Life’s not fair. Let’s make it that way! Hope is bigger than all the evil in the world.

Life is not fair, but we are supposed to try to make it that way.

In the course of Joshua’s treatment, this young man’s heart has stopped, his kidneys have failed and his hair has fallen out. These are the days of the cancer patient: Lost work, lost time, lost energy, countless appointments, waiting in fear, pain and panic and even more waiting, under-dressed in cold rooms. There are long nights waiting for the dawn and wondering. Cancer patients have to face too many stare-in-the-eyes, earnest talks from well-meaning people and are sometimes ignored by others who don’t want to look their way. Exhausted, cancer patients put on brave faces through the day and cry secret, lonely, midnight tears. With cancer treatment, bad things happen to you beyond your control and worry gnaws constantly. In short, cancer sucks. You know this.

But there is also hope. Hope is bigger than all the evil in the world. Health professionals dedicated to delivering the very best care surround Joshua, a phalanx of white-coated centurions. When you join this fight with a donation (and no donation is too small), you’re joining an army in the most important fight there is. This is the war that affects all of us. Communities rally around the casualties because (and this is not a metaphor) we are all cancer’s casualties. Who doesn’t know someone who has or has had cancer?

The IndieGoGo campaign has a modest goal. We are indie authors from around the world trying to help Joshua and his family with the bills. Is $10,000 enough? Not nearly. Please help how you can and you’ll get some sweet perks. For your generosity, there are plenty of great books and useful services to choose from, but the best perk of all is the feeling you’ll get when you help.

That’s why I donate time, money and perks.

That’s why I put my hand up an old British queen’s dress: for the warm fuzzies!

Please click the IndieGoGo donate button at Indies Unite for Joshua. 


PODCAST: The Hawaii Five-O Edition

Learn German from Hogan’s Heroes, worship Steve McGarrett and beat up bad children if they don’t belong to you. In this week’s edition of the Self-help for Stoners podcast, Chazz takes a trip down trip down memory lane and finds a lot of macho bullshit on his shoes.

BONUS: Read my funny interview with RaeBeth McGee at The Writing World.

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Chazz…or at least ready to encourage him to work more on stuff he’s actually good at? Go here and check out his books for sale: Amazon Link and Smashwords Link. (No matter your device, his dark fiction and chilling suspense are everywhere!)

You can donate to the IndieGoGo campaign to help Joshua fight cancer at this link. Interested in the Jeff Bennington books I mentioned on the podcast? Learn more at The Writing Bomb. Join Stitcher Radio here and use the promo code SELFHELPSTONERS for a chance at a $100 cash card.

Enjoy and thanks for listening and reading!

PODCAST: The Forays in Self-consciousness Edition

A starving of artists and a choking of friendships: things are going to get weird. This week I also worry about trying not to bother Joe Rogan too much while still campaigning to get comedian Mike Schmidt (from the 40 Year Old Boy podcast) on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. I also update you on the #IndiesUniteforJoshua campaign. To donate, please go here and get perks for your generosity!

Check out my page at Quotations Diary! It’s fun. No, really it is! Much more fun than this monotone, deep and despairing podcast in which I talk to myself for 40 minutes or so. I should really write more and talk less. God, I hate myself. Also? Kind of self-conscious. But listen to the podcast and I’ll explain.

I also have my new author page at Amazon’s Author Central in which I reveal the truth of my army of ninja assassins.

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To check out my books, you could go to Smashwords or Amazon or pretty much any digital book platform if you search for “Robert Chazz Chute.” That was easy. Want the printed, dead tree version of Self-help for Stoners featuring actual ink? Buy the paperback here.

Thanks for listening to my comedy/narrative podcast full of stuff and nonsense!