Scott Wilbanks, represented by Barbara Poelle of the Irene Goodman Literary Agency, is the author of the debut novel, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster, forthcoming from Sourcebooks in August, 2015.
I worked with Wilbanks on his sophomore novel, Easy Pickens, the story of the world’s only medically-diagnosed case of chronic naiveté.
When Easy loses his beloved Bruce to AIDS, it sets him off on a quest into the past to save the love of his life.
Easy’s quest is complicated by his mother, a strong-willed Southern Daughter of the American Revolution with her story of the lightning strike that rendered the toddler Easy an expert in Chinese languages; Easy’s best friend Calliope, the night custodian of the private library at the ruins of the Sutro Baths in San Francisco; the nineteenth-century historical figure, San Francisco mayor and philanthropist Adolph Sutro; and the long-lost journal of a visionary nineteenth-century Chinese girl hiding in the caves near the Sutro Baths from someone hellbent on kidnapping her. . .or worse.
it all pivots around an MC Escher stairwell.
Can true love be divined before it occurs? Can lightning create inexplicable genius? Can Easy journey all the way to the bottom of an endless Escher stairwell to rescue an innocent girl trapped by evil a hundred years before he was born?
And why does the Grim Reaper keep appearing behind Easy’s shoulder with that tall, deadly sickle?
Wilbanks says:
“I’m staggered at the amount of work you put into my project. A ‘sophomore’ novel comes with expectations and limited options that I was wholly unprepared for. You lifted me out of a hole, an amazing experience. And I’ve learned so much about myself. I’ll be bragging about you to all my writerly colleagues—you’re worth every penny!”