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This might actually work!

Thanks to everybody who read my last blog and went to my IG and Facebook pages. And shared my posts.

The viewer numbers have been incredible! Like, wow, big, big numbers.

This ‘making me famous to get my book(s) published’ thing seems to really be working. But we’re just getting started. I haven’t yet pitched my new book. Gotta build some more buzz first. I haven’t hit the stand-up stage again yet, either. Need to try out some more bits of my bit and get some feedback and some rhythm before I do that.

But it’s coming.

Thanks for the publisher advice many of you have shared. Thanks for the new networks most of you have opened up to me. It’s all so cool. Radical, even. Sorry about that, I was just at an 80s retro show and some of the gnarly sayings have stuck.

I’m putting the final touches on the pitch for my new book. I shared some of the details in one of my Reels, but I gotta be careful not to give away too much. There is a pretty cool fight between an angel and my hero. I mentioned the celestial romance, too, right? Some naughty bits there. But enough of that for now.

There’s more to come. In the days ahead you’ll see some new Reels. Please given ‘em a spin and share them.  There will be more on my progress. More on the book. And the next bit of my stand up bit. It will include a fart joke. Farts are funny. They just are.

But I was thinking. I’ve got two other books out there. The stroke book seems to require me being famous to publish it, so I’ll put a pin on that for now. But if you happen to be a publisher looking for something that’s making the rounds right now and you don’t wanna miss out, consider Elephant Ropes.

I think I shared a bit of that earlier, but here’s the synopsis  – straight from my pitch letter:

Elephant Ropes pits Lee Peters, a dinosaur of a newspaper reporter, against a homophobic, racist, misogynistic man enraged at the world. His fury is fueled by his ex-wife leaving him for a man of colour, being passed over for jobs by ‘the un-deserving’ and a new media that, among other sins, boots a weather forecast that sees him soaked at a classic rock concert.

To avenge these and many other perceived new world wrongs, the man kidnaps the weather ‘girl’ at the city’s top TV station. To go free, she must make five straight accurate weather forecasts just like the man believes old-time weather men used to do. Miss the mark and she’s dead. Feeling Peters is an old-school kindred spirit, the man gives the reporter first crack at telling the story ‘the right way.’ Peters uses this opportunity to attempt to play the man to rekindle his glory days but instead runs afoul of him, the police and his morals.

His troubles with the coppers begins when he breaks the hostage story without informing them – at the man’s insistence and to Peters’ pleasure. This opens up old wounds he’s had with the cops and sparks a battle with his rag’s sister paper. This begins multiple games of cat and mouse between Peters and the police, Peters and the man, and the cops and the man. As this plays out, Peters feels the old juice that comes from having a big story with international attention while the man begins to see himself as a folk hero for the oppressed men whose forefathers ‘made this country.’ And in the background of all of this, the books’ characters are forced to re-think the new face of the media, the death spiral of newspapers, and degrees of prejudice.

It’s pretty cool, I think.

Also bitch’n – there I go with that 80s talk again. Here are a couple of short stories I published.

The Gunman Who forgot Who to Shoot ran in Esoterica Magazine out of Toronto: https://esotericamag.com/the-gunman-who-forgot-who-to-shoot/

And Litbreak Magazine in the US ran Whatever Happened to American Standard?  https://litbreak.com/whatever-happened-to-american-standard/

Maybe give ‘em a spin?

Meanwhile, I gotta get to work on my new book pitch and practice my Reel. Gonna shoot that Friday and you’ll see it arrive on a device near you next week.

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The Reel Deal


If you’ve been to this space before, it’s been a long, long time – that’s because I’ve had more stops and starts than a New Your City bus during rush hour.
But that changes with the offering before you right now.
Why? Because it’s part of Timmy’s Big New Plan. A war on creative anonymity that will see me dishing up big laughs on stand-up comedy stages the world over, brewing up big entertainment on a new Reel and ultimately publishing my books – three so far – and launching them on the fast-track to world-wide best seller status.

I just know it.
Here’s the deal. After blogs about my stroke, recovery and what not. Blogs about sickness and death. And blogs pitching published short stories and unpublished books I realized something kinda obvious. The lack of focus, the stops and starts — is the focus. And it goes down best with some yuks.
So here’s what I’ve done.
After an unpublished book about my weird stroke that got positive rejections (we’d publish this sucker if you were famous). And rejections on a pretty cool novel that seemed not to fit any easy-to-sell genres. I’ve written a third book that some writers I know say is uber unique, edgy and just one helluva read. But I can’t just chuck it out there to get ignored and passed over.
So, what do I do?

Self-publishing seems to rarely work. Being famous, however, is a fast track to
publishing success. So I just gotta get famous.


Committing an explosive, horrific crime is one option to achieve this, given I’m not an actor, musician or politician. No hope for sports fame at this point, unless I can score as a pickle baller and became a star on the as yet not created pickleball pro tour.
That’s led me to face fame.
This Reel — @timseefeldt —  is gonna, with your help, create a fake fame for me. That and hitting the open mike
stand-up circuit. But I need your help. Keep reading this, and the next and the next. Share it. Got to the
Reel — @timseefeldt — laugh your ass off and send it to a friend. A gazilia friends. Rinse and repeat on the share thing.
Then, with the power of my Reel fame and some stand up gigs under my belt, what publisher will be able to ignore my latest novel? And they’ll be fighting over the other one. And the stroke book.
This can’t miss.
What’s the new novel about?
It’s kinda a secret. A writer friend told me to be careful…someone might steal the idea. It’s that cool he said. It does bring together some twisted angles, human manipulators looking to re-write the meaning of life and a washed up newspaper reporter who gets recruited to try to keep the world from becoming unhinged. There are glamourous locations, violence, oh and sex. Ya a forbidden terrestrial/extra terrestrial one. Steamy and sad. You’ll love it. Despite all the weirder stuff, there’s still old fashion fights, treachery and some morality stuff that will be among those things that make you go hmmm.
But you’ll never get a chance to read it – and the movie that will no doubt follow it – unless you help make me famous. Ish.

Don’t i look like a guy who should have a book deal or three?

So please share this. Click on to the Reel — @timseefeldt — share it too please. And watch for me on open mike nites. I’ll also give you some previews on the Reels. 
And when I’m published? Your reward? I couldn’t have done it without you! You’ll always be able to tell folks this.
“The writer/reeler Seefeldt? I helped make that cat what he is today. We’re tight.”
That’ ll kinda make you a big deal too. Whaddaya say?

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