His name is Dennard Dayle.
Some of you may already know him.
He’s a Jamaican American who is just releasing his second novel with the fantastic title, “How To Dodge A Cannonball”.
I found him because his new book is in the same LibraryThing Early Reviewer batch as mine.
I can’t comment on his book as it is unreleased and I haven’t seen any samples. But I looked at the reviews he’s managed to accumulate from advance readers, then headed over to his website.
It is full of well written satire.
I’m a fan.
I wrote in an earlier blog post about how I like to break the rules of literature. But I’m only a minor violator.
Dayle drives a bulldozer through the rules, creates new rules, then bulldozes them, in turn, only to wander off somewhere else.
It’s fun. And he is very funny.
His prose has a stream of consciousness vibe, but it is meticulously crafted. It demands to be read carefully.
His humor bites harder than mine. I’m trying to be an escapist latter-day Wodehouse. Pleasant. Amusing.
Dayle, on the other hand, delves into painful topics in his comedy.
I would describe him as a mix of Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Terry Pratchett, and Douglas Adams with a smattering of Hunter S. Thompson.
Though I’m confident my readers will never tire of my delightful correspondence, should you ever wish to explore a more biting, satirical comedic website which is (also) full of good writing, and the above comparisons didn’t send you fleeing in terror, check out:
Stanton Fenwick 