title: Nobody Likes a Quitter (and other reasons to avoid rehab): The Loaded Life of an Outlaw Booze Writer
author:  Dan Dunn 
description: His status as a wine and spirits writer has allowed him to travel the world and party with celebrities such as Kid Rock, Bono, the Culkin brothers and Bon Jovi, just to name a few. This just adds to the entertaining nature of the book. -- <i> Hofstra Chronicle, November 2007</i><br /><br />Drinking hasn't dulled his wit; some passages are terrifically funny, even if it's often clear that the telling is funnier than the events themselves. -- <i>Booklist Online, June 2008</i><br /><br />Dunn is a wine and spirits columnist ... and thus spends vast amounts of time in a state of inebriation for what he refers to as "research purposes." In Quitter, Dunn tells of his adventures in the world of wine in a way that never ceases to amuse. -- <i>The University News, November 30, 2007</i><br /><br />His ability to grab a reader's attention seems at points, effortless. -- <i>The Daily Gamecock, University of South Carolina, November 16, 2007</i><br /><br />His hilarious memoir chronicles his voyages across the seas of booze-column stardom. Accompanied by a crew of quirky characters, including his freeloading roommate turned Hollywood superstar, Bottomfeeder, and a demonic, blackmailing attorney, The Beast, Dunn sets out to prove that sobriety is completely and utterly overrated. -- <i>The Pitt News, University of Pittsburgh, November 28, 2007</i><br /><br />I have tippled and traveled with Dunn, and I know that at least some of these stories have some connection to the truth. As they say on television, do not try this at home. -- <i>Los Feliz Ledger, December 2007</i><br /><br />Nobody Likes a Quitter is a humorous look at how Dunn went from a life of coke-snorting and couch-surfing in Aspen, Colorado, to living the booze-writer life filled with all-expense paid trips to investigate the latest in European drinking habits. -- <i>Memphis Flyer, December 2007</i>
zlib_text: Forever Devoted
  Crazed Devotion Book 2
  By C.A. Harms
  
   
  “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
  • Dr. Seuss
   
   
   
  
   
  Prologue
  LIZ
  “No, you said you would stop.”
  I covered my ears to drown out the screaming. Looking over to the twin bed bedside my own I was thankful to find
  Elle still sleeping. She’d fallen asleep once again with her earbuds in, while listening to the latest release of her
  favorite author.
  “You can’t keep doing this Larry,” I heard my mother’s voice echo down the hallway as my father’s big heavy
  boots thumped against the hardwood floor. “You spent half your paycheck in that damn bar, and the other half
  barely covers the bills we have.”
  “Then maybe you should get a job,” he slurred. “Stop bitching about money all the time, and make your own
  instead.”
  My father was a drunk. He started his morning out how most men did, with a cup of coffee in hand. The difference
  was, his always had a little bit of whiskey added to it too. He never stopped there, because throughout t