JDP by Ron Burch

Jay Q. Wilson Jr. needs help desperately. His celebrity museum in Hollywood slowly goes into debt while Wilson’s landlord wants to jump his rent so much Wilson soon won’t have a home for his collection of celebrity memorabilia. Worse, he had always hoped that eventually he and his work would impress his assistant, a woman he secretly loves. But it’s not looking good until Jay finds out that Hollywood’s greatest urban myth, JDP, might actually exist. If Jay can get his hands on JDP, it might be enough of a celebrity score that could save his shop. Oh, and JDP stands for James Dean’s Penis. It’s apparently floating in a jar somewhere in Los Angeles that Jay hopefully finds before he loses his business and the woman he loves.

“Ron Burch’s second novel examines class mobility unexpectedly and intelligently, while ruminating on why materialism rots our best intentions. JDP shows the remarkable lengths to which we are consumed by obsession. Q is pitiable, merciless—a collector fading in a dynamic industry, scheming for his shot at immortality. With JDP, Burch has crafted an endlessly funny and wry Hollywood conspiracy for our modern times.”

—Jason Teal, We Were Called Specimens

Ron Burch exposes the offbeat edge of California’s most mythical urban places populated with tourists feeding the quest for memorabilia of dead celebrities—leading to the ultimate prize, JDP. Tough and gritty with equal parts heart and offbeat humor, the novel’s innovative narrative pumps new noir through the veins of Hollywood in an ironic journey with an unlikely XXXL protagonist who runs a celebrity museum and stretches the limits of anti-hero iconography.

—Aimee Parkison, author of Sister Séance and Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman

“A down-and-out Hollywood tour guide’s absurd quest to find a dead celebrity’s body part, Ron Burch’s JDP is a funny and entertaining romp through the Los Angeles you won’t see on your Starline tour. Part The Big Lebowski, part The Cruise, Burch’s novel is a witty love letter to The City of Broken Dreams.”

—Leland Cheuk, author of No Good Very Bad Asian

Ron Burch’s fiction has been published in numerous literary journals including South Dakota Review, Fiction International, Mississippi Review, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. BLISS, INC., his last novel, is also from BlazeVOX books. He lives in Los Angeles, where he works in the entertainment business as a producer and screenwriter.

Book Information:

· Paperback: 246 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 978-1-60964-382-9

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