Copper Sloane Levy

We are at the mercy of media. Day in, day out, we are assaulted from all angles by messages from unknown minds without our consent. Advertisements in television, radio, and hard copy are incessant and omnipresent. We absorb it all without question, and really, do we have a choice? Unless one plans on holing up in a jungle or one of the poles, the influence of media is pretty much assured. And whether the effect is positive or negative has no bearing on its inevitability.

I've had a fascination with media since a very young age. Art. Music. Poetry. Novels. Newspapers. Magazines. Film. But it was the novel that held my heart as a medium through which to express a desire to pose important questions, or to seek answers to the ones we have mercifully forgotten. In an ultimate effort to seek answers — chief among them, gun violence in America — "I Am Inevitable" employs a number of different media forms, tied neatly into the format of a television series, with episodes (novellas) comprising seasons (full novels).

Let me lead you along. This ride is going to be wilder than you could ever imagine.