Fans impatient for new work by Shiloh

July 14, 2011 - PRLog -- It's been three years since his novel about celebrity was published. But the author of POOKOO is crafting his follow-up just the way he wants, despite the early calls for a new work.The first book took 17 years.

"This one won't," Doug Shiloh says.

"Just to be clear, I haven't done a J.D. Salinger," Shiloh said, referring to the infamous lack of publication THE CATCHER IN THE RYE author had before dying in January of 2010. "I've been working as a side project to develop a definitive deluxe edition of POOKOO and I'm very happy with it as a story. I wrote it in three major segments of time and it stands up as far as I'm concerned."

A Twitter account even shows the "relevance" to current news stories that show how POOKOO is relevant. The site is http://www.twitter.com/pookoobook.

Others must have enjoyed the comically dark book about celebrity obsession, too. The novel was downloaded about 4,000 times from Shiloh's web sites before it was deliberately taken down as a download. But it is available from Amazon.com as a Kindle e-book or as a paperback at http://www.amazon.com/Pookoo-Celebrity-D-L-Shiloh/dp/1438....

"I've contemplated a sequel [to POOKOO], but there are many stories to be told and this new book is in the editing stages, so I'm really gearing up for a Fall 2011 push."

The new novel is WAITING FOR THE END, a post-9-11 story that follows a man throughout the first 50 years of his life. "It begins as a family story and goes from there." Set in Massachusetts, not far from where Shiloh graduated high school, it depicts a childhood in the 1970s and adulthood during the 1980s.

Shiloh's most recent short story, "The Second Coming", was published in 2010 at http://www.stockyardmagazine.com. Another will be published in a prominent Canadian zine in 2011.

His official web site is http://www.dougshiloh.com.

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