Russ Colchamiro
My debut novel Finders Keepers is a scifi backpacking comedy ... think American Pie meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's loosely based on a series of backpacking trips I took through Europe and New Zealand, set against a quest for a jar that contains the Universe's DNA.
My newest book that just launched --- Genius de Milo --- is the second book in the trilogy, where our bumbling backpacking heroes Jason Medley and Theo Barnes are once again tasked with retrieving a radioactive jar filled with the Universe’s DNA … before it wipes out the galaxy.
Genius de Milo (and Finders Keepers) is for fans of authors such as Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Christopher Moore, and movies and TV shows such as Harold & Kumar, Bill & Ted, Hot Tub Time Machine, Time Bandits, Quantum Leap, Groundhog Day, Northern Exposure, and Third Rock from the Sun.
And whereas Finders Keepers was set predominantly in Europe and New Zealand, the action in Genius de Milo has shifted mostly to the U.S. And, of course, there's lots going on in Eternity, the 'cosmic' realm where the Universe is created.
So for Genius de Milo, think Midnight Run meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
As the second book in the series, I wrote Genius de Milo with the understanding that it needed to work on three levels:
• as a satisfying, self-contained novel that new readers can enjoy even if they haven’t read Finders Keepers
• as the second novel in the Finders Keepers trilogy that both continues and enhances the overall narrative and individual story arcs
• structurally as a lead-in to the final, upcoming novel that will conclude the trilogy
My newest book that just launched --- Genius de Milo --- is the second book in the trilogy, where our bumbling backpacking heroes Jason Medley and Theo Barnes are once again tasked with retrieving a radioactive jar filled with the Universe’s DNA … before it wipes out the galaxy.
Genius de Milo (and Finders Keepers) is for fans of authors such as Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Christopher Moore, and movies and TV shows such as Harold & Kumar, Bill & Ted, Hot Tub Time Machine, Time Bandits, Quantum Leap, Groundhog Day, Northern Exposure, and Third Rock from the Sun.
And whereas Finders Keepers was set predominantly in Europe and New Zealand, the action in Genius de Milo has shifted mostly to the U.S. And, of course, there's lots going on in Eternity, the 'cosmic' realm where the Universe is created.
So for Genius de Milo, think Midnight Run meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
As the second book in the series, I wrote Genius de Milo with the understanding that it needed to work on three levels:
• as a satisfying, self-contained novel that new readers can enjoy even if they haven’t read Finders Keepers
• as the second novel in the Finders Keepers trilogy that both continues and enhances the overall narrative and individual story arcs
• structurally as a lead-in to the final, upcoming novel that will conclude the trilogy
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