I'm very pleased to announce that Electric Dreamhouse/PS Publishing is now accepting pre-orders for my latest novel, THE MAN WITH KALEIDOSCOPE EYES - a comic reimagining of how Roger Corman took a giant step into the psychedelic counter-culture prior to making his cult film favorite THE TRIP (1967).
You've been hearing about this project for years - as a forthcoming movie by Joe Dante, as a new production from SpectreVision, even as a live table reading starring Bill Hader and Corman himself, which was ballyhooed as "The Greatest Film Never Made!" Everyone involved in this project remains hopeful that the film will someday be made, but in the meantime, here's the sugarcube to whet your appetite.
I wrote an essay about how the novel came to be, which forms the basic content of last week's newsletter from PS Publishing. What follows in bold type is their lead-in and a link to the newsletter itself.
THE MAN WITH KALEIDOSCOPE EYES is not just a book about Roger Corman and an outstanding cast of familiar and funny supporting characters. It’s a novel about Hollywood when it stood poised between the collapse of the old studio system and the rise of the new independent film movement, a monumental change for which Corman was largely responsible. It’s also a romantic story about finding the courage to reshape your own world and—perhaps most importantly—about the risks and challenges artists must sometimes face if they want to advance to the next plateau.
Find out more in this week's newsletter: https://preview.mailerlite.com/e4f0w9t9n0
Just as everyone who's read the script or attended the table reading seems to love it, everyone who's read the novel seems to love it too - and we are hoping for a respectable success. Of course, I would love for any of my books to be successful, but if this one attracts the enthusiastic following it deserves, the film stands a better chance of getting made.
I can't say more at this time, but I'm working to get an extra goodie or two into the book before it goes to press. I'm over the moon about the cover art by Charlie Largent, who was my collaborator on the screenplay, and truly believe that you'll be tickled green as the hand that crawls up the wall by this story and its kaleidoscopic cast of characters.
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