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Spooktacular News! Dim-Bulb Demons Beezle, Buzzle, and Barb Are Back and  ‘Home for Halloween’

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[NEW YORK, NY]  Just when you thought it was safe to Trick or Treat, those inexorable demons, Beezle, Buzzle, and Barb, make their obnoxious return! This Halloween, the demons have been summoned to shock, scare, and create general mayhem throughout the neighborhood. In this latest stand-alone volume, you  become the unwilling accomplice with every turn of the page. So, before you crack open this latest volume, don’t forget to shut your windows and lock your doors. This year, Beezle, Buzzle, and Barb are Home for Halloween (ISBN: 978-1-954158-26-9)

 

In the fourth entry in the “Beezle, Buzzle, and Barb” saga, a collection of children’s storybook-style books that aren’t really for children, a trio of mischief-causing demons return to Earth to wreak minor havoc on Halloween. Like always, they fail to get the job done, and this time wind up having a very happy and super spooky Halloween.

 

A fun, festive, and slightly creepy seasonal book perfect for kids of all ages, Home for Halloween (ISBN: 978-1-954158-26-9) is available in paperback format wherever books are sold, distributed by IngramSpark, and on assorted e-book platforms. To request a review copy, or to set up an event featuring Home for Halloween and Brandon Hicks, please contact Humorist Books: brian@humoristbooks.com


About the Author

 

Brandon Hicks is an award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. He’s the author of three other “Beezle, Buzzle, and Barb” tales (from Humorist Books): Curses for Christmas, Seven Easy Steps to Go to Hell, and The History of Human Achievement. 

 

 

 

Dive Into Community Pool, the Funny, Filthy, Wild, and Sweet Second Novel From Acclaimed Author Keith James

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[NEW YORK, NY]  The entire town of Chubbuck, Idaho, loathes Jerry Yatsko. Even his family can’t stand him, including his openly cheating wife and huge dork of a son. Daily visits to the local municipal pool don’t quite bring the family togetherness that Jerry desperately craves, but it does help him stumble on a portal that blurs the lines between reality and dreamland. His actions in one place can change his fate in the other, and Jerry — as well as a young and unpredictable friend — can use this powerful tool to either take revenge on the monsters of Chubbuck or protect the people that he still, somehow, and begrudgingly, deeply loves. 

 

Come on in, the water’s fine in Community Pool (ISBN: 978-1-954158-32-0). It’s a misanthropic and profane comedy that transforms into a powerful, moving sci-fi adventure through space, time, and the human heart.

 

“I wrote this book as a brand new dad, in the middle of the pandemic. My wife, my daughter, and I were living with my mother-in-law. I thought a lot about communities,” author Keith James says. “What is my obligation to the community? What is the community’s obligation to me? If I say, ‘screw this community,’ when would I be wrong and when would I be right?”

 

A novel as emotionally raw as it is laugh out loud and utterly unpredictable, COMMUNITY POOL (ISBN 978-1-954158-32-0) is available in paperback format wherever books are sold, distributed by IngramSpark, and on assorted e-book platforms. To request a review copy, or to set up an event featuring COMMUNITY POOL and Keith James, please contact Humorist Books: brian@humoristbooks.com

 

About the Author

 

Keith James is a writer and performer from San Diego. He has trained and performed at Pack Theater, iO West, and UCB. Community Pool is his second novel, following the acclaimed dark comic fantasy Greg Maxwell’s Inferno (Humorist Books). He also writes and hosts the Gus Biblowitz: Basketball Legend audio series.

 

 

Humorist Books presents WALKER, the hilarious debut novel from Emmy-nominated writer Sam Pasternack

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Walker is walking across America! From Idaho, down through California, across the Southwest, the South, the Carolinas, and up to Washington, D.C., just in time for Inauguration Day. Why? He pretty much has to! As a modern-day and devoted descendent of legendary 19th century long-distance pedestrian Preston Dilettante, the relentlessly sunny Walker Dilettante will gladly traipse across the country to reunite far-flung family members for a photo with their common ancestor’s iconic boot — as a gift to his beloved, dying Grandpappy. Along the way, Walker is accompanied by his social media-savvy cousin, Ria, meets cousins he loves who loathe him back, and accidentally involves himself in a deadly scandal surrounding both the incoming and outgoing presidents. That’s the world of WALKER (ISBN 978-1-954158-29-0).

 

WALKER is a book about America, yokels, Instagram, politics, intrigue, hot air balloons, mysteries, and, most of all, the weirdness of family and the burden of legacy. “It’s like if On The Road was an absurdist epic, filled with homespun Americana dreams, centered around a lovable naïf, seasoned with a touch of Simon Rich,” says Saturday Night Live writer Brian McElhaney. “Reading this was honestly, somehow, more fun than TV.”

 

“WALKER came about when my brother told me about pedestrianism, competitive walking popular in the Civil War era. I’ve always loved learning about sports subcultures that have gone out of style over the years,” says first-time novelist Sam Pasternack. “Once I started imagining the modern-day descendants of the most famous pedestrians, Walker’s story came into focus.” 

 

A novel as wistful, striking, and compelling as it is funny and earnest, WALKER (ISBN 978-1-954158-29-0) is available in paperback, e-book, and audiobook format wherever books are sold. To request a review copy, or to set up an event featuring WALKER please contact Humorist Books: brian@humoristbooks.com

 

About the Author

Sam Pasternack is a Los Angeles-based writer and Emmy-nominated producer for his work on The Drew Barrymore Show. He has written and produced for television shows on CBS, NBC, and truTV.

 

 

 

 

From Humorist Books Comes the Shocking, Twisted, and Alien-Infused Origin Story of the Letter H, in the Vowels of the Earth by Matthew David Brozik

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New York City. 1948. Jeremiah Carp is a mild-mannered, low-level professor pleased with his quiet life of work, gentle pranks, and thinking about marrying his patient partner. All of that just might disappear thanks to Jeremiah’s woeful decision to get involved with some nefarious ad men to help them with a campaign to introduce a new letter — “aitch” — to the English alphabet. 

An ambitious goof worthy of Jeremiah’s considerable talents? Yes. Is he an unwitting pawn in an alien conspiracy that’s been in the planning stages for hundreds of years? Somehow, yes, that’s also true. 

It all plays out like the alphabet song in The Vowels of the Earth (ISBN 978-1954158276) by Matthew David Brozik, a hybrid of literate science-fiction, laugh out loud humor, and old-school academic farce.

“The Vowels of the Earth is the result of my deciding to turn a quirky 750-word humor piece into a full-length novel,” Brozik (The Government Manual for New Superheroes) says. “Originally, the protagonist was old, bitter, and sarcastic. For the novel, I made him young, energetic, and cycloptic. And I added aliens, because that’s the only way the sheer absurdity of the plot would make any sense at all.”

“The Vowels of the Earth is a mystery with jokes, linguistics, aliens, and heart, the four essential components of any good story,” says former senior editor of The Onion Jason Roeder (Griefstrike! The Ultimate Guide to Mourning). “Brims with oddly lovable characters, zingy dialogue and humor, and so many twists that you not only won’t see them coming — you’ll give up and surrender to Brozik’s fevered imagination,” adds Rob Kutner (Conan, The Daily Show).

The Vowels of the Earth (ISBN 978-1954158276) is available in every major ebook format and in paperback.

To arrange an author interview or appearance, and/or to receive a review copy of The Vowels of the Earth contact Brian Boone at Humorist Books.

 

 

About the Author

Matthew David Brozik is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer of fiction and humor that has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Barnes & Noble’s Grin and Tonic, and Mulholland Books’ Popcorn Fiction. He’s the author of the middle-grade novel Odder Space and grown-up books Spelled Wrong and Danger …With a Hard G, named by Splitsider as one of the Best Comedy Books of 2017.

 

Humorist Books to Publish Supernatural Comedy ‘Attack of the Rom-Com’ by Martti Nelson

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New York, NY –Lookout! Vengeful movie tropes — and true love — are primed to strike in Attack of the Rom-Com, a warm, wild, and hilarious supernatural comedy. 

About the only thing that tough, cynical, and profane Sophie Sweet adores is her ride-or-die BFF Jodie Edwards. Sophie has been hurt too many times to bother with other people, and that goes double for love, a ridiculous fairy tale designed to keep women down. Or so Sophie says.

Every year, Sophie and Jodie visit a fortune teller, but this time, they’re met with a surprise: Tiffani the Psychic. This bubbly, pink-clad medium will stop at nothing to get to Tiffany’s squishy, sensitive heart. Sophie wants no part of that. 

Too bad. 

Tiffani is coming, whether she likes it or not — and she definitely won’t like being subject to a string of magical, nightmarish, and seemingly inescapable scenarios built out of rom-com cliches. 

Can Tiffani prove to Sophie that love can heal all wounds? And that love is also right there, in front of her oblivious face, whether she likes it or not? Watch out for the Attack of the Rom-Com.

“I love writing books that make women feel like superheroines who can do anything no matter who they are,” Nelson says. “Attack of the Rom-Com is about fundamental feminine relationships, the ones keeping our brains from exploding in a ridiculous world full of rom-com nightmares. This book is for every lady who’d gleefully help bury the body for their girls.”

Amidst the summer of Barbie and a reassessment of cultural tropes through a feminist lens, Attack of the Rom-Com is a taut, funny, and thoughtful addition to the conversation. It will be available on August 15, 2023 in paperback format wherever books are sold, and in various major e-reader formats.

 

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

 

Martti Nelson is a humor author specializing in comedy, satire, parody, and

general nonsense whose work has appeared on Weekly Humorist, Robot Butt, McSweeney’s, and The Belladonna. In 2021, she published Lyssa Strata: A Comedy for the Frustrated (Humorist Books), a contemporary take on Aristophanes. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, a cat named Otis, and a little lemon tree of which she is far too proud. Find Martti on Twitter, Instagram, and Threads.

 

 

 

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