Hey hey it's my first Publishers Marketplace announcement. Hope you like magic VCRs.

And here are some 'Not Am*zon' options for pre-ordering (print or audiobook): indiebound.org/search/book?ke…

Intrepid Pictures (House on Haunted Hill/Midnight Mass, etc.) showed an interest in adapting HEAD CLEANER, so I might take a crack at turning the novel into a screenplay in the next couple weeks before school ramps back up just to make my life way harder.

Me in the '80s hiding in my great-grandma's basement (her art is on the walls) from a Thanksgiving gathering upstairs, listening to my wooden box of Billy Squier tapes on my Walkman, re-reading Stephen King's novel THE STAND. Who wants to go back? I'll race ya.

p.s. my great-grandma Dorothy Singer lived to be 102 and, as reported, she loved painting and bells (here's a picture of her with my mom)

New blurb for HEAD CLEANER (@PolisBooks)! “This fun, fast, crazy sci-fi romp around the VHS industry was made to be injected directly into my Gen X veins..." —Amber Sparks (Amber Noelle) author of And I Do Not Forgive You, named a Best Book of 2020 by The Washington Post and NPR

The latest blurb for HEAD CLEANER is from Jeremy Robert Johnson, award-winning author of The Loop! release date: 10.18.22

Exciting to see HEAD CLEANER on CrimeReads "Most Anticipated" Fall list. "Perhaps recommending this book… is a form of quiet quitting?" 😆

Over at TOR today, HEAD CLEANER is a "can't miss": "Centered around a video store whose employees discover they can alter the endings of certain films—which might have the power to change the world around them... a thoroughly compelling high concept." tor.com/2022/09/28/can…

My "Fantastic Flying Eraserheads," the genesis of HEAD CLEANER, is mentioned today at Tor as a favorite "F*cked Up Film That F*cks People Up." Several LOST FILMS alumnus mentioned (as well as "Candle Cove" that freaky story that became the toothy first season of Channel Zero)

HEAD CLEANER over at Audiobooks.com today on an "80s/90s Nostalgia" list: "Hair scrunchies, Walkmans and Blockbuster are waiting for you with these nostalgic listens bringing you back to simpler times."

A HEAD CLEANER recommendation in PASTE! They're pairing new books with new TV shows: "Within mere weeks of each other, two entirely different takes on the life of 'the last Blockbuster video store in the United States' will be joining the pop culture conversation."

Final cover's gonna look something like this. Tape 'splosion pow pow pow. Out 1.10.23.

After years of great visits we're utterly baffled by Monterey Bay Aquarium's "Sorry nothing we can do!" response to tickets that expired during the time they were closed over a year for Covid. Also hung up on me. What happened to them? They need the price of 3 tickets that bad? So bizarre.

Insanity.

Library Journal recommending Head Cleaner and some other hybrid novels today for some "cross-genre" thrills (and shelving challenges) libraryjournal.com/story/collecti…

Head Cleaner seems to have opened a couple new doors (like reviews in new places) and today my very first Booklist review dropped. It's full of great stuff! Key word throughout is "fun."

I recently got to talk with Tobias Carroll at Volume 1 Brooklyn about HEAD CLEANER. Our conversation is here (including my absolute favorite time loop movie): vol1brooklyn.com/2023/05/22/ana…

This idea resurfaces every so often so here's a reminder that Liam Watson, Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮, and myself have a great blue-collar horror antho idea we're calling THE GRIND that's looking for a publisher. The cover could look something like this...

For SCU's annual Day of Giving (4/10), support work by, with, and for the Ohlone and Muwekma Ohlone tribal community, on whose homelands SCU is built! One fund dedicated to this work is the Community Heritage Lab. Donate here: givingday.scu.edu/giving-day/810…