I'm now the proud self-publisher of two spectacularly unsuccessful novels, so you understand how with that much of a tailwind of success I would be moving ahead with a third.

My point being I am completely insane, which is fine.  I've been cultivating insanity for some time now, so I greet any symptoms with a warm welcome.  Or open arms, if you're looking for a more active although stale metaphor.

The first was a novel about a girl that got raped by her step-dad and went on to be a hero something like Miley Cyrus ... except before she started acting like a slut, which I totally love, by the way, but I wasn't that far into sexual deviance in that one.  Except for the part about the rape, I guess.  I should hope we all agree that's deviant.  Some people make the point that rape is about violence, not sex, although that wasn't the case in this story, which involved a very mixed-up religious dude.  I spent a lot of time on it, and it's well-written, but the story line is a bit trite ... to look at it now.  To me it is, but if you like it, hey.  Take a look if you want, it's called ... but the Girl Didn't Believe It

The second is called The Dropouts.  It's about the end of America and why nobody cared.  Unless you wanted to say it was about sex, especially taboo sex, in which case you'd also be correct.  There are several of those holographic ways of viewing it, but I won't get into them because you're perfectly free to do so and make your own judgments, if that's what you want.  In which case, be my guest.

Of more interest to me is the one I'm working on now, which I'm calling

The Universe, and Stuff Like That  

It has a catchy sub-title too, I think:

The light around points of life.It’s not always obvious, so if you become confused, anxious, outraged or giggly, don’t be alarmed.  It’ll pass, it’ll pass.  Like everything.

The underlying theme is about there being zillions of universes that people zip around through except usually they don't know about it, but in this story a few people start noticing and pretty soon more do until it gets really confusing because people can't tell who the bad guys and good guys are because they keep changing places.  

And masturbating boys.  For some reason there are several masturbating boys.  Go figure.

Stuff like that.