Friday, January 22, 2016

Meet the Comedian Who Wrote a Hit Erotic Novella Starring Donald Trump

It's long been said all stories are the same, that there are no new songs left to be sung in this wide world of ours, but a new novella is proving the exception to the rule. That novella is called Trump Temptations: The Billionaire and the Bellboy, and its author, 22-year-old Los Angeles–based comedian Elijah Daniel, who wrote it in an evening while egged on by his 90k-plus followers on Twitter and a bottle of trashy white zinfandel. The 21-page book that resulted is, as its title suggests, about a steamy romp between Donald Trump and a bellboy.

A few of the e-book's more sultry passages include, "His hands felt like an old dried out gingerbread house. I was in love," and, "He stood there in front of me, like a tall stallion. With his oily orange skin glistening in the sunlight as if he were a soggy cheeto, his hair unkempt and messy, like a gorgeous rat's nest."

The novella would be a throwaway joke except that when it was released Thursday morning it was a huge hit, reaching number two in several categories and 984 overall on Amazon. Sales got a boost, says Daniel, when a fake Donald Trump Twitter account run by Anonymous began tweeting about it:

No comments:

Post a Comment