Darryl Shelly's Blog, page 2
February 19, 2013
February 1, 2013
January 14, 2013
Blurb from Joey Monteiro SVP Marketing & Publicity for the film DRIVE
"Forget everything you think you know about sex addiction and let Darryl Shelly give you an all-access pass into the mind of a sex addict. At its core, The Hobbyist is a heart-felt coming-of-age story masked as a sex addicts roller coaster. With each page more intriguing than the last, I found myself riveted by this journey through the dark corners of New York City. Sometimes sad, sometimes funny, and always wildly entertaining; The Hobbyist wears its heart on its sleeve and pulls you in close as Shelly bares his soul with unflinching vulnerability. His anti-hero will be the
new face of sex addiction by showing us that the bedroom is just the tip of the iceberg, and with any justice, The Hobbyist will be remembered as
the Midnight Cowboy for the next generation."
new face of sex addiction by showing us that the bedroom is just the tip of the iceberg, and with any justice, The Hobbyist will be remembered as
the Midnight Cowboy for the next generation."
December 19, 2012
Blurb from the producer of Battlestar Gallactica
“Reading The Hobbyist is like walking through a mysterious door off the street that's been hiding in plain sight. You've passed it a thousand times and never imagined the dark world that lurks beneath the surface of our ordinary lives. What I enjoyed most about this book are its riveting characters. The story’s a gallery of rogues, eccentrics, and the ever-present hobbyists who patronize the hidden brothels with amazing frequency, and provide drama and layers to the story. It was refreshing to read about the Asian escorts, who seem to work quite happily with a surprising lack of misery and subjugation, as portrayed in this black market of lust. Darryl Shelly's honesty is startling, and there's a sadness in this personal journey that's inescapable – but it’s what elevates this novel above a tell-all, show off memoir. In the tradition of George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, William Burroughs’ Junky, and Charles Bukowski's Barfly, it shows that even in the modern, Disneyfied New York, the dark underbelly of the city that never sleeps is still alive and well.”
~ Michael Rymer
Producer: Battlestar Galactica and director of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned
~ Michael Rymer
Producer: Battlestar Galactica and director of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned
November 18, 2012
The Hobbyist Book
Received my first blurb for the book:
"In painstakingly, painfully precise detail, Darryl Shelly’s The Hobbyist walks us through the mind and experiences of a young male sex addict roaming the streets of New York, with an inheritance to spare and seemingly every Asian Mamasan on speed dial. While siding with Shelly’s protagonist, Dash, is a tall order, every single detail rings true—from the way this character forms relationships (as they are) with a succession of prostitutes to the gluttonous pace of an addict with inner beast fully unleashed. What Jerry Stahl did for junkies and Bret Easton Ellis provided for serial killing bankers, Shelly has done for sex addicts. Simply put, The Hobbyist is impossible to put down. It’s also a disturbing and alas all too accurate depiction of the way many people today view sexuality. And for however much of a tidy conclusion this gripping debut novel comes to, The Hobbyist doesn’t tie its character’s addiction up with a pretty bow; recovery is explored but never embraced and the overall sense the reader is left with is that there’s much, much more to the story."
~ Anna David
Author of Party Girl and Bought
"In painstakingly, painfully precise detail, Darryl Shelly’s The Hobbyist walks us through the mind and experiences of a young male sex addict roaming the streets of New York, with an inheritance to spare and seemingly every Asian Mamasan on speed dial. While siding with Shelly’s protagonist, Dash, is a tall order, every single detail rings true—from the way this character forms relationships (as they are) with a succession of prostitutes to the gluttonous pace of an addict with inner beast fully unleashed. What Jerry Stahl did for junkies and Bret Easton Ellis provided for serial killing bankers, Shelly has done for sex addicts. Simply put, The Hobbyist is impossible to put down. It’s also a disturbing and alas all too accurate depiction of the way many people today view sexuality. And for however much of a tidy conclusion this gripping debut novel comes to, The Hobbyist doesn’t tie its character’s addiction up with a pretty bow; recovery is explored but never embraced and the overall sense the reader is left with is that there’s much, much more to the story."
~ Anna David
Author of Party Girl and Bought
