I’m pleased to announce that Eraserhead Press will be publishing my first book, How To Eat Fried Furries later this year as part of their New Bizarro Author Series. Fried Furries is a Monty Python-esque dark satire set in a world where farmers raise furries – yes, that’s right, people in animal costumes – as livestock.
The cast of characters is as motley and grotesque as one would imagine given such a premise. There’s the misshapen, proto-furry cast of the ’70s action-adventure show, Ferret Force Five. Chainsaw-wielding midgets. An invading armada of alien squirrels who cling to their second amendment right to keep and bear ray guns. Angels in biplanes. Louisville, Kentucky’s shady tea-houses where washed-up actors go to be flayed. The Amish and the even more despicable Pseudo-Amish. Reverse-Furries. Reverse-Reverse-Furries. And, in the end, a blood-stained panacea for the economic downturn that would make Thomas Malthus proud.
Whether an avid Bizarro fan or a newcomer to this cresting wave of weird fiction, you’re bound to be satisfied once you take a bite out of How To Eat Fried Furries. Keep your eyes on this blog for more news about this release as it becomes available.
What’s that you say? You can’t wait until later this year to get your Cushing-fix? Well, you’re in luck. I have two short fiction pieces I’ve recently placed.
My short story “Herman Sligo Is Flayed & Living In Louisville, Kentucky” appears in the hot-off-the-presses issue of the Journal of Experimental Fiction (issue 37). Editors Eckhard Gerdes (author of My Landlady The Lobotomist) and Jeff Burk (of Shatnerquake fame) put together a nice lineup for this issue that also includes Bizarro luminaries such as Gina Ranalli, Mykle Hansen, Kevin L. Donihe, and that wunderkind Cameron Pierce. The Journal is available for purchase on Amazon.com, – just click this link http://www.amazon.com/Bizarro-Fiction-Journal-Experimental-37/dp/1884097375/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=boo
Also, my short story “Youth to Be Proud Of” will appear in a forthcoming online issue of the absurdist zine Bust Down The Door & Eat All The Chickens. I’ll be posting a link to that one once it becomes available.
There’s also a huge short fiction sale that I’m not quite able to talk about yet, but I can’t wait to share the news with you once I can. I’m pretty psyched about it.
Okay, so that’s enough publishing news to sate y’all for awhile. In the meantime, I’m continuing to work on my novella (which I’m about 1/3 of the way through right now). My plan is to then embark on a novel. These are exciting times. I am just so grateful to be alive, writing, and starting to find my audience.
