I've completed five novels: Homicidal Suicidal Psychological Steve, Noah's Ark, Madly, Benjamin's Dream, and The Elephant in Our Living Room, in that order. Here's a little idea of what they mean and where they went. Or are going...click the title for a free preview! Click below to buy (on those available). I've removed samples for Steve and Noah, as I'm editing them down and reimagining Steve as a comic.

All excerpts are the first few chapters. If you want more, let me know...

MADLY
is my third novel. It takes place a few years ago in my life in varying degrees of fiction and truth, and much like Noah, it's an attempt to come to terms with a man that I once was, while exploring love this time instead of religion. There are a cadre of women who have been in my life, amalgamated and turned around to service fiction, working to help my character, Jake Madly, figure out who he is. This is the first book I feel might eventually generate a sequel, a continuation, or something outside of itself, so I'm spending a great deal of time investing in his character. I am very pleased with this book, which says a lot given my current standard of editing.

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BENJAMIN'S DREAM
The basic gist is that a young idealogue post-apocalypse discovers that there used to be democracy, and he tries to restore it or at least understood what killed it in the first place. With Nazi downing symbolism, roman games, the Ku Klux Klan and slave women! Ah, what wonders await us in the year 2000! This book has the notable accomplishment of having been requested in full by a New York house and rejected in full!

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THE ELEPHANT IN OUR LIVING ROOM
is the story of a family kidnapped by an insane sociopath who wants something odd: To be a member of their clan. This book has achieved a very pleasing degree of success with agents, and may be published in the near future.

HOMICIDAL SUICIDAL PSYCHOLOGICAL STEVE
This book is what happens when one man gets obsessed with righting the wrongs of the world, hops on a bus to fulfil his quest, and fails miserably at the hands of capitalism. It's a bit of a rip off of Star Wars, but you don't know it is until the book is almost over. It's also very American, in the good sense of the word. I wrote it when I was still an idealist, when I still believed in love over matter, and it shows. It really, really shows.

NOAH'S ARK.
This is a book about a disturbed young man that I used to be and his struggle with Roman Catholics, more specifically, with Catholicism. This book is purposefully Steinbeckian, poking fun at convention right under the nose of the reader, who usually, in my experience, doesn't seem to catch the joke. That's either because I wrote the book horribly, or because your average readers doesn't know that much about 1) God, 2) Steinbeck, or 3) Plot driven stories. In this, I mean that the story is artificially pushed to appear plot driven, when in the background, an acute reader will see the interrelationships created by the moving hand of God in the story. Not that I believe in God, but this is definitely a book based in the concept's machinations. It's what would have happened to me, I firmly believe, if I hadn't given up anger for logic. Not that I'm Spock, either, but man, was I a bitter kid. It needs work, but a few more drafts with a little age could make this one spin.

LIVING THE DREAM is a novel about my childhood and growing up. It is SLIGHTLY exaggerated in several details to preserve the innocent, but this is actually mostly accurate in all respects. I'm working on it by hand, so I have to think about painful memories slowly, and with tact. It's hard. I hate this work. But it isn't stopping. I have to do it. This is what I've typed up so far. There's probably more in the notebook, but typing is a pain in the ass. I've decided to take this one down for personal reasons, but if you're interested, just let me know.

ANAMERICAN is the story of a guy who REALLY had the government put a chip in his head. It's being adapted as a comic right now, but it started as a novel.