What's the book about?

Have you ever had a big fight with the one you love and realized you were in a fight with yourself?  Inside there's a part of you screaming in the dark, afraid to express the real unfiltered you that's hiding in the shame of a horribly lovely dumpster fire. 

As an an empathic neurodivergent love addict confused by the masculine box of society, this book is an alchemical adventure into love.  The main character, the poetic voices in my heart.  The heroine, the romantic relationships that viscerally brought it back to life.

• For closet romantics: You love love and want vulnerability with all the uncomfortable darkness.

• For steely expresses: You love all your feels but have never allowed yourself to just be messy with someone.

• For symbolic seekers: You love the beauty in life and wonder about the meaning of the cover color Amaranth.
  

About the author

With an unconventional approach to writing, Jon is trying to break the norms of how we express ourselves authentically and idiosyncratically with the full originality of who we are as individuals. His writing is dreamlike, symbolic, and even poetic, uplifting the human spirit through the clarity and blunt punctuation of our experience living here together.  

His writing is an attempt to weave wisdom from his own unconventional journeys, with the Enneagram, shamanism, and Jungian alchemy, to explore the depth of human transformation. Jon is inspired to investigate how love works in this big bang universe of ours to empower others to bring their own real, honest, and uncomfortable love stories to the world.

Jon balances writing with consulting opportunities to transform companies, teams, and leaders that desire to work in whole new ways. He serves as a designer, coach, and teacher, helping employees grow through the process of transforming ideas into intrapreneurial ventures. 

In both the literary and corporate worlds, he’s served as a creative bridge between the personal and transpersonal realms. He is inspired by the shocks that help us unlearn who we think we and the resilience that helps us relearn who we truly are.

Jon lives in Kansas City with his three children. He is also a relative of the Slovenian writer, Ivan Tavčar.

“How you wove the stories together and lay them side by side then stagger stitch them is very very cool. I see myself in Ben. I see myself in everyone. I love Ben. I hate Ben. It's all the feels.”

- Rachel

“A truly unique, tragic and beautiful story of love and loss. The stories and writing style gripped me from the very beginning. A must-read for anyone who has felt the highs and lows of love.”

- Colin

“It is a pleasure to recommend this book to everyone who has struggled or is struggling with obsessive compulsions related to escaping the gift of this “Horribly Lovely” life.”

- Lois