If everything made sense,
we wouldn't need surrealism to explain it.
-- me
Books For Sale
If you want to read a book, please try my own imprint, Smashed-Rat-on-Press, where you will find these books and others.
- Fumie's Teacup is in-print. This is the one novel that I recommend if you don't already know me. It's about Japan. It may still be available through Amazon.com. But at $18, I think XLibris is pricing themselves out of the market. So get the second edition at Smashed-Rat-on-Press. It has the cover I always wanted.
- Diane at Fifteen is also in-print. This novel contains mature content not at all suitable for youngsters... I don't necessarily recommend this for general readership, in any case. This is a book that would be banned in a minute if they heard about it, but I think it's a lot more wholesome than Catcher in the Rye. When you read it, you'll agree. It was also put out by XLibris, and may still be available through Amazon.com, but the Smashed-Rat-on-Press edition is cheaper and better.
- Apple Blossom Dreams was made available through Book Surge and it may still be available on BN, and Amazon.com. I know that at least one copy was sold. Thanks, Glenn! This was the first time I designed my own cover. The front is a picture of blossoms on the apple tree in front of my house, complete with honey bee. This isn't a book for kiddies or blushing brides. And, like the others, the BookSurge edition is too expensive, so I made it available through Smashed-Rat-on-Press.
- My earliest collection of short stories, Majestic Freiks, has never before been available, but is now exclusively available through Smashed-Rat-on-Press. I guess by now you get the picture...
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My racy first
novel A Harlot of Venus
was published by the defunct firm of Masquerade Books (New York), but
has been out of print since '96. The second-edition is now available,
and it's much better. It
now contains author's corrections and the two maps that were missing from the
Masquerade edition. But most importantly, it has a really fabulous new cover
and two interior illustrations by
Christine Larsen. This is the cover I always wanted, and now
you
can own a copy. If
you've already read the book, thanks... and keep an eye out for the rest of the trilogy,
coming someday soon. |
- You might also be interested in my short book Exploring the Surrealist Haiku of Batsuo Masho, which is now also available at Smashed-Rat-on-Press.
Heck, just visit Smashed-Rat-on-Press and see what else is available!
Free Stories and Stuff
The following stories are also available around the net, for free...
- Georgia's Loose Tooth is available in the Intertext archives (link to archives V4N4). At the time (1994) I rather hated what the editor did to it, so someday I'll be vain enough to publish what I actually wrote.
- Violists (three stories from 1994 donated to Project Gutenberg, free downloads!) This is a set of stories suitable for a general audience. It's also available from the Gutenberg server as a zip file, if you want it that way... Check out the Oxford Text Archive info on Violists. This is also available as part of my collection at Smashed-Rat-on-Press.
- Bonus story of the decade... A Blossom in the Sand - another one originally published by Spectrum in Candlelight Tales now long out of print. This was at one time put on-line by Spectrum as a sample, so it's been around the net before, and can probably be found in some archives somewhere. But here it is. The collection from which this story derives is also available. Look for it at Smashed-Rat-on-Press.
- If you're one of the multitudes following this page with breathless excitement, you'll be really keen to learn that not only is A Harlot of Venus back in print (as above), but soon to be available re the never-before-available prequel, and the long awaited secret anti-war companion novel of Mars. Stay tuned! I can hardly wait for them all to be banned in Peoria.
- You may also be interested to know that our friend H. Cogito Epsilon finally put out the racy sci-fi erotic satire Ergot Suum and the Rampaging Ooze-Worm of Zupiter over at Smashed-Rat-on-Press. Check it out with the fabulous new cover design by GraphicBrat.