Welcome! My name is Keith Adams, and my memoir was published in Jan, 2010, by Chipmunka, and has been called "… probably the most entertaining tale of mania you're likely to read". It's named "Broken Whole: a California tale of Craziness, Creativity and Chaos", and is currently available at Amazon (in paperback, and on Kindle.)
Lord, I haven't updated this page in a while, and I just discovered it was saying scandalously inaccurate things about me. For instance, that I was coming out of my year-long depression. That turned out to be SO NOT TRUE. However, I'm happy to report that I'm now coming out of my fifteen-month depression. To find out whether that will be any truer than the last declaration, check my blog in a week or so!
But talk of depression is ... well ... depressing. (I wish I could avoid the subject, but depression is the hardest component of bipolar disorder to manage.) Certainly, depression should not be the result of the last few months' worth of experiences. I have an exciting new job at work (as exciting as any software development job can be, that is), and things are beginning to creep along a little faster on the P.R. front.
Let's see: in a few days, I'll be doing my biggest thing yet in the adventure of flogging my book: a solo reading at the important LA bookstore, Book Soup. I have 20 minutes to read from and talk about my book, followed by one to thirty minutes of Q&A, the length of which will be determined by how deep the atmosphere of stunned silence is, after I've finished speaking.
Oh, what else. Will be on the radio again, will be in BP Magazine's fall issue, on some sort of bulletin tomorrow called Celebrity News Service, reading on stage at the West Hollywood Book Festival, and have had a few more decent reviews. I'd like to describe it as the book is picking up steam, but in fact, there must be books "burning" for that to happen, and I'm still languishing around 987,123th on the Amazon best-sellers list, on a good day.
(Note to self: perhaps tone down the English self-deprecating wit, now and then. Or should I say "attempted wit"? You do want people to buy your book, don't you, dear boy?)
Hopefully, I'll rewrite this page more than once in a blue moon, going forward!
Thanks for stopping by, Keith.
Hollywood, California, Aug 30th, 2010.
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