The Bizarro Starter Kit (Purple)

If you’ve made a conscious decision to visit this blog, there’s a very good chance you’ve at least heard the term ‘Bizarro Fiction’. If you haven’t, the following description sums it up quite nicely:

There’s a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such as David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Tim Burton, and even Lloyd Kaufman) but has been largely ignored in the literary world, until now.

Periodically, the leading press in the Bizarro movement, Eraserhead Press, release what they call a Bizarro Starter Kit. These starter kits highlight novellas and short stories by authors within the movement and give a very cost effective way of tasting what Bizarro is all about. Yesterday, the third Starter Kit (Purple) was released and, I’m very honoured to report, I am one of the authors featured.

I couldn’t be more chuffed about this if I tried. Even in the world of underground writing I’m an unknown. I have one book to my name and a handful of published shorts. That I was asked to participate was genuinely unexpected and means a lot to me. The first starter kit was my introduction to Bizarro, and to think that I’m now in one of them does strange things to my brain jelly.  To think I’m being featured alongside authors whom I personally respect greatly is just a big ol’ WOW.

2 of my stories from A Million Versions of Right have been included (the title story and The Great Headphone Wank) along with a brand new story I’m very proud of called ‘Concentration Tongue’. Here’s the full lineup:

Russell Edson – prose poems
Athena Villaverde – Clockwork Girl
David Agranoff – Punkupines of the Apocalypse
Matthew Revert – (the three above-mentioned stories)
Andrew Goldfarb – comics
Jeff Burk – Cripple Wolf
Garrett Cook – Re-Mancipator
Kris Saknussemm – Sparklewheel
Cody Goodfellow – Homewreckers
Cameron Pierce – The Destroyed Room

So please, consider supporting the underground and lay down $10 on a wealth of really fantastic writing. You can purchase this book from Amazon right here. A big thank you to those who have already let me know they’ve purchased it. You people are swell.

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