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Alex Liuzzi has been writing since the age of eight. He has improved only marginally since that time. For a number of years, his work focused on the ridiculous. His protagonists were often children, which speaks more to his own mental state than a literary purpose. Suddenly, in the Fall of 2020, he wrote something serious.
The world has never recovered. Starting at The Magnet Tree and through a series of rapidly published novels, Liuzzi took on death, existential existence, the importance of everything, the essentialness of nothing. Light reading.
After six novels, it was time for a Collected Works. He apologizes for this digression into short works.
After seven published works of fiction, he decided he was “an expert” and wrote and self published a book about writing and self publishing. (It’s also about editing, but it is unclear if he practices this himself.)
Another non-fiction “loosely based” book is coming, as soon as he makes sure the likelihood of being sued is less than 10%. It follows four individuals trying to set the world record for fastest canoe or kayak down the Mississippi River. It will, if ever published, be his best seller.
Please note that all of his works are self-published. If you are an agent or a publisher, feel free to take him out to lunch and woe him. If you are a reader, know that his works may need a professional editor's touch...and thirty-two more editors' touches after that.
Quirky
Focus: Coming of Age
Published: 2009
This debut novel is written in second person narrative. That alone loses 43% of the reading public. The quirky, chaotic, and idiotic premise, with hearing loss and international conspiracies and Buddhists and sisters...well, that cuts out another 56%. We’re left with the author, his mother, and his sister who will read this book.
Compare to: Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins
All Ages
Focus: Family Dynamics
Published: 2011
Cooligan is eight-years-old and dealing with a mute sister, a quirky squatter, and a fairy mystery that pushes the seams of his relationship with his single mother, their poverty, and the realities of all that life can bring. It is both silly and sincere, ramb-unctious and reflective. Magic, make-believe, and second grade teachers all exist near, next to, and over mud creek. What will you find?
Compare to: Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo
All Ages
Focus: Transgender
Published: 2015
For ten years, JOey has lived the live of a boy. Letting the world know she is a girl will not be an easy journey, and one that requires some navigational skills. This story is her map. Through Joey, we meet many individuals with their own obstacles. Some obvious, some hidden, some we will never understand. But each, in their own way, trying to express their real self. The journey is not easy, the map is not perfect. But perhaps, within this map, you can see that you exist. You are here.
Sci-Fi Humor
Focus: Space
Published: 2018
If you ever dreamed of traveling the galaxy, meeting an alien, or reading a book, you should probably develop a hobby and go do that hobby. Everyone else, jump right into Carly's world, where a talking refrigerator sends her on a space adventure that defies logic, reason, gravity, professional literary standards, and the average human's sense of humor. There are missions, spaceships, missiles, intrigue, kissing, foreshadowing, mystery, and metaphor. And someone named Oscar. There is a fifty-fifty chance you will not regret not opening this possibly fictional book.
Compare to: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Magical Realism
Multigenerational
Published: 2022
There is a tree on a plot of land in Western Nebraska. Three different families own this land over the decades. As the generations progress, it is clear that natural elements are deeply embedded within the daily lives of these families. They will intersect in harmful and powerful ways. They will question what in life holds purpose, holds matter. They will live as many days as they are able. And they will sense the pull, the return to the land, as if by force of a magnet.
Literary Fiction
Published: 2023
This book is written in three parts, themed from Death, Life, and Birth. Each part is written with a unique voice. Each part may speak to, may share stories, with the other parts. Or they may not. It is both dark and hopeful. It holds the pain of loss and the possibility of being found.
Compare to: Cormac McCarthy
Collected Works
Short Stories and Poetry
Published 2023
The collected works contains a wide variety of genres, reflecting Liuzzi's varied literary explorations. From dystopias to satire, from time travel to fortune-telling puppets, this collected works holds the common themes of Liuzzi's work - what are the ways in which we choose to live, and what are the ways in which we choose to die.
Humor
How-To
Published: 2023
Summary: The first work of non-fiction published by Liuzzi. It is sprinkled with fictional snippets (as examples to analyze), but the advice is mostly fictional, as well. Librarians have placed this book in "how to", "fiction", "humor", and most often, the garbage.
How-to meets How-not-to
Read, Read, and Read
Read, Read, and Read
While I highly recommend purchasing, reading, and purchasing more of my novels, I acknowledge that there are so many (SO many!) authors that do this craft much better than I. Here is a link to all the books I have read in the last five years (and it will be continually updated), with reviews provided for most of them.
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