Based in the fictional South American nation of Palagua, Where Did This Come From? follows the Huapi tribe's desperate struggle for survival. When a leading U.S. toy manufacturer discovers a rare and beautiful crystal on the Huapi's sacred land, mining operations begin immediately. Christmas shopping season is coming, and Crystal Clay is by far the top seller. Soon the Huapi find themselves and the jungle that supports them on the brink of annihilation. Can they hope to resist the desire of consumers who never bother to ask, Where Did This Come From?
The first article Larry Nocella sold was the first one he submitted. He was fourteen years old and had written a program for his Atari 800 computer to help him with high school Spanish. The now defunct magazine A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing printed the article and he's been writing ever since.
For six years he was the writer-editor-publisher of the creative writing magazine, Q.E.C.E. (Question Everything Challenge Everything.) Accepting submissions from writers and artists around the world, the magazine grew to be a respected member of the thriving zine community. Q.E.C.E. was awarded an honorable mention from the Writer's Digest Zine Publishing Awards.
Larry began branching into fiction by way of another zine, the unclassifiable quirky underground fiction-comic eXtreme Conformity. Each installment of this 4 x 11 inches bright yellow publication was written as a script for a half-hour comedy show, but laid out to read like a comic book. The stories were a blasphemous collision of South Park, The Simpsons, and everyday philosophy, following the adventures of aliens intent on taking over Earth, convinced the television was the ruler of the planet.
Continuing his push for a larger audience, Larry Nocella self-published his novella Where Did This Come From? now available on Amazon.com in paperback and eBook for the Amazon Kindle and other eBook readers. Where Did This Come From? fictionalizes the fact that those in the industrialized world have no idea where their possessions come from, and sometimes a seemingly innocent object can have a story of horror and death behind it. In keeping with the environmental theme, Larry donates a portion of profits from the novel sufficient to offset the carbon released from its publishing process. Where Did This Come From? is the world's first CarbonFree(R) novel according to CarbonFund.org.
His latest novel is ready for prime-time. Combining the scrappy youthful protagonist of Russell Banks' Rule of the Bone with the anti-war message of Johnny Got His Gun, the universality of Blindness, and the disbelief in anything official embodied in Clockwork Orange and Fight Club, the novel is his greatest writing achievement yet, following the stories of two young men, one from the USA and one from Morocco, caught in the far-reaching effects of the war on terror.
He is searching for an agent who shares his enthusiasm for the primal power of the story, and is equally excited about the modern methods of storytelling (video games, film, ebooks, etc.)
He lives in the USA with his wife and assorted four-legged friends. You can read his blog and samples of his writing at http://www.LarryNocella.com/.
