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LONDON 2001
Disillusioned by society's social degradation at the peak of the Boyband craze, Paton Stipps is another lost soul until he is semi-wittingly thrust into the world of celebrity where a series of fanatical encounters set him on a path that will change everything.
Throw in Coastal Love, the hottest new boyband on the scene, and the recipe turns to murder.
Your complete guide to the symbolic extraction of the phenomenon we’ve all come not to understand … Boybands
The modern male ego ... fallible yet ultimately malleable. Douglas Perfors is pretty damn close to perfect ... perfect wife, perfect children, perfect physique, perfect job, perfect house, perfect intentions ... yet unaware of this adulation and seamless displays of it, he has become nothing other than smug, a Smug Dad. Add in a pre-kids’ backstory steeped in domestic tedium, a surreal TV watching compulsion and a procreatory feminist pact, everything is flipped from Smug Dad to Doug’s Mad.
Boybands have changed. Not in what they wear or the music they produce but in their spiritual significance to this generation. They’ve cleaned up to the point where they are likeable, they’re relevant and their tunes are half decent. The past naff quota has been replaced either with elderly dignity or fresh disadvantaged background dun-good sympathy: “They’re nice lads!”
So what I’m about to tell you will come across ever the more shocking, ever the more trend busting, ever the more deeeeeeep. What is the actual formula to NOT Murder a Boyband?
Book 1: HOW TO MURDER A BOYBAND
London 2001 BREAKING NEWS: Boyband Slain in New York Hotel: sources claim no links to the Murder of British Boyband "Coastal Love" ||
Book 2: SMUG DAD
So damn twisted ... Doug's Mad? Contending with a Supermodel Serial Killer, an accomplished Wife, the Wife's potentially psychotic BFF, an interested Neighbour, a solid 'friend zone' gal pal and a PA that might or might not be the mistress ... ||
WARNING: READERS WITH A SENSITIVE DISPOSITION SHOULD STEP AWAY FROM BOTH THESE NOVELS, SLOWLY AND WITH ARMS RAISED IN THE
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