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.