Synopsis In his previous collection, Not Quite so Stories, David S. Atkinson twisted reality with small absurdities. Roses are Red, Violets are Stealing Loose Change from my Pockets While I Sleep leaves sanity completely behind, pondering modern life through surreal humorous flash fiction involving Margaret Thatcher, jam appearing in boxers overnight, Gene Roddenberry, and more. Advance Praise David […]
Category: humor
Synopsis When Peter Davidson’s grandson, Joel, got engaged, Davidson decided to jot down a few words of marital advice for him, based on his vast experience as a husband. Then Davidson thought, why share this wisdom with only one person when I can share it with the whole world, so he started […]
THE FLEECING OF FORT GRIFFIN by PRESTON LEWIS Genre: Western Humor Publisher: Wild Horse Press Date of Publication: May 19, 2016 Number of Pages: 234 2017 Elmer Kelton Award from the West Texas Historical Association: Best Creative Work on West Texas Scroll down for the giveaway! When the young Englishman Baron Jerome Manchester Paget arrives in […]
Synopsis Who do you think of when you think of a banker? Perhaps you think of the bankers trying to foreclose on Kevin Costner’s farm in Field of Dreams? Bankers are usually portrayed as jerks who are trying to foreclose on widows and orphans. I have been a banker for nearly forty years and I […]
Title: DINNER CONVERSATIONS Author: Jason Reid Publisher: Createspace/Reid Group Pages: 348 Genre: Humor / Family / Parenting Synopsis “You are going to LAUGH! You are going to then wonder if these conversations actually happened. You are going to wonder what kind of guy would actually say these things to his family.” The answer is […]
Review – Super 40 by Lucy Woodhull #preordergiveaway @lucywoodhull
February 26, 2017
Synopsis Divorced, broke, and living with her parents—forty-year-old Shannon Johnson is clearly winning at life. She’s so awesome, she accidentally uses a tampon irradiated in Kazakhstan. Suddenly, this mush-mouthed loser becomes a superheroine who can shoot menstrual cramps from her fingers. No, really. But her new mission of saving NYC’s abused women gets complex for […]
Synopsis Doesn’t it seem as if someone issues a new apocalypse prediction every week? Y2K? The Mayan apocalypse? The Rapture? Doesn’t it seem endless? As opposed to the traditional trend of post-apocalyptic literature, Apocalypse All the Time is post-post-apocalypticism. Marshall is sick of the apocalypse happening on a weekly (if not daily) basis. Life is […]
Title: ON TOP OF THE WORLD (UNTIL THE BELL CHIMES) Author: David Lamb Publisher: Woolly Mammoth Books Pages: 240 Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Contemporary Romance/Multicultural/Humor/Satire Synopsis 2016 BEST FICTION-Pacific Book Awards. FROM THE FUNNY AND NATURALLY BRILLIANT DAVID LAMB, award-winning playwright of the New York Times celebrated play, Platanos Y Collard Greens, comes a modern spin on Dickens’ classic tale […]
Title: NOT QUITE SO STORIES Author: David S. Atkinson Publisher: Literary Wanderlus LLC Pages: 166 Genre: Absurdist Literary Fiction Synopsis The center of Not Quite So Stories is the idea that life is inherently absurd and all people can do is figure out how they will live in the face of that fact. The […]
Hershey’s Choice Choices Series Darlene Fredette Release Date: December 11, 2015 Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Small Town, Humorous/Romantic Comedy Sweet Contemporary, 184 pages, 45015 words Britt may be Hershey’s choice, but can the boisterous Labrador convince his owner? Engineer Ryan Jerome has a knack for designing the future but can’t create one for […]