Throughout high school and college, I always loved movies. I thought it was amazing that actors got to live bits and pieces of a thousand different lives, not having to settle on just one. When I grew up, I wanted to be an actress. This was solidified by small appearances in school performances, and acting…
The book is a collection of produced plays that I transformed into narratives. Many people ask me if there is any truth to my first story the “Curse of the Blue Vagina”, and the answer is yes and no. After all, aren’t most fictional works loosely based on a single grain of truth? For me the event…
It’s a little scary knowing that my new book is going to reveal some of my silliness, but hey, that’s just how I roll. Other than a walk across the border from San Diego, CA (USA) to Tijuana, Mexico, I had never stepped outside of the United States until 15 years ago. My friend told…
The initial idea for the book came from a combination of learning about the sacred time-honored art of Japanese tentacle porn (from Anthony Bourdain’s travel show, not from me searching for porn on Google – honest!) and as-yet-unconfirmed reports of freshwater octopi in certain lakes in Oklahoma. From that concept, it was simply a matter…
Guest Post: “Confessions of a Broken Man” © Joseph Schneller 2011 Your Average Joe: Unplugged In the fall of 2008, I left my job in the hope of something new, something better, something far less stressful than operating a quick-service restaurant. More than anything, I left in the hope of a professional writing career. I’d…
Many people ask me why I wrote my book, Sitting on Cold Porcelain. It actually got placed on my “to do” list when my children were growing up in Philadelphia, PA. I was inspired by humor writer’s like Erma Bombeck. In Aunt Erma’s Cope Book, Erma pointed out the fact that TV and children dominated…
Funny. The inspiration for Football is for Lovers was a disaster. Not the content: we’ve always loved football, and thought it was too bad that so many couples seemed to be missing out on the fun, and ended up fighting over the TV clicker instead. So the opportunity to suggest a new way of looking…
Our guest blogger today is Kelly Epperson, author of the humor book, When Life Stinks, It’s Time to Wash the Gym Clothes. You can visit her website at http://www.whenlifestinks.com. When Life Stinks, It’s Time to Wash the Gym Clothes is a post-apocalypse intellectual vampire romance thriller. Umm… not really. This slim paperback is a compilation…
My book, Guide to Pirate Parenting, just goes to show that even the stupidest idea can become a book. Here’s how I decided to write a book that provides everything you need to know to turn your little powder monkeys into happy, healthy buccaneers! In it I answer questions such as: * At what age…
I was inspired to express myself through writing, at the early age of 16, when I realized that I would never be good enough on the electric guitar to be a rock star. I desperately needed to be famous. I couldn’t make it with my singing voice. I couldn’t dance. I couldn’t draw. There was…
The Story Behind the Book 