The Gonzo Wolf

When “A Taste of Home” was first published (I actually printed it out and mailed it to my old publisher in New York), I was a Sheriff’s Office conservative moonlighting as a left-leaning, ghost-hunting, potty-mouthed Independent.

As I’m re-reading through it again all these years later, I think some of the humor has gotten a bit offensive.

Let me back up.

The humor has always been offensive, I was just ill-educated, non-worldly, and inexperienced.

The nudge-nudge humor between the two best friends would be the same, because the world-view of those who live in that environment haven’t changed. At all. None.

Fifteen years later, those people are still forwarding the same offensive memes to one another on social media. They wear their Klan merch in public like badges of honor. I need the reader to see exactly the type of people they’re meeting. It’s character traits. I won’t be changing the book.

I’ve heard of other authors doing it – and that’s their prerogative – but none of my favorite books have considered it; at least not publicly.

If they take the word phony out of Catcher In The Rye, I’m rioting.

Actually, The Bible has done it several times over the centuries. They need to roll with the punches and keep a fanbase.

My readers come to me, one or two at a time, the way it was meant to be; dirty-old-offensive humor and all.

Amen.

Toby Liberman is nearing the end of his rope. After a fateful confrontation with his wife’s lover, he is chased into the woods only to be discovered by an unidentifiable creature. He is attacked and rendered unconscious. Upon waking at the scene of a gruesome triple homicide, Toby is arrested as the sole suspect and thrown into a jail cell with a strange man that knows way too much about his predicament. The stranger reveals to Toby that he now possesses the curse of the werewolf. Using his new-found strength to flee his captors, Toby begins to discover that things are not what they seem in the sleepy town of Twin Oaks, TX. Now hunted by law enforcement, as well as the town’s gun toting civilians, Toby seeks vengeance against his false accusers and embarks upon a quest to clear his name once and for all.