With money to burn and time to spend, Sol Mann embarks on a journey through Costa Rica that would change him in a fundamental way. Where does he get his money? And what is he running from? . . . We don’t really know. But that doesn’t matter when your days are filled with cheap weed, good rum, and great women. . . .
No More Ramen is a fiction story set in the modern day. There are no monsters or magic, unless of course you count the mystical elixir produced by the sage known as Jose Cuervo. It is the story of college student who wins a record lottery jackpot, only to decide he prefers his life the way it is. Instead of . . .
This is a comic novel about graduating from college into a recession. It’s meant to appeal to fans of Catch-22. I’m now a professional journalist and published non-fiction author, but I wrote this novel during a period of underemployment following college graduation. I managed to get it in the door with two publishers, but both gave me the same . . .
I’ve read the first 16 chapters of Estimated Time of Arrival, and either I don’t understand it, or it’s rather uneven. There are a good number of chapters when the writing is vibrant and funny and insightful and revealing—when I love its warmth, its honesty, its gentle, laid-back rhythm. And then there is a bunch of boring, frat-boy, stoned drunkeness [more . . .]
As I write this, I’m currently at Chapter 3 of this completed web novel, but it has been fairly humorous so far.
I suppose part of what I have been enjoying is that it does resonate with me on a personal level. Unfortunately not the campaigning for tree frogs because I [more . . .]