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Title: Jeff Nelson and the Long Road to His Debut Novel

  Some writers choose fiction, and then there are those for whom fiction is a kind of inevitability, something ingrained in the way they experience the world. Jeff Nelson is one of those authors. Raised in Connecticut, where he still lives, Nelson grew up with a stutter and an outsider’s lens. Language, both its limitations and possibilities, was always front and center. “I never had the option of being anyone but myself,” he says now, reflecting on a childhood that demanded introspection and resilience. Before he ever typed the first page of his debut novel, “Ninja Punks, @*&% OFF!” Nelson was somewhere else entirely: on the mats. A black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, he spent much of his twenties immersed in the world of competitive martial arts, training alongside elite MMA fighters and traveling widely to test both body and will. “Honestly, I probably would’ve written this book a lot earlier,” he admits, “but I took a decade detour trying to choke people out.”That detour, however, wasn’t a diversion. It’s part of the texture of the novel he finally brought to life: a pulpy, subversive, genre-mashing story that fuses the kinetic violence of underground punk with the spiritual discipline of old-world ninjutsu. Think teenage angst meets ancient code. Think blood, sweat, and existential dread. A Novel Born from Rebellion and ReverenceSet in Mamaroneck, New York, the novel centers on Brian Stratton, a suburban misfit with a restless soul and a healthy disdain for the plastic sheen of modern life. Disenchanted and increasingly disillusioned, Brian finds solace in the local punk scene until a chance encounter backstage throws him into the orbit of Keisuke Fuma, a rockstar by day and, as it turns out, a ninja hitman by night.From t...

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