Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I write so that I might reveal to all the glory and wonder of dear sweet life. I write so that the reader will know with every moment that yes, indeed life is good, and a gift to be treasured, and not a meaningless, empty, tortuous nightmare, monotonous, tedious, sickening, revolting disgustathon. Hmm. Considering the works I have published I don’t think I’m doing a very good job of that. Oh well, a dream unfulfilled. So it goes. Aside from a section of “What A Wonderful World” regarding a horribly ill fated trip I took to India, my writing is representational of my life and the world, not presented as events actually unfolded. As for those, failing miserably to achieve my declared mission statement, I have 10 self-published books. Two are novels, a short one entitled “Dawn”, a long one entitled “What A Wonderful World”, a novella entitled “Xavier Cockroachal Damon’s, Um, Entirely Fictitious Autobiography By Xavier Cockroachal Damon, and, Um, In Many Ways the Character Is Not At All Like Me I Guess That is Somewhat Ironic, 3 books that are novella length compilations of shorter works, and the rest are plays, Dung a Play, Just One of Those Days (a Play), Suicide Fanatics and The Amnesiac Two plays, and Dog Years Within the Curse of 7. Two Plays or Technically Would That Be 14 Plays?
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The last thing I wrote is the sixth installment of Xavier Cockroachal Damon’s fictitious autobiography entitled “The Mystery of the Ignonomous and Preposterous Hapheshalesh” and it is part of the compilation, entries 2-6, entitled “Autobiography Second Verse for He Whom Life Forever Curse, and I Will Create Stars In an Empty Sky, Third of the Absurd, and the Mysteries That Follow, Entries Up to Six, Hanging From Your Crucifix”. The inspiration for it was just to update the glorious life that is Xavier Cockroachal Damon. For there was more of the story to tell.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Dude, kindly try and refrain from punching your laptop screen.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Not sure I’d say influenced me but I liked Tin Drum, some Vonnegut, and Malone Dies by Beckett.
What are you working on now?
My laptop. And by that I mean trying to fix its screen which I um, punched. My ways are eccentric, what do you want from me?
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I haven’t the foggiest how to effectively promote my books. I do not know what the hell I am doing.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Alwayz bee cairflull bout spelling errrorrs nd gwammer,. See that a lot. And really now, isn’t that what truly is important and what truly matters rather than the work itself. “Oh my God tge that should have been the, I, I, cannot continue with this piece of garbage about the meaning or meaninglessness of life!” To be perfectly honest I’ve intentionally left typos in because the notion that so any spout that that is of ultimate importance really pisses me off.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Hard to say. Me and good advice are sort of estranged and not on speaking terms. Any good advice I’ve ever been given I’ve ignored. So maybe the answer would be don’t do as the moron clown does. Wait, but then I would be giving myself credit. Can’t have that. I hate that douche. So then, let’s see, oh yes, believe in yourself.
What are you reading now?
The words what are you reading now.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Transliterating my already published works into Sumerian. Big market out there for that. Is my financial aptitude showing?
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?
Books about the most effective ways to shovel snow and melt ice and a tutorial book about how to snowboard even though I think all winter sports are idiotic. It was either that or Berries to Eat, Berries Not to Eat, How to Survive on a Desert Island, and How to Be Rescued and Escape a Desert Island. I believe I made the right choice. I always do. By the way, I am on a desert island. It’s called life.
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