Dan Versus Nature (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
From screenwriter Don Calame comes another outrageously funny and raunchy tale of teen boys whose plans go awry — this time, on a survivalist camping trip.Shy and scrawny Dan Weekes spends his time creating graphic novels inspired by his dream girl and...
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From screenwriter Don Calame comes another outrageously funny and raunchy tale of teen boys whose plans go awry — this time, on a survivalist camping trip.Shy and scrawny Dan Weekes spends his time creating graphic novels inspired by his dream girl and looking out for his mom as she dates every man in the state of California. Then his mom drops a bomb: she and her latest beau, Hank, are engaged, and she's sending her "two favorite men" on a survivalist camping trip to "bond." Determined to trick Hank into showing his true — flawed — colors on the trip, Dan and his nerdy germaphobe best friend, Charlie, prepare a series of increasingly gross and embarrassing pranks. But the boys hadn't counted on a hot girl joining their trip or on getting separated from their wilderness guide—not to mention the humiliating injuries Dan suffers in the course of terrorizing his stepdad-to-be. With a man-hungry bear on their trail, no supplies, and a lot of unpleasant itching going on, can Dan see his plan through now that his very survival depends on Hank?
Autoren-Porträt von Don Calame
I grew up in Hicksville, (that's right, Hicksville) New York. It's a town on Long Island that's basically Levittown-light. We had all the charm of the 1950s' cookie-cutter houses without the posh Levitt name. My mother, brother, sister, and I lived with my grandmother on Arrow Lane, a block and half away from Parkway Pool where my sister and I took swim lessons and practiced with our swim team.
It was my mother and grandmother who instilled a love of reading in me. They always had a Stephen King or a James A. Michener novel going. Christmas and birthday presents were often Roald Dahl, C. S. Lewis, or Lloyd Alexander books.
I must have been around nine when I decided that I wanted to be a writer. My first story was a very bad one called "The Battle Between Earth and Mars" (or some such). Many of the characters and storylines were borrowed from Star Wars and Star Trek (certainly not recommended). Upon reading the tale, a friend of the family suggested I try making up my own stories and, oddly enough, it completely freed up my imagination. I haven't stopped writing since (though, for a brief period of time I flirted with the idea of being a rock-and-roll god).
After university, I moved to Los Angeles and started writing screenplays. I wrote them, but nobody read them. I wrote more of them. And still, nobody read them. In the meantime I got my teaching certificate through the LAUSD Intern program and taught third, fourth, and fifth grade.
After years (approximately six) of waking up at 5:00 a.m. to get some writing in before work, someone finally read one of my scripts and bought it. Since then I've worked with Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Marvel Studios, the Disney Channel, and Lionsgate.
Swim The Fly is my first novel and, as far as writing goes, it's the project I am most proud of. I had an enormous amount of fun working on it (even though, had it not been for my wife's persistence, it probably
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wouldn't exist).
Though none of the things that happen in the book actually happened to me, I used a lot of my memories growing up (in Hicksville) and being on swim team for inspiration.
My writing process is fairly simple: tea, headphones, music, a thousand words a day, try to make myself laugh.
Three Things You Might Not Know About Me:
1. I spend far too much time teaching my dog silly tricks.
2. I collect game-worn hockey jerseys (yup, the smelly, sweaty jerseys that professional hockey players wear)
3. It took a great deal of practice (and much coaching from one of my best friends in junior high) but forever more I can make fart sounds with my hands.
Though none of the things that happen in the book actually happened to me, I used a lot of my memories growing up (in Hicksville) and being on swim team for inspiration.
My writing process is fairly simple: tea, headphones, music, a thousand words a day, try to make myself laugh.
Three Things You Might Not Know About Me:
1. I spend far too much time teaching my dog silly tricks.
2. I collect game-worn hockey jerseys (yup, the smelly, sweaty jerseys that professional hockey players wear)
3. It took a great deal of practice (and much coaching from one of my best friends in junior high) but forever more I can make fart sounds with my hands.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Don Calame
- 2016, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0763687316
- ISBN-13: 9780763687311
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.04.2016
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