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BLACK PILLS IS OUT NOW!

Get it here.

BLACK PILLS is a collection of genre-bending short fiction exploring the unmitigated sh*tshow that is our present reality.

“Garth’s work is not literary, and yet it is. He hides his considerable emotional intelligence under a bushel of belchingly funny, low brow humour and sickening concepts. I find myself throwing up and eating it up at the same time, which I put down to his talent for making me laugh while sliding a shiv-like human theme between my ribs, which is not so much a flex as a hex” – from Queensland Literary Award winner Steve MinOn’s foreword.



BLACK PILLS features seven heroic doses of uncut gonzo fiction, each 110% guaranteed to astonish and confound:

💊 THE ISSUE OF THE FERAL PIG DOWN AT COFFIN CREEK
💊 HUGO GARRETT’S EXEMPLARY MOWING TECHNIQUE (Winner, short fiction, Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Award)
💊 THE QUADRATIC ABDUCTIONS OF PRIQUE JEJUNE
💊 THE INSATIABLE S*XUAL WITCHES OF WRIGGLER’S BEND
💊 THE HORIZONTAL BALLERINA
💊 RENTAL HELL!
💊 RENNIE ‘N ‘RELLE SMASH SOME NAZIS: A ROMANCE


Early praise for Black Pills


“An abject/object lesson in schlock and awe, Jones is the pulp ocker lit cowboy the world needs right now. In Black Pills, he brings an electrifying fantastical twist to the bogan gothic, where Antipodean vernacular shines at its authentic best”
– Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, 1000 Women in Horror, 1895-2018

“Garth Jones drags us into the uncanny vortex of the terminally online, overloading our smooth brains with homicidal gore, suburban perversities, and socio-political absurdity. He holds us captive like the best of barstool storytellers, pushing our faces down in the oozing muck of our new reality. Black Pills is my favorite dystopic action-packed B-movie that's never been put to film...yet” – Jillian Luft, Scumbag Summer

“An exciting and accomplished avant-garde writer who rips up the rules and produces genre-bending, provocative, action-packed pulp-fiction” – Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“Oozes class, is bathed in cool, and sneers at you - daring you to open it and let yourself in. It’s Garth’s best work yet” – Dave Musson, Once More Around The Sun

“If you want to show reluctant readers that sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll sometimes come in prose form... show them this book” – Michael Botur, Glass Barbie

“It’s vulgar and excessive, but also erudite and clearly informed by an extensive and eclectic stock of creative influences” – Dr Lara Cain Gray, The Grown-Up’s Guide to Picture Books

“Witty and clever… lucid, restrained and always appropriate” – David Hill, OAM, Seeya Simon

“Garth Jones isn’t pulling punches, he’s landing every bloody strike. Black Pills is a collection of seven relentless stories that blur the line between the mundane and the extreme, delivered in raw, rage-fueled prose. Each tale drags you through the mud, leaving you hobbled like the antagonists who stumble through Jones’ brutal, unflinching worlds. This is fiction that draws blood and breaks bones—you won’t walk away unscathed. Buckle up and take your lashes.” – William M. Brandon III, Eternity: The Long and Short of It, The Exile The Matriarch & The Flood, Welcome to Spring Street, and SILENCE & Selene. AGENTOFDISCORD.COM

HOME BREWED: REMIXED

”THE PUMP OCKER LIT COWBOY THE WORLD NEEDS RIGHT NOW”
– Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR, 1095-2018

⚡ Get ‘em here: passtheamyl.com (why my link tags no workin’, Good Reads?)

💊 BLACK PILLS DIGITAL PREORDERS OPEN!

💊 Preorder for Kindle.
💊 Preorder for Apple Books.

From Queensland Literary Award winner Steve MinOn’s (debut novel First Name, Second Name released March 2025) foreword:


“Garth’s work is not literary, and yet it is. He hides his considerable emotional intelligence under a bushel of belchingly funny, low brow humour and sickening concepts. I find myself throwing up and eating it up at the same time, which I put down to his talent for making me laugh while sliding a shiv-like human theme between my ribs, which is not so much a flex as a hex.”

BLACK PILLS is a collection of genre-bending
short fiction exploring the unmitigated shit show that is our present reality. 

It features seven heroic doses of uncut gonzo fiction, each 110% guaranteed to astonish and confound.

💊 RENNIE ‘N ‘RELLE SMASH SOME NAZIS: A ROMANCE
💊 HUGO GARRETT’S EXEMPLARY MOWING TECHNIQUE (Winner, short fiction, Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Award)
💊 THE QUADRATIC ABDUCTIONS OF PRIQUE JEJUNE
💊 THE INSATIABLE SEXUAL WITCHES OF WRIGGLER’S BEND
💊 THE HORIZONTAL BALLERINA
💊 RENTAL HELL!
💊 THE ISSUE OF THE FERAL PIG DOWN AT COFFIN CREEK

Early praise for BLACK PILLS

“Garth Jones drags us into the uncanny vortex of the terminally online, overloading our smooth brains with homicidal gore, suburban perversities, and socio-political absurdity. He holds us captive like the best of barstool storytellers, pushing our faces down in the oozing muck of our new reality. Black Pills is my favorite dystopic action-packed B-movie that's never been put to film...yet” – Jillian Luft, Scumbag Summer

“An exciting and accomplished avant-garde writer who rips up the rules and produces genre-bending, provocative, action-packed pulp-fiction” – Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“Oozes class, is bathed in cool, and sneers at you - daring you to open it and let yourself in. It’s Garth’s best work yet” – Dave Musson, Once More Around The Sun

“It’s vulgar and excessive, but also erudite and clearly informed by an extensive and eclectic stock of creative influences” – Dr Lara Cain Gray, The Grown-Up’s Guide to Picture Books

“Witty and clever… lucid, restrained and always appropriate” – David Hill, OAM, Seeya Simon

“Garth Jones isn’t pulling punches, he’s landing every bloody strike. Black Pills is a collection of seven relentless stories that blur the line between the mundane and the extreme, delivered in raw, rage-fueled prose. Each tale drags you through the mud, leaving you hobbled like the antagonists who stumble through Jones’ brutal, unflinching worlds. This is fiction that draws blood and breaks bones—you won’t walk away unscathed. Buckle up and take your lashes.” – William M. Brandon III, Eternity: The Long and Short of It, The Exile The Matriarch & The Flood, Welcome to Spring Street, and SILENCE & Selene. AGENTOFDISCORD.COM

⚡ HOME BREWED, now available on AMAZON.

Welp, as the poet said:

Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.

In this case, late stage capitalism is the bear and my fervent desire to have my stuff in as many eyeballs as possible is the tasty snack.

So now you can get your mitts on HOME BREWED in print and Kindle over at the Bezos mothership.

You can also grab a copy over at the slightly (but not much) less evil Apple Books and Google Play.

Be sure to leave a review and all.

TALES FROM THE FUCK-YOU-NI-VERSE

HOME BREWED, VAMPIRE BULLETS - TALES FROM THE FUCK-U-NI-VERSE collects six irreverent, mongrel punk shots of debauched lunacy from the wider Home Brewed cosmology.

Get it here!

HOME BREWED, VAMPIRE BULLETS, VOL THREE is OUT NOW.

THE SHIT HAS HIT THE FAN.

💀Signed: DMs open
💀POD: https://bit.ly/3KVvPGG
💀Digi: https://bit.ly/43NNAAn
💀Score: https://bit.ly/440EIaV
💀Good Reads: https://bit.ly/3n3wTAm

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HOME BREWED, VAMPIRE BULLETS, VOL THREE: the shit hits the fan APRIL 30!

PREVIOUSLY!

Undead pub rocker ED VON SATÁN is drafted to headline THE HARVEST, a music festival run by self-help cult THE ARCADIA TRUST.

Teaming up with riot girl band BABALÖN, Ed hits the road with a career resurrection in mind.

As the crew's shambolic westward quest approaches the gig, myriad malevolent forces gather to bring about the advent of a new Australian Utopia...

PRAISE!



HOME BREWED, VAMPIRE BULLETS, VOL THREE will be available for purchase in print and digital editions from Pass The Amyl Press on April 30, 2023, and will feature a unique QR-code driven score from that Seattle-based prince of the patch cable, Half Majesty.

Watch this space.

HOME BREWED, VAMPIRE BULLETS, VOL TWO is OUT NOW.

Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets, Vol Two

⚡️ Trailer

⚡️ POD: bit.ly/3iZB66m

⚡️ Digi: bit.ly/3D9x6Xt

⚡️ Score: bit.ly/3XXsITs

⚡️ Review: bit.ly/3WzOjAw


⚡️ LE: bit.ly/3wrtQmy

Let's go.

Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets, Vol One is OUT NOW!

⚡️Buy the ebook!
⚡️Get it in print!
⚡️Review it!

Praise:

“A book U kan open up to any page and it POPS and FUCKS UP ya Sensibilities and Expectations” – Duvay Knox, The Pussy Detective

“Satirical, violent, low-brow... Basically, it's loaded with the good stuff” – Zachary Ashford, When The Cicadas Stop Singing

"Explodes in a hell-fest of pulp fiction, dripping with blood and colour… international cream, however twisted, rises” – Ambit Magazine

“uproariously, deliciously weird& hallucinatory - part Ginsberg, part fictitious rock & roll bio, with plenty of otherworldly chaos” – JM Donellan, Killing Adonis

“a sense of authenticity that's as painfully funny as a nurse ripping out a catheter (as if she was) starting up a cantankerous Victa” – Neil Blanch, Dr Radium

CHEAPA SKIPS: OUT NOW

Cheapa Skips: The Feel-Bad Sessions '20/21 is in the wild NOW!

It’s chockers with environmental angst, WASPy beach town cannibalism cults, brain machine interfaces, seedy small town crims, gnarly bush justice and more. Get on it:

DIGITAL ($1.99USD/ $2.75ish AUD)
PRINT ON DEMAND ($6.49USD/ $8.99ish AU)

PRAISE:

'12-Fuck Faced pieces of Totally Irresponsible Prose covering Women to Daddy to Music to Life. And I'm here for it' - DuVay Knox, author The Pussy Detective and The Soul Collector

'Spike, snort, huff and toke on twelve grams of the sordid, the jaded, the gonzo and the profane. Cheapa Skips is a hit of the pure stuff - balls deep and punk AF, Australian sleaze right in the mainline' - J. Ashley-Smith, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Ariadne, I Love You and The Attic Tragedy

'It’s the tone and voice of Garth’s work that’s really compelling' - Lori-Jay Ellis, CEO, Queensland Writers Centre

'An exhilarating ride that oozes the true underbelly of Australia that our mainstream media ignores' - Justin Hamilton, Big Squid

'Garth’s writing is like Bret Easton Ellis, Nikki Sixx and David Lee Roth had a literary baby' - Sebastian Vice, Outcast Press

Check out the launch video here.

More information at the Pass The Amyl Press here.

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