Bøker av Marco Ocram

With a jangle of keys, a door opened. Herbert clanked in, his arms locked to his sides, his ankles shackled, his face a Hannibal Lecter mask. He was overjoyed to see me."Marco, I'm jailed day and night with murderous thugs who can't tell Schiller from Shakespeare. I'm desperate for intellectual stimulus-but you'll do for now."TV personality Marco Ocram is the world's only self-penned character, writing his life in real time as you read it. Marco's celebrity mentor, Herbert Quarry, grooms him to be the Jackson Pollock of literature, teaching him to splatter words on a page without thought or revision. Quarry's plan backfires when imbecilic Marco begins to type his first thought-free book: it's a murder mystery-and Herbert's caught red-handed by the butchered body of his lover. Now Marco must write himself into a crusade to clear his friend's name. Typing the first words that come into his head, Marco unleashes a phantasmagorical catalogue of twists in his pursuit of justice, writing the world's fastest-selling book to reveal the awful truth about the Herbert Quarry affair.

Should I tell him about Sushing or play dumb?Sticking in my comfort zone, I played dumb.Writer Marco Ocram has a secret superpower-whatever he writes actually happens, there and then. Hoping to win the million-dollar Sushing Prize, he uses his powers to write a true-crime thriller, quickly discovering a freakish murder. But Marco has a major problem-he's a total idiot who can't see beyond his next sentence. Losing control of his plot and his characters, and breaking all the rules of fiction, Marco writes himself into every kind of trouble, until only the world's most incredible ending can save his bacon.Fast, funny, and utterly different, welcome to the weird world of The Awful Truth.