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Born and raised in a very haunted house on the North Shore of Massachusetts, I developed an early interest in horror stories and world mythology. In high school, under the pall of bipolar I encountered the Divine Comedy and the Great Gatsby, two works that would change my way of seeing and writing forever. I started my first novel then, a journey through Hell and into Heaven called City of Circles. Ponderous, perhaps a tad pretentious, depressing as hell and nigh unreadable, I was slave to it for years. After leaving college with my girlfriend and coming to Central Pennsylvania, I saw how people can be rendered near bestial, walking down the street to shouted insults, hearing my girlfriend not subtly propositioned by apes in muscle cars and watching people breaking their backs for minimum wage, I thought of how fragile our humanity is, how fake the veneer of civilization. This, alongside my interest in true crime inspired me to begin the Murderland series, a ten part serial about an alternate America where killing is socially acceptable and a media sensation above all others. It's the story of Jeremy Jenkins, a pharmacist who kills because he feels the incursion of alien beings who are stealing our humanity and trying to take over the earth using young blondes as breeding stock. He is left deciding whether the war in his head is real or he could do more good in other ways and goes on a bizarre journey of self discovery, toward what might end up being heroism. I got a three book contract from Evil Nerd Empire this year and have found acceptance and occasionally praise with the Bizarro movement, a group of punk surrealists exploring the limitations of literature and good taste alike.
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