Category Archives: Writing

Squirrel Eyes

You can now pick up the deadwood version of our BFF Scott S. Phillips’ epic tale of soul-searching and redemption, Squirrel Eyes.

 As a few intrepid fellow authors remarked:

“If you somehow cloned the perfect science bastard love-child of Cameron Crowe, J.D. Salinger and The Kinks, it couldn’t build a better story of underdog charm than Squirrel Eyes. Scott S. Phillips creates fascinating and endearing characters, then drops them in the hot zone of their own mangled lives, with nothing but their wits and pop culture to protect themselves.”

– Axel Howerton, editor, Dark Moon Digest, author of Hot Sinatra

“Squirrel Eyes is a crazy journey through Scott S. Phillips’ twisted, pop culture cluttered mind. He touches on universal emotions in this insightful, often laugh-out-loud journey through Alvin Bandy’s – and the reader’s – most denied memories of love lost.”

– Robert E. Vardeman, author of Burn the Sky

“The F@%ker can write!”

– Elwood Reid, author of D.B. and If I Don’t Six

“With his goofball characters, ear for quirky dialogue, and always-colorful turns of phrase, Scott S. Phillips is like a modern beat writer – tempered with postmodern sensibilities and a generous dash of observational comedy… But that’s just an erudite, flashy way of saying that no one makes me laugh louder or harder than Scott S. Phillips.”

– Brian Jay Jones, author of Washington Irving

“Scott’s narrative blasts and rattles down the road, chasing rabbits and stray chickens out of its path, while his dialogue sprays the countryside like full-automatic fire.”

– Victor Milan, author of The Wild Cards Series and CLD: Collective Landing Detachment

“Triangulate funny, creepy and melancholy, and you’ll find Scott S. Phillips, waiting for a bus.”

– Nathan Long, author of The Blackhearts Series

I’m with that first guy. This book kicks ass and takes names. Find it. Buy it. Read the shit out of that motherfrakker.

Available on Kindle, iPad, Nook  and ePub as well as the paperback version.

A Career Guide To Your Job In Hell – Now Available!

UPDATE!!!

NOW AVAILABLE IN CANADA AND THE UK!!

Phenomenal stories of workaday woe and shop-night shenanigans from the likes of the Scotts Phillipses, “Hollywood” Don Adams, Bob Vardeman, John Jos. Miller, Victor Milan, Nathan Long, Brandie Tarvin and my story Hum!!!

 

NOW AVAILABLE IN PRINT!

Amazon.com

Barnes & Noble

Chapters/Indigo in Canada!

Amazon.ca

Amazon.co.uk

Better World Books (UK)

Available on ePub & Kindle from Bob’s Cenotaph Road store

Also available on:

Kindle!

Nook!!

iPad!!!

Zombies and Tigers and Shitty Jobs? OH YEAH!

Finally some news fit to print…

First off, A CAREER GUIDE TO YOUR JOB IN HELL should be coming to eReaders, iPads and other digital loveliness near you. The print version is in it’s final  hard-copy proofing stage, and Bob Vardeman is currently working on the necessary formats for every digital incarnation imaginable. I have also heard through the grapevine that it will be available WORLDWIDE viddy viddy soon! Stay tuned for details on the revolution!

Next, final revisions on HOT SINATRA are belly-crawling towards completion at a ridiculously slow pace. It just seems to be nigh-impossible for me to get a serious block of time to work on it. I am still working on it, however slowly, and hope to be putting it out there by the summer. I’ve been talking to guru Bob and looking into ViPub solutions to get it out in all the requisite formats. Fear not, true believers!

And, finally – but by no means least importantly – my story BLOOD ON THE STRIP will be published in the upcoming March edition of Dark Moon Digest. Huzzah!

If any of you recall from previously posted (and now removed) versions of the story, BotS is the story of a crotchety old cowboy recanting a tale of terror that takes place in a Sigfreid & Roy-style Vegas show, only to have unexpected, undead repercussions for the clientele and staff of an off-the-strip diner. Be sure to check it out , and beware the ides of March!

All I want for Xmess is Dark Moon Digest #2

Don’t forget, last minute shoppers, you can still get a copy or 12 of DMD #2 sent straight to your Xmas stocking!

I haven’t read all of the stories in this issue, but I can tell you that Miss Webster’s Little Arm by Frances A. Hogg, and Robot Lincoln and Zombie Jackson creator Craig Garrett’s excellent I Married a Zombie are more than worth the cover price. Go to DARK MOON DIGEST for all the details and the links to purchase the print version or files for your Xmess Kindles and Nooks…