Bleeding Gut Blues, S. Fitts
http://www.bleedinggutblues.com/index/
I’ve read most of this book already so I can’t in good conscience speculate on what it’s about. It really is about a gutter punk hobo type with a mysterious scar, an ex-con, and a stripper all on a road trip to win back a lost love. There is a lot of drinking, swearing, weed smoking, and references to kicking baby animals. For some reason I want to listen to Sub-Mission by the Sex Pistols every time I start reading this book.
http://www.fishbowledthebook.com/
ANTI-TEEN FICTION: Absolutely no vampires
Teenagers can be assholes sometimes. It’s not always their fault, there’s some serious hormonal things happening at that age. This may not be the greatest insight, but it’s worth mentioning only because of the starring role teenagers play in present day pop culture. Behind all the vampires, zombies, Justin Biebers, Taylor Swifts, blockbusters and iEverythings is an unchecked fetishism of teendom by adults who should know better. It’s no coincidence that teen fiction is the highest selling genre of the moment.
Enter stage right, fishbowled—a reality-based take on teenagers, drugs, technology, the importance of family and the sobering failures that pepper one’s twenties.
RENDER UNTO THE VALLEY: Rose Senehi 
From what little of this book I have read, I think it will be the Appalachian version of Winter’s Bone (you know, that movie with the girl from the Hunger Games that’s about meth set in the Ozarks) so basically a whole bunch of broken down people choking on wood smoke because they can’t afford to heat their houses, running around in plaid and wearing fingerless gloves, all angry and bitter, keeping secrets and missing teeth. Although, it’s supposed to be a romantic thriller so perhaps all of the characters have their teeth?
http://simonkempwrites.blogspot.com
Purported to be some sort of dark comedy/ gripping thriller involving a theme park, a sketchy corporation and the theft of a giant pig costume,I can’t help be compelled to read this book. I am imagining something like John Grisham’s the Firm if set in a theme park and written by Carl Hiaasen or Tom Robbins—a little bit of mystery and a whole lot of quirk.
*As always, these book descriptions are my own bit of creative fiction and probably do not even come close to accurately describing the actual novels (which would be hard to do since I haven’t read them yet). This week’s exception is fishbowled. I took that blurb directly from the author’s website.
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