Schlep

Izzy Koatz is a frustrated screenwriter so lonely he talks to his inanimate objects. Each year he hitches his Pontiac Aztec to a weathered ’67 camper and follows the ghost of Route 66 toward Hollywood, chasing the dream of selling a script. But outside Gallup, New Mexico, he encounters a Zuni princess who alters his journey—and his life—forever.

Tall Tales of a Short Childhood

With titles like The Dark Shadows of Gulch Creek and The Daredevil in Me, d’Philip blends memory and imagination in revisiting his early years with stories that are at once tender, humorous, and raw. These short tales capture the wonder, mischief, and shadows of childhood, told in a voice that refuses to forget where it came from.

My BiPolar Reality

This candid memoir follows d’Philip’s struggle through mental illness, recovery, and resilience—told under the shadow of a bipolar diagnosis that wasn’t his to bear. With candor and grit, it reveals the highs and lows of being misdiagnosed, and the hard-won truth of finding a way forward.

Kill David Spade

Read the script Hollywood doesn’t want you to see. Clark Addison, a limo driver and frustrated writer, once penned a radio play called The Sacred Body of Love. When he spots his work repurposed in a David Spade movie, fury takes the wheel. Urged on by his narcoleptic frenemy, Clark heads from Chicago to Las Vegas in his limo, picking up a band of misfits along the way—all united by one absurd mission: to kill David Spade.