"99 Erics" – an update about my forthcoming novel!

Over the last few years, I have been writing silly, surreal, sex-positive fiction centered on a character named Kat Cataclysm . Back in 2016, I published the chapbook you see here, full of short pieces that were supposedly penned by her. And this fall, my/her debut novel – 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel – will be released!

99 Erics will be published on Switch Hitter Press in October, 2019. A description of the book, plus links to excerpts, are below. More info (including cover art) will be made available once it is complete.

If you are a writer or media outlet interested in reviewing 99 Erics, or interviewing me about the book, please contact me, and I'd be happy to get you a review copy as soon as they are available!

In the meantime, here is a brief description...

Kat Cataclysm is an ethically non-monogamous bisexual woman and absurdist short fiction writer. 99 Erics is a humorous account of Kat’s experiences writing a book called 99 Erics, which is about her experiences dating ninety-nine different people named Eric. It is more surreal than slutty. Not that there is anything wrong with slutty.


Here is the mandatory “Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman” description:
99 Erics is kinda sorta like a Michelle Tea novel meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Except that none of it takes place in outer space.

Here are a few excerpts from 99 Erics – more will be added as they become available...

a live reading from the chapter "Posers" – Kat Cataclysm shares her views on queer identity and her experiences coming out as so-called "baby dyke" way back when...


a live reading from the chapter "Publishers Clearing House" (originally called "Poetry Slammed" in her chapbook) – a send-up of slam poetry, YA fiction, and searching for a publisher.



Three additional chapters ( Eric Number One , Fucking Expectations , and Shopping Carts, Part One ) have been made exclusively available to Julia’s Patreon supporters.