E403 - Corey Croft - Never be boring - I have a passion for storytelling fueled by black coffee, cigarettes, and dread

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Episode 403 - Corey Croft - Never be boring - I have a passion for storytelling fueled by black coffee, cigarettes, and dread
About the author

Corey Croft is from Surrey BC, Canada. His use of gallows humor helps to him stumble gracefully in a meaningless world. He avoids eye contact with strangers and doesn’t understand most kinds of science. As a child he was taken to church every Sunday and worried that every time it rained it would flood, biblically. As an adult, the rain is pretty good for writing and sleeping.
Book: Scumbag Rehab - You hear all kinds of stories in a bar. All kinds of characters with all kinds of experiences. Booze is a mighty fuel. It brings out the best in some and the worst in every one else. If you post up on a barstool long enough, you might hear someone’s entire life story, whether you asked for it or not.

If that barstool happens to be plugged into the wood at the Knowlton Tavern, then the story you would be hearing might belong to James ‘Feb’ February. Only at a dive bar full of the most desperate, strange societal castaways could an individual such as him share a story like his. https://amzn.to/4eu3m8T
Book: Becoming Buddha - Most self-help books will describe remedies and issue lessons to escape the perverted spiral of depression and anxiety. They will aim at improving the quality of one's life and inform choices and states of mind that nurture a healthy and productive psyche. https://amzn.to/3Rx5CCw
Book: The Furies - The Furies is a coming of age dark young adult fiction that takes place in the mid 1990's. It draws influences from the hip-hop culture and contains many references of the time. It is a nostalgic and gritty look at the urban underbelly of youth culture and the vulnerability of the working-class at the time. It is a harrowing tale, yet easy to relate for anyone who has ever been a teenager and experienced love, hate, pride and fear. It is a must for readers of any literary fiction genre; with compelling characters, realistic dialogue and the vivid scenery of the city. It is both heartfelt and hard-hitting, poignant and charming. https://amzn.to/4cplKhw
Book: Coward: A Novel - Sam is not a coward; he is a perfect coward.He is depressed, lonely and all but set on living out his life in numb mediocrity. Lucy is a strange and powerful man with a bizarre and nefarious interest in Sammy. After a ‘chance’ meeting, Lucy gifts Sam with abilities far greater than anything his uncreative imagination could’ve ever dreamed of. For his part, Sam must learn to control this mysterious power by either rising above his weaknesses or giving in to them entirely.
https://amzn.to/3z2ASCS

https://linktr.ee/ccroft23

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