Because, for one, it's as real as it gets; imperfect, abusive, in your face, like our lives are.

InterKnot is a storybook. Yeah, sure, there's some dumbass examples of big no-no's made by the masses and some real asinine moves by yours truly, but for the most part it's entertainment for the senses. In a nutshell, the book comprises Internet dating success stories, Internet dating horror stories, and everything in between that you'd like to hear, and quite a few that you wish you'd never heard about!

 Here's the little ditty I wrote to the Lunch Club (http://thelunchclub.net) to describe the contents of InterKnot for my first hoo hah, big deal book signing & long winded reading with dinner & Q & A included! *sheesh* The food was good, the lights were low, and after the reading, some German girl told the most horrific tale of breaking some poor dwarf guy's heart. Kinda put a damper on the whole evening! So the majority of the crowd went to another bar after I sold a bunch of copies and wrote dumb things in them, and this beotch has the audacity to ask me for a free copy! Um, she didn't get one.

"InterKnot is a powerful storybook on Internet dating, purposely under edited to retain the true 'angst' of online communication between the sexes. It is an 'in your face' roller coaster that will leave you gasping for breath, reaching for Kleenex, and uttering the words 'I cannot believe he just said that!'"

"The book is controversial and raw, graphic and violent, yet there are many passages that will bring tears to your eyes, a smile to your face, and a deep warmth to your heart (if not other regions). The hundreds of e-mail messages in the book were left whole and un-edited to keep their cyber flavor, as imperfect as that is."

"This is no literary work of art, nor is it perfection of form, but is wasn't intended to be, as nothing about real life is."

Okay. Nice. Whatever. So here's my editor's description, on the back cover of InterKnot. This is probably the best description possible, without too many run on sentences of what the book actually attempts to be.

"This is not an 'Internet dating for dummies' book. This is not a book for the highbrow literati or the notorious Grammar Nazi's that lurk on the Internet. You won't find facts and figures here, nor will you find how-to instructions."

"What you will find are stories told by an adventuresome collection of people who have spent hours on the Internet looking for relationships, friendships, or just some good old fashioned fun and laughs. These stories are intended to entertain and delight you, frighten and horrify you, and most of all, to prepare you for what you can expect when you decide to venture online in the penultimate quest for love and companionship."

"Internet dating has spread across the globe as quickly as the Internet has spread its cyber wings. Nearly one hundred million adults have online profiles, and from these millions, we have collected a small group of real people who are willing to relate their experiences in their own words; words that won't send you running for a dictionary and words that will leave you either laughing at their misadventures or shaking your head in commiseration."

"Included in this motley crew is David Osterczy, father of three, photographer and storyteller. Dipping into three years of experience standing alongside his cohorts in the firing line of online dating, he brazenly lays out all the dirty details of his exploits, asks the questions we all want to ask, and explores all the twists and turns of the road to online romance. You are invited to form your own opinions as you read the many points of views, knowing that they are told with no punches pulled."

"Take it or leave it, this is the Internet dating community."

Indeed. Yup. That's right folks. However I did pull a few punches; in fact there was so much objectionable material in chapter ten (that did not FIT there at all, for the type of content therein)  that we deleted almost 22,000 words, total. I may write a book someday about the book and all that happened behind the book and.....ohhhhh whateverrrrrrrr........In actuality my editor deleted all that content as she was offended by it, as well as were some of my female friends. It will appear however in "Cyberlife"  (c) which is sorta part two of InterKnot.

And speaking of chapter ten, you should know going in that its entire contents is, well, X RATED! Really. No, I'm serious! There are stories there from me, from lesbian friends, guys, girls, & every animal in between! The funny thing I've found is that my male friends have liked that chapter, but my female friends have LOVED IT! And they say that guys think about sex all the time? *geez* Perhaps we indeed do think about it, but I guess you girls just looooove reading about it!

Now, I guess this would be a good time to give you some indication as to WHY you should throw down your hard earned sheckles to buy my book?

Okay, lets work on your heart first! I'm a single dad (for the second go round) with two adorable kids, Sammy (ten) and Sherry (twelve). I won't talk about the big ones in college here. My weenies adore me as much as I adore them. Funny thing is they have this horrible habit of needing to eat every few hours! Why DO they make 'em that way? So the measly couple of bucks per copy that my publisher throws at me every three months does put some crumbs on the table. (Please buy the book, pretty please, okay?).

Next, there's the fact that this book is REALLY AND TRULY funny, real to life, entertaining, silly, imperfect, the book YOU wanted to write but never got around to, and will make you really horny in some key spots! I mean it, this is soooooo not a boring book! You'll love it! Just ask me! Ask my friends! I didn't even pay them to say nice stuff either (okay, some of 'em did get free copies, but that doesn't mean they had to say nice stuff!). Only one way to find out!?

Now from the opposing point of view there is the glaring fact that this is my first effort in the literary world, and thus is most likely the worst piece of crap I'll ever publish!!! Nowhere does it say that this is a work of genius; it is not. Nowhere did I or my editor state that this will be a life changing diatribe; it ain't. The book is simply what it is, a semi-autobiographical account of my dating misadventures, and those of six friends (many of which are via e-mail correspondence) written by a general contractor (and you know how we talk!) with little training of the written genre after 15 college English credits, those being a lifetime ago. At the time I was researching (and ALL dates were research!) I was a very different person that I am now. I understand so much more abount chemistry and human sexuality presently, and the book I would write now is whole heartedly different than the one that began four years ago, just after a very painful family breakup.

To compound the insanity, my editor had never edited an entire manuscript before (and no doubt ever will again after working with me! *grin*). We argued about everything and she changed my "voice" several times in the book, but I relented as I thought her ideas to be sound, despite misgivings. I was wrong, and should have hired an experienced editor, but hindsight is always 20/20 and I didn't have the income for one anyway. I think she did the best job she could have under the circumstances, and there were rare flashes of brilliance that came from her pen, as it were, including several paragraphs that were written entirely by her, and left unedited by myself.  

Despite all this the book is amusing; it is funny and gritty and all the things that go along with the "shooting from the hip" school of writing.

Okay now about this website? This is a work in progress, and this will always be a work in progress as it progresses in the constant and relentless direction to wherever the hell it's going to!

Seriously though, this site will become my voice, my weblog, my soul, my rant and rave column all tucked into one neat little corner of the universe. Everything here will be raw and unedited, well, except by me that is, as I add content on a nightly basis to always give you new canon fodder on which to make your unholy decisions on whether or not to buy the stinkin' book!!!!

If it hasn't already become apparent to those following my daily rants, the book will eventually become a side note as the site becomes paramount in my earnestness to show you the opinions and life of one man, one God, one country......

You didn't buy that, did you? It's kewl, just buy the BOOK!!!!