Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Having a Bad Life

Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Having a Bad Life
A Memoir
Authors & Illustrator
Author:
Lewis
Kempfer

First Place Award

Third Place Award
Description
A horrifying childhood. A devastating disease. In his darkest despair, he finally found hope…
Lewis Kempfer nearly destroyed himself searching for something that would make him happy. His battle with self-hatred began with physical and psychological abuse from the trusted male adults in his life and continued into adulthood when the church rejected him for being gay. Traumatized and suicidal, he becomes an actor and eventually
lands in the dog-eat-dog-world of Hollywood showbiz. But a terrifying diagnosis casts a dark shadow on a promising Tinseltown career, and he falls into a downward spiral of dangerous liaisons and hardcore drug addiction. It will take a near-death overdose in his blackest hour to find strength from the last place he ever expected…