Shem, you are. You are mad!

"Let the Sky Rain Potatoes"

This book is ACTUALLY DONE and takes place over the course of a week at a college town in the Pacific Northwest and tells the story of two married professors, Khrystine and Christopher Ambrose, mulling over their lives and careers before the start of the school year. They also contend with armed criminals, a volcanic eruption, pregnancy, adultery, a kidnapper, plagiarizing bandit, blind soothsayer, evangelist, a mob orgy, ghosts of family members, ghosts of celebrities, invisible Greek gods, old loves, public sex, mass riots, gender studies, Medievalism, and the pleasures of fast food.

The novel is primarily about men and women and the nature of love.

I wrote this novel over the course of seven years. Mostly I goofed around during that time and only took the task seriously (maybe even grimly) during the last two. Take a look at my page for it. It's now available as a free download either in its entirety or in sections. So far the feedback ranges from "the funniest thing I've ever read" and "so intense, so deep" to "hunh?". There's even an anecdote that woman in Portland, Oregon (not my wife) became so enraged by it she tore up a section of her bathroom counter.

I desire any feedback you may offer. If you find yourself angered by "Let the Sky Rain Potatoes", please read it in someone else's house instead, saving the potential damage to your own.

The Bruno Otterson novel (in progress)

Probably next to be completed. This comic novel involves a Humanities Professor, widowed one year, who decides to engage the world by taking his seventeen year-old musician son and his son's girlfriend to Walt Disney World. While at Walt Disney World he falls in with a young woman whose knowledge of Shakespeare is informed by 'Star Trek'. While "Let the Sky Rain Potatoes" was about love, "Silver Apples" will be about death. It's funny, though, I swear.

"Psycho Dummy" (in progress)

A short book, likely novella length, tells the story of a young man aspiring to be a psycho killer. There are only two barriers:

1.) He's a nice person
2.) He's not psychotic

This satirical novel will be silly to its core and takes on the influence (if any) of art and pop culture on actual behavior.

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