Guarenteed Ebook Cover for Unconventional Novel

INCOGNOLIO

Michael Sussman

I’m a clinical psychologist and have published in the field of mental health. A Curious Calling: Unconscious Motivations for Practicing Psychotherapy was a main selection for America’s largest psychotherapy-related book club, and was released in 2007 by Rowman & Littlefield as a paperback. I also edited and contributed to A Perilous Calling: The Hazards of Psychotherapy Practice, which was published by Wiley. I also write humorous, absurdist picture books. My debut—Otto Grows Down—was published by Sterling with illustrations by Scott Magoon. My newest, titled Duckworth, the Difficult Child, will be published in the Spring of 2019 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

From my agent-query: I hope to interest you in my manuscript, INCOGNOLIO, a speculative thriller with fabulist and absurdist elements that follows Muldoon as he traverses identities, planes of reality, and the dark recesses of his subconscious in an effort to fathom the unfathomable Incognolio. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE meets STRANGER THAN FICTION in this darkly comic, tightly-knit novel complete at 58,000 words. Bewildered but lovable author, Muldoon, is trapped in the dreamlike narrative of his own surrealistic novel. Beginning with just a title—Incognolio—he enters a bizarre fictional realm that plunges him into an identity crisis of anguishing proportions. Soon he can’t tell whether he’s writing a story in which his stillborn twin sister has come to life, or he is the one who died at birth and it’s his sister who’s writing the novel. Guided only by his subconscious mind, Muldoon must either unravel the mystery of Incognolio and write his way to freedom, or succumb to madness.

My target audience is generally adults and young adults who enjoy quirky novels in an ebook format. The novel is humorous but also edgy and unconventional, so it may especially appeal to readers in the 18-35 age group. Females typically read more novels than males, but this novel may attract more males than usual. It will be primarily marketed to an American audience, but will be available to readers in Great Britain and Australia as well. The book will especially appeal to readers who like genre-bending offbeat novels, who enjoy darkly comic literary novels, sci-fi and fantasy, magical realism, and psychological thrillers. They may be fans of such authors as Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Paul Auster, George Saunders, Italo Calvino, Lewis Carroll, Tom Robbins, and Christopher Moore.