Next Best Thing: Miller Hoffman #2

Zelmer Wilson (born 1 July 1975 in Fort Collins, Colorado) is an American author. He discovered that he wanted to be a writer when he was fifteen years old during the summer of 1990 while in Birmingham, Alabama, visiting his mother and two sisters. He spent the next few years trying to write a novel. At first, because he was reading science-fiction at the time, he tried to write a science-fiction novel. It was when he was twenty-one years old that he read Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer for the first time. He then realized that he could use his own life as the basis or inspiration for a story. He finished the first draft of his first novel several years later, in August of 2001. He then spent the next year re-writing it. He tried to get it published, but failed. He has since lost it. He didn’t gave up, though and spent the next few years writing other novels while working a full time forty hour a week job. His debut novel, In the Middle, is inspired by his own difficult teenage years in Phoenix, Arizona.