Who is raphael simon

Advanced Search. Event date:. Tuesday, June 22, - pm. Event address:. The Anti-Book Hardcover. By Raphael Simon. Add to Wish List. By Pseudonymous Bosch. Availability: Backordered - Shipping will be Delayed. Gift Items Bookish Gifts. Journals for All Ages. Mickey is angry all the time: at his divorced parents, at his sister, and at his two new stepmoms, both named Charlie. And so he can't resist the ad inside his pack of gum: "Do you ever wish everyone would go away?

Buy The Anti-Book! Satisfaction guaranteed. He fills the pages with all the things and people he dislikes.

Next thing he knows, he's wandering an anti-world, one in which everything and everyone familiar is gone. Or are they? His sister soon reappears--but she's only four inches tall. A tiny talking house with wings looks strangely familiar, as does the mysterious half-invisible boy who seems to think that he and Mickey are best buds. The boy persuades Mickey to go find the Bubble Gum King--the king, who resides at the top of a mountain, is the only one who might be able help Mickey fix the mess he's made.

But trust me, I wrote all those books. Okay, maybe I had a little help from a friend or editor here or there, but my point stands. Also I wrote that last book, The Anti-Book , the one with my own name on the cover.

Or did you think Raphael was just another pseudonym? Side note: I use the name Raphael so rarely—most people call me Rafi—that I recently had to ask my mom how to pronounce it. I also have a lot more trouble signing the name Raphael than I do signing the name Pseudonymous. Analyze that , Armchair Psychologists!

Hence the pseudonym. And I like puns. Having a pseudonym was unexpectedly liberating—and fruitful—for me as a writer.