The new love story — 12 years in the making — that’s delivering hope…
“Our togetherness will be a beacon of light for others; an example to emulate in their lives,” she said. Her name is Promise, and she has asked Soupy to find her…because love is dying. “You’re going to fail at finding me over and over again. This task I’ve given you, it’s a numbers game, a game of volume. Only by accumulated experience will you eventually figure out who I am and where to find me. It’s also a game of wisdom, because you must learn at least one thing from every person you meet.”
own an autographed novel — click here!
Autographs only available by ordering from this site!
Description of LOVE [burns]: A Novel
“Our togetherness will be a beacon of light for others; an example to emulate in their lives,” she said. Her name is Promise, and she has asked Soupy to find her…because love is dying.
Before she left, she gave him some advice: “You’re going to fail at finding me over and over again. This task I’ve given you, it’s a numbers game, a game of volume. Only by accumulated experience will you eventually figure out who I am and where to find me. It’s also a game of wisdom, because you must learn at least one thing from every person you meet.”
And she is right. When he thought about his neighborhood, his parents, his family, friends, practically every one had divorced or dealt with troubling relationships--no one had taught us about love.
“We are meant to teach them,” she said, and then she disappeared.
Soupy has been given the first assignment of his life’s homework, and it’s a grammar test: to better understand himself. There’s no cheat sheet or notes for this homework, no map to the destination, no footprints to follow down a path...no path, actually, and no mentors to lean on.
He has to make his own way, and it’s going to suck. But the reward is Promise. When he finds her he will have found success, and that success is nothing more and nothing less than True Love—two words for the greatest connection the world has ever known, and now needs more than ever.
About ROBERT
Robert Zamees often calls an airplane “home,” finding rest in beds, on couches, at rented flats, and even, at times, in his own bed in Kansas City, Missouri. As a child, he wanted to be an architect, until he learned in college that The Brady Bunch wasn’t reality. It prompted him to drop out of university four weeks before graduation to whimsically take up the then nascent trade of internet marketing. With a pocketful of experiences as an online marketer--like his bosses debating his worth in his presence and future professional sports franchise owners screaming at him about 404 pages--he took the busted internet bubble as a sign to do something completely different, like learn about chocolate and chewing gum, vacuum-sealed coffee, why horses don’t have square eyes, and that the next world war will surely be between those who love and hate the PT Cruiser. With those exceptional nuggets of wisdom to wield, he oddly fell into being the “social voice” of one of the largest brands in the world, slinging HDTVs, diamond rings, patio furniture and Twizzlers in bulk; truly a complete and total waste of his superpowers (but a paycheck!). And once he realized his soul was dying, he burned his cape and brandished a pen. One year later, he finished the first draft of his first novel, was nearly broke, staved off foreclosure with a Kickstarter campaign, and started sharing his tome. The truth was, he didn’t know the story he wanted to tell until he tried to tell it, and it was this pursuit of truth that kept him writing and rewriting about his love of love, ultimately to complete that first novel... like, a decade later. Robert has been in love many times, and is forever married to his stacks of poems, ideas, travels, and scribbles of wisdom learned (at the completion of this novel, he has learned 435 things about the world, often asking others to pick a number so he can tell their fortune). For you, #1 is free: Even beautiful people have problems, and there’s beauty in all of us. #morelove