New York, NY  – An underemployed hot dog dresser, his reluctant friends, and a hypnotically blue and totally purloined crustacean are on the move, and quickly. Why? Because life if short, and sometimes, you’ve just got to get the lobster. The Lobster Heist (978-1-954158-21-4), from Humorist Books and Erin McLaughlin, scuttles into bookstores and e-platforms on August 29, 2023.

Apart from his thankless job at Hot Dawgy Dawgs, Brooklyn’s best and worst hot dog joint, twenty-something Josh Cantillo doesn’t have much going on in his life. Unless you count his never-ending quest to find his lobsterman father who went out for milk one day and never came back.

 One of the only things that Josh remembered about him was their shared enchantment with a rare, metallic-blue lobster that resides in a local, rundown Chinese restaurant.And when Josh finds out that his father is dying, he’ll go to any means to kidnap that blue lobster and bring it to him.

It’s a journey that will require the assistance of friends and enemies, old and new, and which will send him into the path of underworld criminals, crusty fisherman, romantic rivals, and various other hidden and hilarious dangers of New England.

“I wrote The Lobster Heist because I spent my entire life feeling that a piece of me was missing, because I didn’t know my father. As I wrote the book, I learned alongside Josh that much more than that makes up who you are,” McLaughlin says. “I also really wanted to publish a novel by the time I was 26, and Humorist Books made that happen for me!”

In it’s first week in pre-orders The Lobster Heist has reached #1 in New Releases in Humorous American Fiction.

The Lobster Heist (ISBN: 978-1-954158-21-4) will be available on August 29, 2023, in paperback format wherever books are sold.

To arrange author interviews and appearances, or to receive a review copy, contact Brian Boone at Humorist Books. Visit the book page for links and info here

About the Author

Erin McLaughlin is a satire writer and editor, and her work has been featured in The Hard Times, Points in Case, Hard Drive, and Screen Queens, and she is the co-founder and former Head Editor of JumpKick, the satirical crowdfunding website. Erin holds a B.A. in English-Creative Writing from Binghamton University, an M.A. in Communication from Baruch College, and isan M.F.A. in Fiction candidate.

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