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Zack Love!!!
BOOKS:
SEX IN THE TITLE
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New York City, May 2000. The Internet bubble has burst and Evan, a computer programmer, is fired with an email from his boss. The next day, his girlfriend dumps him, also via email. Afraid to check any more emails, Evan desperately seeks a rebound romance but the catastrophes that ensue go from bad to hilariously worse.
Fortunately, Evan
meets Sammy — someone whose legendary disasters with females
eclipse even his own. To reverse their fortunes, they recruit
their friends — Trevor, Yi, and Carlos — to form a group of five
guys who take on Manhattan in pursuit of dates, sex, and
adventure.
When Evan, a
closet writer, falls desperately in love with a Hollywood
starlet, he schemes to meet her by writing a novel that will
sweep her off her feet. Sammy knows nothing about publishing but
is confident of one thing: Evan’s book should have the word
“sex” in the title.
With musings about
life, relationships, and human psychology, this quintessential
New York story about the search for happiness follows five men
on their comical paths to trouble, self-discovery, and love.
SEX IN THE TITLE BOOK LINKS:
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Thought-provoking, dreamy, sad, and hilarious, this
collection of works by Zack Love takes the reader on a diverse and
unforgettable literary journey through a variety of topics,
themes, and emotions.
The anthology totals about 73,000 words and contains a
novelette, four short stories, a theater play, and a
screenplay.These seven spellbinding stories spanning several
styles and genres include a dramatic romance, a satire of the
mega-rich, a somber and soulful reflection on the problem of evil,
humorous dating adventures, and stories driven by philosophical
musings.
The anthology includes the following works:
1) THE DOORMAN – A NOVELETTE
Alex seems to have it all: a great penthouse apartment, a
lovely girlfriend, and a prestigious Wall Street job. But below
the surface he is sure of nothing but his angst-ridden doubts. And
when he realizes that his doorman may be God, or sent by God, he
will question things like never before.
This novelette is a story of New York doormen, tormented
love, empty office life, and the theological questions that arise
in response to the horrors of evil.
2) CENTRAL PARK SONG – A SCREENPLAY (ROMANCE)
Can love really conquer all? Rodney is a passionate black
man with brilliant talents but a mental illness that leaves him
homeless. Melinda is a white Manhattan law partner with an
artistic soul, trapped by the pressures of corporate law, her
wealthy father, and her three-year boyfriend. A charming, chance
encounter leads to a magical courtship and life-changing choices
that make an unlikely New York romance possible.
3) THE GRAND UNIFIED STORY – A SHORT STORY
What happens when a man and a woman meet in a way that
magically involves the entire universe? When both are so keenly
aware of their place in the cosmos that their connection seems to
transcend their union and capture the very essence of life. This
story shows how each person is a world to be discovered and how
sometimes, when two worlds collide, the universe seems that much
smaller.
4) CITY SOLIPSISM – A SHORT STORY
Have you ever been on a train, bus, metro/subway – or any
other shared space with strangers – and started to wonder what
that person right next to you is thinking? This story takes you on
a journey into the mind of a man in a suit and tie on a New York
City subway car, as he thinks about the woman standing awkwardly
close to him. They are total strangers but their proximity is
almost intimate as their hands share the same metal subway pole.
5) WAITING FOR 2000 – AN ABSURDIST COMEDY OF BILLIONAIRE
PROPORTIONS
Inspired by and reminiscent of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist
stage play “Waiting for Godot,” this Y2K theater comedy satirizes
the frivolous extravagance of the mega-rich.
Bob’s Billionaire Boat boasts the world’s 2,000 richest
people on it, and will enable them to celebrate the arrival of the
year 2000 twice in a row by crossing the International Dateline on
New Year’s Eve 1999. The co-captains of the boat — two regular
guys — keep themselves amused with endlessly silly banter while
occasionally debating whether the whole thing is just a fictional
stage play.
Meanwhile, two Wall Street traders who are bitter about
missing the wealth cutoff for the billionaire cruise are
determined to blow up the boat and thereby become the two richest
people on earth.
In this satire, the zaniest billionaires ever to gather on
a single vessel prove that there’s still plenty to complain about
at the top.
6) MY BEST VALENTINE’S DAY. EVER. – A SHORT STORY
Sammy Laffowitz is legendary for his dating disasters and
sex mishaps. This time, misfortune strikes on Valentine’s Day –
but with a fun twist that makes Sammy seem studly for a change.
7) MY WORST VALENTINE’S DAY. EVER. – A SHORT STORY
Yi Wang is a NY bad boy who plans to make history on
Valentine’s Day with his female exploits. The handsome,
alpha-male, Chinese-American is a corporate lawyer who usually
gets his way with women, but this time he makes one stupid mistake
that leaves everyone but him laughing hysterically at his epic
fail.
STORIES AND SCRIPTS
BOOK LINKS:
Kindle e-book: http://tinyurl.com/AmazonUKStoriesNScripts
THE SYRIAN VIRGIN
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Anissa is traumatized by the most brutal conflict of the
21st Century: the Syrian Civil War. In 2012, Islamists in Homs
terrorize a Syrian-Christian community and destroy everything that
a young woman holds dear. Narrowly escaping death, Anissa restarts
her devastated life as a college student in NY. She is bewildered
and lost — a virgin in every sense.
But despite her inexperience with men and life in the
United States, Anissa is quickly drawn to two powerful
individuals: Michael Kassab, the Syrian-American leader working to
found the first Mideast Christian state, and Julien Morales, her
Columbia University professor who runs a $20 billion hedge fund.
Complicating matters, Michael is still attached to his
ex-girlfriend and Julien is the most sought after bachelor in
Manhattan (and has hidden demons even his therapist can’t
extract). Anissa’s heart and her communal ties pull her in
different directions, as she seeks hope and renewal in a dark
world.
WARNING: This book is about a young woman’s difficult
journey: her escape from Syria’s Civil War, her transition to a
new a country, and the relationships that she forms along the way,
including her romantic interests in two very different men. The
story is set against the backdrop of the Syrian Civil War and
makes reference to violent acts, sometimes in detail. There is
some occasional profanity and a few scenes that depict sexual
intimacy. Accordingly, the recommended minimum age for readers is
16. The novel might be compared to books like The Diary of Anne
Frank or The Kite Runner.
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/book/The-Syrian-Virgin-Young-Womans/YllXzfEko061Sa_m6eFcdg?MixID=YllXzfEko061Sa_m6eFcdg&PageNumber=1
** This novel includes a detailed synopsis of book 1 and
can be read as a standalone. **
Anissa Toma fled war-torn Syria after narrowly escaping the
massacre of her Christian family by Islamists. Fortunate enough to
rebuild her shattered life in New York City, the young refugee
gained admission to an elite college, where she excelled. Her
beauty, brains, and purity soon captured the interest of two
powerful men: Michael, an activist working to establish Antioch,
the first Mideast Christian state, and Julien, her professor and
one of the city’s wealthiest bachelors.
As Anissa’s saga continues, the refugee-turned-rising-star
must navigate between Michael and Julien, while trying to help her
family and other vulnerable Christians in Syria. As she gets
closer to both men in a complex and evolving love triangle, can
she unlock Julien’s traumatic childhood to open up his heart? Or
will Julien find greater solace from his nightmares and other
demons in the sessions with his sexy therapist? What will Michael
do for Antioch and for Anissa, and what will Julien’s role be? How
far will each person go to help Anissa’s surviving relatives and
other persecuted Christians at risk in Syria? Find out in this
stunning sequel to The
Syrian Virgin.
Kindle e-book: http://tinyurl.com/AnissasRedemptionAmazon
Paperback: http://tinyurl.com/ARpaperbackUK
Paperback: http://tinyurl.com/ARpaperbackUK
About Zack Love:
Zack Love graduated from Harvard College,
where he studied mostly literature, psychology, philosophy, and
film. After college, he moved to New York City and took a
corporate consulting job that had absolutely nothing to do with
his studies. The attacks of September 11, 2001 inspired him to
write a novelette titled “The Doorman,” and heightened his interest in the Middle East. A
decade later, that interest extended to the Syrian Civil War,
which provided the backdrop for his latest work. In late 2013,
Zack began releasing his unpublished works of fiction and became
a full-time author. He has published comedy, psychological and
philosophical fiction, and romance. Zack enjoys confining
himself to one genre about as much as he likes trying to sum up
his existence in one paragraph.
AUTHOR
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Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00GG9GI2S
Goodreads Page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7358908.Zack_Love
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