We’ve got (at least) three new releases coming down the pipelines, and we’d love to tell you about them.
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Justin Nicholes’s Ash Dogs is now available as a set of MP3 audio files! Sit back, relax, and enjoy. Or, enjoy a nice stroll, now that you don’t have to try to walk and read at the same time.

You can find the files in Ash Dog’s download section.

Some of you may already be familiar with Chuck Palahniuk’s site The Cult. It’s a great site with a solid community, writer’s workshops, and information on all things Chuck.

One thing the community is serious about are its books, and to that end, they run a monthly book club. And what’s this? July’s book club selection is our very own Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat! Read more…

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The subject says it all: Andrez Bergen’s Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat will be July’s Book Club selection at Chuck Palahniuk’s site The Cult! (link will be provided once it’s up and running) Read more…

“The dim and gritty atmosphere is expertly set, using a massive amount of references to film noir and pop culture, courtesy of our narrator’s nostalgic love for film and all things reminiscent of simpler times… A compelling, well-written narrative with fantastic imagery and a perfectly set tone… This book does a fabulous job of highlighting the complexities and dangers of current world social, economic and political climates. Read more…

“In case you don’t know, kanji is the stuff you see on scrolls and painted in big black letters on banners – logographic Chinese characters used in the modern Japanese writing system. Sometimes in movies you see people dabbing big brushes in ink and artily doing strokes across washi paper… Read more…

“I loathed Blade Runner when I studied it in twelfth grade, and to the dismay of my class, I was extremely vocal about it. And just to clear something up: I aced the unit, so I did “get” it. But nearly ten years on, I still have nightmares about being forced to watch it. So when I was sent a copy of Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat by Aussie ex-pat Andrez Bergen and discovered it had been compared to Blade Runner, it made me a little apprehensive to flick through the PDF.

I shouldn’t have been worried, and flicking though became devouring every sentence. Read more…

“The author’s self-deprecation helps ground his writing, preventing him from self-indulgence and losing himself in intellectual pretension… All in all Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat is a great read: a well-rounded book from an well-rounded individual [that] easily translates into this expat Australian’s homage to Melbourne and its culture.” Read more…

“Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is a novel that manages to be hardboiled and playful at the same time. What might otherwise be unremittingly bleak fare is lightened significantly by Floyd’s filmic imagination and his wisecracking wordplay. With little to sustain him (his diet seems to consist mainly of vodka, salt and vinegar chips, chocolate almonds and cigarettes), Floyd must struggle against both inner and outer demons. Read more…