What Pete Tarslaw wants is simple enough: a realistic amount of fame that will open new avenues of sexual opportunity; the kind of financial comfort that will allow him to spend his life pursuing hobbies such as boating or skeet shooting at his stately home by the ocean or a scenic lake; and&#8212perhaps mostly importantly&#8212the chance to humiliate his ex-girlfriend at her wedding. This is the story of how he succeeds in getting it all, and what it costs him in the end.

Narrated by an unlikely literary legend, How I Became A Famous Novelist pinballs from the post-college slums of Boston, to the fear-drenched halls of Manhattan's publishing houses, from the gloomy purity of Montana’s foremost writing workshop to the hedonistic hotel bars of the Sunset Strip. The horrifying, hilarious tale of how Pete’s “pile of garbage” called The Tornado Ashes Club becamethe most talked about, blogged about, read, admired, and reviled novel in America will change everything you think you know about literature, appearance, truth, beauty, andthose people out there, somewhere in America, who still care about books.

斯蒂夫·赫利(Steve Hely)，美國作傢，編劇。畢業於哈佛大學，在校期間曾擔任哈佛校園最知名的刊物《哈佛妙文》的社長。畢業後從事編劇工作，為脫口秀節目《戴維·萊特曼晚間秀》、喜劇卡通片《美國老爹》、電視劇《我為喜劇狂》擔任編劇及製作人，所參與節

目多次獲得美國電視界類最高奬項艾美奬。與人閤著漫畫遊記《荒唐的賽跑》。