As she is admitted into Bellevue for several weeks of eye surgeries, upon her discharge she enters Safe Haven Village NYC's NOTORIOUS intensive rehabilitation center, most known for housing felons, homeless patrons, and the mentally ill who suffer from addiction. If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?Īnais Nin’s “Incest,” Chuck Palahniuk’s “Invisible Monsters,” Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel” –A collection of poems, and Marguerite Young’s “My Darling Miss Mackintosh.What happens when an entire generation comes undone?ĭanielle Martino hitches a greyhound bus to New York City to save her one good eye, after shooting bad heroin, only to find herself facing even more adversity from day one. I have a plan to publish my next novel I spoke of, as well as a prequel to Addictarium! Turn your life into a work of art–Nietzsche. What is the best advice you have ever heard? USE everything an EVERY one as a source of inspiration. My website is probably the top seller, because it is chock full of media, press, information, and it’s loaded with everything that made the book so rare and special. What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books? It’s going to have a lot of twists, and plot turns, too. It revolves around the narrators story of a triangle of lovers who are all severely emotionally disturbed, dysfunctional and delusional, and how all of their thinking patterns differ from what they believe to be true about each other, as well as others in their lives, period. The Diary of Anais Nin, Invisible Monsters, White Oleander, Crime and Punishment, Tropic of Cancer, Paint it Black, Henry & June, Incest, Junky, Naked Lunch, Ariel, and many, many more.Īnother literary fiction/fictional memoir novel named Narcssitopia. What authors, or books have influenced you?

I use life experience to reflect upon in my journals, which then are used for my novels. I highlight and cut many passages, and my entire thesaurus is highlighted. I write everywhere, and stick post-its all over my things. It is about love, and trust, and pain, and anguish, it is a psychological revelation in many ways–and it shines a stark light on why addicts us in the first place.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?Īddictarium, as I mentioned above, is a book about so many things, in addition to addiction. Addictarium was a drug abuse and recovery memoir I started penning about five years ago, and I was able to polish and publish it this past year! I have written for years though, journaling and writing poetry from the time I was small. Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.Īddictarium is my first published Novel.

Addictarium by Nicole D'Settēmi