BOOKS
From the back cover:
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Normal teenagers flip burgers to earn extra cash in high school. I am not a normal teenager.​
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My name is Tony Pershing and I broke up with my girlfriend just before prom because I was worried my job monitoring a mysterious portal to space for an enigmatic company named Corporate would put her in danger. In other words, I suck at making decisions. My best friend and Corporate co-worker is Jeff Harper, who is obsessed with the music of Styx and his 1976 Chevy Vega. He got sucked through the portal on prom night and now, armed with an arsenal of bizarre weapons and a mild case of PTSD, I've got to find out what happened to him.
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I also have to deal with a sudden and random ability to spout off information I never knew and a neurotic alien real estate developer bent on turning Earth into a resort planet.
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Remember this the next time you think you're having a bad day.
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Saving the world was never on the reading list.
Kevin Raulston wants to keep his life simple, at least as simple as one can as a used bookstore owner who hunts extraterrestrials for a shadowy private organization known only as Corporate. But it is the year of Y2K and the world is on edge, fearing the worst. When an extraterrestrial crashes his book club meeting—leaving behind a missing book club member, a mysterious serum, and a very confused married couple, Chris and Suzanne Pershing—Kevin is pulled into a Y2K conspiracy involving mutated humans, a secret lab beneath a ghost town bank, and a potential romance with his bartender crush.
To survive, Kevin must do the unthinkable: train the all-too-eager and thrill-seeking Pershings to fight aliens. People who haggle over the plot points of books like The Rapture of the Follies are now armed with glitchy weapons, metaphysical theories, and a disturbing level of confidence. Along the way, the book club will face bizarre extraterrestrials, impossible tech, and Kevin’s tendency to eat his feelings.
It all sounds like some bad sci-fi novel.
Unfortunately, it’s his life.
My self-published novel, Kilroy Was Here, is almost here.
Kilroy Was Here tells the story of Tony Pershing, a high school senior who works as an intern for a mysterious company known only as Corporate. He and his best friend Jeff Harper guard a portal to space over a river through the hometown. On prom night, Jeff and his girlfriend Leigh Ann are sucked through the portal when it is breached by an egomaniacal alien real estate developer with a penchant for haikus.
