I'm Prancing As Fast As I Can: My Journey From a Self-Loathing Closet Case to a Successful TV Writer With Some Self-Esteem

by Jon Kinnally, Ryan O'Connell (Foreword by)

Overview

WARNING: Those who don’t remember my past are doomed to repeat it.

I’m Prancing As Fast As I Can is a coming of Gay story that takes us from a scared, self-hating kid who spends most of his time under his desk staring at the hunky man on the Doan’s Pills box, to becoming a writer on Will & Grace, helping to make it a little easier for other scared, self-hating kids who might also be hiding and staring at their secret desire. It’s a journey through Olympic mustaches and when Che´r’s name had an accent and losing your virginity to a trucker and chasing Gay bashers in six-inch heels dressed as a drag bunny and a terrible virus and memorials and memorials and memorials and ACTing UP and using the word “lover” and having a fan who’s also a serial killer and Gay penguins and spreading your boyfriends’ ashes with your new boyfriend and Prop 8 and getting to write lines for divas on Ugly Betty and Gay marriage and more stuff like that and in the end ketamine therapy to help it all make sense.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798888459508
Publisher:	Permuted Press
Publication date:	08/12/2025
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jon Kinnally was born in Syracuse, New York, and went to college at Oswego State, before moving to a then-affordable Manhattan, where he pursued acting and performed with his writing partner, Tracy Poust, in their comedy group Loud Blouse.

After relocating to Los Angeles, they got a job on a new show called Will & Grace and stayed with it for it’s entire eight seasons, eventually running it and returning for the reboot. Over the years, there were many Emmy nominations as well as a Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Writing in Episodic Comedy in 2018.

He has also worked on several other shows with Tracy, including Ugly Betty—Emmy and NAACP award nominations—and The Crazy Ones which they ran, and had the privilege to write for the great Robin Williams.

He currently lives in Spain with his husband, Chris, and their cats, Howard Bannister and Elliott.

To find out more visit jonkinnally.com or @jonkinnally on Instagram.

Editorial Reviews

I’ve been friends with Jon forever so I can say this: Reading his book is like talking to that weird aunt you get stuck with at a family reunion only to discover she’s the most interesting person there. Both hilarious and heartfelt—I loved it. Highly recommended!

Miss Coco

Jon’s gut-funny and heart-felt account of pushing himself to be straight in adolescence then finding his gay soulmate in New York City’s vibrant, ‘80s art scene amidst the looming AIDS crisis is both poignant and triumphant. You’d have to be a myopic, fully clenched, elder Republic**t to deny yourself this read.

Laura Kightlinger

These stories are rich, and the one-liners are unforgettable!

Gabrielle Hamilton

I knew Jon Kinnally could make me laugh from years of working with him on Will & Grace, but I didn’t know he could make me cry too. Dammit, Jon! What a beautiful, open hearted, hilarious book. If I were the kind of person who read a book a second time I would consider doing it with this one.

Gary Janetti

Like the greatest storytellers, Kinnally was able to make me laugh out loud on one page before ripping my heart out on the next. Hilarious, true, poignant, necessary! There isn’t a person on earth (and maybe three or four other inhabited planets) that shouldn’t read this book ASAP!

Blair Fell

I laughed my ass off, and cried my heart out. Can this please be required reading for homophobes? It’s a grand salute to the artistry and whimsical talent of the gay world. Without them, we would be so boring. Thank you, Jon, and all the others, including my brother and sister.

Penelope Spheeris