It’s nepotism in the spring as my two latest works involve collaborations with family & friends!
The ominous ides of March will see publication of What the (Active Verb) from The New Press by yours T and old pal Shelby Gragg. Shelby the Great and I go further back than evolutionary theory. He played Scott in my college Star Trek satire, and in the years following we crashed on one another’s couches during sundry financial crises. I try not to do the political thing, to quote Lily Tomlin, I try to be cynical, but I can’t keep up. Shelby, though, had the terribly satisfying idea of taking various utterly bizarre right-wing speeches and turning them into a Mad-Lib style satire, where the reader gets to grab a shovel and fill in the gaping blanks. Most of this stuff is cookie-cutter crazy to begin with, so the book practically wrote itself. Check it out -- you’ll laugh until you weep for the nation!
In the slightly safer but no less strange realm of vampire fantasy, on the 29th, Breaking Down, the second in the Slices series from Papercutz shows it’s shiny face. The rare and amazing Rick Parker again handles the art chores, but this time, I co-authored the script with my talented teen daughter, Maia Kinney-Petrucha. She shot through the Twilight series in her younger years and was more than happy to take a more wry look at the sparkly-vampire phenomena. Harry Potty continues to sell well, and if anything, this sucker is even funnier. No reason to believe me since I’m trying to sell it, but check out the excerpt here.
And now, having spent the morning figuring out how to update my website, since the WordPress dashboard screwed up on me, time to get back to writing. Pax!
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