Michael Neff is a writer, editor, artist, filmmaker, and Internet entrepeneur best known over the past decade for his creation and direction of WebdelSol.Com, a popular Internet publisher and community portal for scores of journals, indie presses, filmmakers, poets, and writers. Since 1994, WDS.Com has served content to millions of readers worldwide, and links lead to WDS.Com content from over 40,000 other websites. WebdelSol.Com and Neff have been featured or reviewed in everything from Chronicle of Higher Education to Poets and Writers to the New York Times. After bringing the best in contemporary literature to the world via Internet, Michael Neff and WDS.Com worked closely with the ACLU and other plantiffs in 2000 and 2001 to successfully defeat Internet censorship laws instigated by Evangelicals and the conservative right in battleground states like Michigan and Arizona.
In 2003, Michael Neff founded and directed the Algonkian Writer Conferences on the shores of the Potomac River in Virginia. Since that time, the organization has expanded to include events and conferences around the country such as the New York Pitch Conference and the Fisherman's Wharf Writer Conference in San Francisco.
Michael Neff's literary work has also appeared in many prominent publications, including North American Review, Quarterly West, Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Literary Review, American Way Magazine, and Conjunctions, as well as several Internet publications. He was one of the winners of the first Imitation William Faulkner Contest sponsored by the University of Mississippi, and he has served as judge for various writing contests, including the 2001 Writer's Digest Finalist Prize for best short fiction.
Michael Neff's novel, Year of The Rhinoceros, was published by Red Hen Press in Feb., 2009.
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YEAR OF THE RHINOCEROS
Log
Raised as an odd "Reagan liberal" in America's heartland, Manny Eden arrives in Washington to search for a meaningful career, but no sooner does he land his dream job than he discovers himself thrust into a human dimension far darker and more alien than he could ever have imagined, a world he cannot comprehend or overcome until he learns to trust a rebellious co-worker, Laney Dracos, and become part of her bold plan to bring down the White House regime of his hero, Ronald Reagan.
Comps
Water for Elephants meets Mr. Smith Goes to Washington meets Donny Darko
Synopsis
The place is Washington, D.C., and the year, 1984. The ruthless dictatorship envisioned by George Orwell has not come to pass.
Or has it?
Under the presidency of former Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan, the struggle for America's soul has begun—a trial of conscience and idealism versus idolatry and political dictatorship. Democracy is fading, and two employees in solitary small agency created by Congress, the Office of Whistleblower Counsel, are determined to save it.
The White House officials who stand in their way, however, are adamant and ruthless. Their plan is to clear the field for their corporate clients by making the government safe from real public scrutiny for all time to come—and with tens of billions at stake, the servants of corporate Washington will use any means necessary to stop their enemies.
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