Questions for completing this year and beginning the new year
Here is an End of the Year/Beginning of the Year assessment that I stole from David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done. I came across this in 2011 and have enjoyed sharing it with people since. I find it a very useful set of questions for evaluating my progress and helping to set goals for the new year. I have updated it for this year. I highly recommend this exercise for any creative person.
Happy New Year!
- Rose O’Keefe
Mr. Allen says:
What have you actually finished, completed, and accomplished? If you haven’t made a list in the last year, I would highly recommend that you give yourself a treat and review the year that just passed and look forward to the year ahead.
When I go through these kinds of questions I like to consider my answers in several areas:
Physical
Emotional
Mental
Spiritual
Financial
Family
Community Service
Fun / creativity / recreation
Completing and remembering last year
Review the list of all completed projects.
What was your biggest triumph in 2012?
What was the smartest decision you made in 2012?
What one word best sums up and describes your 2012 experience?
What was the greatest lesson you learned in 2012?
What was the most loving service you performed in 2012?
What is your biggest piece of unfinished business in 2012?
What are you most happy about completing in 2012?
Who were the three people that had the greatest impact on your life in 2012?
What was the biggest risk you took in 2012?
What was the biggest surprise in 2012?
What important relationship improved the most in 2012?
What compliment would you like to have received in 2012?
What compliment would you like to have given in 2012?
What else do you need to do or say to be complete with 2012?
Creating the new year
What would you like to be your biggest triumph in 2013?
What advice would you like to give yourself in 2013?
What is the major effort you are planning to improve your financial results in 2013?
What would you be most happy about completing in 2013?
What major indulgence are you willing to experience in 2013?
What would you most like to change about yourself in 2013?
What are you looking forward to learning in 2013?
What do you think your biggest risk will be in 2013?
What about your work, are you most committed to changing and improving in 2013?
What is one as yet undeveloped talent you are willing to explore in 2013?
What brings you the most joy and how are you going to do or have more of that in 2013?
Who or what, other than yourself, are you most committed to loving and serving in 2013?
What one word would you like to have as your theme in 2013?
Three New Releases for Fall 2012
Kill Ball by Carlton Mellick III
In a city where all humans live inside of plastic bubbles, exotic dancers are being murdered in the rubbery streets by a mysterious stalker known only as Kill Ball.
Die You Doughnut Bastards by Cameron Pierce
“Like William S. Burroughs on crack!” – Thomas F. Monteleone, New York Times bestselling author
The bacon storm is rolling in. We hear the grease and sugar beat against the roof and windows. The doughnut people are attacking. We press close together, forgetting for a moment that we hate each other.
In Die You Doughnut Bastards, amputees, lonely young people, and talking animals struggle for survival against the freakish whims of nature. A typewriter made of fetuses is the source of woe for an expecting couple. Tao Lin rewrites The Human Centipede 2. A girl with a glass jaw hides an otherworldly secret. A demonic loner goes to a birthday party in Hell. You’ll encounter a killer in a marsupial mask, a prison for anorexics, haunted pancakes, and a songwriter with a cult following.
Surreal prose poems give way to personal accounts of alienation and modern love. Vegetarian narwhals are sold at the supermarket. And in a city that might be your own, zombie doughnuts are rising up. Kill yourself before they kill you. Or just kill yourself.
Featuring original illustrations in the style of Daniel Johnston, Die You Doughnut Bastards is the latest way to drown, brought to you by Wonderland Book Award-winning author Cameron Pierce.
Unicorn Battle Squad by Kirsten Alene
“Somewhere between Kafka and My Little Pony, only even weirder than that sounds.” – Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day”
Imagine Terry Gilliam directing from a script written by Jack Vance channeling the ghosts of Kafka and Calvino, and you’re closing in on the essence of Alene’s latest novel. A bold fusion of grounded surrealism, unfettered filth, and wit as dry and dark as a strip of unicorn jerky.” – Jesse Bullington, author of The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart
Mutant unicorns. A palace with a thousand human legs. The most powerful army on the planet. A first world city on the verge of collapse.
In a city where teetering skyscrapers block out the sky, a city populated by lowly clerks, rumors have been circulating of a terror in the east. When Carl, the lowliest clerk on the negative twelfth floor, discovers that the city is indeed in grave danger, he sets out to warn the city’s protectors: the Unicorn Riders.
Although Carl’s missing father has left him a unicorn of his own, it is a small and sickly creature. Even worse, there is a crab claw growing from its side. But the Unicorn Riders need as much help as they can get, and soon every able rider sets out for the city’s flooded perimeter in a steam-powered Spanish galleon.
An epic journey that spans desert and sea, through the bedchambers of a fearsome Eastern queen, and into the devastation of a conquered city, Unicorn Battle Squad is the story of a boy and his unicorn at the end of the world.
New Release: TUMOR FRUIT by Carlton Mellick III
The latest book from Carlton Mellick III is available now. It is a “mysterious island” story for the bizarro audience.
If they don’t act fast, they’ll never get out alive…
Eight desperate castaways find themselves stranded on a mysterious deserted island. They are surrounded by poisonous blue plants and an ocean made of acid. Strange creatures lurk in the toxic jungle. The ghostly sound of crying babies can be heard on the wind.
Once they realize the rescue ships aren’t coming, the eight castaways must band together in order to survive in this inhospitable environment. But survival might not be possible. The air they breathe is toxic, there is no shelter from the elements, and the only food they have to consume is the squid-shaped tumors that grow from a mentally disturbed woman’s body.
From the crazy imagination of bizarro fiction master Carlton Mellick III comes Tumor Fruit–an intense survival story full of eccentric characters, nail-biting suspense, and unpredictable twists.
Like LOST on steroids, for the bizarro generation.
Available at amazon.com
Spotlight on Troy Chambers
Today marks the one year anniversary of Troy Chambers working at Eraserhead Press! We are grateful to have Troy as part of our team. We may call him our “office bitch” but in one year’s time he has made some very significant contributions to the company including overhauling our website BizarroCentral and bringing us into the digital age by heading up the creation of our line of ebooks including Kindle, Nook, and ePub versions of many of our titles.
Troy is also a fantastic copy editor, cake decorator, artist, and resident Necromancer. He practices Vodou, mummifies animals and talks to demons in his spare time. He is an absolute joy to have around the office and is constantly entertaining us with his crazy stories.
And recently, Eraserhead Press published Troy’s first novella through our New Bizarro Author Series that is like The Little Mermaid meets Hellraiser. It is titled Seven Seagulls for a
Single Nipple.
To learn more about Troy and his work you can follow him on Facebook .
Thank you for everything Troy! I look forward to year 2.
Love,
Rose
Rose’s “Survivor Countdown” video featuring Eraserhead Press
Here’s a video where Rose (from the movie “Rose: A Bizarro Zombie Musical“) interviews four bizarros from Eraserhead Press including myself (Rose O’Keefe), Jeff Burk, Cameron Pierce and Carlton Mellick III to see what we’re up to during the zombie apocalypse. It’s like Space Ghost Coast to Coast meets Pee Wee’s Playhouse.
This will be the first official bizarro fiction movie to be made, but we can only make it happen with your help!
Please donate to the ROSE kickstarter campaign, a film written and directed by Eraserhead Press author and editor, John Skipp.
In these remaining 42 hours, every dollar counts! We will only get the money if the goal is met.
It is currently at 97%. So close! Then the bizarro zombie musical magic can happen for real! So help a filmmaker out!
Go here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1676362079/john-skipps-rose-the-bizarro-zombie-musical
JOHN SKIPP JOINS ERASERHEAD TEAM WITH NEW IMPRINT, FUNGASM PRESS
It gives me immense pleasure to introduce the newest member of the Eraserhead Press Team, John Skipp.
Writer/editor/longtime literary troublemaker John Skipp helped invent splatterpunk, inspire Bizarro, launch modern zombie fiction, and turn on generations of readers to exciting alternative prose.
Skipp is one of the most enthusiastic, infectiously cheerful, vivacious, hard working people you’ll ever meet and he’s been a supporter of Bizarro since before it even existed.
If Bizarro is the literary equivalent of the “Cult” section in a really cool video store, then Skipp’s new Eraserhead imprint, Fungasm Press is the equivalent of the Coen Bros., Tarantino, Jeunot’s AMELIE, Michel Gondry’s THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP, Alex Cox’s REPO MAN, or the David Lynch of TWIN PEAKS.
Where most Bizarro takes place in an entirely Bizarro world – Pancake Island, for example – Fungasm Press grounds its weirdest ideas in contemporary realities, meeting at the freaky juncture where genre and mainstream collide with indescribable strangeness.
Fungasm will feature “short, intensely alive books with all the boring shit left out,” Skipp says. “With giddy momentum and a shameless desire to both provoke and entertain, they’re fun-to-read modern stories about sad, beautiful, horrifying things.
“Our first title – Laura Lee Bahr’s debut, HAUNT – is kind of like HOUSE OF LEAVES, only fun (laughs), or a slightly less high-toned McSweeney’s. It’s a stunning puzzle box, a delicious soul-scrambler, and the perfect book to kick off the imprint.”
In addition to publishing 2-3 Fungasm titles a year, Skipp will also serve as an Acquiring Editor and Cunning Elder Strategist for both Eraserhead Press and Deadite Press. And with his feature film ROSE: THE BIZARRO ZOMBIE MUSICAL, he’s taking Bizarro to new multi-media heights.
Below is a short interview I conducted with John Skipp.
Why are you the perfect person for the job?
I absolutely love editing, and creating a showcase for writers that knock me out. My tastes are promiscuous as fuck itself, and I really love work that doesn’t fall into easy categorical constraints. Finding ways to market strangeness is one of Bizarro’s great strengths, so I feel like I’m in precisely the right place here.
What does Bizarro mean to you?
Great joy, immense provocation, and incredible opportunity.
What were your first few days working with Eraserhead Press like?
My first few days were as a writer, when Eraserhead gave THE EMERALD BURRITO OF OZ its fantastic new edition. Working closely with Carlton and the team on the cover design and sales copy, I was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm, dedication, and most importantly, the freedom to say FUCK on your covers (laughs). You guys work the way I like to work: with honesty, whole-hearted devotion, and near-constant hilarity.
What are your five favorite Bizarro books right now?
Aside from HAUNT and THE EMERALD BURRITO OF OZ? In alphabetical order, as of this moment:
APESHIT by Carlton Mellick III
THE FAGGIEST VAMPIRE by Carlton Mellick III
THE MENSTRUATING MALL by Carlton Mellick III
PERFECT UNION by Cody Goodfellow
SILENT WEAPONS FOR QUIET WARS by Cody Goodfellow
That said, I’m really loving THE CANNIBAL’S GUIDE TO ETHICAL LIVING by Mykle Hansen right now. And could name easily a dozen more writers I’m really excited about.
For more information about Skipp and his thoughts on Bizarro Fiction, check out the following video interviews:
New Release: Jimmy Plush, Teddy Bear Detective by Garrett Cook
In a city ridden with prostitute furries, cannibal cops and warehouse-sized mob bosses, I’ve got my work cut out for me. My name is Jimmy Plush. I’m a private detective. I’m also a teddy bear.
It all started when the original Jimmy Plush entered my life, offering to take my gambling debts away if I agreed to switch bodies with him. But I didn’t know that being a three-foot-high plush toy would be such a living hell, especially now that everyone in town wants a piece of me. All I’ve gotten out of this deal is a faithful Chinese chauffeur, a custom teddybear .45, and a girlfriend who won’t take off the fox suit she turns tricks in.
Now I’ve got to keep this town clean and try to track down the real Jimmy Plush without losing my stuffing for good. Only one thing is for sure: Life is hard when you’re soft.
Jimmy Plush, Teddy Bear Detective is a high octane pulp satire. In the tradition of Sam Spade, The Shadow, Dick Tracy, Hellboy and Howard the Duck comes a new kind of hero, a hero that reminds us that the measure of a man is in his guts and his gun.
Now available at amazon.com
New Eraserhead Team Member: Kevin Shamel
Please join me in welcoming the newest member of the Eraserhead Press Team, Kevin Shamel.
We knew Kevin Shamel would fit in perfectly with our full-time team because he’s been volunteering his time with us during special events over the past year and a half. He’s attended local conventions with our crew and helped us sell books, he’s assisted us at the last two BizarroCons and has been a part of the New Bizarro Author Series. So, Kevin Shamel is already a part of our bizarro family. Last fall he signed a five book contract with Eraserhead Press, after the success of his New Bizarro Author Series book, Rotten Little Animals (which is now also available in German). His next book, Island of the Super People, will be released later this month, which is extra exciting because this is the book he wrote during Bizarro Boot Camp.
After having so many unique experience with Kevin already, he’s like a brother to us and we are thrilled to have him by our sides. I am certain that everyone who already knows Kevin will be excited for the happy news and I am delighted to introduce him to those of you who haven’t met this charming, smart, fun, enthusiastic dude.
Kevin’s job duties will be:
Super General Commander at Large—Leader of the Bizarro Brigade, an army of fans
Editor—New Bizarro Author Series
Agent of Intra-Office Affairs– Assisting With Secret Plans, Psychic Messages, Mischief, and Merrymaking
Here’s a short interview I did with Kevin where he shares more about his intentions:
What makes you the perfect person for this job?
It seems to me that I’ve been working toward this job for years. It’s my dream job. Every single duty and project that I’m working on at Eraserhead Press is exactly what I should be doing with my life. My jobs here were tailor-fit for me. And EHP is my family.
I’m going to be heading up the Bizarro Brigade, a full-on force of bizarro fans. It’s a finely-tuned international, mobilized battalion, ready to spread the word of bizarro to the world. I’m pretty sure I’m the right person to build and lead that army. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to assemble this force. I finally get to put my years at military school to good use. I’m also joining Kevin Donihe as another editor for the New Bizarro Author Series. I’m proud to have that job. It’s perfect for me because I went through that process. I know exactly what it’s like to BE a New Bizarro Author. I’ve come out the other side with experience that I’m certain will be put to good use in helping aspiring writers find their place in the bizarro community. The word, fulfilling, comes to mind. I can’t WAIT to introduce the world to the talents of new authors, and to show those authors the world that’s waiting.
Perfect.
What does Bizarro mean to you?
Bizarro is my life. It really is. It was my life before I found Eraserhead. I AM bizarro. I’ve always leaned toward the weird things in life. Weird books, movies, situations, and pursuits. I like movies like Night of the Living Dead, Flash Gordon, Evil Dead and Holy Mountain. I was reading sci-fi masters by the time I was eight and then discovered horror. My pursuits are varied—herbs, nature, horror, punk rock, photos of the sky, anti-religiousness, sexuality, mental control, psychic healing, being a dad, writing whatever my imagination spawns, being wild, philosophizing, doing magick, changing consciously and constantly, drinking good beer, ancient history, trying to think of things without adding a state of being to them, cryptozoology, stuff like that. My history is bizarro. If you catch me sometime, I’ll tell you stories about my life that you probably won’t believe. But I don’t have to exaggerate them. I write fiction. The best kind. I spent years taming my stories to fit into mainstream magazines because they were too crazy. Now I’m encouraged to think even beyond what I thought was weird.
Finding this talented, weird and wonderful group of people out there was like coming home. They are so much like me! I met them in a black-painted house owned by an infamous Satanic dentist, where they were performing. I saw Cameron Pierce’s second Meat Magick performance (the vegetarian version). It was amazing. I won a signed can of Porn ‘n’ Beans. Carlton Mellick III and Jeff Burk also performed, and I was simply enthralled. I thought, the bizarros are my people! Since then I’ve had such fun and amazing adventures with the EHP crew. From Bizarro Bootcamp to a retreat with the crew at their annual Sylvia Beach writing marathon, and all the totally insane conventions in between, I have had the most thrilling, life-advancing, odd, new, and bizarro times I’ve ever had. And they create amazing, interesting, bizarro books for everyone in the world. I believe that bizarro fiction is well on its way to world domination. It’s the most vibrant, alive, entertaining thing out there. It’s exciting.
Two years ago I decided to only read bizarro fiction for one solid year, to see how it affected me. It’s really my favorite form of fiction. I haven’t stopped reading only bizarro. My year came up, I announced it, but couldn’t bring myself to anything else. Actually, June 15th marks my second year of reading only bizarro fiction. And NOW I read more of it. That’s fine by me. In fact, it’s perfect. I love being so immersed. The bizarro scene is filled with some of the most intelligent, outrageous, interesting, kind, loving, crazy people that I’ve ever met. It’s one big, weird, happy family. Bizarro is life—beautiful, weird, honest, hilarious, celebratory life.
What were your first few days working at Eraserhead Press like?
Fun and amazing. It still really hasn’t hit me completely that I’m actually doing this job. I spent my first days beside Rose, copy-editing and working with Amazon. There was a party for the entire building on my first day—that was a nice welcome. It’s great to be in the EHP offices. There’s a happy, creative vibe that we all swim in and perpetuate. It’s really one of my favorite places to be in the whole world. Rose and Carlton went over what I’ll be doing for Eraserhead, and I’ve spent the first few days jumping into work. It’s been fabulous.
Also, there aren’t many places where your boss turns to you and asks, “Do you think butt-fur should be hyphenated?”
I knew I was right where I was supposed to be on the very first day. I’m so happy to be here.
What are your five favorite Bizarro books right now?
I’m glad you asked, “right now”. I have some ultimate favorites, but not only do I pride myself on changing my favorites up (in every aspect of life), bizarro fiction also gives me a steady stream of “the best book ever!” to choose from.
At the moment:
APESHIT—by Carlton Mellick III
ANGEL DUST APOCALYPSE—by Jeremy Robert Johnson
STARFISH GIRL—by Athena Villaverde
WARRIOR WOLF WOMEN OF THE WASTELAND—by Carlton Mellick III
THE EGG MAN—by Carlton Mellick III
I know this list is Carlton-heavy. But he is my favorite author of all time. I’d imagine that ZOMBIES AND SHIT would be on there if my kid would have gotten his shit together and finished it so that I could have read it before now. I’m just going to read my roommate’s copy.
The Brutally Evil Satan Show in Portland!
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
THE BRUTALLY EVIL SATAN SHOW staring Father CARLTON MELLICK III
The High Priest of Bizarro and author more than thirty books,
including such cult favorites as “Satan Burger,” “The Baby Jesus Butt
Plug,” and “Apeshit,” brings his most notorious performance back to
Portland, OR. Featuring exploding pentagrams, brain cannons, and more
zombies than you can shake an upside down cross at!
It’s so evil . . . it’s retarded!
“Easily the craziest, weirdest, strangest, funniest, most obscene
writer in America.”
—GOTHIC MAGAZINE
“Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles… and the kinkiest fans!”
—Christopher Moore
ALSO PERFORMING:
MYKLE HANSEN
author of “Help! A Bear is Eating Me!” and “Rampaging Fuckers of
Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet.”
“Brilliantly crafted, over-the-top satire.”
—THE DREAM PEOPLE
CAMERON PIERCE
author of “Ass Goblins of Auschwitz” and “Lost in Cat Brain Land.”
“Pierce is one of the weirdest, most imaginative writers around.
Toxie-approved!”
—Lloyd Kaufman
JEFF BURK
author of “Shatnerquake” and “Super Giant Monster Time!”
“Like Lloyd Kaufman and Sam Raimi’s mutant offspring.”
—Wil Wheaton
HOSTED BY:
JEREMY ROBERT JOHNSON
author of “Angel Dust Apocalypse” and “Extinction Journals.”
“A dazzling writer.”
—Chuck Palahniuk
JUNE 6th
8 pm to 10 pm
THE LOVECRAFT BAR
421 SE Grand
Portland, OR 97214
FREE
21 + only
Spotlight on Cameron C. Pierce
Today marks the anniversary of Cameron C. Pierce working with Eraserhead Press. As a happy anniversary and thank you to Cameron, I would like to tell you a little about this hard working ,eccentric, charming, mad hatter of publishing.
I met Cameron at the World Horror Convention 2006 in San Francisco when he was just 17 years old. That weekend we became friends and I got him drunk on my homebrew (though I didn’t know at the time he was underage). We released his first novel, Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden, in 2008. Then, a year after signing his book contract, Cameron began an internship with Eraserhead Press while he was still a student at Evergreen College. Two years later, we are releasing his fifth book and he has become the editor of Lazy Fascist Press an imprint of Eraserhead Press which he created.
Cameron is one of the most interesting, intelligent, caring and dedicated people you will ever meet. When he is not writing (which is what he does most of the time) he is editing other people’s work, sometimes even reading their novels aloud to them over the phone. He is passionate about everything he does and he has a rare imagination which knows no boundaries.
Some of the more eccentric things that Cameron has accomplished include 
throwing vienna sausages at the ceiling of the Seattle Center while humping a giant tinfoil centipede with a fish head for a heart, attacking a squid with a vacuum cleaner, convincing an audience to throw raw meat at each other, french kissing a fish, a writing marathon in a voodoo themed donut shop, pickling copies his books in custom made brine as special limited editions for fans, and tearing apart the pages of his book – handing each one to a person in a crowd to create a symphonic live reading of the entire novel simultaneously. And in February, Cameron married fellow Bizarro author Kirsten Alene after proposing to her while wearing a banana costume during a performance art piece at BizarroCon.
Look for Cameron’s newest book, ABORTION ARCADE, coming later this month!
Much Love,
Rose O’Keefe
Top 20 Bestsellers of 2010
Looking for a solid recommendation?
The following is a list of the Top 20 bestsellers from across our entire line of imprints in 2010:
1. Help! A Bear Is Eating Me by Mykle Hansen
2. Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere by Mykle Hansen
3. Satan Burger by Carlton Mellick III
4. Brain Cheese Buffet by Edward Lee
5. The Faggiest Vampire by Carlton Mellick III
6. The Baby Jesus Butt Plug by Carlton Mellick III
7. Bullet Through Your Face by Edward Lee
8. The Cannibals of Candyland by Carlton Mellick III
9. The Innswich Horror by Edward Lee
10. Shatnerquake by Jeff Burk
11. Apeshit by Carlton Mellick III
12. The Kobold Wizard’s Dildo of Enlightenment +2 by Carlton Mellick III
13. Angel Dust Apocalypse by Jeremy Robert Johnson
14. The Haunter of the Threshold by Edward Lee
15. Ass Goblins of Auschwitz by Cameron Pierce
16. Adolf in Wonderland by Carlton Mellick III
17. The Bizarro Starter Kit (Orange)
18. Razor Wire Pubic Hair by Carlton Mellick III
19. Trolley No. 1852 by Edward Lee
20. Foop! by Chris Genoa
ERASERHEAD PRESS GIFT GIVING GUIDE
With only a week to go before Christmas, Eraserhead Press has your gift giving needs covered with this handy guide. A gift for everyone on your list:
FOR THE ZOMBIE FAN
Zombies and Shit by Carlton Mellick III
Battle Royale meets Return of the Living Dead in this post-apocalyptic adventure.
Night of the Assholes by Kevin L. Donihe
A hilarious tribute to Night of the Living Dead where instead of turning into zombies people are turning into douchebags.
FOR THE GOTH CHICK
Starfish Girl by Athena Villaverde
A naive young girl is the last hope for a post-apocalyptic underwater dome world where everyone are mutating into crazed fish people.
Emerald Burrito of Oz by John Skipp and Marc Levinthal
OZ IS REAL! Magic is real! The gate is really in Kansas! And America is finally allowing Earth tourists to visit this weird-ass, mysterious land.
FOR THE STAR TREK GEEK
Shatnerquake by Jeff Burk
William Shatner? William Shatner. WILLIAM SHATNER!!! It’s the first ShatnerCon with William Shatner as the guest of honor! But after a failed terrorist attack by Campbellians, a crazy terrorist cult that worships Bruce Campbell, all of the characters ever played by William Shatner are suddenly sucked into our world. Their mission: hunt down and destroy the real William Shatner.
FOR THE GWAR FAN
Whargoul by Dave Brockie
From Dave Brockie, the twisted genius behind GWAR, comes a novel about the darkest days of the twentieth century. The modern world is dying and Brockie is here to put a bullet between its eyes and violate the corpse.
I Destroyed Your Life
I Raped Your Wife
I Am the Fucking Whargoul
FOR THE DUNGEONS & DRAGONS NERD
Kobold Wizard’s Dildo of Enlightenment +2
ARE YOU READY TO PLAY SOME DUNGEONS AND FUCKING DRAGONS?
The Kobold Wizard’s Dildo of Enlightenment +2 is an absurd comedy about a group of adventurers (elf, halfling, bard, dwarf, assassin, thief) going through an existential crisis after having discovered that they are really just pre-rolled characters living inside of a classic AD&D role playing game. While exploring the ruins of Tardis Keep, these 6 characters must deal with their inept Dungeon Master’s retarded imagination and resist their horny teenaged players’ commands to have sex with everything in sight.
FOR THE WEIRD HORROR FAN
Slaughterhouse High by Robert Devereaux
It’s prom night at a school are built with secret passageways, where rebellious teens get zippers installed in their mouths and genitals, and once a year, on that special night, one couple is slaughtered and the bits of their bodies are kept as souvenirs. But something’s gone terribly wrong at Corundum High, where the secret killer is claiming a far higher body count than usual . . . Slaughterhouse High is Robert Devereaux’s slicing satire of sex, death, and public education.
Apeshit by Carlton Mellick III
Friday the 13th meets Visitor Q.
Six teens go to a cabin in the woods inhabited by a deformed killer. An incredibly fucked-up parody of B-movies with a bizarro slant.
FOR THE VEGAN PUNK
The Vegan Revolution…with Zombies by David Agranoff
Presenting Stress Free Food! Animal suffering is a thing of the past. Hipsters can now enjoy bacon without guilt. Thanks to a new miracle drug the cute little pig no longer feels a thing as she is led to the slaughter. The only problem? Once the drug enters the food supply anyone who eats it is infected. From fast food burgers to free-range organic eggs, eating animal products turns people into shambling brain-dead zombies – not even vegetarians are safe! In Portland, Oregon, vegans, freegans, abolitionists, hardliners and raw fooders have holed up in Food Fight, one of the country’s premier vegan grocery stores at the vegan mini-mall. There they must prepare for their final battle to take back the city from the hordes of roaming undead. Will vegans filet the flesh-eaters or will they become zombie chow? When there’s no more meat in hell, the vegans will walk the earth.
FOR THE GORE FAN
Brain Cheese Buffet by Edward Lee
You’ve seen Cannibal Holocaust. You’ve seen Salo. You’ve seen Nekromantik. You ain’t seen shit! Zombie prostitutes, religious rapists, horny werewolves, death by vomit, and sexual fetishes scraped off the sidewalk. From sex prisons to mafia torture chambers, hold on tight because you’re about to enter the perverted and twisted mind of Edward Lee. Once you’ve seen what he has to show you – there’s no coming back.
The Book of a Thousand Sins by Wrath James White
God’s a mean bastard and doesn’t give a shit about you!
The Book of a Thousand Sins collects fifteen anti-faith tales of depravity, gore, and sex from the celebrated master of hardcore horror. Be warned; Wrath James White is here to scar you.
FOR THE ECO-CONSCIOUS FOODIE
The Cannibal’s Guide to Ethical Living by Mykle Hansen
In a remote and dangerous corner of the ocean, the renowned gourmet and food journalist Louis De Gustibus is held captive by an elite chef-and vegan cannibal-named André. But André would never eat his dear friend Louis. Andre only eats millionaires! Over a five star French meal of fine wine, organic vegetables and human flesh, a lunatic delivers a witty, chilling, disturbingly sane argument in favor of eating the rich. It’s a darkly hilarious dessert to Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Foer’s Eating Animals-a tale of good and evil, of rich and poor, of manners, madness and meat.
FOR THE WESTERN LOVER
Fistful of Feet by Jordan Krall
A bizarro tribute to Spaghetti westerns, H.P. Lovecraft, and foot fetish enthusiasts.
Featuring Cthulhu-worshipping Indians, a woman with four feet, a Giallo-esque serial killer, a crazed gunman who is obsessed with sucking on candy, Syphilis-ridden mutants, ass juice, burping pistols, sexually transmitted tattoos, and a house devoted to the freakiest fetishes, Jordan Krall’s Fistful of Feet is the weirdest western ever written.
FOR THE HUMOR LOVER
Help! A Bear Is Eating Me! by Mykle Hansen
One of Eraserhead Press’s all time best sellers. A laugh-out-loud tale of a man being eaten by a bear.
Lick Your Neighbor by Chris Genoa
The real story of Thanksgiving. Mutant ninjas, a talking whale, kung-fu masters, maniacal Pilgrims and an alcoholic clown populate Chris Genoa’s surreal, darkly comical and unnerving reimagining of the first Thanksgiving. Put down your feathered headdresses, puritan collars and buckled shoes and prepare to get schooled in the alternate history lesson they never mentioned in grade school.
FOR THE PICKLE LOVER
The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island by Cameron Pierce
A demented fairy tale about a pickle, a pancake, and the apocalypse.
It is Gaston Glew’s sixteenth Sad Day – the sixteenth anniversary of the saddest day of his life: his day of birth – and his parents have just committed suicide. Fed up with the sadness of Pickled Planet, Gaston Glew builds a rocket ship and blasts off into outer space, hoping to escape his briny fate.
FOR THE PUNK KID
Super Giant Monster Time by Jeff Burk
Will you escape the giant monsters that are rampaging the fuck out of your city?
Aliens are invading the Earth and their ray guns turn people into violent punk rockers. At the same time, the city is being overtaken by giant monsters tougher than Godzilla and Mothra combined. You can choose to be a lone scientist trapped in a secret government lab on a remote island swarming with monstrous killer insects, a badass punk rock chick with a green mohawk caught in a bar room brawl as the city goes up in flames around her, or a desk jockey forced to endure tedious office duties while his building is being attacked by a gargantuan centipede with claws the size of sports utility vehicles. Which character will you become? Choose from over 50 different endings and shit.
Punk Land by Carlton Mellick III
A completely retarded tribute to Kurt Vonnegut’s BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, for punks.
There are many different places you can go to after you die. One such place is PUNK LAND, the punk version of Heaven. It is an anarchist’s utopia of independence and individuality, where the parties are wild and the music is fierce, where everyone is allowed to be whoever they want to be… or, at least, that’s how it was in the beginning. Now, something is different about Punk Land. It doesn’t seem to be the same place anymore. Perhaps it’s the new punk handbook that everyone must follow, which explains what is punk and what isn’t. Or maybe it’s the introduction of the punk point system, where every citizen must retain a certain number of punk points or lose their citizenship. It could be the organization of the Punk Police, which enforces punk behavior and mohawk size. Or there might just be something wrong with the Punk Council, the new corporate government of Punk land. Either way, Punk Land just doesn’t seem to be very punk anymore…
FOR THE JUGGALO
The Cannibals of Candyland by Carlton Mellick III
Well, no, not really. But everytime I sell this book at a fan convention the juggalos are always drawn to it.
An erotic horror novel set in Candyland, like a mixture of Clive Barker and Willy Wonka.
There exists a race of cannibals who are made out of candy. They live in an underground world filled with lollipop forests and gumdrop goblins. During the day, while you are away at work, they come above ground and prowl our streets for food. Their prey: your children. They lure young boys and girls to them with their sweet scent and bright colorful candy coating, then rip them apart with razor sharp teeth and claws.
FOR THE ROMANTIC
Zerostrata by Andersen Prunty
Like Terry Gilliam at his most surreal, directing a re-imagination of Hansel and Gretel.
Hansel’s life is changed forever when he meets Gretel, a free-spirited woman who runs naked through the woods every night. She teaches him about a world of magic and beauty. They travel to the moon together via a rope ladder, sail back to earth in an air balloon, and wander through a graveyard that allows them to view the dreams of the dead all while trying to escape Gretel’s evil Grandmother.
The Egg Man by Carlton Mellick III
It is a survival of the fittest world where humans reproduce like insects, children are the property of corporations, and having a ten-foot tall brain is a grotesque sexual fetish.
Lincoln has just been released into the world by the Georges Organization, a corporation that raises creative types. A Smell, he has little prospect of succeeding as a visual artist. But after he moves into the Henry Building, he meets Luci, the weird and grimy girl who lives across the hall. She is a Sight. She is also the most disgusting woman Lincoln has ever met. Little does he know, she will soon become his muse.
FOR THE CHILDREN
The Faggiest Vampire by Carlton Mellick III
An illustrated children’s tale reminiscent of the works of Edward Gorey and Roald Dahl, for both children and adults.
Deep in The Land of Broodsarrow, just outside the village of Gneirwil, and high on a cliff overlooking the Everbleed Sea, there stands the faggiest gothic castle that any mortal being has ever seen. Living in this ancient faggy castle is none other than the well-renowned vampire, Dargoth Van Gloomfang. The citizenry of Broodsarrow sure has its share of faggy vampires, but old Dargoth has always been by far the faggiest of them all. That is, until a new vampire came to town. A younger, hippper vampire. One that emits such a grand amount of fagginess that one cannot help but be completely overwhelmed by his presence. Now Dargoth Van Gloomfang must figure out a way to out-shine this young newcomer if he wishes to ever reclaim his throne as… the faggiest vampire.
FOR THE COMIC BOOK GEEK
A Hundred Horrible Sorrows of Ogner Stump by Andrew Goldfarb
Goldfarb’s acclaimed comic series, A Hundred Horrible Sorrows of Ogner Stump, is a magical and weird journey into the horrors of everyday life. Join Ogner Stump and his amorphous companion Slub Glub as they encounter demonic hot rods, voodoo tentacles, swamp witches, psychopathic surgeons, nightmarish landlords, door-to-door coffin salesmen, and the Green Fairy.
From ritual human sacrifice to the moon’s anus, they find despair, misery, and wonder in nearly everything. There is a moral lesson to be learned in each story. There must be. Andrew Goldfarb’s surreal vision is one of shadowy desperadoes and haunted love affairs, all set within a darkly antique universe. Sure to delight fans of Terry Gilliam, Harvey Pekar, and Frank Zappa.
Skip the TRON remake, read CYBERNETRIX: a bizarro TRON parody
The new TRON movie comes out today. io9 calls it a “colossal failure of movie-making.” Whereas Tron Guy said “as the credits rolled I had to fight off tears.” Either way, Eraserhead Press recommends you skip the TRON remake and read CYBERNETRIX by Carlton Mellick III.
In CYBERNETRIX, technology has advanced to the level where electronic alternate worlds can actually be created and entered by humans. The first such world created was originally supposed to be based on the electronic world from the movie Tron, but due to legal complications with the Disney Corporation the developers decided to base it instead on a B-grade ripoff film called Cybernetrix. Although the movie was a failure, the electronic world of Cybernetrix has become so popular that it has changed our culture forever.
There is only one problem: the Cybernetrix world and the real world seem to be slowly bleeding together into one reality.
Carlton Mellick III’s Cybernetrix is a bizarro satire set in a future world where ’80s fads never went out of style, where society has completely lost interest in art and creativity, where reality is so damned boring that fantasy is the only thing left worth living for.
And besides that, BEST TRON SEX SCENE EVER!
Books released in 2010
Eraserhead Press and its imprints released 46 books in 2010. Here’s the full list.
ERASERHEAD PRESS
Christmas on Crack edited by Carlton Mellick III
Starfish Girl by Athena Villaverde
Night of the Assholes by Kevin L. Donihe
Mr. Magic Realism by Bruce Taylor
The Cannibal’s Guide to Ethical Living by Mykle Hansen
The Emerald Burrito of Oz by John Skipp and Marc Levinthal
The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island by Cameron Pierce
Slag Attack by Andersen Prunty
Eyeballs Growing All Over Me…Again by Tony Rauch
Lick Your Neighbor by Chris Genoa
The Kobold Wizard’s Dildo of Enlightenment +2 by Carlton Mellick III
Lost in Cat Brain Land by Cameron Pierce
My Fake War by Andersen Prunty
Sunset with a Beard by Carlton Mellick III
Super Giant Monster Time! by Jeff Burk
The Bizarro Starter Kit Purple
by Cameron Pierce, Jeff Burk, Cody Goodfellow, Athena Villaverde, Russell Edson, David Agranoff, Matthew Revert, Andrew Goldfarb, Kris Saknussemm, and Garrett Cook
THE MAGAZINE OF BIZARRO FICTION
Issue #4 guest edited by John Skipp
Issue #3 edited by Jeff Burk
NEW BIZARRO AUTHOR SERIES – new writers
How to Eat Fried Furries by Nicole Cushing
Muscle Memory by Steve Lowe
Felix and the Sacred Thor by James Steele
Love in the Time of Dinosaurs by Kirsten Alene
Uncle Sam’s Carnival of Copulating Inanimals by Kirk Jones
The Egg Said Nothing by Caris O’Malley
Bucket of Face by Eric Hendrixson
SWALLOWDOWN PRESS
By the Time We Leave Here, We’ll Be Friends by J. David Osborne
Deadheart Shelters by Forrest Armstrong
Perfect Union by Cody Goodfellow
DEADITE PRESS
Whargoul by Dave Brockie
Population Zero by Wrath James White
Haunter of the Threshold by Edward Lee
Zombies and Shit by Carlton Mellick III
Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies by Bryan Smith
Trolley No. 1852 by Edward Lee
The Book of a Thousand Sins by Wrath James White
The Vegan Revolution…with Zombies by David Agranoff
Slaughterhouse High by Robert Devereaux
The Innswich Horror by Edward Lee
Bullet Through Your Face by Edward Lee
Brain Cheese Buffet by Edward Lee
LAZY FASCIST PRESS
Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy by Bradley Sands
The Flappy Parts by Kevin L. Donihe
Person by Sam Pink
Boneyard Babies by Alan M. Clark
The Self Esteem Holocaust Comes Home by Sam Pink
SHARK VS BADGER COMICS
A Hundred Horrible Sorrows of Ogner Stump by A. Goldfarb
New Eraserhead Press Team Member: Troy Chambers
Please join me in welcoming the newest member of the Eraserhead Press Team, Troy Chambers. I am very proud to announce that Troy is our new office assistant at the Bizarro Headquarters in Portland, Oregon. Eraserhead Press has seen enormous growth in the past year and we are extremely happy to have Troy on board. He will be assisting us with various projects from copy editing to web design. Troy has been a fan and supporter of Bizarro Fiction since he was 16 years old and has been an active member of the Bizarro community online and has volunteered to help with the organization of BizarroCon for the past two years. Troy is an enthusiastic, talented, passionate person and we are very excited that he has joined our team full time.
I conducted this brief interview with Troy that I would like to share with you:
What makes you the perfect person for this job?
“ Bizarro is everything to me- I’m the type to sleep in the office (or not sleep at all) to get the job done. I seriously believe in Eraserhead Press- and Bizarro as a whole- and I’m willing to put in the time and energy it takes (plus a little extra) to keep this thing we have running smoothly. I came from Connecticut to Portland last last year for BizarroCon, and never left. I’d been wanting to move in closer to the action for years, and once here I just couldn’t get back on the plane to leave. When I was offered the chance to be added to the core Eraserhead Press team, I knew that finally I’d found a job that’s not a filler job- this is an opportunity to stay with something that I love. Once you start working at a place where you feel guilty when you’re not at the office, when being there and working is what you look forward to every day- THEN you know you’re in the place you need to be. I’m really glad that I’m so lucky to be in that place. I’m here, I’m willing and able, I’m ready to go. Vivat Bizarro!!”
What does Bizarro mean to you?
“What’s Bizarro to me? Pure unadulterated joy. When I first found Bizarro I knew it’s where I needed to be- it’s what I had been searching for, and had yet to find. When I found it, I knew I couldn’t rest until I was able to help it in any way that I could. Like I said before, Bizarro is my everything. I eat sleep drink and breath to be with these books, and the wonderful authors who create them. Bizarro really has found a way to bring readers what they want- the fun, weird and otherwise homeless books that usually would cause a publisher to scoff: ‘We could never publish THAT!!’ Bizarro isn’t like that. Bizarro, and Eraserhead Press, is willing to take those chances because it knows there ARE people who want to read those books, and plenty of them. They were also willing to take the chance on a goofy guy ecstatic to be able to be involved and help the company, and for that I’m ever grateful. I’m SO happy to be here!”
What were your first few days working at Eraserhead Press like?
“I knew instantly that I had been invited into the best job ever. When I first came in to start working, I knew that this is what I wanted to keep doing. I came in to the Eraserhead Press offices the first time to do edits and work on Whargoul, Dave Brockie’s new book out through Deadite Press. It was really an amazing opportunity to get to work on that book- a big responsibility, a serious project, but something that I was trusted with enough to get to work on. I was impressed and got pulled into the Eraserhead atmosphere right away- hard work, but on something the Team cares about, with people who are mutually helpful, supportive and fun. The Eraserhead Team is great- working with Rose, Carlton, Cameron and Jeff is an absolute dream. The place is fun, inviting and fast paced- the kind of place where a day at work can be made up of working like crazy to meet a deadline, helping an author get better at their work, or playing video games and watching weird movies. Eraserhead Press is just as awesome on the inside and in the offices as its books- maverick strangeness that’s a hell of a lot of fun. “
What are your five favorite Bizarro books right now?
“Do I really have to choose just five? I’ve yet to read a Bizarro book I really disliked. Having to choose is little trying to pick a favorite pet… Alright though, in no particular order: The Emerald Burrito of Oz by John Skipp and Marc Levinthal, The Egg Man by Carlton Mellick III, Shall We Gather At The Garden? by Kevin Donihe, Ass Goblins of Aushwitz by Cameron Pierce, and How To Eat Fried Furries by Nicole Cushing. I don’t know if I’d put it on the list since I can only choose five, but Apeshit is close to my favorite TYPE of Bizarro novel- the really violent and over-the-type gore books, filled with insane and ridiculous humor. In a book, I like laughter with my blood.”
2009 Wonderland Award Announcement
The Third Annual Wonderland Book Awards Dinner took place on November 13, 2010 at BizarroCon where the 2009 winners were announced.
The nominees for Best Bizarro Novel of 2009 were:
Fistful of Feet by Jordan Krall
Archelon Ranch by Garrett Cook
Ass Goblins of Auschwitz by Cameron Pierce
and the winner is:
Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland by Carlton Mellick III
The nominees for Best Bizarro Collection of 2009 were:
A Million Versions of Right by Matthew Revert
Sex Dungeon For Sale by Patrick Wensink
Screams from a Dying World by David Agranoff
and the winner is:
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars by Cody Goodfellow
Congratulations to all of the nominees and award winners!
Getting Ready for BizarroCon 2010
Everyone at Eraserhead Press is getting excited for BizarroCon next weekend.
Jase Daniel’s made this beautiful poster for the event in lieu of being able to attend in person, which inspired me to post it online and share with you some of my enthusiasm over this year’s event.
There is such an incredible list of attendees this year from old friends to new faces. I am anxious to see all of you in person and to share the unique experiences that only occur at BizarroCon.
I am excited to welcome everyone to Portland on Thursday night with a special performance by The Slow Poisoner . This one-man surrealistic rock band played at the Eraserhead Press 10 Year Anniversary Party last year and we are happy to have him back for this intimate performance in the Edgefield Wine Cellar at 7pm. Join me for a glass of wine and the weird tunes of the incredible Andrew Goldfarb.
Other highlights of the event include:
- Writing Workshops with John Skipp, Carlton Mellick III and Jeff Burk!
- The Eraserhead Press Book Release Party on Friday night featuring our 100th bizarro book release, The Bizarro Starter Kit (Purple) along with tasty homebrews crafted especially for this event!
- The Wonderland Book Award on Saturday night and The Ultimate Bizarro Showdown!
Click here for the full BizarroCon schedule.
See you down the rabbit hole next weekend, my co-conspirators!
New Deadite Press Website
Eraserhead Press has just launched a website for our horror imprint, Deadite Press. Check it out!
THE BIZARRO STARTER KIT (PURPLE)
There’s a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such as David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Tim Burton, and even Lloyd Kaufman) but has been largely ignored in the literary world, until now.
The Bizarro Starter Kit (Purple) features short novels and story collections by ten of the leading authors in the bizarro genre:
Russell Edson – prose poems
Athena Villaverde – Clockwork Girl
David Agranoff – Punkupines of the Apocalypse
Matthew Revert – three stories
Andrew Goldfarb – comics
Jeff Burk – Cripple Wolf
Garrett Cook – Re-Mancipator
Kris Saknussemm – Sparklewheel
Cody Goodfellow – Homewreckers
Cameron Pierce – The Destroyed Room
Zombies and Shit…
Battle Royale meets Return of the Living Dead in this post-apocalyptic action adventure.
Twenty people wake to find themselves in a boarded-up building in the middle of the zombie wasteland. They soon realize they have been chosen as contestants on a popular reality show called Zombie Survival. Each contestant is given a backpack of supplies and a unique weapon. Their goal: be the first to make it through the zombie-plagued city to the pick-up zone alive. But because there’s only one seat available on the helicopter, the contestants not only have to fight off the hordes of the living dead, they must also fight each other.
Zombies and Shit is Mellick’s craziest book to date. A campy, trashy, punk rock gore fest that is as funny as it is brutal, as sad as it is strange. An edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that twists the zombie genre into something you’ve never seen before.
Get it on amazon.com
Night of the Assholes
The Assholes are coming to get you, Barbara…
From Wonderland Award Winner Kevin L. Donihe, comes a hilarious tribute to Night of the Living Dead.
A plague of assholes is infecting the countryside. Normal everyday people are transforming into jerks, snobs, dicks, and douchebags. And they all have only one purpose: to make your life a living hell.
Today is the worst day of Barbara’s life. The assholes are everywhere. They’re picking fights, causing accidents, and even killing people. But she must remain calm. If you raise your temper to an asshole you’ll become one of them.
After losing her brother to the asshole onslaught, Barbara flees for her life. She finds safety in a desolate farmhouse with six other survivors. Cut off from the world and surrounded by a sea of assholes, they must figure out a way to last through the night. But more and more of those annoying bastards are gathering outside, preparing for the coming of something much worse…
Buy now from amazon.com
Trick or Treat
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays! I hope everyone had an awesome October, which is also my favorite month of the year. In case you missed it, we released some awesome horror books this month.
Available Now from Deadite Press:
ROCK & ROLL REFORM SCHOOL ZOMBIES
by Bryan Smith
If you’re a teenage metal head The Southern Illinois Music Reeducation Center is not the place you want to go. The center specializes in “de-metaling” – a treatment to cure teens of their metal loving, devil worshiping ways. A program that subjects its prisoners to sexual abuse, torture, and brain-washing.
But tonight things get much worse. Tonight the flesh-eating zombies come . . .
Get it on amazon.com
THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND SINS
by Wrath James White
God’s a mean bastard and doesn’t give a shit about you. Welcome to a world of Zombie nymphomaniacs, psychopathic deities, voodoo surgery, and murderous priests. A place where the gate to Heaven is in an elderly whore’s pussy and shit covered sewer drains lead to Hell. Where mutilation sex clubs are in vogue and torture machines are sex toys. This is the mind of Wrath James White. No one makes it out alive – not even God himself. The Book of a Thousand Sins collects fifteen anti-faith tales of depravity, gore, and sex from the celebrated master of hardcore horror. Be warned; Wrath James White is here to scar you.
Get it on amazon.com
TROLLEY No. 1852
by Edward Lee
In 1934, horror writer H.P. Lovecraft is invited to write a story for a subversive underground magazine, all on the condition that a pseudonym will be used. The pay is lofty, and God knows, Lovecraft needs the money. There’s just one catch. It has to be a pornographic story . . . All Aboard Trolley No. 1852 Through the midnight bowels of New York City, the trolley travels. Admitting only a special sort of passenger, and taking them to a very select destination . . . The 1852 Club is a bordello unlike any other. Its women are the most beautiful in the whole city and they will do anything. But there is something else going on at this sex club. In the back rooms monsters are performing vile acts on each other and doors to other dimensions are opening . . .
Get it on amazon.com
SLAUGHTERHOUSE HIGH
by Robert Devereaux
It’s prom night in the Demented States of America. A place where schools are built with secret passageways, rebellious teens get zippers installed in their mouths and genitals, and once a year, on that special night, one couple is slaughtered and the bits of their bodies are kept as souvenirs. But something’s gone terribly wrong at Corundum High, where the secret killer is claiming a far higher body count than usual . . . Slaughterhouse High is Robert Devereaux’s slicing satire of sex, death, and public education.
Get it on amazon.com
Queer Pride!
Today is National Coming Out Day .
Eraserhead Press would like to express our queer pride and stand in solidarity with our gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, and transgendered friends on this day of celebrating diversity.
To all of our readers, writers, and supporters we just want to tell you that we appreciate you and all of your unique kinks. Let’s celebrate each other today and enjoy the journey with our minds open.
Thanks for being you!
Spotlight on Jeff Burk
Two years ago today, Jeff Burk started working with Eraserhead Press. As a happy anniversary and thank you to Jeff, I would like to tell you a little about one of the hardest working men in publishing.
Jeff Burk is a writer, performance artist, publishing assistant, the Editor-in-Chief of The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction and a fiction editor for our cult horror imprint, Deadite Press. He is the author of the novels Shatnerquake and Super Giant Monster Time and the novella, Cripple Wolf, appearing in The Bizarro Starter Kit Purple (coming November 2010).
Jeff Burk is a punk rock anarchist, political science and history buff, comic book geek, pop magician, and Star Trek fanatic who believes in free speech, anarcho-capitalism, getting no sleep and having a good time.
Jeff has worked in some very unusual circumstances and never been afraid to jump in and get any job done. From dealer’s tables at conventions to making guest appearances as an author, doing grunt work around the office, entertaining a crowd, sticking with late-night editing sessions, brewing beer, and finding my car keys in the waves of the Pacific Ocean, Jeff doesn’t have a job, he lives a lifestyle.
Jeff gives his time and energy selflessly, is a constant promoter of Bizarro Fiction and the authors he works with, a pop culture maven, my confidant, a brilliant business man, and one of the coolest people you will ever hope to meet. I can’t thank Jeff enough for all the hard work that he has put in to Eraserhead Press over the past two years and I am so grateful to have him as part of our amazing team.
Thank you for being my right hand, Jeff.
Lots of love and appreciation,
Rose O’Keefe
