Step Away From the Keyboard, Kevin

Name: Step Away From the Keyboard, Kevin
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ISBN: 9781972671115

Coyote Gray, Jr

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Coyote Pack Publishing
24 April 2026

Writing & editing guides; Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem; Humour collections & anthologies

Kevin is not a person. Kevin is a pattern.

A Kevin is the writer who has been ""working on a novel"" for ten years and cannot produce a finished book. The dream makes the decisions. The dream spends the money, burns the hours, and demands that everyone around them pretend it is progress.

Step Away From the Keyboard, Kevin is not a craft guide, not therapy, and not encouragement. It is a polemical intervention. It names the pattern, maps the delusion, and introduces you to the Lion: the indifferent market that does not care how badly you want this.

There are only two sanctioned endings:

The Artifact That Holds. You finish the book, it works, and strangers are held by it.

The Burial. You decide the dream is over and walk away.

This book offers no systems, no prompts, and no ""five things successful writers do differently."" It issues verdicts. It is for the dreamer who has mistaken identity for outcome, the editors and partners exhausted by someone else's almost-book, and anyone who suspects their hope is stapled to the wrong dream.

If you pick it up, you are already being diagnosed. Finish the book or bury it. The Lion is waiting.

By: Coyote Gray Jr
Imprint: Coyote Pack Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 308g
ISBN: 9781972671115
ISBN 10: 1972671111
Pages: 138
Publication Date: 24 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Coyote Gray Jr writes polemical nonfiction and spare literary fiction. His first book, Stay, is a novelette narrated by a spider keeper. His second, Step Away From the Keyboard, Kevin, is a polemical intervention in writing culture that names a pattern it calls Kevin and forces a binary choice: finish the book, or bury the dream.He lives on a ranch in central New Mexico and holds a philosophy degree from UNM. He did not consult anyone before writing Kevin, because the people who would have told him not to are the people the book is about.He does not coach. He does not teach craft. He does not offer workshops, five-step plans, or a newsletter about the writing journey. He writes books and ships them. The lion decides the rest.