Fandemonium
Rick
Schindler
Genre: Adult fiction, fantasy,
satirical novel
Publisher: Wattle Publishing
ISBN: eBook 9781908959218 |
Paperback: 9781908959225
Number of pages: 400
Word Count: 125,000 approx.
Cover Artist: L. Whyte
and Cover design: Wattle Publishing
Book Description:
Ray Sirico used to have it all.
Once, he was the brilliant and outrageous Clown Prince of Comics, who
reinvented the venerable superhero Skylord, and ranted and rollicked everywhere
from TV talk shows to Hollywood premieres.
But that was in the ’70s and
’80s. Now it’s 1993, and Sirico is a drunken has-been. His wife has left him,
his movie flopped, and his comics’ publisher is doing so poorly that its new
corporate parent has come up with a radical marketing stunt: the Death of
Skylord.
Still, Sirico has one last chance
to recapture the limelight: Fandemonium, the nation’s biggest fantasy
convention. But others are coming to the con too: Harmony Storm, the sex-crazed
actress who broke up Ray’s marriage; his former collaborator Tad Carlyle, who
now has his own company, and a troubled relationship; Fred D’Auria, a fanboy
fleeing adolescent traumas, and corporate conspirators who are plotting to
sacrifice Sirico’s greatest creation for motives deeper than even his fevered imagination
could conceive.
Together, antihero Sirico and his
superhero Skylord stand at the crossroads of comics and commerce, where quirky
creators, fervent fans, conniving businessmen and preening celebrities
converge. Deal-making, drug-dealing, lovemaking and truth-telling all collide
at the riotous climax of a fateful weekend that leaves no one unchanged.
Fandemonium uses the colourful
world of comics and fantasy as a microcosm and metaphor for media consolidation
and the excesses of global mass culture. It is at once a hilarious satire of
business and society, a portrait of an artist no longer young, and a sometimes
poignant look at a universal challenge: to grow up, face the world, and put
away childish things.
About
the Author:
Rick Schindler is an
award-winning journalist and a lifelong comics fan and collector. He is an
editor, writer and producer for NBC News Digital. Fandemonium is his first
novel.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fandemoniumbook
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RickSchindler
Publisher Twitter: @wattlepub
Publisher Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WattlePublishing
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