Years ago, when the cherries were sweeter and the flowers never failed to bloom, Allan Mott whored his talents to create some of the finest disposable popular paperback “nonfiction” the world has ever managed to successfully ignore.
But those days are long past.
Now Allan spends his time trying to craft that perfect first second novel that’ll give him the credibility he pretends not to crave--that is when he isn’t whoring it in the pursuit of the filthy lucre upon which the whole concept of “whoring” is based. In his spare time he works on this blog, which is devoted to his obsessive love of everything that truly doesn’t matter in this world.
Apparently Lionsgate's copyright prevents me from embedding the vlog via YouTube, so if you want the higher quality version you'll have to click this link.
Bookgasm's Rod Lott gets a lot of free stuff in the mail, some of it unwanted. This vlog details what happened when I pushed him to review an "Urban Comedy" so obscure it doesn't even have a page on the IMDb. Despi
In a past post I described (at length) the reasons behind my firmly held belief that the IMDb is the most depressing website to be found on the internet, in so far as it serves as a cold and disheartening record of thousands of broken dreams.
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