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Gabe Rotter is an American novelist, author of Simon & Schuster's Duck Duck Wally and 'The Human Bobby'.

Rotter grew up on Long Island, New York, and earned a film degree from theUniversity of Southern California. Rotter began his career as writer’s assistant on the popular paranormal television show "The X-Files," working directly under series creator Chris Carter. When the television series ended, Rotter wrote his first novel, Duck Duck Wally."...pays entertaining dividends in this slapstick send-up of show business ingeneral and hip-hop in particular,” commented a Kirkus Reviews critic. Thenovel’s protagonist is Wally Moscowitz, a self-described frumpy, chubby Jewishman in his thirties. Wally lives alone with his dog, Dr. Barry Schwartzman. Anaspiring writer, he strives with little success to interest publishers in hisseries of risqué children’s books for adults. Though his outward appearance andexistence are ordinary, Wally actually lives a secret life as the ghostwriter ofmisogynistic, profanity-laced song lyrics for Godz-Illa Records’ hip-hopsuperstar Oral B. The chief executive officer of Godz-Illa, the menacing Abraham“Dandy” Lyons, has made it clear to Wally that his role in Oral B’s success isto remain a closely guarded secret; if anyone ever finds out, the company’sreputation and street cred would be ruined, and Wally could end up a bullet-ridden casualty in an alley somewhere. For his part, Wally is perfectly happywith the arrangement and has no intention of revealing his role in Oral B andGodz-Illa’s multi-million dollar success.After an unnerving encounter with a minor member of Oral B’s posse, however,Wally realizes that his secret is in danger of imminent revelation. The thug whocorners him in a public restroom tells Wally that he knows that Oral B’sstunningly original and highly popular rap rhymes are actually the ghostwriter’swork. When Dr. Schwartzman is kidnapped and held for ransom, Wally knows thathis life has changed dramatically and that things are only going to get worse.Soon, he is on the run from thugs with names like Yo Yo Pa and Teddy Bizzle;fielding an unexpected offer to publish his writing if he will convert his dirtyadult books to children’s fare; dealing with girlfriend Sue Schadenfreude;dodging the schemes of his agent Jerry Silver; and trying to recover Dr.Schwartzman while keeping himself uninjured and out of danger.

A PublishersWeekly reviewer noted that “Rotter’s a talented writer,” while the KirkusReviews critic called the book a novel for readers who possess “no aversion tothe broadest satire or affinity for political correctness.”

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