Official Site: Dreamseller the Book -An Addiction Memoir

“Entertaining, shocking, crazy, unimaginable.”—Bam Margera

“Brandon’s story is a cautionary tale interspersed with moments of hilarious despair. You can’t
make this stuff up!” —Tony Hawk

"As a skateboarder, I was fixated on testing my boundaries, but this was my way of fooling
myself into feeling in control. Soon it grew to consume me.”

By the age of fourteen, Brandon Novak had been discovered by legendary skateboarders Tony
Hawk and Bucky Lasek and was on his way to turning pro. For the next few years, he toured the
country, signed autographs for thousands of fans, won big-time sponsorships, and had his photo
in the skate magazines. At only eighteen, he had accomplished more than most people dream of
in a lifetime.

“I was a dreamseller. I sold those who loved me their dream that I was a recovering addict. I
gained their trust, and betrayed them in order to get my precious next fix.”

Yet as swiftly as his career peaked, it crashed, brought down by heroin, a force far more
powerful than his greatest ambitions. One day he had it all, the next he was living in an
abandoned garage, begging for spare change on the street and bathing in gas station restrooms.
Brandon now lived for one thing only—his next fix.
“Where once I had the world in my hand, I now had nothing but a distorted, twisted version of
what I had once been.”

Brandon probably would have died a junkie’s death if not for his closest friend, MTV and
Jackass star, and music video director Bam Margera, who refused to give up on the
“dreamseller.” Bam invited Brandon into his home and gave him cameos in the CKY videos, his
independent films Haggard and Minghags, his hit MTV shows Viva La Bam and Bam's Unholy
Union, and the hit films Jackass Number Two and Jackass 2.5. Eventually, Bam convinced
Brandon to write the powerful and shocking story of how his addiction destroyed his
skateboarding career—a story soon to be a major motion picture starring Bam Margera as
Brandon Novak, the Dreamseller.

Vivid, harrowing and heartfelt, Brandon’s story is a riveting and unforgettable journey from a
dream life to a nightmare existence, and ultimately to waking up before it’s too late.

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DREAMSELLER

DREAMSELLER
By Brandon Novak, with Joseph Frantz
Citadel Press Hardcover, October 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-3003-1
ISBN-10: 0-8065-3003-0
$21.95/$26.95 (CAN)

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Official Site: Dreamseller the Book - An Addiction Memoir - by Brandon Novak with Joseph Frantz.