New Novel Encourages Next Generation to Accept Higher Calling

Jonathan D. Septer's existential novel is one-part God, one-part illegal drug use and a heavy dose of wake-up call.

Kent, Ohio (PRWEB) January 17, 2008 -- The first in a trilogy inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, award-winning writer Jonathan D. Septer's Higher Calling is a refreshing first novel in today's sea of formula-driven fiction. Time travel, psychoanalysis, and poker are featured in this ironic, searching effort to counter what Septer calls "the stark apathy of Generation X."

Ranging in location from the Midwestern United States to purgatory to Vegas, Higher Calling takes its existential theme slumming through the altered states of mind of an eclectic group of lost souls. The clever, weary and yet passionate tone of the novel offers refreshingly hopeful insight into the social responsibility of one human to another, while maintaining a firm grasp on realism within surrealism.

Higher Calling's ultimately positive message is a reminder of writing that brings to mind the sublime: that glimpse into both the terrible and beautiful qualities of the supernatural, and the attempt--successful in this case--to translate those truths into human understanding.

For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author at jonathan.d.septer @ gmail.com. Higher Calling is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

About the Author
An award-winning poet and recent graduate of Kent State University, Jonathan D. Septer began his writing career as a columnist with the Daily Kent Stater; his columns have since been published at colleges across the United States via U-Wire. He lives in Kent, Ohio. Higher Calling is his first novel.

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