Mackinac Island Nation

Erik Deckers is a humor writer who comes to Florida by way of Indiana, "where the real people live." He grew up wanting to write humor and satire after reading _Catch-22_, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_, and _Breakfast of Champions_. After reading those, his biggest goal was to "speak truth to power and swear in books." He figured he was a natural because he was already a smart ass and knew how to spell.Erik loves writing humor because he feels dramatic and literary writing is sad as hell, and he refuses to entertain himself with sadness because there's already enough sadness in life. He has won several editorial awards from the Hoosier State Press Association for his newspaper humor columns. Erik is also a professional ghostwriter, and has co-authored several books on social media marketing, including Branding Yourself, No Bullshit Social Media, and The Owned Media Doctrine. And he is the president of the Kerouac Project of Orlando, and helps run the Writers Of Central Florida Or Thereabouts. When he's not writing, he enjoys woodworking and visiting used bookstores and independent coffee shops.You can find Erik at [ErikDeckers.com](ErikDeckers.com "¿"), on Twitter at @edeckers, and on Instagram at @erikdeckers.

His wife wants to be Queen of Mackinac Island, Canada is conspiring against him, Russia is invading, and North Korea is looking to buy real estate for all the wrong reasons: where does Pete even begin?

After finding a 200-year old treaty, the residents of Mackinac Island discover that they're going to be ejected from the union unless they reverse the process in two weeks. Except Congress has other priorities-hearings to hold, speeches to spew, Presidents to elect-and the process to repatriate the island will take at least two years.


Enter Pete Bidwell, the reluctant President of Mackinac Island, who only wants to keep everyone happy and return them to America's warm embrace, even if America is treating them like something on the bottom of their shoe. If that wasn't enough of a hot mess, the Russians are colluding against them and Canada is secretly conspiring-and canoodling-with Pete's wife Lucy, who wants the island to remain independent. Not to mention North Korea wants to hide a couple of nuclear weapons on the island.


Two years is going to be an eternity when the whole world wants to screw you over.