# exasperatedmedia.com ## Pages - [Free Sample](https://exasperatedmedia.com/free-sample/): Chapter 1 In which we meet our heroine and her dainty little gun. The campaign to elect the next CEO of the Confederation of Conservative States of America was in high gear, and no one who listened to the radio could avoid knowing all about it. “If we have to execute the woman to save the baby, then that’s exactly what we’re going to do. God personally told me that’s what he wants,” shouted Oliver M. Waldrip, the candidate of the Divine Party, who was, against all odds, trying to wrest supreme leadership from the popular incumbent CEO. Lorinda Moon, […] - [About](https://exasperatedmedia.com/about/): About the Authors Steve Radlauer Steve Radlauer was born in Brooklyn before Brooklyn was cool. He is the author or co-author of a bunch of books, including Monsters of the Ivy League (Little, Brown, with The Split’s own Ellis Weiner), The Historic Shops & Restaurants of New York (The Little Bookroom, with Ellen Williams), Dan Quayle: Airhead Apparent (Behind The News Press, with Paul Slansky), Townie Planet (auto-published), and Special Moments (Ballantine Books, with Joe Bodolai). His byline has appeared in a plethora of periodicals, including New York magazine, Spy, Esquire, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Asian […] - [Home](https://exasperatedmedia.com/): Contraband! Heresy! Samizdat! Big-time publishers were afraid to publish it, so we had to do it ourselves. Our agent pitched The Split to 36 editors. They returned 36 rejections, accompanied by comments that can be reduced to: “I can’t possibly publish a book that advocates chopping up our precious nation!” That these highly educated publishing professionals failed to see that the book is a satire (advocating only that we need to pay more attention to the idiocy of what’s going on around us) can mean only one thing: we are the victims of a nefarious, pseudo-woke book banning conspiracy!  That said… our […] [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)