THE MAKING OF TORN PAGES CERBERUS: AN INTRODUCTION

This book was a large undertaking for me. But, I needed something different after the two morose novels set in the Greek Underworld (erm, Underworld and Labyrinth). So, I turned to the Pluto character who had inhabited those books and his very good boy, Cerberus. I'm a cat person myself. Still, I grew up with things like Homeward Bound and The Fox & the Hound so I thought writing a dog book would be fun. Cerberus isn't just a dog, though. He's a three-headed dog. He's an Olympic god's best friend. The Freudian stuff with Pluto and Cronus is heavy-handed but that's the point. This book is Freud writ large. Even Cerberus has three heads, ego, id, superego. Just as Alice serves to disrupt classic literature with the modern consumerist system (and all the anxieties it wrecks on a teenager), I sought to put fast food, reality tv, and general consumerist references in to make this Freudian world of Greek gods palatable to the modern reader. I'm lucky that Freud and Greek Myth run throughout modern lit