1/17/2024 0 Comments Phoenix jones todayThere were a couple moments that night where I thought my goose was cooked. I only wrote what I observed firsthand (though through a cloud of pepper spray, of course.) As I mentioned– it was a terrifying night. Phoenix Jones, who claims he is a “perfect crimefighter” doesn’t like me, because when I described the “Pepper Spray Incident,” the total shitshow of him attempting to break up a fight (alluded to in that chapter title), he became upset that it wasn’t a flattering portrayal. Jones and Me” and “People Fighting and Pepper Spray and Superheroes and…I Don’t Know,” the last title a quote from someone on the phone with 911. One of the most memorable moments of working on Heroes was a rather terrifying night I spent following RLSH Phoenix Jones in Seattle. I’m currently working on what I hope will be books 7 and 8. My book American Madness, which I think is my best, also spun out of this work (though it went in a very different direction). Since then, I’ve had five more books published. After many rejections from agents and publishers, I sold the book to Chicago Review Press in 2012. I also learned how to write a book and a lot about the writing process in general. More on that last city in a moment.ĭuring that process I met several people that I still consider to be friends today. I went out on patrol or participated in RLSH events in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York City, New Bedford, Vancouver, San Diego, Portland, and Seattle. For years I worked my day job(s) and spent many nights on patrol with people who had adopted their own homemade superhero personas, a secretive subculture of Real Life Superheroes (RLSH). Writing that remains one of the great adventures of my life. It’s been almost ten years since my first book, Heroes in the Night: Inside the Real-life Superhero Movement (2013, Chicago Review Press) was published.
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