Binge Drinking (and Dating) in the Digital Sexual Revolution
J.M. Foster spins a LMFAO yarn about how we are addicted to love, booze and ultimately--redemption
NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today media and publishing outlets announced immediate availability of American-aholic by J.M. Foster. This brutally honest (and hilarious) work of fiction is a modern tale of online dating and male self-discovery in the age of eHarmony. Call it a Viagra-fueled opus for any middle-aged man who wakes up hung-over one day with an alimony and child support payment but has no idea how his life ended up this way.
"I used to think I drank too much," muses the first-person narrator and self-professed over-consumer of all things American. "So, I decided to stop thinking."
FOR LOVE AND WHISKEY
American-aholic is based on a simple premise--we are ALL addicted to something. Food. Booze. Money. Netflix. Daniel Marquez is a 40-something, divorced father living the online, on-demand American Dream and struggling to admit he is addicted to everything he touches. His love of drinking straight whiskey ("light on the ice") and chasing women he meets through dating apps ("no Fish-lip pics please) is rivaled only by his love of all things 80s and his personal collection of TOP 10 lists. Thanks to over 20 years in IT sales, he has money in the bank and more frequent flier miles than God.
Then, as the bumper sticker reads, "SH*T HAPPENS."
Dan meets his dream girl who reminds him of Phoebe Cates from Fast Times at Ridgemont High but won't date him unless he goes sober. Then he gets a DUI. Then he gets fired from his high-paying, corporate sales gig. Then he attends court-ordered substance abuse counseling. All of which force him to spiritually reboot and realize he is clueless when it comes to understanding life, women and parenthood.
"Take my advice," the narrator quips. "I'm not using it."
VIRTUAL MATCH-MAKING
Go ahead. Admit it. If you're single and between the ages of 15-55, you've probably SWIPED on someone's profile using one of the estimated 2,000 different dating services available in North America alone. Not to mention it's nearly impossible NOT to know someone who is in a relationship or married to a significant other he/she met virtually. Online dating is a $2 billion industry, according to one market research firm (IBISworld). Dan Marquez knows this all too well and carries two phones just for good measure. His odds of meeting "Mrs. Right Now" have never been better.
"That's the beauty," he quips. "You can be whoever you want to be. Even if you're a rip-roaring a-hole like me."
Imagine Sex and The City told through the eyes of Quinten Tarantino.
Readers of both sexes will laugh, cry and ultimately SWIPE RIGHT on this contemporary FOMO masterpiece.
READ IT TODAY
Preview on Amazon.com:
https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B081SFVNBY&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_aBO6DbQJP23GG.
Softbound copy on Lulu.com:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/NewFictionJMFoster
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
J. M. Foster was born in Bangkok, Thailand and grew up in the United States. He holds a BS in Journalism and MBA in International Business. He has worked in technology sales for multiple Fortune 500 companies. He currently lives in the Midwest with his teenage children and is still hopelessly single.
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