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PUBLISH THIS BOOK: The Unbelievable True Story of How I Wrote, Sold, and Published This Very Book (Sourcebooks 2010) Fed up with the Byzantine quest of trying to get a book published, Stephen Markley decides to cut to the chase and simply write a hyperkinetic high-concept memoir about trying to publish a book—this book, to be precise. Like a mobius strip in book form, the concept is circular, self-indulgent, and maybe, possibly, hopefully brilliant. This is the modern-day saga of a plugged-in, hyped-up, idealistic, ambitious, arrogant, audacious, unyielding young writer, who's tired of waiting his turn. Like any work that claims gleefully and irreverently to be about nothing, it's really about pretty much everything from the pitfalls of narrating your life as it unfolds to those tumultuous early years of adulthood when the promise of youth still holds the capacity to inspire awe. It is a story of the struggle to find your true voice in your work and in your life, given form as the author seeks a way to Publish This Book. The author reads from PUBLISH THIS BOOK: Click below to hear Stephen Markley reading from chapters 1 and 3. (Hit the button for the next chapter.) This text will be replaced by the flash music player.