tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204195062024-03-07T20:40:41.526-08:00JRJ Is ProbableWherein author Jeremy Robert Johnson (the guy behind Skullcrack City, Entropy in Bloom, and In the River) blogs primarily about his writing career and occasionally posts about things like hip hop, sharks, and experimental home surgery.JRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-39810095749063804782017-08-07T12:27:00.000-07:002017-08-07T12:27:21.760-07:00IN THE RIVER IS NOW AVAILABLE (8/7/17)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Very excited to announce a summertime surprise from myself and Lazy Fascist Press:<br /><br />
My brand new book IN THE RIVER is now available!<br />
<br />I left my heart on the page writing this, and I think it’s my most horrific and beautiful work. I hope that those who read it will feel the same.<br />
<br />Here’s the publisher’s rundown:<br />
<br />“An intensely moving tale of survival and madness along the river's edge. A father and son fishing lesson becomes a nightmarish voyage to the sea in this visionary testament to the lengths we will go for those we love.”<br />
<br /><b>IN THE RIVER</b><br />
<br />Available in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/River-Jeremy-Robert-Johnson/dp/1621052516/" target="_blank">print</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/River-Jeremy-Robert-Johnson-ebook/dp/B074L73Y3G/" target="_blank">digital</a> editions. Cover by Matthew Revert.<br />
<br />100% of my first month’s royalties from the book will be donated to Portland Homeless Family Solutions to aid them in the difficult work of helping families with children find safety and security during times of struggle.<br />
<br />Best wishes,<br />
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Did this once before while working on SKULLCRACK and it's become apparent I should do it now to honor my obligations on this next novel. So, Cave Mode:<br />
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BLURBS―Somehow ended up with 15 manuscripts for potential blurbing in 2017. My normal policy is 2 per year (the thinking being if you only do a handful, folks don't write you off as a blurb mill [and also I want some time to read that old Questlove book!]). So, going back to that policy in 2018, and closed to new manuscripts until Q2 of next year.<br />
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EDITING―I don't do that in general, but <a href="https://jdoedits.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">David Osborne</a> damn sure does, and I can vouch for his work.<br />
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CONS―Not going, even if it's in town. Might hit Bizarrocon, as my novel should be done by then (and it's their 10 year anniversary and that's the only time I ever see Cameron Pierce).<br />
<br />READINGS―As I am expected at my own Powell's reading on June 22nd, I'll do my best to show for that one. Other than that I'll be in my cave (and besides, my kid has an amazing knack for giving me some terrible illness right as my favorite authors come through town--it's a weird curse at this point).<br />
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SOCIAL MEDIA―Diminished presence for a while, except for one exciting secret thing.<br />
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ACTUAL SOCIAL LIFE―That's cute. Will be going on some playdates for the kid, though, so if anybody wants to hang with me at OMSI, holler.<br />
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Cheers!<br /><br />JRJJRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-67239985053366458792017-04-27T12:44:00.002-07:002017-04-27T13:13:02.688-07:00ENTROPY IN BLOOM IS NOW AVAILABLE!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by LitReactor and Big Other and one of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Books Everyone Will Be Talking About by Kirkus/Black Gate.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Includes "When Susurrus Stirs," the basis for the award-winning motion picture of the same name. Features an Introduction by Brian Evenson.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Johnson is a master of mood, seamlessly combining the literary with the grotesque. Horror fans will find much to chew on, and these stories will certainly reach a wider audience. Johnson deserves to be a household name, as this superb collection makes clear."―<b>Publishers Weekly (starred review)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Bloom-Jeremy-Robert-Johnson/dp/1597808954/ref=sr_1_1_twi_har_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1493323617&sr=8-1&keywords=entropy+in+bloom" target="_blank">Available in hardcover for the first time</a>, a collection of cult sensation Jeremy Robert Johnson's best and most bizarre short fiction, including a brand-new, never-before-published novella.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For more than a decade, Jeremy Robert Johnson has been bubbling under the surface of both literary and genre fiction. His short stories present a brilliantly dark and audaciously weird realm where cosmic nightmares collide with all-too-human characters and apocalypses of all shapes and sizes loom ominously. In "Persistence Hunting," a lonely distance runner is seduced into a brutal life of crime with an ever-narrowing path for escape. In "When Susurrus Stirs," an unlucky pacifist must stop a horrifying parasite from turning his body into a sentient hive. Running through all of Johnson's work is a hallucinatory vision and deeply-felt empathy, earning the author a reputation as one of today's most daring and thrilling writers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Featuring the best of his independently-published short fiction, as well as an exclusive, never-before-published novella "The Sleep of Judges"―where a father's fight against the denizens of a drug den becomes a mind-bending suburban nightmare―Entropy in Bloom is a perfect compendium for avid fans and an ideal entry point for adventurous readers seeking the humor, heartbreak, and terror of JRJ's strange new worlds.</span><br />
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"A perfect place to get acquainted with one of the darkest stars in the genre...Johnson captures humanity's absurdity, our grotesqueries, sometimes our triumphs, all the while pushing past the limits of reality, transforming it into something dark, and surreal, and unforgettable."<br />
―<b>B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog</b><br />
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"ENTROPY IN BLOOM is an instant classic, a carefully curated manifesto whose main goal is to tell the world one of the brightest stars in indie lit is now too brilliant to remain hidden...This collection should turn him into the writer everyone is talking about. These fifteen stories and one novella show a powerful imagination, a great talent for storytelling, writing chops that allow him to tackle any genre, and a flowing, dynamic voice that, if Johnson were a singer, would extend to an impressive eight octaves."<br />
―<b>Electric Literature</b><br />
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"Surreal, visceral, and frequently unsettling...One more descriptor, while we're at it: highly entertaining. Johnson brings a pulpy urgency to the page, which blends neatly with the frequently heady concepts that he utilizes in his fiction. [ENTROPY IN BLOOM]'s a fine primer to his work, which encompasses everything from stories of pernicious terrors working their way into the world to taut crime fiction to insightful character studies."<br />
―<b>Tor.com</b><br />
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"Exciting, unpredictable, and feels slightly dangerous...free of the boundaries of conventional literature in ways you can't quite imagine. ENTROPY IN BLOOM is emotionally challenging, unpredictable and thoroughly original. I cannot say it enough: I had a great time with this book."
―<b>Dead End Follies</b><br />
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"Showcases the best of the worst of Jeremy Robert Johnson. And by worst, I mean most gut-churning and nightmare inducing...Perfectly paced and extremely creepy...will leave you pondering the deeper meaning of random acts of violence for days to come. Enjoy?"<br />
―<b>LitReactor</b><br />
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"With ENTROPY IN BLOOM, Jeremy Robert Johnson continues to deliver the very best in short fiction...original ideas, compellingly realistic characters, wonderfully vivid language."<br />
―<b>This is Horror</b><br />
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"These stories can be uncomfortable, difficult, unflinching, but they're also always entertaining. Johnson writes with an energy that propels you through some very dark spaces indeed and into something profoundly unsettling but nonetheless human."<br />
―<b>Brian Evenson</b>, author of A Collapse of Horses<br />
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"ENTROPY IN BLOOM crackles with weirdness, style, wit, a befittingly oddball sense of humanity, and a misshapen dark heart. I loved every damn story."<br />
―<b>Paul Tremblay</b>, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock<br />
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"Reading Johnson, you feel you are in the grip of an immensely powerful, possibly malevolent, but fiercely intelligent mind. Beware! (But enjoy--and trust me, you will.)"<br />
―<b>Nick Cutter</b>, author of The Troop<br />
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"I've seen the future and it's bizarre, it's beautifully berserk, it's Jeremy Robert Johnson."<br />
―<b>Stephen Graham Jones</b>, author of Mongrels<br />
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<b>Available now wherever books are sold!</b>JRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-42756299624934652942017-02-17T12:13:00.000-08:002017-02-17T12:13:24.357-08:00THE END OF A VERY SMALL AND VERY STRANGE ERA (2/17/17)Swallowdown Press will end its publishing run as of March 31st, 2017, eleven years after the release of its first titles.<br />
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During its (wildly intermittent) production period Swallowdown Press was responsible for the publication of nine novels. Five of these were nominated for the coveted Wonderland Award and four of them actually won. Collectively these books have sold over 15,000 copies and have served to expand the scope of the Bizarro fiction canon (while also finding inroads with discerning Horror and Crime readers looking for a little weirdness in the mix).<br />
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The original tagline for Swallowdown Press was “Brilliant Bizarro Books” and I stand by that. From the almost-alien, Lynchian Siberia of J David Osborne’s BY THE TIME WE LEAVE HERE, WE’LL BE FRIENDS to the darkly beautiful poetry of Forrest Armstrong’s THE DEADHEART SHELTERS to the mind-bending, revelatory shorts of Cody Goodfellow’s SILENT WEAPONS FOR QUIET WARS, all were books which showed how deeply affecting literature could be when run through their author’s warped and singular imaginations.<br />
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I feel immensely privileged and proud to have had a small hand in introducing these books to the world. I’m also grateful to the artists—Alex Pardee, Alan M. Clark, Matthew Revert, Mike Dubisch, Dana Terrace, and Nick Gucker—who made our books look as amazing and dynamic as possible. And a great debt is owed to Carlton Mellick III and Cameron Pierce who did most of the actual book design (both cover and interior) for the Friend Price of Pizza and Beer.<br />
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For those wondering “Why?”: Swallowdown Press is solvent—we’ve paid all royalties religiously since our first pub date. All of our titles have earned out and are profitable and BY THE TIME and SILENT WEAPONS are certified hits by any small press standard. And I’m still a true believer when it comes to the power and potential of Bizarro fiction.<br />
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All that being said, time has compressed for me a great deal since becoming and fully devoting myself to being a father. Swallowdown has been on a production hiatus for over five years now, and I’ve realized that I’m kidding myself when I think it may return. In its absence presses like Lazy Fascist and Broken River and King Shot and Fungasm have published most of the books I would have wanted to put out anyway. The aesthetic I loved for Swallowdown is being served—and served better—by these wonderful publishers.<br />
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Beyond that, the unexpected success of SKULLCRACK CITY has presented me with some opportunities that I’m now (legally/contractually) bound to pursue, and these are drawing my attention away from the press in a way that’s unfair to the authors. So at this point I’d rather the rights revert to these folks so that they might find further opportunities for their very fine work. I can’t give details yet, but I can assure you that many of the Swallowdown books will be re-appearing in the near future.<br />
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So, for those interested in collecting or checking out the Swallowdown Press catalog before it’s gone, here is a list of titles which will no longer be available as of April 1, 2017:<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Live-Inside-Jeremy-Robert-Johnson/dp/1933929065/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487361835&sr=1-1&keywords=we+live+inside+you" target="_blank">WE LIVE INSIDE YOU</a> by Jeremy Robert Johnson (print edition only, digital will remain available)<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Siren-Promised-Jeremy-Robert-Johnson/dp/0976249898/ref=la_B002BMD1NS_1_7_twi_pap_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487361855&sr=1-7" target="_blank">SIREN PROMISED</a> by Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson (print edition only, superior digital version with full-color art already available from IFD Publishing)<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Deadheart-Shelters-Forrest-Armstrong/dp/1933929049/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487361883&sr=1-1&keywords=deadheart+shelters" target="_blank">THE DEADHEART SHELTERS</a> by Forrest Armstrong (print/digital)<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Time-Leave-Here-Well-Friends/dp/1933929057/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487361907&sr=1-1&keywords=by+the+time+we+leave+here+we%27ll+be+friends" target="_blank">BY THE TIME WE LEAVE HERE, WE’LL BE FRIENDS</a> by J. David Osborne (print/digital)<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Low-Down-Death-Right-Easy/dp/1933929081/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487361930&sr=1-1&keywords=low+down+death+right+easy" target="_blank">LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY</a> by J. David Osborne (print/digital)<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Weapons-Quiet-Wars-Goodfellow/dp/1933929022/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487361950&sr=1-1&keywords=silent+weapons+for+quiet+wars" target="_blank">SILENT WEAPONS FOR QUIET WARS</a> by Cody Goodfellow (print/digital)<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Union-Cody-Goodfellow/dp/1933929030/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487361974&sr=1-1&keywords=perfect+union+cody" target="_blank">PERFECT UNION</a> by Cody Goodfellow (print/digital)<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Monster-Action-Cody-Goodfellow-ebook/dp/B00B0DIMIS/ref=la_B002KYCE76_1_17?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487361998&sr=1-17&refinements=p_82%3AB002KYCE76" target="_blank">ALL-MONSTER ACTION!</a> By Cody Goodfellow (print/digital)<br />
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<b>ALSO OF NOTE:</b><br />
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Eraserhead Press’ print edition of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Angel-Apocalypse-Jeremy-Robert-Johnson/dp/0976249839/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487362024&sr=1-1&keywords=angel+dust+apocalypse" target="_blank">ANGEL DUST APOCALYPSE</a> will also be going Out of Print around this same time.<br />
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<b>FURTHER EXPLANATION:</b><br />
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In April 2017 Night Shade Press will be releasing <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Bloom-Jeremy-Robert-Johnson/dp/1597808954/" target="_blank">ENTROPY IN BLOOM</a> in both hardcover and digital editions (with a trade paperback to follow in October 2017)! ENTROPY IN BLOOM not only collects the absolute best short stories from ANGEL DUST and WE LIVE, but also includes a brand new, never-before-published 25,000 word novella titled “The Sleep of Judges” (which feels like my best work to date [though the new stuff always does]).<br />
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ENTROPY IN BLOOM is the 4K Criterion Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray of my short work. It’s beautifully designed, deeply fine-tuned, and chock-full of extra features including an outstanding Introduction from the always amazing Brian Evenson. Going forward, I would tell any reader interested in my short fiction that ENTROPY IN BLOOM is 100% the book to pick up. As such, it is now going to become the sole collection available in print.<br />
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For those folks interested in the weird/experimental deep cuts, I am going to leave the very inexpensive Kindle versions of WE LIVE and ANGEL DUST on the market. To extend the film metaphor, there will still be a way to access my earliest work via these Bootleg VHS copies. So if you really need not one but three stories of Rave Horror or you dig Kenny Loggins jokes, you can still get that stuff for now.<br />
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Definitely some big changes, and there’s always more to be announced, but for now I just want to say:<br />
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Thank you for reading Swallowdown Press books! I hope you had as much fun experiencing them as we had creating them!<br />
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Best wishes,<br />
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JRJ<br />
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First, SC received a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-for-february/2015/02/24/287f00a4-b22f-11e4-827f-93f454140e2b_story.html" target="_blank">glowing review</a> in THE WASHINGTON POST. Having the novel called "Genre-bending [...] haunting and humorous." alongside a review of the new Gaiman collection felt like a coup/minor miracle.</div>
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Second, my favorite bookstore on earth (Powell's) is <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781621051718-0" target="_blank">now carrying SC</a> in their Small Press Featured section. <br /><br />AND, I've been invited to read at Powell's Hawthorne on Thursday, May 14th at 7:30pm. This will be my first time having a solo appearance at Powell's, and I still need to talk to their Event Coordinator about their policies regarding nudity, fake blood, and Cormac McCarthy jokes, but it should be a great time!</div>
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Third, two different podcasts suffered lapses in judgment, so you can listen to my jibber-jabber and angelic singing voice at both <a href="http://www.books-booze.com/e/the-ultimate-episode/" target="_blank">Books and Booze</a> and <a href="http://jeremy-maddux-9.podomatic.com/entry/2015-02-19T16_59_13-08_00" target="_blank">Surreal Sermons</a>. At 10:54 I introduce an idea that changes everything for modern society. At 43:44 you won't believe how great my impersonation of Jimmy Stewart sounds. Or none of that happens. But both are audible!<br /><br />Fourth, my first post-SKULLCRACK <a href="http://entropymag.org/the-weird-interview-jeremy-robert-johnson/" target="_blank">print interview is live over at Entropy Mag</a>. I finally answer the question, "Briefs or a carefully smashed-and-glued taco?" It's very provocative stuff!</div>
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Fifth, LITREACTOR has chosen SKULLCRACK CITY as their <a href="https://litreactor.com/discuss/april-15-book-club-selection-skullcrack-city-by-jeremy-robert-johnson" target="_blank">April '14 Book Club Selection</a>. I'll be joining the conversation, and all participants will be entered in a contest to win a very rare signed (and error-riddled and goonie-looking) ARC of SC. If you enjoyed the book (or hated it) please join us!<br /><br />Sixth, an exclamation!<br /><br />Seventh, here's the SKULLCRACK Hype Train Round-Up Chugging On Through!<br /></div>
"<i>Skullcrack City</i>'s blend of genres, breakneck pacing, brutality, and dashes of philosophy and social critique serve to cement Johnson as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction. <i>Skullcrack City</i> is a smart, incredibly well-researched, and painfully plausible look at our immediate future. Jeremy Robert Johnson's work has always tested the limits of both genre and literary fiction and this novel proves that there's still new ground to tread and that he's already on it."--<a href="http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2015_02_021115.php" target="_blank">BOOKSLUT</a><br />
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"Fucking incredibly well written and really entertaining the whole time. Wholly original--it's a gem. Without question a FIVE STAR book."--<a href="http://www.bookedpodcast.com/2015/02/10/240-skullcrack-city/" target="_blank">BOOKED</a><br />
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"This book is a little bit science fiction, a little bit horror, a little bit everything really, with a dark, literary angle throughout. It's a must for fans of body horror, intricate conspiracies, David Wong/Don Coscarelli's <i>John Dies at the End</i>, or just plain great story-telling."--<a href="http://horrornews.net/95613/book-review-skullcrack-city-author-jeremy-robert-johnson/" target="_blank">HORROR NEWS</a><br />
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"<i>Skullcrack City</i> is, by my estimation, a perfect book. Jeremy Robert Johnson is a novelist whose head is so full of ideas and the purest essence of Story that the book practically explodes when you open it. Moving at a breakneck speed, <i>Skullcrack City</i> never lets up."--<a href="http://pulpchronicler.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">THE PULP CHRONICLER</a><br />
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"[T]his book is singularly original. Certainly, it takes cues from Philip K. Dick and William Burroughs. It feels like it could be put on a shelf next to Warren Ellis' <i>Supergod</i>, Grant Morrison's <i>The Invisibles</i> and <i>The Filth</i>, and David Wong's <i>John Dies at the End</i> and be perfectly at home there. Despite its bleak setting and tormented characters, this book is very, very funny. And ultimately, it is a book about hope, and love, and redemption, and the human will to adapt and survive despite insurmountable odds."--<a href="http://internalshirt.com/archives/213" target="_blank">INTERNAL SHIRT</a><br />
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"This book is like nothing else you have ever read... If forced me I would say it felt like a way weirder take on Carpenter's They Live if William Burroughs and Clive Barker worked on the script and Cronenberg directed."--<a href="http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2015/03/book-review-skullcrack-city-by-jeremy.html" target="_blank">POSTCARDS FROM A DYING WORLD</a><br />
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Big thanks to everybody who's been checking this thing out or even advocating on behalf of its craziness. It's been a lovely launch and I truly appreciate all the positive energy people have put into the book over the last month.</div>
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I'm very excited to announce that SKULLCRACK CITY is finally available from Lazy Fascist Press (with an amazing cover from Jeff Soto)! Sure, it took nine years from its announcement to be released, survived a publisher shake-up, and prompted a visit from the FBI, but now, at last, it's here and it's real, and you can finally read the crazy thing. I hope you dig it.<br />
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Here's the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Skullcrack-City-Jeremy-Robert-Johnson/dp/1621051714/ref=la_B002BMD1NS_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423426141&sr=1-14" target="_blank">print version</a>. And the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Skullcrack-City-Jeremy-Robert-Johnson-ebook/dp/B00TCFRV2Y/ref=la_B002BMD1NS_1_22?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423426152&sr=1-22" target="_blank">Kindle</a>.<br />
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And here's some early buzz on the thing:<br />
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"A nightmarish yet hilarious journey. You're in for an entirely unpredictable ride, the tale spinning ludicrously out of control as the hero uncovers layer after grotesque layer of a vast macabre conspiracy. <i>Skullcrack City</i> is original, utterly insane, and a shitload of fun.”—<b>DAVID WONG</b>, author of <i>John Dies at the End</i><br />
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“<i>Skullcrack City</i> messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I’m a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he’s been bringing it for years. This time, though, it’s different. He’s burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.”—<b>LAIRD BARRON</b>, author of <i>The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All</i><br />
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“<i>Skullcrack City</i>’s blend of genres, breakneck pacing, brutality, and dashes of philosophy and social critique serve to cement Johnson as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction. <i>Skullcrack City</i> is a smart, incredibly well-researched, and painfully plausible look at our immediate future. Jeremy Robert Johnson's work has always tested the limits of both genre and literary fiction and this novel proves that there's still new ground to tread and that he's already on it.”—<b>BOOKSLUT</b>JRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-64370081361772995622013-12-04T10:47:00.000-08:002013-12-04T10:49:25.041-08:00SKULLCRACK CITY IN 2014 & "ALL-MONSTER ACTION!" WINS WONDERLAND!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm thrilled to announce that my novel SKULLCRACK CITY has been acquired by <a href="http://permutedpress.com/" target="_blank">Permuted Press</a> (with a likely release date of Winter 2014)!<br />
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I've been watching Permuted since Jacob started the ball rolling, from their early success with JOHN DIES AT THE END to their more recent Peter Clines blockbusters EX-HEROES and 14. After a long conversation with Anthony Ziccardi (formerly with Simon and Schuster and Random House), I'm very excited about the direction Permuted is heading, and proud to be a part of their expanding empire.<br />
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SKULLCRACK CITY may well be the strangest Permuted book since JOHN DIES. Set in the crumbling Post-Yesterday world first featured in short story "The League of Zeroes," SKULLCRACK CITY is a genre-jumping madhouse featuring crime, conspiracy, truly weird sex, experimental surgery, cursed pharmaceuticals, and--in true Permuted fashion--a terrifying new type of brain-muncher eager to end humankind as we know it.<br />
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There's also a turtle.<br />
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SKULLCRACK CITY, 2014.<br />
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CONGRATULATIONS to 2012 Wonderland Award Winner Cody Goodfellow (and master artists Nick Gucker and Mike Dubisch). <a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Monster-Action-Cody-Goodfellow-ebook/dp/B00B0DIMIS/ref=pd_sim_kstore_16" target="_blank">ALL-MONSTER ACTION!</a> picked up the Best Collection award at the Ballroom Banquet during the 2013 BizarroCon, and I couldn't be happier about it. It's an inventive, brilliant beast of a book, and Cody and his cabal of artists made something truly unique. It was wonderful to see it honored.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=JRJ+sampler" target="_blank">The JRJ Sampler Series is now available for Kindle</a> in all of its ultra-cheap ($0.99 each) digital glory.<br />
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If <b>ANGEL DUST APOCALYPSE</b> and <b>WE LIVE INSIDE YOU</b> are a convoluted, over-reaching concept double-album, these things are the carefully selected radio singles.<br />
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Here are the story selections for each sampler (and I just noticed that the Lit sampler is great for people who like the letter S, hotel rooms and/or death):<br />
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<b>DOOMSDAY VARIATIONS: THE JRJ APOCALYPSE SAMPLER</b><br />
The Sharp-Dressed Man at the End of the Line<br />
The Oarsman<br />
Last Thoughts Drifting Down<br />
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<b>THE COTTONY WASTELAND OF MY E.T. ELIOT BRAND WAIST-BAND:<br />THE JRJ BIZARRO SAMPLER</b><br />
The League of Zeroes<br />
When Susurrus Stirs<br />
Amniotic Shock in the Last Sacred Place<br />
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<b>HUNGRY FUCKING ANIMALS: THE JRJ CRIME SAMPLER</b><br />
Persistence Hunting<br />
Trigger Variation<br />
Precedents<br />
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<b>HOW TO FUCK UP EVERYTHING AND DIE ALONE: THE JRJ DRUG SAMPLER</b><br />
A Number of Things Come to Mind<br />
Dissociative Skills<br />
Liquidation<br />
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<b>DEAD EMPIRES AND TERRIBLE HOSTS: THE JRJ HORROR SAMPLER</b><br />
Laws of Virulence<br />
The Gravity of Benham Falls<br />
Working At Home<br />
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<b>ENTROPY IN BLOOM: THE JRJ LITERARY SAMPLER</b><br />
Swimming in the House of the Sea<br />
Snowfall<br />
States of Glass<br />
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Now off to write a novel.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />JRJJRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-56800982643323928472013-03-06T11:20:00.001-08:002013-03-06T11:20:49.000-08:00LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY, Powell's Reading, and New Books on Kindle!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY, the new novel from Wonderland Award Winning author J. David Osborne, is now available!</b><br /><br />"It's about meth, fishing, trash American culture and young adult
despair. Imagine a Raymond Carver or Jim Thompson for the text message
age and that would only begin to get it."--<b>KRIS SAKNUSSEMM</b>, author of <i>Reverend America</i><br /><br />Trapped
in a rural Oklahoma town fueled by meth and doused in codeine, Arlo
Clancy has made it his life's goal to keep his troubled younger brother,
Sepp, out of prison. Poverty and the lure of easy drug money were
pressure enough, before a gruesome discovery beneath the waters of their
favorite fishing hole sent their lives into a tailspin.<br /><br />Torn by
cowardice and conscience, the brothers make a fateful decision which
will bring them ever-closer to Danny Ames--a vicious enforcer for the
local meth trade--and a nightmare world where their only chance of
escape might be...<br /><br /><b>LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY</b><br />
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"Sometimes mysterious, sometimes vicious, and always engaging<i>, </i>LOW
DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY is a unique take on the crime novel that will
satisfy readers who like their fiction as murky as a river after heavy
rains. Here's a good way to describe J. David Osborne: Daniel Woodrell,
James Ellroy, and Cormac McCarthy all wrapped into one, stripped to the
bones, and given a new voice."--<b>OUT OF THE GUTTER</b><br /><br />"A gritty tapestry of subversive drama the likes of which I'd compare to Harmony Korine's <i>Gummo</i> packed in with the terse lines of Bukowski."--<b>MICHAEL J. SEIDLINGER</b>, author of <i>My Pet Serial Killer</i> and <i>The Sky Conducting</i><br /><br /><span>"If you're looking for something more than just
blood and guns and meth, you need to get this book immediately. Osborne has an
innate talent more dangerous than a trunk
full of C4. To give some sort of visual, take one of James Sallis' Spartan
scenes, lock in it a single-wide with a bag of crystal and a light bulb then
rip out the air conditioner and check back in a week. LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY
creates sensations that haunt you long after you've started your next book."--<b>SPINETINGLER</b></span><br /><br />"LOW
DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY is working class fiction at its best. It reeks of
desperation, busted dreams, and hard times. But mostly, it reeks of
literary talent. Whatever J. David Osborne writes, I'm reading. And
you'd better too."--<b>BENJAMIN WHITMER</b>, <span>author of <i>Pike</i> and co-author of <i>Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers</i></span><br /><span></span><br /> "J.
David Osborne holds a literary style distinctive enough to raise his
work above the waterline of contemporary fiction. LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT
EASY challenges and hurts and mystifies its readers. The weave of
characters is stunning. Intricate storylines cross and worm through each
other to form a dense and powerful mystery."--<b>MANARCHY MAGAZINE</b><br /><br /> <span></span>"In<span> </span>LOW
DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY, Osborne reaches out into the scabrous
hinterlands of landlocked nowhere to unveil an intertwined collection of
reluctant dreamers and three time losers, all trying to get by while
navigating rusted out acres of convenience store ice heads, run down
bars, and greasy doublewides. Strange, brutal, yet disturbingly
familiar, this is the sort of story you can taste on the back of your
tongue, and makes you appreciate every last clean and hopeful thing you
have in your life."--<b>DARK INTENT</b><br /><br /> <span>"A highly talented new author. Osborne is one to watch."--<b><span>BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM</span></b></span><br />
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<span><b><span></span></b></span>Get it now at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Low-Down-Death-Right-Easy/dp/1933929081/ref=la_B004G4S8KU_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362413718&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Low-Down-Death-Right-Easy/dp/1933929081/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362413851&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Amazon.co.uk</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Low-Down-Death-Right-Easy/dp/1933929081/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362413881&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">Amazon.ca</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Down-Death-Right-Easy-ebook/dp/B00BNQ35ZW/ref=la_B004G4S8KU_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1362413902&sr=1-6" rel="nofollow">For Kindle</a>.
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Great reviews at <a href="http://www.outofthegutteronline.com/2013/02/review-of-j-david-osbornes-low-down.html" rel="nofollow">OUT OF THE GUTTER</a>, <a href="http://manarchymag.com/2013/02/all-you-need-to-know-low-down-death-right-easy-by-j-david-osborne/author-pelavia" rel="nofollow">MANARCHY</a>, <a href="http://www.spinetinglermag.com/2013/03/05/low-down-death-right-easy-by-j-david-osborne-review/" rel="nofollow">SPINETINGLER</a>, and <a href="http://www.bookedpodcast.com/2013/02/26/134-low-down-death-right-easy/" rel="nofollow">BOOKED</a>.
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An excerpt at <a href="http://manarchymag.com/2013/01/excerpt-low-down-death-right-easy-by-j-david-osborne/author-admin" rel="nofollow">MANARCHY</a>.<br />
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Also, if any Portland readers are interested, Powell's should have copies of LDDRE by the end of this week.<br />
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And for people on the East coast, J. David will be doing a reading
from LDDRE this Monday, March 11th, in New York, along with Sam Pink,
Scott McClanahan, and Cameron Pierce. Here are the details at <a href="http://www.timeout.com/newyork/books/rontel-release-party" rel="nofollow">TIME OUT NEW YORK</a>.<br />
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<b>Also, EXTINCTION JOURNALS and ALL-MONSTER ACTION! are now available for Kindle!</b><br /><br />
The newly revised 2012 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Extinction-Journals-ebook/dp/B00AROUAX6/ref=la_B002BMD1NS_1_7_title_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1362597130&sr=1-7" target="_blank">digital edition of EXTINCTION JOURNALS</a> includes "The Sharp-Dressed Man at
the End of the Line," the classic short story explaining the origin of
the world's weirdest post-nuke survivor.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Monster-Action-ebook/dp/B00B0DIMIS/ref=la_B002KYCE76_1_5_title_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1362597046&sr=1-5" target="_blank">digital edition of ALL-MONSTER ACTION!</a> includes bonus short story "Wet Nurse" as well as "We
Need to Make Things More Repulsive: The Early Sketches of Nick Gucker"!<br />
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<b>POWELL'S READING:<br /></b>This Monday, March 18th, 2013 I'll be reading at Powell's City of Books on Burnside as part of their annual <a href="http://www.powells.com/events" target="_blank">SMALLPRESSAPALOOZA event.</a> Since my readings tend to run "blue" I've got the late night spot at 9:45pm. Should be great fun.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />JRJJRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-41821535645353521632012-12-11T10:33:00.001-08:002012-12-11T10:33:59.649-08:00JUST IN TIME FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (OR CHRISTMAS, WHICH WILL PROBABLY HAPPEN FIRST)!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><span class="userContent">ANGEL DUST APOCALYPSE is <i>finally</i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Angel-Dust-Apocalypse-ebook/dp/B00AJVBKMW/ref=la_B002BMD1NS_1_2_title_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1355249023&sr=1-2" target="_blank">available for the Kindle</a>, in a <b>special Author’s Preferred Edition not available in
any other format</b>!<br /> <br /> <b>This hi-def tr</b></span><b>ansfer of the cult classic has been fully revised and updated and features 20,000 words of new digital-only content including:</b><span class="userContent"></span><br />
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-And new section "The Fallout: Bonus Material of Suspect Value" which
contains early, entirely out-of-control interviews with CEMETERY DANCE
magazine and THE MEAT SOCKET, as well as "JUST THE WORST THING EVER: A
TERRIBLE STORY YOU SHOULDN’T READ (WITH WRITER’S COMMENTARY)" and "A
REAL BATCH OF NETWORK PITCHES FOR SHOWS WHICH YOU WILL PROBABLY NOT BE
SEEING ANYTIME SOON."<br /> <br /> I'm pretty excited for people to check
this out. It's priced crazy cheap ($2.99) for the holidays and to say thanks for
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JRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-25085729761192900122012-11-20T09:56:00.000-08:002012-11-20T09:56:18.775-08:00WE LIVE INSIDE YOU WINS 2011 WONDERLAND AWARD!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="userContent">Very excited and happy to announce that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Live-Inside-Jeremy-Robert-Johnson/dp/1933929065/ref=la_B002BMD1NS_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353434132&sr=1-1" target="_blank">WE LIVE INSIDE YOU</a> won The 2011 Wonderland Book Award for Best Collection
at this weekend's BizarroCon.<br /> <br /> It was an honor to be counted among the nominees for such a strong and strange year, and I'm still a bit shocked to see the award sitting on my desk.</span><br />
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I've also noticed
that everyone who picks it up almost instantly comments, "You could
really beat someone to death with this thing."<br /> <br /> It's the most
beautiful murderous bludgeon I've ever held. THANK YOU (SO MUCH) to the
readers and the Bizarro Con family for a wonderfully unforgettable event
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Gathered some Evan Williams, an Apocalypse IPA, and my cell phone last week for a very enjoyable <a href="http://www.books-booze.com/2012/11/08/bb-ep-16-jeremy-robert-johnson/" target="_blank">interview for the BOOKS AND BOOZE podcast</a>.<br /><br />Per the site: "In Books and Booze episode 16 we sit down with Jeremy Robert Johnson to
talk about good beer, good bourbon, experimental writing, and NaNoWriMo.
We talk about our favorite stories from <em>We Live Inside You </em>and Jeremy serenades us with the hits of the Doobie Brothers."<br /><br />Also, the <a href="http://www.jeremyrobertjohnson.com/" target="_blank">Swallowdown Press website</a> has just undergone a masterful re-design courtesy of Presidential Net Aesthetician <a href="http://www.matthewrevert.com/" target="_blank">Matthew Revert</a>.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />JRJJRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-91182321226139085692012-11-06T13:44:00.004-08:002012-11-06T13:44:51.917-08:0021C Magazine Interview <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“Ashley Crawford talks with Jeremy Robert Johnson about Bizarro,
David Cronenberg, parasites and, inevitably, the end of the world.”<br />
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I've been interviewed for 21C Magazine, whose prior subjects have
included folks like Burroughs, Gibson, Shirley, Ballard, Acker, Brian
Evenson, Mark Z. Danielewski, and Jonathan Lethem. You can click on the
logo above to jump to the sprawling Q&A.JRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-66918425755100579652012-04-12T13:26:00.003-07:002012-09-18T14:43:19.506-07:00ALL-MONSTER ACTION! Now Available!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnTAkoL6pWyUs4Zi2TI1MiQZcp1I7a79jaGo7lEBszDFS4jwnGnJ6fBIivLYh9VXYJIEwHTvRn5sxeHtnvmTWP5JGIbsOs1e5ePdeNuUEOKuQcxQZf2oFoR6jeVs0kR75m5ltU/s1600/smallmonsterfullcover.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730613357354963186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnTAkoL6pWyUs4Zi2TI1MiQZcp1I7a79jaGo7lEBszDFS4jwnGnJ6fBIivLYh9VXYJIEwHTvRn5sxeHtnvmTWP5JGIbsOs1e5ePdeNuUEOKuQcxQZf2oFoR6jeVs0kR75m5ltU/s320/smallmonsterfullcover.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 239px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
Coming soon from Swallowdown Press-- ALL-MONSTER ACTION! by Cody Goodfellow, featuring art from Mike Dubisch (cover and interiors) and Nick Gucker (interiors):<br />
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“A tour-de-force! Goodfellow's latest is his best yet. Compulsive, breakneck reading!” —<span style="font-weight: bold;">BRIAN KEENE</span>, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Rising</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Ghoul</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">IT'S THEIR WORLD... NOW GET THE FUCK OFF! </span><br />
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Whether on the sun-kissed beaches of a nameless South Pacific paradise or in the suffocating dungeons of retail Hell, the misfits of evolution and mistakes of misbegotten science are battling, breeding, and feeding. And they're looking at you...<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">COMING ATTRACTIONS!</span><br />
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They came seeking cheap thrills and interspecies recreational sex, but they reaped a whirlwind of clusterfuckery when they toyed with the unspeakable forces of monster lust. From the idyllic nostalgia of WW2 to the thoroughly bat-shit future, witness the wages of sin and mutation as you've never seen them before (unless you read them previously in the periodicals or anthologies in which they first appeared)!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">OUR MAIN FEATURE!</span><br />
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The world gave him a blank check and a demand: Create giant monsters to fight our wars. But Dr. Otaku was not satisfied with mere chaos and mass destruction.... Even as his subversively delicious kaiju creatures undermined the very fabric of American life, he hatched a scheme to animate the cities themselves and inaugurate a new dark age of mega-monster abominations who would finally give humanity the ass-whipping it deserved. Now only one man, riding inside the skull of a much larger man, stands between us and the planet-devastating madness of...<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">ALL-MONSTER ACTION!</span><br />
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“ALL-MONSTER ACTION! is hilarious, action-packed, and way too much fun. Over-the-top and wild! Highly recommended.” — <span style="font-weight: bold;">JONATHAN MABERRY</span>, New York Times Bestselling author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Dust & Decay</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Assassin’s Code</span><br />
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“This is your chance. You only think you're hip—but you haven't read this Cody Goodfellow book, so you're not yet. Now you can be hip, and read something crazy entertaining too. You can't go wrong, man, I'm telling you. You’ve got to read this thing. I mean, if a book rocks, it rocks, that's all.” —<span style="font-weight: bold;">JOHN SHIRLEY</span>, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">A Song Called Youth</span><br />
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“Cody Goodfellow's writing etches itself inside your eyelids and chases your brain back into the dark corners where you can't escape. ALL-MONSTER ACTION! has more high concepts in a paragraph than a whole summer of blockbusters: a mad scientist who's passed on like the flu; biotech mutants harvested for fun and profit; and a giant monster arms race that ends in a showdown on the moon. This book is a human's-eye view of the future coming down hard on us, like a Tokyo resident gazing up at the sky and seeing only the outline of a giant foot.” —<span style="font-weight: bold;">CHRISTOPHER FARNSWORTH</span>, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Blood Oath</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">The President's Vampire</span><br />
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"ALL-MONSTER ACTION! is a dirty bomb right to the cerebral cortex—it's sharp, smart, scary, scarring, sexy and brutally funny. And like any good bomb, it's got specific targets in mind: Genre and gender, racism, colonialism, ageism and classism. ALL-MONSTER ACTION! demonstrates again that Cody Goodfellow is some kind of mad-ass genius.” —<span style="font-weight: bold;">LISA MORTON</span>, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Castle of Los Angeles</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Monsters of L.A.</span> and Four-Time Winner of the Bram Stoker Award<br />
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“One of the most unique and creative works I've ever read. The author is quite obviously insane, but like Colonel Kurtz, he's got a plan. ALL-MONSTER ACTION! is packed with wild, driving energy that carries the reader along like an out-of-control Disney ride. Cody Goodfellow combines genres and crazed pop-cult tropes with finesse and style. Old Mr. Yeats kept bitchin’ about ‘the centre cannot hold.’ Bullshit. With ALL-MONSTER ACTION! Cody Goodfellow proves he can hold the center together and play lead guitar at the same time. Filled with crazed, strange characters drawn from pop-cult, z-grade cinema and zillions of comic books, the pace is frantic and the imagery often makes you laugh while you cringe. What impresses me most with ALL-MONSTER ACTION! is Cody's ability to take cultural icons and clichés and turn them into a funny, intelligent, satiric story that perhaps Max Ernst would have written if he fronted Black Flag. ALL-MONSTER ACTION! made me remember those late nights as a kid, watching amazingly strange films and thrilling to every minute. Cody Goodfellow must have caught those films, too, because his fevered stories have one foot in the past and one foot in the present. Reading ALL-MONSTER ACTION! gave me the same pleasure as the first time I saw ‘The Navy vs. the Night Monsters.’ Brilliant!”—<span style="font-weight: bold;">RICKY LEE GROVE</span>, The Greatest Character Actor Ever (<span style="font-style: italic;">Army Of Darkness, Point Break, Scanner Cop</span>) and the Pizza Delivery Man in Your Mom's Recurring Wet Dreams<br />
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This is off at the printers now and should be available within the next two weeks. I can't wait for for people to check it out. It's Swallowdown Press' craziest book, the GRAVITY'S RAINBOW of Godzilla tales. We haven't traditionally done what you'd call "fun" books, but ALL-MONSTER ACTION! manages to be as laugh-out-loud funny and exciting as it is smart and brilliantly written.<br />
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Best,<br />
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style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We are the lie on your lips, the collapsing star in your heart, and the still-warm gun in your shaking hands.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The illusion of control is all we’ll allow you, and no matter what you do…</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">WE LIVE INSIDE YOU</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">“WE LIVE INSIDE YOU is fucking terrific. Jeremy Robert Johnson is dancing to a way different drummer. He loves language, he loves the edge, and he loves us people. These stories have range and style and wit. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">This</i> is entertainment... and literature.”—JACK KETCHUM, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Off Season</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Girl Next Door</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Woman</i> (w/Lucky McKee)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“A haunting collection from a wildly talented author, WE LIVE INSIDE YOU is composed of nineteen perfectly-wrought nightmares, every one of which will stay with you long after you've finished reading.”—PETER CRAIG, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Hot Plastic</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Blood Father</i>, co-screenwriter of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Town</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal">“The people populating these stories are real and vital and you WILL care, deeply, about what becomes of them... and in JRJ's harsh universe, <i>baaaaad</i> things happen. Often. Prepare thyself.”—CRAIG DAVIDSON, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Rust and Bone</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Fighter</i>, and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Sarah Court</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal">“The guy’s a genius. Reminds me of William Gibson—the dark interest in altered states of consciousness, the unrelentingly furious forward movement, and the same kind of unlimited imagination.”—BEN LOORY, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal">“Tongue-replacing isopods, brain-raping copepods and body-warping worms are far from the most insidious parasites that infest Jeremy Robert Johnson's hapless literary victims. Though the squirmy bits elegantly pioneer new frontiers of sickness, WE LIVE INSIDE YOU is at its most twisted and mordantly revelatory when it drops the body-horror metaphors and digs into the real horror of all the parasitic drives that ride us—tapeworms of greed, lust like plagues of crab lice, and the lethal heartworms of true love. So tightly written and so fluidly brutal you'll want to consume this psychosexual demolition derby in one sitting, but you'll spend the rest of the night checking yourself under a microscope.”—CODY GOODFELLOW, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Radiant Dawn/Ravenous Dusk</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latinfont-family:Calibri;" >“</span>Waaaay out at the deep end of the collective unconscious—where even the bravest of brain cells fear to tread—Jeremy Robert Johnson performs stand-up comedy for the gods.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And their laughter is a marvelous, terrible thing.<span style="line-height:115%; Times New Roman","serif"font-family:";font-size:14.0pt;" ><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span>He’s the kind of post-Lovecraftian genius berserker who makes the Great Old Ones new again.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>As with Clive Barker, there is no glorious mutational eruption that Johnson can’t nail directly through your gawping mind’s eye.”—JOHN SKIPP, NY Times Bestselling author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Spore</i> (w/Cody Goodfellow) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Bridge</i> (w/Craig Spector)</p><p class="MsoNormal">That is all. Glad to be back. Hope everybody enjoys the new book!</p><p class="MsoNormal">JRJ<br /></p>JRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-72036039611508291782010-12-17T15:38:00.001-08:002010-12-17T15:52:09.389-08:00Now Available!: By the Time We Leave Here, We'll Be Friends by J. David Osborne<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJo1vowLUHSKw4J8aWSlrw-hwubGxHOg_PTmAquHtqRCceQtZZJ9RL52U1s-P3uTtZLmr1EtQGj_x6hSPAb5vL9nd67yQcqLzeyt8ZPywjQZSbMZNIrHw4FjU3_BKlEswQQ6g/s1600/bythetimefull2small.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJo1vowLUHSKw4J8aWSlrw-hwubGxHOg_PTmAquHtqRCceQtZZJ9RL52U1s-P3uTtZLmr1EtQGj_x6hSPAb5vL9nd67yQcqLzeyt8ZPywjQZSbMZNIrHw4FjU3_BKlEswQQ6g/s200/bythetimefull2small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551800181467063186" border="0" /></a>Available now from J. 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Give in to the voices and let this story deliver its kaleidoscopic nightmare, sly lines, and the truth of a bloody, damaged, beating, human heart.”—MONICA DRAKE, author of <i style="">Clown Girl</i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style=""></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“The only thing crueler and weirder than life in Osborne's Stalinist gulag is the afterlife. 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And it knows you back, has all along.”—STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES, author of <i style="">It Came from Del Rio</i></span></p> <br />I couldn't be prouder to be releasing J. David's debut. This book is <span style="font-style: italic;">fantastic</span>.<br /><br />And, if you know someone for whom cold, barren landscapes filled with surreal death presses their buttons... well, that's weird, but they would fucking love this for X-mas.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />JRJJRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-65016737262670879342010-08-04T15:25:00.000-07:002010-08-04T15:36:09.246-07:00Coming Very Soon: The Deadheart Shelters by Forrest Armstrong<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZclsXmAPvHjedTzXHWUc0fX5SLyruKp3nfWFW3Y_t1K34WUNB9d9U3D86RezjCosKF7aA5-3zBl79Y1t1Pkcs9jprU8r4fv9JBIjHLx6iQ45SLVbeNLLZMc9wWq0lEarTnebm/s1600/deadheartcoversmall.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZclsXmAPvHjedTzXHWUc0fX5SLyruKp3nfWFW3Y_t1K34WUNB9d9U3D86RezjCosKF7aA5-3zBl79Y1t1Pkcs9jprU8r4fv9JBIjHLx6iQ45SLVbeNLLZMc9wWq0lEarTnebm/s320/deadheartcoversmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501684881471341010" border="0" /></a><br />Available this August from Forrest Armstrong and Swallowdown Press:<br /><br />“The literary equivalent of an Alejandro Jodorowsky film.”<br />— Carlton Mellick III<br /><br />Never fall in love, and never try to escape.<br /><br />Born into a life of brutal slavery, Peter spends his days driven into the wild by vicious dog-masters, forced to pick delicate swamp berries from the skeletons of dead reptiles. His nights offer only the brief escape of hushed conversation and the strange magnolia perfume of fellow slave Lilly.<br /><br />A moment’s opportunity turns to violence and Peter is thrust into a bizarre new world populated by devious goat-men, poisonous coal-slugs, and murderous royal processions. With the help of his newfound companion, a man-sized infant named Dirt, Peter must decide between embracing his narcotic new world or returning to his old life to save the beautiful souls haunting his dreams.<br /><br />With a unique poetic prose style Forrest Armstrong delivers a surreal and resonant Bizarro parable for all those who find themselves trapped deep within…<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Deadheart Shelters</span><br /><br />This book is awesome. One of the best combinations of weird and beautiful I've ever read, and it's dropping in mid-August.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />JRJJRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-14697225602140102502010-05-12T23:09:00.001-07:002010-05-12T23:56:48.139-07:00Goodfellow Month= Free Bizarro Books!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7_ueEEE0oaAdbZAecG1CF3gQQIdJZqORpJYiUKt4teLUlJVT3jrwfzq7TvsQhmoIjpJd9EZDIQSkiU47UWHNtjfVM_KZhdZpkX8IuZ2C5lmkyjLlPZOfamnSH9h_c-wd0YhSZ/s1600/codycovers.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7_ueEEE0oaAdbZAecG1CF3gQQIdJZqORpJYiUKt4teLUlJVT3jrwfzq7TvsQhmoIjpJd9EZDIQSkiU47UWHNtjfVM_KZhdZpkX8IuZ2C5lmkyjLlPZOfamnSH9h_c-wd0YhSZ/s320/codycovers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470632997211620530" border="0" /></a><br />It's official, folks! May 13th-June 13th, 2010 will henceforth be known as Cody Goodfellow month (for at least a period of one month)!<br /><br />In honor of this fine and lovely occasion, <a href="http://www.swallowdownpress.com/">Swallowdown Press</a> is offering an outstanding deal on weird shit!<br /><br />Order either of Cody's astonishing books (covers shown above) and receive another book for FREE.<br /><br />This includes Extinction Journals, Siren Promised, Angel Dust Apocalypse, or the giant 37 author Falling From the Sky anthology (though this last is limited 5 copies). Just order one of Cody's books, then indicate which FREE book you'd like in the Notes to Seller section.<br /><br />Wait! You want more FREE books? Well, okay.<br /><br />When you buy one of Cody's books and love it, do us a favor and pop up an Amazon review. Doesn't have to be epic; just 4 or 5 stars and a batch of friendly adjectives. Send me a link to the posted Amazon review and I'll send you another FREE book.<br /><br />So, that's a potential 3 great books for the price of 1, and you'll receive the good karma inherent in supporting the independent press.<br /><br />Anybody who's read this blog before knows that I think Cody Goodfellow is a stellar writer, one of the best in the business regardless of genre. But you don't have to take my word for it...<br /><br />Check out this <a href="http://darkdiscoveriesreviews.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/silent-weapons-for-quiet-wars/#comment-10">great review</a> of SWFQW from Dark Discoveries: "One can certainly see influences of Lovecraft, the New Wave of SF writers of the sixties, the Cyberpunks and Splatterpunks – and even surrealists like Kafka and Borges. Don’t get me wrong though, Cody Goodfellow is one of a kind. Highly Recommended!"<br /><br />Or the recent acclaim for SWFQW from <a href="http://ttapress.com/blackstatic/">Black Static</a> magazine: "[Short story] 'Atwater' is a tour de force of reckless invention, the prose pyrotechnics and in your face imagery that are a vital component of the other stories here bubbling over like the lava flow from a misbehaving volcano."<br /><br />It's also worth noting that Cody racked up four (!) Honorable Mentions from Ellen Datlow in Best Horror of the Year Vol. 2.<br /><br />So, Goodfellow Month is a great time to check out a brilliant writer and cop some free Bizarro swag!<br /><br />Best wishes,<br /><br />JRJ<br /><br />p.s. New JRJ fiction dropping shortly. Just waiting to sign some contracts.JRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-27793926950886430102010-04-01T16:52:00.000-07:002010-04-01T17:01:01.465-07:00Volta Relapse<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBj1EIa1uAFIeanTuFxMSPo9OJJWJuTwCg7_e7iLiwjjzbNK2n3dZedv-Gn89fAiE7f2stdQJL5-WgxClUJU1cMLbBUUvuoemaCbqhIuUeIsm_tEWuRCWgtmg_dRWhqITqmOo/s1600/bedlam+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 198px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBj1EIa1uAFIeanTuFxMSPo9OJJWJuTwCg7_e7iLiwjjzbNK2n3dZedv-Gn89fAiE7f2stdQJL5-WgxClUJU1cMLbBUUvuoemaCbqhIuUeIsm_tEWuRCWgtmg_dRWhqITqmOo/s200/bedlam+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455321556933676242" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I’ve been getting some reader requests for access to the Bio/Write-up thing I did for The Mars Volta back in late 2007, for their album The Bedlam In Goliath.<br /><br />When the band Bio changed to match their newest album Octahedron, the old Bedlam Bio was lost. I have placed a PDF version of it back on the Futurenet, at swallowdownpress.com.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.jeremyrobertjohnson.com/TMVDIB.pdf">http://www.jeremyrobertjohnson.com/TMVDIB.pdf</a><br /><br />As a “bonus” the PDF includes a (possibly un-used) t-shirt design which was based on my album-inspired symmetrina from the end of the write-up, as well as some semi-amusing composition notes from when I first started trying to decipher the album.<br /><br />Just noticed today that the word “cryptomnesia” appears in the symmetrina from 2007. One of Omar’s solo albums released in 2009 (but recorded much earlier) bears that same word as its title. Could be unrelated, but either way it carries an irony given the meaning of the word.<br /><br />By the way, that album (Cryptomnesia from El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez-Lopez) is the craziest thing released from this crew in some time. They borrowed the drummer from Hella and he and Omar are just freaking out. With Cedric singing on most of the tracks it’s like an alternate Volta album for people who thought Octahedron was too sedate. By random comparison, Octahedron is to Faith No More as Cryptomnesia is to Mr. Bungle.<br /><br />Best wishes,<br /><br />JRJJRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-18217051418664812832010-03-15T18:09:00.001-07:002010-03-15T18:16:57.336-07:00Goodfellow-Mania!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkSVkuq2i0Hkn61rJXDCkAlq6xHXebcX5II3R10Zr7zWZ0hJJJyT-sLqMEgKV6Bpzg_Y_ZA2vF0u2yKD4e1ePEZ41xWyYVvEOEn-PJ3O2BebYs3FAWRpss7meIU6C5aGmGQGhw/s1600-h/Perfectunionad.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkSVkuq2i0Hkn61rJXDCkAlq6xHXebcX5II3R10Zr7zWZ0hJJJyT-sLqMEgKV6Bpzg_Y_ZA2vF0u2yKD4e1ePEZ41xWyYVvEOEn-PJ3O2BebYs3FAWRpss7meIU6C5aGmGQGhw/s320/Perfectunionad.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449033190196036178" border="0" /></a><br />First, Cody’s got a great, very entertaining/interesting interview up at The Black Glove. <br /><br />Learn how Cody got into writing at age eight, forced into action by his displeasure with the latter half of Stephen King’s The Stand.<br /><br /><a href="http://the-black-glove.blogspot.com/2010/03/black-glove-interviews-feature-author.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the-black-glove.blogspot.com/2010/03/bla...-feature-author.html</a><br /><br />Next, Monster Librarian has a great review for Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.monsterlibrarian.com/anthologies.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.monsterlibrarian.com/anthologies.htm</a> (scroll down)<br /><br />And Horror World took a shine to it, too.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.horrorworld.org/reviews.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.horrorworld.org/reviews.htm</a> (scroll down)<br /><br />Also, David Agranoff says that Perfect Union is “An intelligent socio-political dark Bizarro masterpiece and one of the most original horror novels in years.” Check out the rest of the review.<br /><br /><a href="http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2010/03/book-review-perfect-union-by-cody.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2010/03/book-...t-union-by-cody.html</a><br /><br />Best,<br /><br />JRJJRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-88037292170969092532010-03-10T17:15:00.000-08:002010-03-10T17:17:22.091-08:00Radio RidiculoidSomeone made the mistake of allowing me near a microphone. If you’re interested in a quick burst of Dayquil-influenced jibber-jabber about Bizarro, high diving, and fighting coyotes with sticks, then you could check out <a href="http://colin.pdx.fm/">this interview with me</a> at PDX.FM. <br /><br />Just play Episode 3. <br /><br />At your own risk. They’re your brain cells and I can’t tell you how to waste them. <br /><br />Banzai,<br /><br />JRJJRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-90432973684821182482010-02-08T15:33:00.000-08:002010-02-08T15:34:25.071-08:00Coming Very Soon: PERFECT UNION by Cody GoodfellowAvailable this February from Cody Goodfellow and Swallowdown Press, with knock-out cover art by Alan M Clark:<br /><br /> <img src="http://www.jeremyrobertjohnson.com/images/Perfectunionwebcover.jpg" /><br /><br /><span></span><br />"PERFECT UNION is Cronenberg's THE FLY on a grand scale: human/insect gene-spliced body horror, where the human hive politics are as shocking as the gore. This book would make Marx and Thoreau's heads explode. In other words, astounding." --JOHN SKIPP, NY Times Bestselling author of <i>The Long Last Call</i> and <i>The Bridge</i><br /><br />"Look. It's very simple. If you're not reading Cody Goodfellow, then you're doing your brain a disservice. One of the best writers of our generation." --BRIAN KEENE, author of <i>The Rising</i> and <i>Darkness on the Edge of Town</i><br /><br />"Cody Goodfellow's imagination is a freeway flyer, and his prose is a ride on a rocket-sled. He's one of the two or three god-damned best writers in the Genres today." -MICHAEL SHEA, World Fantasy Award-winning author of <i>Nifft the Lean</i> and <i>Copping Squid</i><br /><br /><b>THE FAMILY<br />When Drew married Laura, he also married into the Kowalski family. But on a trip with his twin brothers-in-law into the backwoods of northern California to find their abusive, estranged mother, buried secrets will be revealed, threatening his fragile marriage and his sanity. <br /><br />THE COLONY<br />Mom has joined a new family: Leviathan-- a utopian colony that has taken the communist ideal to radical biological extremes, using the mutagenic honey from genetically tweaked bees to make ideal workers and flawless warriors. But the once-human hive is divided by a strike and brutal internecine war, and its tyrannical Chairman is eagerly recruiting scabs. <br /><br />With the Kowalski twins taking opposing sides in the colony's bitter feud, Drew is forced into a world where nothing is taboo and survival is the only law, where he must negotiate between the insane collective mind and the savage refugees, even as the battling forces of the commune work to reshape him into a tool to complete their...<br /><br />PERFECT UNION</b><br /><br />You wanted epic Bizarro? You wanted the old gooey, nasty, uncomfortable Cronenberg back? You wanted a fast-paced, bugged-out masterpiece? <br /><br />Well, you've got it. I love this book. PERFECT UNION is amazing and it's on its way.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />JRJJRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-28784698890501366412009-10-20T17:32:00.000-07:002009-10-20T18:07:44.973-07:00Coming Soon from Swallowdown Press: Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars by Cody GoodfellowOut in late October from Cody Goodfellow and Swallowdown Press, with wraparound cover art by Alan M Clark, an Introduction by John Skipp and an Afterword from yours truly (and excellent book design courtesy of CM3):<br /><br /><img src="http://www.jeremyrobertjohnson.com/images/SWFQWcoveronlysmall.jpg" /><br /><br /><span id="ep_author_blog"><span class="plogBodyText">"This is high-end psychological surrealist horror meets bottom-feeding low-life crime in a techno-thrilling science fiction world full of Lovecraft and magic..." -JOHN SKIPP, NY Times Bestselling author of <i>The Bridge</i> and <i>The Long Last Call </i><br /><br />"Cody Goodfellow's work is '80s vintage horror with a contemporary edge. An exemplary wordsmith, his prose sticks a needle in your brain and gives it a twist. This stuff is Lovecraft on acid. Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars is anything but quiet: it announces Goodfellow's continued presence among the leading cohort of modern horror with a thunderclap." -LAIRD BARRON, author of <i>The Imago Sequence & Other Stories </i><br /><br />"Cody Goodfellow is a force to be reckoned with. There are things within these pages with teeth on 'em. You've been warned..." -NORM PARTRIDGE, author of <i>The Man With the Barbed-Wire Fists and Dark Harvest </i><br /><br />In the brutal zero-sum game of the new future, every meal is a murder, and every act of love is a declaration of genocidal war. To survive it, you will have to make alliances with the sleeping demons in your blood; learn to wear new names and faces, and shed your soul; feed your inner child to the machine, before it eats you alive; build and defend your own heaven; and become one of the sacred, secret tools with which nature reinvents itself. To win this game, you will have to change into everything that you are not. To play you need only open this book and arm yourself with...<br /><br />Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />JRJ<br /></span></span>JRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-7806284883557678642008-09-14T20:45:00.000-07:002008-09-14T20:52:10.797-07:00GoddamnR.I.P. D.F.W.<br /><br />Just got home to seven phone messages about his passing. It's an outright fucking loss to the mental landscape. He was gifted. Truly gifted. At least he was here during our lifetime. I can't say any more right now.JRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20419506.post-34177936389539771772008-03-16T20:22:00.000-07:002008-03-16T21:07:49.440-07:00Smallpressapalooza Powell's Reading!<a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/2327782684_ac5a860752.jpg?v=0"></a><strong>Thursday, March 20th</strong><br /><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.powells.com/images/infogallery/burnside_sunrise_400.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.powells.com/images/infogallery/burnside_sunrise_400.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Powell's City of Books (1005 W Burnside, Portland, OR 97209) is the largest "new and used" bookstore on the planet (so far as I know) and has been an integral part of my life both as a childhood reader and an adult writer. That's why I'm very excited to be able to announce my first reading at the venue. Here's the basic dirt on the event from Powells.com (with compatriots and myself shown in bold):</div><div>_____</div><br /><div></div><div>Our vibrant writing community has long been powered by various DIY reading series, zinesters, upstart printing companies, the Independent Publishing Resource Center, and cultural hubs like Reading Frenzy. Help us celebrate this unique culture during Small Press Month. This special five-hour event will feature 15-minute readings by 15 of the most exciting small press voices in Portland.<br /></div><div></div><div>Reading Schedule (Don't be late! Times are exact.)<br />5:00 Tom Blood</div><div>5:15 Geronimo Tagatac</div><div>5:30 Mary Rechner</div><div>6:00 Keith Rosson </div><div><strong>6:15 Kristopher Young</strong> </div><div>6:30 Kimberly Warner-Cohen </div><div>7:00 Kate Lopresti </div><div>7:15 Alex Wrekk </div><div>7:30 Erica Schreiner </div><div>8:00 Lidia Yuknavitch </div><div>8:15 Tiffany Edwards</div><div>8:30 Steve Katz </div><div><strong>9:00 Jeremy Robert Johnson </strong></div><div><strong>9:15 Mykle Hansen </strong></div><div><strong>9:30 Carlton Mellick III</strong> </div><div>_____</div><br /><div></div><div>Nine to ten is the Bizarro hour. Our shit tends to be less "family friendly" so we got the closeout slot, which I think is great. We're like the blue comedians of the lit scene. Yes, each reading is only fifteen minutes, but I know we're trying to powerpack those minutes so it should be a fun show. 9:45-10 is an open space where we can do Q & A and book signing, though I'm guessing by that point most folks will be more anxious about heading out for some drinks.</div><br /><div></div><div>I'm really looking forward to this event and I think it'll be a great time. And I'm grateful to Powell's (and Kevin Sampsell at Burnside) for making this happen and giving so much support to the underdogs during Small Press Month. </div><br /><div></div><div>Can't wait to see you there. It's going to be a great time.</div><br /><div></div><div><strong>Volta Update</strong><br /></div><div><br /><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/2327782684_ac5a860752.jpg?v=0" /><br /></div><div>The NYE show in SF was insane. I'll have more on that next weekend.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div> </div><div>For now there are two items:</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div> </div><div>1. The Bedlam in Goliath exists and it is incredible. You should <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bedlam-Goliath-Mars-Volta/dp/B000ZK4466/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1205726122&sr=8-1">cop it</a>.<br /><br />2. The bio/album write-up thing I did for them is now ingrained at <a href="http://www.themarsvolta.com/home.asp">TheMarsVolta.com</a> as their actual Bio, and it's a sharp looking .pdf for anyone who wants to check it out.</div><div></div><div></div><div> </div><div>That is all.</div><div></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Much more blog (covering November '07 to Now) very soon. I swear.</div><div></div><div></div><div> </div><div>See you at Powell's this Thursday!</div><div></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Cheers,</div><div></div><div></div><div> </div><div>JRJ</div><div></div><div></div></div>JRJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187686210457504083noreply@blogger.com2