Imperfection is lovable. Just for today, let’s let ourselves be exactly who we are. We must embrace our imperfections. Perfection is boring. Our imperfections are what make us truly beautiful. There is no need to be perfect, to inspire others. Let's allow others to be inspired by how we deal with our flaws, our imperfections, the circumstances that cause us to feel inadequate. After all, to conquer our shortcomings, we must accept them. We are all beautifully flawed. Beautifully imperfect. Beautifully... us.

This just out! Phenomenal, fantastic and perfect book review on my novel Lover in the Nobody, up for National Book Award! I am so happy, proud, and to be honest quite surprised. Perhaps my most well-written work from the Alibiography series! Oh my goodness! My work is not for all. I often mention in interviews, and so forth, I will often use erotica as a narrative device to inspire mental health awareness, recovery, and advocacy, which is by far my calling, as they say, mental health, and in particular, disabilities within the schizophrenia spectrum syndrome. I am so happy and grateful today! Have a terrific day to each and every on of you! More inspiration to come as usual, through thick and thin, my overall goal is to continue inspiring courage, resilience nd perhaps "education" and mental health advocacy as an author of over a dozen literary novels last year. 

-- #JonathanHarnisch

Here it is!

Lover in the Nobody by Jonathan Harnisch

Reviewed: January 8th, 2016

Equal parts existential nihilism and fetishistic erotica, this darkly hypnotic novel—in which the lines between reality and delusion are hopelessly blurred—chronicles a mentally ill man’s search for meaning in his life or, at least, some kind of profound corporeal satisfaction.

Georgie Gust, who has Tourette’s syndrome and may be schizophrenic, is also a hardcore masochist and foot fetishist and believes that finding the “everlasting orgasm” is what he needs to change his life. The son of independently wealthy parents, Gust has frequented kinky sex clubs for years without any real fulfillment. But when he becomes enamored with his next-door neighbor—a middle-aged paramedic named Claudia—he offers to pay her to be his torturer, his “personal trainer in pain.”

But the fiery redhead takes her job a little too seriously, and the humiliation quickly escalates to brutal, life-threatening assaults. His alluring dominatrix with the “perfect, long, skinny toes” is quickly transformed into a psychotic madwoman who is systematically destroying his life: “…that bitch, that whore, that woman I love and hate. She created a paradise and then set it aflame. She is my world and its end, my kinky sex goddess, my creepy-crawly nemesis.”

The brilliance of this storyline—and it is brilliant—is in the author’s use of the unreliable narrator. The novel begins with Gust in a psych ward after an apparent suicide attempt. As his story unfolds, the reader is introduced to Ben, who may be Gust’s limo driver, a figment of his imagination, or an alter ego. The reader is never quite sure until the very end — when a bombshell revelation turns the entire narrative upside down.

Lover in the Nobody is a poignant exploration into the world of mental illness that is simultaneously deeply disturbing and salaciously spellbinding. It is sure to resonate with readers long after the last page is turned.

Also available in ebook.

—Starred Blue Ink Book Review

Mental Health

Happy New Year's Day 2016!

Friday, January 1, 2016

The day in a nutshell.

Dear friends, wonderful fans and supporters, Wishing you a Happy New Year with the hope that you will have many blessings in the year to come. Out with the old, in with the new: may you be happy the whole year. Happy New Year! -- Jonathan Harnisch

An impressionist and surrealist film where lost love and grief are entwined

CELEBRATING A REMARKABLE 2015! #‎HARNISCHFILM VIA @JWHARNISCH -- JONATHAN HARNISCH FILMAUTHOR MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATE SCHIZOPHRENIA ARTIST BLOGGER PODCAST HOST PATENT HOLDER HEDGE FUND MANAGER FILM TV PRODUCER MUSICIAN

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