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Yellow Springs Book Fair, Audiobooks, New Book Coming Soon

I'll be attending the Yellow Springs Book Fair on August 16 with authors C.V. Hunt and D. Harlan Wilson. We'll have copies of all of our books along with other books in the Grindhouse Press, Atlatl Press, and Anti-Oedipus Press catalogues. Come out and say hi if you're in the area. We'll be hot and tired and starved for attention.

If you like audiobooks, all of mine are now available on Audible. I'm narrating most of them. One reviewer said I sound like a bored robot. That's probably a bad thing. This is what I spent most of last fall and into this winter doing. It was grueling.

I have a new book called CREEP HOUSE scheduled to come out this October through Grindhouse Press. It will be another collection of horror stories. I should have a cover and table of contents to post soon.

As always, thanks for your continued interest. I'm going back to work now.

Books Read in 2013

Here's a list of all the books I read in 2013. An asterisk denotes ones I particularly enjoyed. A double asterisk denotes something published by Grindhouse or Atlatl.

1. Eleven Twenty-Threeby Jason S. Hornsby2. The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry3. Tenth of Decemberby George Saunders*4. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell5. Shock Value by Jason Zinoman*6. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn*7. Guns by Stephen King8. Bubba Ho-tep by Joe R. Lansdale9. A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage10. The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor*11. The Poet by Michael Connelly12. The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade by Cameron Pierce (editor)13. 2666 by Roberto Bolano*(reread)14. The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Roach15. Phoenix by Chuck Palahniuk16. We Live in Waterby Jess Walter17. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Joanthan Safran Foer*18. The Lords of Salemby Rob Zombie and B.K. Evenson19. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn*20. Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk21. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks22. Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo*23. Zombieville by C.V. Hunt**24. Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion25. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene26. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie*27. The Science of Fear by Dan Gardner28. The Girl on the Glider by Brian Keene29. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris30. I'm Not Sam by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee31. N0S4A2 by Joe Hill32. Bullets and Fireby Joe R. Lansdale33. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan34. False Magic Kingdom by Jordan Krall*35. Bad Alchemy by Jordan Krall*36. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson*37. The Curse by Charles L. Grant38. Deliverance by James Dickey39. Joyland by Stephen King40. A Rage in Harlemby Chester Himes41. Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas42. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky43. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy*44. The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson(reread)45. The Last Porno Theater by Nick Cato**46. Thanks for Ruining My Life by C.V. Hunt**47. You Are Sloth!by Steve Lowe48. The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano49. Tampa by Alissa Nutting*50. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman51. Feast of Oblivionby Josh Myers52. John Dies at the End by David Wong53. This Book Is Full of Spiders by David Wong54. Muerte Con Carneby Shane McKenzie55. In a Lonely Placeby Karl Edward Wagner56. Plow the Bonesby Douglas F. Warrick*57. The Hour of the Oxrun Dead by Charles L. Grant58. Salinger by Shane Salerno and David Shields59. The Color Masterby Aimee Bender60. Lost At Sea by Jon Ronson61. The Shining by Stephen King*(reread)62. Doctor Sleepby Stephen King63. Dead Meat by Guy N. Smith64. Occultation by Laird Barron65. Dare Me by Megan Abbot66. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl67. Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk68. Night Film by Marisha Pessl69. Bag of Bonesby Stephen King*(reread)70. The Influenceby Bentley Little71. The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero*72. The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq73. Autobiographyby Morrissey*74. Stoner by John Williams75. American Pastoralby Philip Roth76. Fiend by Peter Stenson77. If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? by Kurt Vonnegut78. Methland by Nick Reding79. Janitor of Planet Anilingus by Andrew Wayne Adams80. Other People’s Shit by C.V. Hunt**
81. The Party Lordsby Justin Grimbol**

FREE Sociopaths In Love Audiobook

If you are too lazy to hold a book, too blind to see a book, or just want to hear me drone for 6-plus hours AND if you're one of five "lucky" people, feel free to use one of the Audible codes below to download a free copy of Sociopaths in Love.

Codes:

1)    PCWDT3X3HLPH5
2)    ACTMHCWXKA5RQ
3)    HUN6MDYAGBPE8
4)    7HSR48PGS3ZWX
5)    AYP28GTP5JDUZ





Instructions:

1.    Visit http://www.audible.com/at/redeem 
2.    Enter the download code into the "Redeem Your Promotional Code" field and click "Redeem".
3.    If you’re not an Audible customer you’ll need to create a new Audible.com account. Don’t worry, you can use your Amazon account to do this.
4.    Follow the instructions. You’ll have 1 credit applied to your account.
5.    Go to my book’s listing
6.    Add it to your cart. When you check out you’ll see an option to apply the free credit.

Reading In Indiana

I will be reading and signing books (along with William Pauley III, Jon R. Meyers, and C.V. Hunt) at the Westchester Public Library in Chesterville, Indiana. Here's a LINK to the event's Facebook page. Stop by and say hi if you're in the area.

Sociopaths In Love Is Now Available

Today is the official release date for Sociopaths In Love. Thanks so much for reading!

Paperback
Kindle

Reading In Chicago and Other Things

On Saturday, August 31, I will be in Chicago to participate in a reading with these other people:

William Pauley III
C.V. Hunt
Jon R. Meyers
Leza Cantoral
Justin Grimbol
Michael Allen Rose
and Sam Pink

Here's a link to the event's Facebook Page: Link

I'll have a few copies of SOCIOPATHS IN LOVE with me.

Also, a number of my books have been turned into audiobooks (more to follow):

Fuckness (narrated by Jeff Bower)
Hi I'm a Social Disease (narrated by Eric Aschenbrenner)
The Overwhelming Urge (narrated by me)

I also just wrapped up recording on Jack and Mr. Grin so, hopefully, that will be available in the coming weeks.

Free/Cheap Fuckness on Audible

Here are 5 codes for free copies of FUCKNESS on Audible:

1)    GXKXWLS4793A3
2)    8FG6EBXKWB2XU
3)    4TAKCPB2FQMZA
4)    ZDAKF5BKBAAS2
5)    JPNTND37L68QL

Here are instructions for how to redeem them:

1.    Visit http://www.audible.com/at/redeem 
2.    Enter the download code into the "Redeem Your Promotional Code" field and click "Redeem". 
3.    If you’re not an Audible customer you’ll need to create a new Audible.com account. Don’t worry; you can use your Amazon account to do this.
4.    Follow the instructions. You’ll have 1 credit applied to your account.
5.    Go to my book’s listing: http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B00CULQPYW&qid=1371008539&sr=1-1
6.    Add it to your cart. When you check out you’ll see an option to apply the free credit.

Here's the cheap part: If you bought the Kindle version, you can download the Audible version for 1.99.

Sociopaths in Love

Coming October 2013

Boy meets girl. They fall in love. They move in together and start a new life. They're beautiful and they have new things, expensive things, the best of everything, whatever they want. But that's only the surface. Beneath the surface is something much different. Something much darker. Theirs is a love like no other and only one of them will survive it.
*The cover image is by the amazing Dorothy Bhawl.

Reading in Cincinnati

I'll be doing a reading in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 2nd. This will probably be my last reading until June 21, 2015. Click HERE for the details.

I Will Sign Books and Ship Them to You

I don't really do a lot of signings at bookstores. Most of them don't carry my books so it would be awkward. I've thought about just bringing a table and signing books in front of one of the remaining Barnes and Nobles but I'd probably get arrested or asked to leave or something. It's also a pretty busy year for me, so I'm not really planning on making it to many conventions. I get asked a couple times a year about signing books so I thought I would do this. Take note, this is also your chance to pre-order a signed copy of Sociopaths in Love. Now take a deep breath, it's not as overwhelming as it seems at first:

1. If you PayPal ten dollars per book (add 5 if you live outside the US) to andersenprunty at hotmail dot com and put which book you would like in the notes (or comments or whatever) section I will send you     that book/those books toward the beginning of June (unless Sociopaths in Love is the only thing you're ordering). They will be signed. Please specify if you would like them personalized.

2. If you PayPal 150 (add ten if you live outside the US) dollars to andersenprunty at hotmail dot com, I will send you all 17 books I have in print and Sociopaths in Love when it comes out. I will send the 17 books to you in June and Sociopaths to you in October or before.

PLEASE NOTE: I WILL ONLY BE TAKING ORDERS UNTIL MAY 31ST.

Feel free to email me or message me on Facebook if you have any questions.

Here's a list of the available books in mindbending reverse chronological order:

Sociopaths in Love (tentatively available October 2013)

The Warm Glow of Happy Homes

Satanic Summer

Bury the Children in the Yard

Fill the Grand Canyon and Live Forever

Pray You Die Alone

Sunruined

The Driver's Guide to Hitting Pedestrians

Hi I'm a Social Disease

Fuckness

Slag Attack

My Fake War

The Sorrow King

Morning is Dead

The Beard

Zerostrata

Jack and Mr. Grin

The Overwhelming Urge

As always, thanks for your continued support!