frome novel, which explores the subjects of marriage, parenting and intergalactic travel, to let loose my creative energies and express sentiments and ideas of a more personal nature. The objective assembly of facts for a biography or the identification of a film's essential features for a film analysis book is somewhat different than a novel, which must be crafted out of the author's own experiences and fantasies. It is for this reason that I feel more exposed and vulnerable to be presenting this work to the public. But bravery is a requirement of an author as much as, if not more, than the ability to turn a phrase. I hope that the people who read Slaughterhouse Frome find it enjoyable.
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