Fyre Festival's Billy McFarland is writing a memoir called Promythus: The God of Fyre

Billy McFarland is planning a comeback featuring even more liberal use of the letter y.

McFarland, the organizer of the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival who was sentenced to six years in prison for wire and bank fraud, is writing a memoir he's calling Promythus: The God of Fyre, New York magazine reported on Friday. He has apparently taken inspiration from Jordan Belfort, who was sentenced to prison for stock-market manipulation and whose memoir was adapted into the Martin Scorsese movie The Wolf of Wall Street.

Editor Josh Raab told New York he spoke with McFarland and publicist Brandon Rubinshtein about the planned book, the profits from which McFarland evidently hopes to put toward the $26 million he was ordered to pay in restitution.

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The Fyre Festival calamity was recently depicted in two documentaries from Netflix and Hulu, and McFarland reportedly explained that his book will tell the "raw" story left out of these films — neither of which McFarland has actually watched, New York writes. The book will also supposedly feature "cameos from members of the Trump administration." Then again, Raab also said that Rubinshtein made a number of completely ridiculous claims to him, including that Ryan Seacrest is interested in reviving Fyre Festival.

McFarland doesn't get released from prison until 2024. But Raab told New York that Rubinshtein said they planned to recruit Andy King, who told a stunning story in Netflix's Fyre about McFarland asking him to perform oral sex in exchange for water for the festival, for promotion. Raab ultimately turned down the project, deciding it wouldn't be a "worthwhile addition to the general discussion."

Of course, it would be just like McFarland to make grand promises about writing an in-depth memoir only to never follow through. And according to Raab, McFarland has already blown past his self-imposed April deadline, raising the possibility that we'll end up getting, if anything, the literary equivalent of that infamous cheese sandwich.