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Old Fort Sessions on Bandcamp

My wife and I snuck off to the mountains of North Carolina a few weeks back. We stayed in a little cabin in the Pisgah National Forest. I set up two microphones, one for my Martin, and the other for both of our vocals. We recorded five songs and dubbed it our Old Fort Sessions, the name of the little town we were near.

Just down the gravel forest service road from our cabin was this decrepit little amphitheater. Every time we passed it I couldn’t help saying, “It’s not the amphitheater you want, it’s the amphitheater you deserve.” It made for a fitting cover.

I wrote most of these songs for a new book I’m working on now. I plan on including the protagonist’s songbook at the conclusion of the story. Who knows, maybe we’ll record some more of them.

The songs were mixed and mastered by Travis Geiman at Bigfoot Studios in Waterville, OH.

You can buy all five songs from my bandcamp page for $5.99, which includes a PDF booklet with the lyrics of the songs and a few photos.

The record will be released on all the major streaming services 2/5/21.

Thanks for all y’all’s support!

All the best,

A.S. Coomer

2020 In Review

Good riddance to an awful year, right? I hope the new year finds you healthy, happy, and taking care of one another. We’re all in this together.

I stayed busy in 2020. I had some stories, poems, creative nonfiction, reviews, and one novelette published. I released some music too. Here’s the SportsCenter highlight reel of my 2020:

Helping Hand / Worker Bee single Scuffed but Shining cnf piece published by Silver Birch Press in their My Front Door series. I narrated the audiobook of Memorabilia (pub’d by 11:11 Press). Philpot Nocturne #23 The Night Before Harvest w/ Philpot Nocturne #16 Early October Thunder Abating singleRural Eminence Volume One They Told Me A Monster Was On The Loose poem published in The Museum of Poetry.Singing Sour Grapes, Running Sound Interference, & The Sunday Morning Stickup on a Tuesday Afternoon published in Can We Have Our Ball Back?If I Have Let You Down--Four Songs from the Quarantine EP Pale Cobalt Blue short story published in Back Patio Press. A Miner single by The CoomersI wrote Chapter Fifteen of the collective novel Collective Voices in the Expanded Field (pub’d by 11:11 Press). City Music cnf piece published in Hobart.My first full-length collection of poems, Flirting with Disaster & Other Poems, was made available on Amazon via Alien Buddha Press. The Coruscate Cycle short-short-story cycle published by Cowboy Jamboree Magazine.Rural Eminence Volume IIPhilpot Nocturne #23 The Night Before Harvest video Stor-All Self-Storage novelette published in C.V. Hunt’s HORRORAMA via Grindhouse Press. Even a Little Shit Can Make a Big Stink poem published in The Rye Whiskey ReviewThe Devil’s Gospel audiobook released. Narrated by Sean Duregger. Cover by C.V. Hunt.Rural Eminence artist statement published in The Museum of AmericanaReview of the Snarlin’ Yarns’ Break Your Heart record in The Museum of AmericanaUntitled painting published in The Dope Fiend DailyInterview/Performance on The Blue Collar Gospel Hour podcast

I wrote four novels too. I’ve got some things in the works for 2021. See you on the other side of this dumpster fire year, y’all.

All the best,

A.S. Coomer

Birth of a Monster Kindle Preorder

Good Monday morning, y’all. I hope all y’all had a safe, healthy, and enjoyable holiday.

I’m writing to let you know Kindle preorders for my next novel BIRTH OF A MONSTER are live. 671 pages of transgressive horror for only $4.99. The paperback and ebook will be released April 2nd, 2021 via Grindhouse Press.

BIRTH OF A MONSTER cover by C.V. Hunt

From the back cover:

There’s a monster on the loose. All across the Ohio River Valley women are going missing.

Jacob Hunter Goodman’s childhood is filled with trauma. When he reaches adulthood, God calls on Jacob and he answers with a fervor unlike anyone before him. Jacob is compelled to make strange religious sculptures but each piece has a sinister secret.

In BIRTH OF A MONSTER, A.S. Coomer holds the mirror up to a sick culture of power and dominance worship and the kind of monsters it can create.

Here’s a sneak peek at the paperback:

Interview/Performance on The Blue Collar Gospel Hour

Hey, y’all. Hope all’s well.

I had the pleasure of hanging out (virtually) with Dan Denton for his podcast The Blue Collar Gospel Hour. We talked about my work, books, music, life as an artist during COVID, and a whole slew of other things. He even let me read a few poems & pick a few tunes.You can stream the podcast at all the usual places: Spotify, Podbean, etc.

Give The Blue Collar Gospel Hour a like on Facebook and follow them on Twitter.

Memorabilia Turns One

Good morning, y’all,

Hope you were able to recharge your batteries this weekend and this Monday finds you rested, healthy, happy, and sane.

I’m writing because my novel Memorabilia turns one year old today. To celebrate the good folks at 11:11 Press teamed up with poet/musician/videographer Vincent James Perrone (check out his book Starving Romantic, it’s great) to make a book trailer for Memorabilia. You can watch it here. The music in the video is an untitled, as-of-now unreleased Rural Eminence track I wrote and recorded a few weeks back.

In celebration of Memorabilia turning one 11:11 Press and I are having a one-day sale on the book: $10 plus $3.33 shipping gets you a signed limited edition (only 100 were printed, numbered, & signed) paperback copy of Memorabilia. Also, we’ve got a few different Memorabilia t-shirts on sale for only $10–there are only one size Small shirt in each design so get yours quick. You can pick up a signed limited edition paperback and shirt bundle for $20 plus shipping. Give the gift of existential literature this holiday season. You’d be supporting a working writer and young, up-and-coming press in the process. It’s a win-win, y’all.

ONE DAY ONLY: Limited Edition Signed Paperback copy of Memorabilia

$10 plus $3.33 shipping gets you a limited edition (out of 100) signed paperback copy of A.S. Coomer’s Memorabilia (11:11 Press). Give the gift of independent literature this holiday season. This sale is for 12/7/20 only. Limited quantities.

$13.33

Click here to purchase.

One Memorabilia Front Cover T-Shirt

A.S. Coomer’s fifth novel, Memorabilia, has developed its own memorabilia: a boxful of T-shirts. 100% Cotton, Anvil Lightweight shirt. Specify your size in the notes/comments. Sizes available: Large, Medium, and Small*

*limited quantity, while supplies last
Only one size Small left.

$10.00

Click here to purchase.

One Farmer T-Shirt

A.S. Coomer’s fifth novel, Memorabilia, has developed its own memorabilia: a boxful of T-shirts. 100% Cotton, Anvil Lightweight shirt. Specify your size in the notes/comments. Sizes available: Large, Medium, and Small*

*limited quantity, while supplies last
Only one size Small left.

$10.00

Click here to purchase.

One Spider/Faces Memorabilia T-Shirt

A.S. Coomer’s fifth novel, Memorabilia, has developed its own memorabilia: a boxful of T-shirts. 100% Cotton, Anvil Lightweight shirt. Specify your size in the notes/comments. Sizes available: Large, Medium, and Small*

*limited quantity, while supplies last
Only one size Small left.

$10.00

Click here to purchase.

Book & Shirt Bundle — limited quantities available

$20 plus shipping gets you a limited edition (out of 100) signed paperback copy of Memorabilia and one Memorabilia t-shirt. There are three shirt designs to choose from. Specify your design and shirt size in the comments. There are only one size small in each design. Limited quantities. Give the gift of independent literature this holiday season.

$23.33

Click here to purchase.

You can also listen to the audiobook, which I narrated, on Audible. The mass market paperback and ebook can be purchased on Amazon, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, etc.

From the back cover:

When adjunct professor Stephen Paul accidentally discovers the suicide note of his recently deceased friend, he unwittingly trips a wire into his own enigmatic madness. Within hours, the basic characteristics of his life rupture and are transformed by incarceration and psychiatric chaos. As a prisoner of the state and of his own body, Stephen’s existence appears absurd, ruthless, and barely stitched together. He must come to embrace that the only way out is through an associative mind, one that is as much invisible as it is material.

Memorabilia is a Kafkaesque narrative driven by the existential nature of creation. It’s a novel of self-discovery, exploration, and understanding, risking more and more as it progresses. A.S. Coomer questions the nature of reality and the reliability of the mind.

All the best,

A.S. Coomer

Untitled Painting Published by The Dope Fiend Daily

Hope this Monday finds you well and rested.
I’ve got an untitled oil painting on display over at The Dope Fiend Daily. Thanks to Scott Simmons for publishing it. I’ll have a few poems published at The Dope Fiend Daily in the near future too.

All the best,

A.S. Coomer

The Devil’s Gospel Audiobook Out Now

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Just in time for Halloween, The Devil’s Gospel, as narrated by Sean Duregger, is out now on Audible.

https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Devils-Gospel-Audiobook/B08LQML9XC

The paperback and ebook versions of The Devil’s Gospel (The Wild Rose Press) are available for purchase on Amazon, Kindle, Walmart, Walmart ebook, Barnes & Noble, Nook, IndieBound, Google Play, AbeBooks, Better World Books, Alibris, Indigo, Scribd, etc. Signed paperback copies can be purchased here.

From the back cover copy:

Biology Professor Kevin Ballard finds his quiet life rocked by a series of vicious mysterious events. First, his mother is slain in his childhood home. Then his girlfriend (and research assistant) is kidnapped from their cabin and he finds that the plant he’s studying is apparently being used in strange local rituals. To top it all off, the police think Kevin is somehow involved. Who wants to wreck his life and why?

Sean Duregger also narrated The Fetishists (Grindhouse Press) & a whole slew of other books.

All the best,

A.S. Coomer

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Rural Eminence in the Museum of Americana

Happy Tuesday, y’all.

The good folks at the Museum of Americana were kind enough to publish a little statement I wrote about Rural Eminence Volumes One & Two. These are two collections of ambient instrumental music about rural life. You can read it here.

Issue Twenty-Two of MOA is jam packed with great content. There’s something for everybody: poetry (check out Seth Garcia’s poem “John Wayne, Chasing his Toupée Into the Toxic Western Wind, Sees an Anvil Fall Upon an Angel“—it’s as good as the title), prose (check out Erin Fitzgerald’s “When I was FLOTUS“), humor, the Art of Patricia R. Garey, music & book reviews (including a review of the Snarlin’ Yarns “Break Your Heart” I wrote & a review of Cornelius Eady’s “Anthology” by poet/musician Cal Freeman.

Follow the Museum of Americana on Twitter & Facebook.

All the best,

A.S. Coomer

“Even a Little Shit Can Make a Big Stink” Out Now in the Rye Whiskey Review

Happy Sunday, y’all.

I’ve got a few poems coming out in the Rye Whiskey Review, the first of which is out today. It’s called Even a Little Shit Can Make a Big Stink and can be read here.

Big thanks to Editor-in-Chief John Patrick Robbins.

All the best,

A.S. Coomer

Rural Eminence Volume Two Out Now

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Rural Eminence Volume Two is out today on all the major streaming services. Seventeen new ambient instrumentals reflecting the rural life.

Tracklist:
1 – Philpot Nocturne #13 The Electric Fence Under October’s Glittering Stars
2 – Philpot Nocturne #14 Winter Insomnia
3 – Philpot Nocturne #15 A Summer Night in the Rose Garden
4 – Philpot Nocturne #16 Early October Thunder Abating
5 – Philpot Nocturne #17 Stargazing with Rachel
6 – Philpot Nocturne #18 The Cloudless Snow Moon
7 – Green Spring Mist
8 – Foggy Sunrise
9 – Philpot Nocturne #19 Snowed In
10 – Philpot Nocturne #20 Winter Wind Through Leafless Branches
11 – Sounds of the County Fair Drifting Over the Cornfields
12 – Philpot Nocturne #21 Hay Fever Dreams
13 – Philpot Nocturne #22 Sun Tea & Bourbon
14 – Philpot Nocturne #23 The Night Before Harvest
15 – Philpot Nocturne #24 A Coyote Crosses the Road Trailed Only By The Rain
16 – Early Morning Rain
17 – Philpot Nocturne #25 Moths in the Window

You can purchase all seventeen tracks for a measly $10.

Rural Eminence Volume Two can be streamed/downloaded on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Prime Music, Deezer, Youtube, Tidal, Napster, iHeartRadio, etc.

All the best,

A.S. Coomer

Timelapse Video for Philpot Nocturne #23 The Night Before Harvest



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