I wrote a small book during a lock down period of COVID. My story was one I'd muddled around for a while and wound up being three Beat authors- Jack, Allen and William - getting on the road again after they've died and been re-animated as trained secret agents.

Existential Trips borrows heavily from my interests in literary and film from the Beat and Hippie world (down to the "Further" bus playing a role with agent Neal Cassady) and cameos from agents like Prince, Zelda Fitzgerald (and her filthy mouth) and the monster villain Jim Morrison. I really put Jim through the ringer like some steroid-alcohol crazed monster. I love the Doors. I just needed an oddball villain.

Since it's speculative science-fiction inspired by Kerouac and crew, I tried to write in a frenetic pace. Well, I didn't try- my brain was in a strange place what with COVID paranoia and it being the end of the world and all. I'd like to say I typed it out on a scroll in one day of massive coffee-induced writing, but the best I can say is I wrote the core of it in about 5 long settings and occasionally with the aid of hard alcohol. I did have some soft alcohol but that's another story.

The book is an indirect sequel but a stand alone to the Secret Society of Ghosts- it's all explained within the story from Neal Cassady and Special Agent McGraw. It's a trippy story and one of the hardest to edit, since it's still the end of the world and all, but I'm excited to be working on follow-up stories and possible a full sized book (which is anywhere between 150 pages and 2,000 pages. I'll be happy with around 150).