current projects

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Nine Lives for the Fat Kid Frame of Mind

My essay, Nine Lives for the Fat Kid Frame of Mind is now available as a digital download at Lulu.com for $.99.

Digital content delivery is something I've been wanting to do legitimately for some time, so I've decided to test the waters with this 4,200 word essay.

It's a fifteen page, fast paced retelling of the story I'm covering in my book, The After Fat, but from a different angle, touching on some things I've never touched on before.

 

www.Ribcage.org: Stories On Wednesdays

Running since August, 2004, I post a new flash fiction story every wednesday at www.ribcage.org. Over time, the stories have become a sort of serialized novel, split into easy to digest pieces that can be read straight through or at random.

 

 

The After Fat

A work in progress for well over a year, this book will follow my experiences as an obese teen that lost 160 pounds and suddenly became a television and print success story. Not how-to or self-help, my book is about finally accepting yourself, even after thousands of complete strangers are looking up to YOU for inspiration. And also, it's damn funny.

I am hoping to have a manuscript prepared by the new year. Currently, the book is 202 pages.

 

books

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Ribcage: Volume 1

Ribcage: Volume 1 is the first collection of linked shorts from my weekly flash fiction site, Ribcage.org. 54 fast-paced vignettes about a young married couple and the comfort of predictability. Includes an introduction and exclusive story, Standing Where It's Sturdy and Safe, written specifically for this volume.

You can purchase the book online here.

Or, you can read more about the book at this page.

 

 

Eating Stella Style: Low Carb Recipes for Healthy Living

Eating Stella Style is my father's second cookbook published by Simon and Schuster. I wrote the front matter (the first 30 pages of text before the recipes) based on my father's notes as he was hard at work writing those recipes. I am a credited co-author on the title page.

George Stella lost more than 250 pounds on a low-carb eating plan, and has turned thousands of fans on to Stella-Style—eating fresh, natural foods prepared with minimum effort for maximum taste. In Eating Stella Style, he shows readers how to tailor his recipes to fit any personalized weight-loss plan, whether it’s low carb, low fat, or low calorie. He inspires even the most jaded dieters to begin a new eating lifestyle and shows them how to stay on track, no matter the pitfalls or temptations.

You can purchase the book in bookstores or at Amazon.com here. Official release date is January 3rd, 2006, but it should start appearing in stores sometime in December.

 

other

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Things You Can't Give Up

Four deleted chapters from my still untitled, still unfinished memoir on losing 160 pounds and overcoming childhood obesity. These are a hodge podge of chapters, mostly revolving around specifics of low carb dieting. They're not bad, just too much diet-speak for what I plan to accomplish with my book.

Things You Can't Give Up is available as an ebook download here.

 

 

The Robert Cake (screenplay)

Written when I was only fifteen, The Robert Cake is about cremation, ashes, cake mix, voodoo and situation comedy. It was produced by Queequeg Films, who are also known as--all of my friends.

The movie is available on DVD at the site.

 

 

 

 

 

Leaving Jupiter

Leaving Jupiter is a novel that I finished when I was sixteen. I believe eight people have read it. In the future, maybe others will read it, but for now it stays where it belongs. In a drawer.

Also, I created that cover for it, just now, for this page. That's my excuse.

 

 

 

I Feel the Need to Impress Girls with My Command of Big City Revolving Doors (an old essay)