Kyle McGraw spent a chunk of his life working in the trenches of the film business in Los Angeles before reinventing himself as a medical practitioner in a Midwest metropolis. His days spent looking out over the twinkling sprawl of L.A. have been replaced by looking out over the vastness and serenity of Lake Michigan.
Plastic Phoenix started out as a "little gay novel." But what happened when my female friends started to read it shocked me. The loved the dominatrix. "I want to be like her they told me..." Wow - that said something about my female friends!
This project spanned 17 years from the first word that hit the page to the first sale. But I think the timing is perfect today for both its story and it's humor. We need some relief from this horrible year