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Career Day for Jim

School was lame. Adults were lame. Life, itself, was a series of lame events. None more so than Career Day. These were the thoughts of Jim as he walked into the gymnasium for the Beaverbrook High career day. At least he didn’t have to sit through the tedium and ennui of Mr. Leekie’s calculus class, […]

IndiePicks Magazine Loves The Fatness

Great review in the January 2018 edition of IndiePicks Magazine! Keelan Cavanaugh has been sentenced to a very different kind of prison. Uncomfortably installed at the Calorie Reduction Centre (CRC) — also known as the Fatness, or the Girth Gulag — he will lose weight, whether he wants to or not. In Rayner’s newest work […]

London media cover The Fatness

My thanks to the following media outlets for their recent invitations to chat about my new release, The Fatness. On New Year’s Day, the London Free Press published an article titled: “Satirist takes a bite out of obesity epidemic” My thanks to Dan Brown for a truly enjoyable interview and an insightful and well-written article! Then […]

Long guest post on Booklikes

I have a long guest post up on the Booklikes blog today, in which I describe the process of writing The Fatness. There’s also a giveaway of the book there. Check it out here.

Writing The Fatness

I’m not sure how interesting it is for readers to know the story behind the story, but I thought I’d share my experiences with writing this book. This one was personal. I’ve struggled with weight issues most of my life, so I found it quite difficult to write a humorous account of what it would […]

The Fatness is live!

My fourth novel is available as of today!  It’s a satire about concentration camps for fat people and bureaucracy gone mad. (Don’t worry, it’s a love story.) This crazy book was 12 years in the making, so I hope you enjoy it. Here’s a quick synopsis, and more purchase links below: Synopsis Keelan Cavanaugh is […]

Rejected Halloween-Themed Cereals

After the success of Count Chocula, Boo-berry and Frankenberry, cereal executives everywhere were on the look out for new Halloween-themed cereals. Alas, these never made it to market, though the last entry did make it to the packaging design phase. (This happens BEFORE taste testing, I should note.) 10. Candy Corn Pops 9. Werewolf Balls […]

The Simianularity

“I swear to God, I never thought the cyborg-monkeys would betray us.” Alltop wouldn’t survive even the robo-bees stage.

The void loves you

The caption is perfect if you imagine it being narrated by Werner Herzog. Herzog continues to read: “The orange sky, like the creeping shadows that threaten to engulf our fictional protagonists, is a visual clue that this never happened beyond the void of imagination.” If this cause a full-on existential crisis, watch Herzog talk about […]

Vintage Coulrophobia

Sugar Krinkles: so you have the energy to run from psychotic clowns! Things that make him extra scary: tiny hat suspiciously perfect teeth he’s wearing someone else’s face he painted it to blend with his face the broken pinkie. Alltop thinks he broke the pinkie in a funny way. (Maybe ripping off that face?) Get […]