Twelve Steps
I think I may have mentioned that Stephen is a writer. It’s his only passion in life and the only thing he currently seems to have any motivation to do. He recently finished a short story and self-published it online using a service called “Lulu”. It’s a dark story, based on Stephen’s actual life story. If you ever get a chance to read it, the bits that seem so outrageous, so scary that they must be fiction are most likely true, it’s the mundane things that he embellished.
You can get a preview of the first chapter here. If you want a copy and you’re in New Zealand, you don’t need to get a physical copy, you can get a downloaded copy for just a few bucks. It’s not the sort of book I would usually read, it’s too dark for me, it smacks of fight club in that it deals with mental illness, among other things.
It’s both interesting and scary that the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shootings was an English major and also wrote dark stories. The difference is, Cho Seung-Hui simply wasn’t treated.
April 21st, 2007 at 2:18 am
Wow. Having read that chapter, I really want to read the rest of it now. Not much I read captures my attention in just the first few pages. I’m very tempted to purchase it.
April 21st, 2007 at 2:49 am
Go on, it’s only US $2.80 and the New Zealand dollar is strong, you’ll make a young man very excited
April 21st, 2007 at 6:51 am
Not to brag, but I’ve been getting that a lot. It’s flattering, since that’s what I designed the first chapter for, and yet at the same time it worries me that maybe the book’s not good enough to live up to it’s first chapter.
I get so paranoid sometimes.
I do, however, find it humorous that you would want to purchase such a book when, I’ll let the surprise drop now, I’ve already put you in the sequel. No names are mentioned, of course, but I thought you were too interesting a person to just forget.
Isn’t it creepy that I can do that without having ever met? Fortunately enough, I’m just so much of a self-centered narcissist that I can let myself get away with such crimes guilt-free.
G’bye-bye,
Stephen 2.0: We fixed the bugs this time around.
April 21st, 2007 at 7:49 am
Hehe, that comment was intended to be addressed to Andrew Ebs. Ebs: Stephen put you, or at least, the idea of you in his next book.
And we’re still working on the bugs in Stephen 2.0 he’s a little too flaky for beta testing…
April 21st, 2007 at 7:58 am
My shame is insurmountable.
April 22nd, 2007 at 9:39 am
eh?
April 22nd, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Surely its not the only passion. You would be surprised how many different passions hide beneath the surface or even above it.
Its a great word passion. So is laundry. And elderberries.