THE SEVENTH ROUND: A BRIEF SYNOPIS A divorced, middle-aged father of two young children meets with ruin in the Great Recession. Broke and facing his second layoff with little hope for another job, he acquires a .32 caliber revolver with a seven-round load. He moves with fatalism through an alcoholic week of heartbreak, despair, and obsession over a lost love toward the inevitable disintegration of his life. But he intends to cheat the inevitable with the gun. Each night, he loads another round in the cylinder in a deliberate, measured preparation for action. Finally, the seventh day comes, and the gun is fully loaded. BIO: ALAN WYNZEL Alan Wynzel has been a storyteller and writer from a very young age. In the sixth grade he wrote a sixty-three page WWII story. He’s lived in New Jersey all of his life except for a brief flirtation in Lawrence, Kansas in the early 90s, where he started writing seriously. (His girlfriend told him he’d never make it with a guitar, please write instead—she liked her peace and quiet) Since then he’s written six novels, including THE SEVENTH ROUND, and his childhood memoir. THE SEVENTH ROUND is his first work to be published. Now he’s writing screenplays, having adapted his latest novel, a WWII drama, into a feature length script. Much of THE SEVENTH ROUND is true, or extrapolated from truth. Especially the sex—all true. But Mr. Wynzel wants it to go on record that he has never owned a gun, never got into a bar fight, and most of all, has never sang Karaoke.