Steven Helmer Publications

Just taking a few minutes for some shameless promotion: Valentine's Day is just around the corner and Love Poems for My Wife is still available at Amazon, usually getting a sales boost around this time of year. You can purchase it here:  Amazon.com: Love Poems for My Wife . The book is available both in print form and as an eBook. There is a companion book to this as well A Messy House is a Home is also available if you're looking for a set rather than just one book. You can purchase that one here:  Amazon.com: A Messy House is a Home .

Synopsis: Daniel Pecan Cambridge is an ordinary American, except for the fact he is afraid of 8-inch-high curbs, can't hold a job because of a counting obsession, secretly drugs is upstairs neighbor, is romantically obsessed with a local realtor he has never spoken to, needs to have a grand sum of 1125 watts of light in his apartment and was once a suspect in a murder. Review: I ended up checking out this book from our local library a couple days ago mostly because I am a big Steve Martin fan and, until recently, had completely forgotten he had written books. I didn't really know what to expect from this particular novel, but, after finishing it, I have to say I enjoyed every page. I think the thing that really drew me in when reading this book was I didn't quite know what it was going to be about. It's a first-person account from Daniel's perspective and, as a result of that, a lot of the pages are nothing more than him rambling a bit and not seeming to have much...