Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a bipolar starving artist with anxiety and depression over existential terrors, and panic attacks that are only sated by my solipsist delusions. I write and I make music. I like cheese.
I’ve written three books to date.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
‘ME: Don’t Think About It’
In March, 2018, I had a psychological breakdown that ultimately resulted in me committing myself to a mental institution.
It was pretty crazy in there.
I kept a journal, detailing my thoughts on the events that transpired as best as I could at the time. This book is the ultimate result of those events.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
If I get stuck, I blast Mandragora Tango Orchestra to shake the words loose. It works almost without fail.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Douglas Adams. Henry Miller. Charles Bukowski.
A hundred more, in one way or another.
What are you working on now?
Too many things. I cannot focus on one project at a time.
The closest thing to completion is a play that I’ve been writing for a local theater company.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m experimenting with a lot of different things. I don’t have an answer to this yet.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Bukowski said it best. “Don’t try.”
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Adrian, you can be happy AND write great stuff.”
I had spent a lifetime falling into art as a means of release. It hadn’t ever really occurred to me that I could do both at the same time before then.
What are you reading now?
It’s horrible to say this as a writer. But I never have time to read anymore. I’m too bust writing.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I am considering either putting together a collection of short stories, or working on a sequel to From Gods and Monsters. Both will happen. It’s just a matter of which I do first.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I’d take a few long, pop-lit novels that I don’t like. This way I wouldn’t feel about using them for kindling and toilet paper.
Priorities, man.
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