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The Seamless Web: A Legal Comedy

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693 pages, Paperback

Published August 20, 2020

About the author

Joe Eliseon

20 books71 followers
My name is Joe Eliseon. I write fiction about things I know. Having graduated law school, I think I know about everything.

I tend toward humor and satire. Sometimes, I veer into farce. I can detour into fantasy and romance. Occasionally, I hit a pothole of horror.

I spend most of my social media time on Twitter as "@JoeEliseon."

My debut novel, brimming with all the vim and vigor a new author can summon, is an epic comedy about the struggles of a young but long-suffering Park Avenue associate attorney: The Seamless Web: A Legal Comedy .

My sophomore novel, half farce, half fantasy, skewers love, politics and the American Way. It's D.P.W.: A Devilish Political Fantasy, about a municipal snowplow driver who makes a deal with the devil.

I sometimes indulge in nostalgia, as in my short story, The Reincarnation of Lou Gehrig (available as an audio book as well as a Kindle ebook) and my fantasy novel, Mr. Lake. The former recounts the unnerving experience of a baseball-playing young sprout who insists that he's the Iron Horse come back to life. The second brings Camelot into the 1960s when a sixth-grade boy suspects his elementary school's janitor just might be the undying Lancelot du Lac. Both tales are told from the young boy's point of view in a by-gone pre-adolescent world that strongly resembles my own.

I've also published an eclectic collection of short stories entitled Five Minutes More and Other Stories, dealing with time-travel (of sorts), space-travel (of sorts), mythological fantasy and some other things that were rattling around in my head. I'm working on another collection right now.

In The Richest Man in Babylon, Revisited, I indulge in mythological economics, if there is such a thing, telling the story of a young man, Omigud, who sells himself into slavery in old Babylon in order to learn the secret of making wealth. I include profuse apologies to author George S. Clason, whose The Richest Man in Babylon inspired my story.

But my biggest project is my on-going series about a pair of lawyers, Snarkey & Putts, whose cases come from the world of the paranormal.

The introductory novelette is The Case of the Undead Arbitrator, which introduces the pair and describes what led to their peculiar legal specialty.

The second, a full novel, The Case of the Ghastly Ghostwriter, tells a tale of copyright infringement from the afterlife.

The third, The Case of the Canine's Curse, asks whether or not a real estate developer is better off as a werewolf.

The fourth, The Case of the Unchained Immigrant , is as hot as today's headlines, with Snarkey & Putts defending America against an undocumented demon from a foreign country, and all its relatives. It's so fresh and topical, I haven't published it yet. But it's coming in the summer of 2019.

All of the above can be found on my Amazon Author page.

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