Yes, Daddy was named one of the best queer books of 2021 by Entertainment Weekly, NBC News, The Advocate, Lambda Literary, Bustle, Goodreads and more. Yes, Daddy was also optioned for television by Amazon Studios.
Parks-Ramage's new novel is It's Not the End of the World.
At Lit Hub the author tagged five "novels which feature some of the worst (but most entertaining) parties-gone-wrong." One title on the list:
Bret Easton Ellis, The ShardsRead about another novel on the list.
If the horrific party scenes detailed in Bret Easton Ellis’s semi-auto fictional novel about his youth are even anywhere close to accurate, it will make you very glad you were not friends with him in the 1980’s. The Shards followsseventeen-year-old Bret in his senior year at Buckley, an elite Los Angeles prep school.
Over the course of the novel, Bret becomes increasingly obsessed with the Trawler, a serial killer stalking Los Angeles. Bret is convinced that this murderer is after him, taunting him, and torturing and killing people he knows.
The book takes place well before the term “nepo-baby” was ever conceived, but suffice to say that Bret’s social milieu is composed of some of the richest and most privileged kids in LA. The book is deeply evocative—Ellis transports us to the era of his youth with detailed descriptions of time and place and music and people.
There’s not just one party scene in this book—there are so many, and they each bring a greater sense of the wild world of privilege that Bret occupies. But these parties are not just the site of debauched fun—they are also settings where dark secrets are revealed, tensions boil over, and shocking violence occurs.
--Marshal Zeringue