Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl Wiggins

I'm an author with seven books on Amazon Kindle, and I'll state right from the start that I have a particular aversion to fellow authors who befriend you and then immediately message you saying, 'You might like my book. Karl Wiggins – Author, humourist, raconteur and (unfortunately) master of dysphemism He identifies Wrong Planet people clearly, drops hints on how we can spot them, and finally instructs us in how to discover our own ‘tribe’ if we haven’t already found them The reader will love reading about these swashbuckling daredevils, headcases and artists who changed their world, and even more so when Wiggins goes on to blend some of them with those from his own tribe. People such as David Bowie, Marilyn Monroe, Janice Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon, Arthur Rimbaud, François Villon (the Medieval Beatnik), Bessie Stringfield, Sixteen-String Jack Rann, Anne Bonny & Mary Read (the Lesbian Pirates), Frida Kahlo, the Beat Generation poets and a whole host of dropouts, misfits, pranksters, bohemians, court jesters, comedians, crackpots and Gypsies.

He discusses the erratic, the bizarre and the downright kooky. If you don’t believe that a limited number of astute, dedicated human beings can change the world, or simply just call attention to its imperfections and vulnerabilities, this book is going to change your mind.īut before you get there, in the first third of the book Karl introduces us to a number of famous eccentrics who just didn’t (or don’t) ‘fit in’ And I admit that with me he’s managed it remarkably. Karl Wiggins informed me, when I agreed to write the forward for this book, that his goal was for those he calls Carefree Scamps to finish the book slightly punch-drunk. We are experiencing the same intensity of energy in diminished and more concise time periods, which is why more and more Wrong Planet tribes are gathering

The world is looking for something new, and in this book, Wiggins has created many ‘worth-pondering-over’ ideas! Too much writing nowadays is watered-down garbage. Karl Wiggins has a powerful and potent knack for expression which has completely escaped restraint and self-control. A cry for those who want to change the world! A rallying cry for the elusive spirit of these time. The most unexpected and revealing book of our time.

Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl Wiggins