About the Book
Title: Eidolons
Author: Harrison Fountain
Genre: Literary Fantasy
When TK dies in a car accident, the Grim
Reaper gives him a second chance at life, but he says it’s more fun
being a ghost. As he haunts his small Iowa town, his sleek shell of
sarcasm cracks to a terrified lonely inner self. Find out why he’d
rather be dead.
Author Bio
These author bios are generally in third person, right? That’s a little weird for me so—
Harrison Fountain said, “In
Kindergarten, Mrs. Augustson sent me to Special Ed because of my speech
impediment, the result of a 4-year-long ear infection that garbled the
input and so a few letters needed the pronunciation corrected. I had to
work on my Ss, Cs, Ks, Ws, Rs, Bs, Ps, Ts, Qs, Ds, Xs, Ls, and Ns.
Every year in elementary school,
Scholastic gave students a hardback book with empty cream pages for us
to scribble in as part of a school-wide contest. I never won. The kid in
my grade who did plagiarized If You Give A Mouse a Cookie and those biased, paid-off judges didn’t even mention my amalgamation of the Silver Surfer and the Human Torch.
Still, I kept writing, finishing my
first novel in my 7th grade Physical Science spiral notebook where the
narrator’s best friend was an orange alien with green hair named Carrot.
My next novel about a boxer, I started in high school before I’d ever
even watched boxing, and fighters called out their moves (“The Double
Rocket Upper—no, wait! It’s a TRIPLE ROCKET UPPERCUT!!!”) like they were
Pokemon.
No one taught me to write until my
second year at college when Mr. Johnson called me to his office as he
did with all his creative writing students and then he bloodied my first
draft of a character sketch claiming his marks were “just ink.” I
almost cried. A few visits later, I’d written a character sketch about
my sister’s divorce and the family dog. He crossed out a lot like usual.
Told me why. Then he scrawled an A at the top. It’d be my first
published short story
(http://www.orangepeals.com/short-stories/loving-a-mutt/).
The pride felt earned for once.
While studying in Wales without satellite TV or an Xbox, I started a blog called Nothing Fazes a Ghost,
where I posted weekly chapters. Those 10,000 views with ad revenue
earned enough for a pizza. After a few years and a few drafts, it became
Eidolons.
I also teach English to adorable Korean kids who, in turn, teach me cutie poses.”
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