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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.