COMING SOON: THE LOTZ Trilogy!
Book 1 — July, 2026
LAST OF THE ZACHARYS, The World’s FIRST “Novel with Songs” (2010)
Complete Legacy Ebook Edition Now Available ONLY at The Morty Store.
Catcher in the Rye meets The Beatles in Morty’s Shallman’s follow-up to Love’s Oblivion—Last of the Zacharys, the World’s FIRST “Novel with Songs.”
Nearly 8 years in the making, and originally published as an ebook in 2010 with links to stream the songs, Last of the Zacharys is an ambitious multi-media epic, featuring a 130,000-word literary novel and 45 original songs that are featured in the narrative. With a hyper-descriptive and often humorous prose style that evokes authors from David Foster Wallace to William Faulkner, and songs that run the gamut from soulful acoustic and crunchy power pop, to dynamic alt-rock mini-symphonies, Last of the Zacharys tells the tragi-comic tale of Jay Allen Zachary, a young singer-songwriter with a troubled past who will do anything to make it in the music business, even if it means "he" must become a "she."
Will Jaz find the artistic recognition he longs for? Or will he fall prey to the subterranean madness of his wrongheaded hometown?