A raucous, hilarious book … deadly funny. Chicago Magazine

Script idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiancee of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet to save her. Title: Love Trek.

Script idea #185: Teenager discovers his girlfriend’s beloved grandfather was a guard in a Nazi death camp. The boy’s grandparents are survivors, but he’s tantalizingly close to achieving deflowerment, so when a Nazi-hunter arrives in town in pursuit of Grandpa, he has to distract him long enough to get laid. A riotous Holocaust comedy. Title: The Righteous Love.

Script idea #196: Rock star high out of his mind freaks out during a show, runs offstage, and is lost in streets crowded with his hallucinations. The teenage fan who finds him keeps the rock star for himself for the night. Mishaps and adventures follow. This one could be a musical: Singin’ in the Brain.

Josh Levin is an aspiring screenwriter teaching ESL classes in Chicago. His laptop is full of ideas, but the only one to really take root is Zombie Wars. When Josh comes home to discover his landlord, an unhinged army vet, rifling through his dirty laundry, he decides to move in with his girlfriend, Kimmy. It’s domestic bliss for a moment, but Josh becomes entangled with a student, a Bosnian woman named Ana, whose husband is jealous and violent. Disaster ensues, and as Josh’s choices move from silly to profoundly absurd, The Making of Zombie Wars takes on real consequence.

PRAISE FOR THE MAKING OF ZOMBIE WARS

A delightful ride through an ordinary life kicking into high, crazy gear. With zombies Los Angeles Times

Hemon’s writing style is as vital and rewarding as ever … The kind of writing that pulls you in and holds you there. San Francisco Chronicle

The Making of Zombie Wars doesn’t have much to do with the undead, but it’s a comic novel with BRAAAINS. That intellectual heft is to be expected … But Hemon is also a master at camouflaging the deeper elements of this novel amid its tomfoolery. Washington Post