Langhorne native, “Family Guy” producer pens satirical survival guide

In a world where fear seems to be at an all-time high, author Evan Waite wonders…what if we took it higher?

In “Life Wants You Dead: A Calm, Rational, and Totally Legit Guide to Scaring Yourself Safe,” an “absurdly hilarious survival guide,” Waite, a former Langhorne resident, posits that even though we’re afraid of the world and afraid of each other, being afraid of literally everything is the only guaranteed way to stay safe.

“This alarmingly illustrated, fear-fanning, lifesaving guide provides crucial advice to keep you constantly freaked-out and safe from the scourges of your own body, your home, and the world outside your own body and home.” Published by Chronicle Books, the book is due out in April.

“Life Wants You Dead” addresses the surprising areas of our lives where danger lurks:

•Your Body: an elegant machine, unfortunately controlled by our greatest enemy: ourselves.

•Love: how breaking-down your emotional walls leave your heart dangerously exposed.

•Home: it’s where the harm is.

•Technology: treacherous smart appliances, theft-proof your identity by ruining it yourself.

•Medicine: a Hippocratic Hoax?

•Education: the menace of macaroni necklaces, sticker addiction, and what the sock on a dorm room doorknob really means.

As a bonus, the book cover transforms into a Fear Map that traces the routes that anxiety takes through our heads. Suitable for framing…your every thought and action. A little bit manic with ample helpings of humor, “Life Wants You Dead” plays with the absurdity of our society’s relationship with fear.

Waite is a co-executive producer on FOX’s “Family Guy.” Prior to that, he wrote on the Emmy-nominated final season of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” NBC’s “Sunnyside, “The President Show,” “Our Cartoon President,” “Fairfax,” and “Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History.” He won a Writers Guild Award for his work on Adult Swim’s “Three Busy Debras.”

In the print humor world, he contributes to The Onion, the New Yorker’s “Shouts & Murmurs,” and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He has also written for MAD magazine, ClickHole, and Funny or Die. He lives in Los Angeles and can be found on Twitter at @TheOhBits.

For information visit www.chroniclebooks.com

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