Golden Monkey
“Humorous” may be the wrong word to describe this book. “Hilarious” better fits the tone. – JD Jung, Underrated Reads
Little Lance Pototschnik wanted to grow up and play pro football, but that pipe dream got smoked by his lethargic growth hormones and a terrible skin disorder. The death of his childhood aspirations did, however, plant the seeds for Lance to find comedy in rejection and suffering.
In this gaspingly funny collection of stories, Lance’s battle with disease, his overbearing parents, and his maniacal bosses push him toward the startling discovery that the daily grind–which strips the gold off even the best of us–is the very thing that reveals what we are truly made of.
Hollywood Ending
Lance Pototschnik at his wittiest, darkest, and funniest
The 2008 recession hits. The US economy goes belly-up and sentences a young generation to wayward lives. With nothing to lose, Lance Pototschnik and his best friend, Jackson Greenly, decide to go for their artist dreams. Lance begins a grassroots initiative to sell an original screenplay to Hollywood. He lives out of a rental car and travels the country filming strangers’ street auditions, hoping to generate enough interest on social media to dragoon a production deal. Jackson goes to art school, where he is inspired to make the perfect painting: one with the power to shoot a person dead.
About Lance Pototschnik
Lance Pototschnik grew up in rural Maryland, in a house surrounded by farms. The last of his parents’ eight children, he was born with severe allergies and a debilitating skin disorder, which often confined him to the house, where he busied himself by drawing and painting. As a sick child born at the back of a large family, life positioned Pototschnik as an observer, and he learned to capitalize on the station through writing.
Pototschnik’s first book, The Shell of a Person, was touted as one of the best of 2013 by an emerging, self-published author. Shell revealed Pototschnik as a breakout talent, a writer with the rare power to make one laugh to and through the brink of undignified, maniacal, public cackling.
Hollywood...beginning
Before Hollywood Ending, there was a Hollywood beginning. This is the original promotional video compiled during the casting journey.
Praise for The Shell of a Person
“Never have disgusting, miserable living conditions been so funny. When someone finally finds a way to send back a report from hell, I hope it will be Lance Pototschnik. Except this guy is going to heaven, for the way he writes.”
–Mark Myers
The Kindle Book Review
“Memorable passages that will yank at your heart, and even more that will make you laugh. I loved this book.”
–Laura Friedkin
San Francisco Book Review