Sleeping In

Hack wrote this novel as a jab at his cover artists Jonny M., who missed a production meeting with him because he chose to sleep in instead. Jonny screwed Hack over by depicting himself on the cover in bed with Hack’s biggest celebrity crush Linda Ronstadt. As soon as Hack saw the picture, he had an immediate nervous breakdown and was institutionalized for four months where he had to endure a rigorous healing regimen that saw him rise at 4:00 a.m. while Jonny was sleeping in until noon. Hack has never mentioned the book since and if it is offered to him at book signings, he slaps it out of the person’s hand and insists that he never wrote it.