Zeebo, Author
During COVID, a Waynesville writer with the pen name Zeebo wrote humorous stories and sent them to his sister for fun. He later collected the works, based on his early life adventures in Brooklyn, NY and elsewhere, into a book, The Blueberry Society, and published it in February, billing it as “an escape from today’s crazy times.” Someone called it “literary Xanax” and, says Zeebo, “I like that!”
His reading tastes lean toward great novelists like John Steinbeck, Herman Hesse and John Updike—but also include humorists David Sedaris and Dave Barry. That zaniness, with “a dash of spice,” was what he wanted for his stories.
“Several reviewers referred to me as a raconteur,” says Zeebo. “At first, I thought it was a derivative of ‘raccoon’ in that I snuck around their trash late at night, stealing stories as I compiled my anecdotal tales. Perhaps my first instinct was correct; I’m just a raccoon up all night, rummaging around the garbage can of life, looking for a snack.”
One of his favorite critiques is from the San Francisco Book Review and advises readers to “check your political correctness at the door because this book is all about the glorious, messy, unfiltered trash of human experience.”
Zeebo is now working on a novel, What God Takes Away, the writing of which, he says, has turned him into “a caricature of a tortured writer, staying up all night, smoking Camels, drinking Scotch, ripping up pages and tossing them in the trash while I curse God, my sister and all of humanity for putting this Sisyphus-like task upon me.”
The Blueberry Society: A Schoolyard Novella, Misguided Short Stories, and Other Ramblings, February 2026, fiction, hardcover $35, paperback $13.99, by Zeebo, and published by Thawland Creative Studios LLC, Waynesville. Find copies at Barnes & Noble, Apple Books or Amazon. Prices vary per vendor.
