ABOUT MY NOVEL:
CHICKENSHIT BINGO

Disgraced kids’ sitcom showrunner Gabe Becker is on the verge of being uncanceled when someone breaks into his house and steals one of his pro wrestling championship belts as well as some incriminating photos that could not only end his newly rejuvenated career, but get his ass thrown in prison.

Determined to keep the cops out of it, Gabe hires former gang member/current aspiring actor Angel Vargas to track down the photos. What Gabe doesn’t know is that Angel has neither the skills nor the intention to do the job.

Angel plans to take the money and run — straight to the nearest clinic that’ll laser the tattoos off his face so he can finally stop getting typecast and start being taken seriously. Only problem is, Angel can’t stop thinking about Gabe’s wife Hana-Jane Bak. Especially after she pitches him a plot that could make them half-a-million-dollars richer (in the unlikely event that they make it out alive).

Across town at world-devouring streaming app Binji, wunderkind TV exec Satya Rao is second-guessing her decision to reboot one of Gabe’s old sitcoms. It could jumpstart her career, but she’s now realizing she has a lot of questions about the guy. To get answers, Satya sends a haggard old-school P.I. to vet Gabe, inadvertently setting off a shitstorm.

As the various nooses tighten around Gabe, Angel, Hana-Jane and Satya, they’ll cross paths with sociopathic movie producers, low-rent Neo-Nazi prison gangsters, filthy-rich Gen-Z influencers, meth-addicted backup dancers, and a self-aware chicken contemplating its place in the space-time continuum. Amidst the double-crosses, murders and maimings is an absurdist take-down of show business, toxic masculinity, Silicon Valley, sitcoms, capitalism and the American Dream.

A Hollywood satire in the vein of Charles Yu's INTERIOR CHINATOWN with the off-kilter modern-day L.A. noir of Jonathan Ames' A BOY NAMED DOLL, Chickenshit Bingo is a happily hard-boiled show biz thriller that serves as both a love letter to Los Angeles and an indictment of business-as-usual in Hollywood.