In a bit of sheer vanity, I’m going to unjustly assume that you want to know about me, since I am The Creator of ShoBooVie. 

 

I’m Miles Marinello, born in Georgia but a Florida man (not to be confused with “Florida Man,” the buffoonish idiot that everyone knows and shakes their heads at, but also has a warped fascination with), growing up in Palm Harbor, just outside of Tampa. 

 

Son of Victor, a goon, and Lyn, a poet, brother to Deanna, an artist (she made the website, woo-hoo!), I grew up in a pretty creative atmosphere and wrote my first “book”, a total abomination called “Imagination World” (complete with my own accompanying illustrations, which are …. just horrid) in the first grade. Wrote a sequel, “The Unknown Planet,” in fourth grade and, like all great artists, included my girlfriend in it and subsequently killed her off when we broke up. Merciless stuff. 

 

But all of my writing fervor really began when I got diagnosed with a life-threatening autoimmune disease as a kiddo, around nine years old. It’s called Dermatomyositis and, like all lovely autoimmune diseases, it completely devastated my ability to be active, so ya’ boy was reading a ton of books. And when the Children’s Dream Fund, an organization akin to Make A Wish, came knocking and asked what I wanted for my Dream, the answer was obvious – my own library. (Although meeting the cast of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was a close second. Who knows how my life could’ve turned out if I’d let Sarah Michelle Gellar meet and, of course, groom me?)

 

So Books-A-Million, Barnes and Noble, and family and friends donated a shit-ton of books, the Dream Fund legit let a nine year old draw up the design of a bookshelf, and here we are today, a thousand books later, the library and shelf intact and thriving and clocking in at around 1200 books total. Reading all of those damn books is what inspired me to want to write, and what got me obsessed with books and, eventually, television and film. (I have power rankings of my favorites in all three categories, it’s not healthy.)

 

I was more of an admirer than practitioner, though, until, at twenty-four, I finally got the nuts to throw up a hail mary and move to Atlanta to give being a screenwriter a go. It didn’t pan out, of course, but I met my fiance, Kelly, and my now-puppy-child, Piper, so life worked out grand. And merely being in Atlanta, surrounded by all the creative juju going on over there, I finally tried my hand at all sorts of stuff. I’ve written, directed, and starred in short films, I’ve done stand-up comedy, written screenplays, and now have gone full-tilt into aspiring author mode. 

 

I’ve written three books, the first a wild, Thomas Pynchon-inspired dystopia, “A Hand-Painted Backdrop” (not great), the second family dramedy, “Holding On for Dear Life” (a legit good book that I will publish some day), and a collection of science fiction short stories, unabashedly inspired by “The Twilight Zone,” called “The Refuge.” The stories are definitely the best shit I’ve done, and I think I can make some magic happen with them, but we’ll see. 

 

Anyway, all of this borderline-erotic love for media got me thinking that it’d be cool to bridge the gap thematically, and from there ShoBooVie was born. 

 

I hope you guys dig it, and if you ever have any questions, praise, requests for media to be featured in episodes, praise, comments, ridicule, praise, want to read some of my writing, praise, or, of course, praise, feel free to reach out. I know I seem really creative but I’m honestly just a normal human, just like you.

 

Hugs and kisses, 

Miles