Dennis Cass Wants You To Be More Awesome

Here are ten facts (and one confession) about my first book, HEAD CASE:

1. The cover looks like this:
2. The book is 210 pages long.
3. First line of the prologue: “The moment we arrived at his psychiatrist’s office, my stepfather started acting sane.”
4. First line of the first chapter: “I am not a scientist.”
5. Last line of the first chapter: “What could possibly go wrong?”
6. As part of my research, I smoked cigarettes in an environmental control chamber at the University of Iowa.
7. On page 108, there is a homemade graph that represents data from an experiment that I made up while suffering under the delusion that I could do science better than actual scientists.
8. In the final chapter, I find out whether or not I am Enlightened.
9. Seed magazine said that “[n]euroscience has never been examined in quite this way, and it’s certainly never been so funny.”
10. Reason magazine called HEAD CASE an “entertaining failure.”
11. When I’m having a good day, Seed is right. When I’m having a bad day, Reason is right.

An Amazon link:

HEAD CASE: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain

If you’re still interested in learning more, here are two links that will take you to interviews I did while promoting the hardcover edition:

PopMatters Q &A

Powell’s Books’ INK Q & A

There is also more information about the book on its Amazon product page, but you’re smart enough to know that already.