Cool Books That Will Get You Laid

When I began writing TBDNE, I stated an ambition: To write a cool book for cool people. The novels I saw coming out of the big publishers in New York serviced four types of readers - the high brow literary elite, those interested in derivative works of Hunger Games, Twilight, and Harry Potter, women who enjoyed chick lit, and men and women who wanted escapist series-based mystery/suspense/thrillers. Many of the books in the literature category were period pieces. Few authors seemed interested in writing about the contemporary world (I don’t know why; it’s complex, it’s changing rapidly, and it’s fascinating). I had a difficult time imagining a recently released book getting a college kid or a teenager laid, as I perceive at least novels of the past like Less Than Zero and American Psycho did. A discernible edge was lacking in literature. No one was writing books for me and my friends. I wanted to fill that gap. 

I leave it up to you to judge whether or not I was successful in achieving this goal with my first novel. Either way, I think the point remains. There is nothing equivalent to the indie movie or indie music scene in publishing - there is no venue like Pitchfork - and that void is something I’d like to exploit by creating a movement of cool books for cool kids. 

Please share this post with like-minded individuals. And if you know of any novels that fit the mold I described above, please write me via Facebook, Twitter or email. I’d like to help champion them.