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A narrative from a Pacific Islander who speaks through an illiterate in America.
JOHN LAZOO cover image from Stock XCHNG - Photographer Sophie
John Lazoo: ISBN: 978-0-9803486-0-6
An illiterate meets a beautiful and well educated woman in Central Park...
James Elton, locked up since the age of nine, is free at last and heads for NYC aboard a Greyhound bus. In New York he meets Hariss Clariss, a wealthy man who is immediately infatuated by the likeable person he sees. John Lazoo is a cold-hearted gigolo, a name James takes from a book his mother Janine read to him when she was alive and he was a boy.
Since John Lazoo is illiterate, he sees the opportunities freely available to him in the camp king’s empire. This changes when one day, while acting the fool in Central Park, he spots Genisis Jones, the most beautiful woman John has ever seen. Now Lazoo wants out. He wants to take Genisis as far away as possible from the present and his past.
Inside the grandiose world in which he is stuck he is charged with retelling Hariss Clariss’s life story, but when Lazoo refuses to play the lead role in the play, he is suddenly accused of murder.
WIPE: ISBN: 978-0-9803486-1-3
A video game is the platform on which a Russian orphan’s wish comes true.
This is a video game that creates itself as people play it. It does this by sucking their ideas through the controls its players innocently hold to play its levels, which they have unconsciously created. No one knows who is responsible for the virus that is WIPE.
Polina Rada, an orphan in Russia, is not a player. Like any other child, the seven-year-old wants love and adoration; these things she has been made to believe can be found in the West. Her penpal, Alexvale Rokov III, has a mother and a brother. They live in London. He is also not a player, but these two are responsible for the creation of WIPE. John Page is a player who loses all of the time – till now. He has the opportunity to win in the online phenomenon, as he is seemingly randomly, but especially, given an insight to how it works. The race to find the makers of WIPE is a two-way contest between the world’s largest video game manufacturers.
As the story unfolds, John Page becomes less of a player consumed with winning and more of a human being charged with the responsibility of making a child’s dream come true.
Illicit Blade of Grass cover image from Stock XCHNG - Photographer Martin Jans
Illicit Blade of Grass: ISBN: 978-0-9803486-3-7
A writer feasts while a ghost and her hungry soul wait in the south of France.
American scribe Metofeaz Litigatti swaps places with a published writer who once dated his wife. Metofeaz begins to write while staying at a villa in the south of France that is haunted by the ghost of Rozelle Zofen, a singer who was unlucky in love and who had waited in vain for a poet all her life after he recited the poem Illicit Blade of Grass during a party at the villa sometime around World War II.
Metofeaz meets the Tourist, a young woman looking for a place to stay for the night, at the local village restaurant. Not long after they meet, Metofeaz returns to New York, where he is unhappy and eventually loses everything, including his wife. The Tourist ends up staying at the villa, which she makes her home, and even takes on the identity of Rozelle, as if the ghost’s misery were her own destiny.
Years later, Rozelle comes to New York and tracks down Metofeaz, who is by now an Author, not just any author, but the co-author of John Lazoo, the novel. They now have the right to be together, but Metofeaz has an apatite for creating and is dead set on making the most of the fame he has gained from the success of Lazoo.