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I spent thirty years as an environmental culture and communications consultant helping mega-corporations craft occasionally dubious sustainability narratives. I have a master’s degree in English with a concentration in writing and cultural theory.
John Rooks
Portland, Maine
mail@johnrooks.com
THE VOLCANO GOD
An upmarket, darkly comic literary novel about identity and the absurdities of contemporary culture laced with pop-culture shenanigans.
THE VOLCANO GOD is about man’s search for authenticity on a slippery surface. And violent escape from the discovery.
Zero-charisma, semi-divorced, middle-aged, and self-exiled, Bill Lee runs away from home in a reckless search for his one true identity. What he finds is unsatisfactory. Starting a cult and a book club along the way wasn’t supposed to be part of the journey. Neither was murder.
For fans of Chuck Klosterman, Warren Zevon and Tom Robbins.
© 2026 JOHN ROOKS