Re-Release Day: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Saying Goodbye

 

My debut short story collection, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Saying Goodbye, is back in print. It was originally published back in 2018 by a small Utah-based outfit called NihilismRevised. They were a press that burned bright before fading out.

Now, after a couple years out of print, this collection of weird, funny, depressing, and experimental stories is back through feel bad all the time, the same people who bring you the feel bad dispatch.

As of this post going out, it’s exclusively an ebook through Godless.com. However, it will be available on Kindle and in paperback on Amazon in about two weeks.

A special thanks to Drew Stepek for the platform on Godless and to Regina Watts for doing the interior layout and typesetting.

Buy The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Saying Goodbye here.

Top Ten Reads of 2023

Here are my favorite books that I read in 2024. As usual, these are book I read, not necessarily books released in 2024. 

10. Mother Howl by Craig Clevenger 

A highly memorable crime story about lost identity. 

Full review here.

9. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante writes about the beauty and horror of life with one of the keenest eyes in contemporary literature. 

8. Sea of the Patchwork Cats by Carlton Mellick III

One of Mellick's more dream-like stories, also one of his most melancholy. A depressed alcoholic finds himself alone after the entire human race committed suicide. It only gets odder and sadder from there. 

7. Generation X by Douglas Coupland

I'd been pretty lukewarm on what I'd read from Coupland before. This story of disaffected Gen-Xers, however, very much lives up to the hype. 

6. Marshal Law: Fear and Loathing by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill

Before The Boys, there was Marshal Law. An early parody/deconstruction of superhero comics that holds up better than ever. 

5. The Passenger/Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy

McCarthy's final word to the world was amazing. The two books are companions, so I'm counting them as one. 

4. Notice by Heather Lewis

A pitch-black noir story about addiction, prostitution, and abuse. I reviewed this one for my The Unreprinted column, and I'm happy to say Semiotext(e) is bringing it back into print next year. 

Full review here. 

3. The Works of Guillaume Dustan, Vol. 1 by Guillaume Dustan

Dustan invites us into his life in Paris, one haunted by the specter of the AIDS crises as a gay man in the 90's. The results captured in these three short novels are honest, fascinating, and gripping. 

2. Haunter/Soma by Charlee Jacob

This poetic novel of imperialism and religious horror sets the bar for extreme horror and splatterpunk very high. 

Full review here. 

1. Your Dreams by Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore's work continues to simultaneously be some of the most disturbing and the most tender and affectionate that I've ever read. 

Full review here. 

Honorable Mentions
- Spaniels by Jukka Siikala
- The Shards by Bret Eason Ellis
- The Enchanters by James Ellroy
- The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley 
- Neo-Decadence Evangelion, edited by Justin Isis

The Signal Spreads

 

Saturday Morning Mind Control is now available on Amazon. 

Get the paperback here. 

or

Get it on Kindle here. 

Release Day: Saturday Morning Mind Control

 

“What really killed Saturday morning cartoons?

For Caleb, dealing with puberty and all the changes that come with the raging hormones is confusing enough without also living in an America still reeling from the tragedy of 9/11. When his young cousin attacks him with a knife, seemingly without provocation, it turns his whole life upside down. Who would believe a middle school boy that something strange came from the TV that Saturday morning and made it happen?

Saturday Morning Mind Control is a mix of horror, mystery, and satire combined with a twisted coming-of-age tale in an America entering the new millennium.”

My newest novel, published by D&T Publishing, is now available exclusively as an ebook from Godless.com. Fans of my prior horror novel, Elaine, will probably really enjoy this one. I had a lot of fun writing it.

For those who want a Kindle version or a paperback, it’ll be available on Amazon 8/11/23.

Get Saturday Morning Mind Control here.

RELEASE DAY: 666 Flags: A Fundraising Anthology from PsychoToxin Press

 

 

Today, PsychoToxin Press releases the charity anthology, 666 Flags. It features the bizarro sci-fi story from myself, "The Sex of Tomorrow."

Recently, author C. Derick Miller was let go from his job at a certain amusement park franchise, essentially for being a horror author. PsychoToxin is responding to this by creating a legal defense fund for indie authors. 

The paperback is available from Amazon, but you can also buy the eBook directly from PsychoToxin. In the case of the latter, 100% of your purchase will go to the legal fund. 

Thank you to PsychoToxin for having me as a part of this. 

Buy the paperback here.
Buy the eBook here.

New Review at Substack

Over at my Substack, I have a review of Thomas Moore's latest novel published by Amphetamine Sulphate. 

Read it here.

Release Date: The Aristocrats Anthology

 

Out today from Potter's Grove Press, it's The Aristocrats Anthology. Featuring myself and several other authors writing versions of the infamous Aristocrats Joke in the form of various classic authors, this tribute to Gilbert Gottfried will have all of its royalties donated to the charity Comedy Gives Back. 

Get the paperback here.
Get the eBook here.