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Blog postVery excited to announce a summertime surprise from myself and Lazy Fascist Press:
My brand new book IN THE RIVER is now available!
I left my heart on the page writing this, and I think it’s my most horrific and beautiful work. I hope that those who read it will feel the same.
Here’s the publisher’s rundown:
“An intensely moving tale of survival and madness along the river's edge. A father and son fishing lesson becomes a nightmarish voyage to -
Blog postDid this once before while working on SKULLCRACK and it's become apparent I should do it now to honor my obligations on this next novel. So, Cave Mode:
BLURBS―Somehow ended up with 15 manuscripts for potential blurbing in 2017. My normal policy is 2 per year (the thinking being if you only do a handful, folks don't write you off as a blurb mill [and also I want some time to read that old Questlove book!]). So, going back to that policy in 2018, and closed to new manuscripts until Q2 -
Blog postNamed one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by LitReactor and Big Other and one of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Books Everyone Will Be Talking About by Kirkus/Black Gate.
Includes "When Susurrus Stirs," the basis for the award-winning motion picture of the same name. Features an Introduction by Brian Evenson.
"Johnson is a master of mood, seamlessly combining the literary with the grotesque. Horror fans will find much to chew on, and these storie -
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Blog postSwallowdown Press will end its publishing run as of March 31st, 2017, eleven years after the release of its first titles.
During its (wildly intermittent) production period Swallowdown Press was responsible for the publication of nine novels. Five of these were nominated for the coveted Wonderland Award and four of them actually won. Collectively these books have sold over 15,000 copies and have served to expand the scope of the Bizarro fiction canon (while also finding inroads with -
Blog postSKULLCRACK CITY has been out for a month, and it's been a crazy 30 days. I'm trying to compile all the post-release propaganda and news here:
First, SC received a glowing review in THE WASHINGTON POST. Having the novel called "Genre-bending [...] haunting and humorous." alongside a review of the new Gaiman collection felt like a coup/minor miracle.
Second, my favorite bookstore on earth (Powell's) is now carrying SC in their Small Press Featured section.
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Blog postI'm very excited to announce that SKULLCRACK CITY is finally available from Lazy Fascist Press (with an amazing cover from Jeff Soto)! Sure, it took nine years from its announcement to be released, survived a publisher shake-up, and prompted a visit from the FBI, but now, at last, it's here and it's real, and you can finally read the crazy thing. I hope you dig it.
Here's the print version. And the Kindle.
And here's some early buzz on the thing:
"A ni -
Blog postI'm thrilled to announce that my novel SKULLCRACK CITY has been acquired by Permuted Press (with a likely release date of Winter 2014)!
I've been watching Permuted since Jacob started the ball rolling, from their early success with JOHN DIES AT THE END to their more recent Peter Clines blockbusters EX-HEROES and 14. After a long conversation with Anthony Ziccardi (formerly with Simon and Schuster and Random House), I'm very excited about the direction Permuted is heading, and proud -
Blog postThe JRJ Sampler Series is now available for Kindle in all of its ultra-cheap ($0.99 each) digital glory.
If ANGEL DUST APOCALYPSE and WE LIVE INSIDE YOU are a convoluted, over-reaching concept double-album, these things are the carefully selected radio singles.
Here are the story selections for each sampler (and I just noticed that the Lit sampler is great for people who like the letter S, hotel rooms and/or death):
DOOMSDAY VARIATIONS: THE JRJ APOCALY -
Blog postLOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY, the new novel from Wonderland Award Winning author J. David Osborne, is now available!
"It's about meth, fishing, trash American culture and young adult despair. Imagine a Raymond Carver or Jim Thompson for the text message age and that would only begin to get it."--KRIS SAKNUSSEMM, author of Reverend America
Trapped in a rural Oklahoma town fueled by meth and doused in codeine, Arlo Clancy has made it his life's goal to keep h -
Blog postANGEL DUST APOCALYPSE is finally available for the Kindle, in a special Author’s Preferred Edition not available in any other format!
This hi-def transfer of the cult classic has been fully revised and updated and features 20,000 words of new digital-only content including:
-A Note About This Author’s Preferred Edition by Me
-An Amazing Introduction by Stephen Graham Jones
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Blog postVery excited and happy to announce that WE LIVE INSIDE YOU won The 2011 Wonderland Book Award for Best Collection at this weekend's BizarroCon.
It was an honor to be counted among the nominees for such a strong and strange year, and I'm still a bit shocked to see the award sitting on my desk.
I've also noticed that everyone who picks it up almost instantly comments, "You could really beat someone to death with this thing."
It's the most beautif -
Blog postGathered some Evan Williams, an Apocalypse IPA, and my cell phone last week for a very enjoyable interview for the BOOKS AND BOOZE podcast.
Per the site: "In Books and Booze episode 16 we sit down with Jeremy Robert Johnson to talk about good beer, good bourbon, experimental writing, and NaNoWriMo. We talk about our favorite stories from We Live Inside You and Jeremy serenades us with the hits of the Doobie Brothers."
Also, the Swallowdown Press website h -
Blog post“Ashley Crawford talks with Jeremy Robert Johnson about Bizarro, David Cronenberg, parasites and, inevitably, the end of the world.”
I've been interviewed for 21C Magazine, whose prior subjects have included folks like Burroughs, Gibson, Shirley, Ballard, Acker, Brian Evenson, Mark Z. Danielewski, and Jonathan Lethem. You can click on the logo above to jump to the sprawling Q&A. -
Blog postComing soon from Swallowdown Press-- ALL-MONSTER ACTION! by Cody Goodfellow, featuring art from Mike Dubisch (cover and interiors) and Nick Gucker (interiors):
“A tour-de-force! Goodfellow's latest is his best yet. Compulsive, breakneck reading!” —BRIAN KEENE, author of The Rising and Ghoul
IT'S THEIR WORLD... NOW GET THE FUCK OFF!
Whether on the sun-kissed beaches of a nameless South Pacific paradise or in the suffocating dungeons of retail Hell, the misf -
Blog postAvailable now from Jeremy Robert Johnson and Swallowdown Press (with book design by CM3 and amazing cover art by Alex Pardee): We are within you, and we are growing. Watching. Waiting for your empires to fall. It won’t be long now.
We are the fear of death that drives you and the terrible hunger that reshapes you in its name. We are the vengeance born from senseless slaughter and the pulsing reptile desire that negates your consciousness. We are the lie on your lips, the collapsing s -
Blog postAvailable now from J. David Osborne and Swallowdown Press (with an afterword from yours truly, book design by CM3, excellent interior art from Erin Elise, and amazing wrap-around cover art from Alex Pardee): Siberia, 1953. Stalin is dead and a once-prosperous thief named Alek Karriker is feeling the pressure. Trapped in an icy prison camp where violent criminals run the show, betrayed by his friends and his body, Karriker is surrounded by death and disorder. Bizarre Inuit shamans are issuin<
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Blog postAvailable this August from Forrest Armstrong and Swallowdown Press:
“The literary equivalent of an Alejandro Jodorowsky film.”
— Carlton Mellick III
Never fall in love, and never try to escape.
Born into a life of brutal slavery, Peter spends his days driven into the wild by vicious dog-masters, forced to pick delicate swamp berries from the skeletons of dead reptiles. His nights offer only the brief escape of hushed conversation and the strange magno -
Blog postIt's official, folks! May 13th-June 13th, 2010 will henceforth be known as Cody Goodfellow month (for at least a period of one month)!
In honor of this fine and lovely occasion, Swallowdown Press is offering an outstanding deal on weird shit!
Order either of Cody's astonishing books (covers shown above) and receive another book for FREE.
This includes Extinction Journals, Siren Promised, Angel Dust Apocalypse, or the giant 37 author Falling From the Sky ant -
Blog postI’ve been getting some reader requests for access to the Bio/Write-up thing I did for The Mars Volta back in late 2007, for their album The Bedlam In Goliath.
When the band Bio changed to match their newest album Octahedron, the old Bedlam Bio was lost. I have placed a PDF version of it back on the Futurenet, at swallowdownpress.com.
http://www.jeremyrobertjohnson.com/TMVDIB.pdf
As a “bonus” the PDF includes a (possibly un-used) t-shirt design which was bas -
Blog postFirst, Cody’s got a great, very entertaining/interesting interview up at The Black Glove.
Learn how Cody got into writing at age eight, forced into action by his displeasure with the latter half of Stephen King’s The Stand.
the-black-glove.blogspot.com/2010/03/bla...-feature-author.html
Next, Monster Librarian has a great review for Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars.
http://www.monsterlibrarian.com/anthologies.htm (scroll down)
And Ho -
Blog postSomeone made the mistake of allowing me near a microphone. If you’re interested in a quick burst of Dayquil-influenced jibber-jabber about Bizarro, high diving, and fighting coyotes with sticks, then you could check out this interview with me at PDX.FM.
Just play Episode 3.
At your own risk. They’re your brain cells and I can’t tell you how to waste them.
Banzai,
JRJ -
Blog postAvailable this February from Cody Goodfellow and Swallowdown Press, with knock-out cover art by Alan M Clark:
"PERFECT UNION is Cronenberg's THE FLY on a grand scale: human/insect gene-spliced body horror, where the human hive politics are as shocking as the gore. This book would make Marx and Thoreau's heads explode. In other words, astounding." --JOHN SKIPP, NY Times Bestselling author of The Long Last Call and The Bridge
"Look. It's very simple. If yo -
Blog postOut in late October from Cody Goodfellow and Swallowdown Press, with wraparound cover art by Alan M Clark, an Introduction by John Skipp and an Afterword from yours truly (and excellent book design courtesy of CM3):
"This is high-end psychological surrealist horror meets bottom-feeding low-life crime in a techno-thrilling science fiction world full of Lovecraft and magic..." -JOHN SKIPP, NY Times Bestselling author of The Bridge and The Long Last Call
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Blog postR.I.P. D.F.W.
Just got home to seven phone messages about his passing. It's an outright fucking loss to the mental landscape. He was gifted. Truly gifted. At least he was here during our lifetime. I can't say any more right now. -
Blog postThursday, March 20th
Powell's City of Books (1005 W Burnside, Portland, OR 97209) is the largest "new and used" bookstore on the planet (so far as I know) and has been an integral part of my life both as a childhood reader and an adult writer. That's why I'm very excited to be able to announce my first reading at the venue. Here's the basic dirt on the event from Powells.com (with compatriots and myself shown in bold):_____
Our vibrant writing community has long been powere
Titles By Jeremy Robert Johnson
The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade
Dec 3, 2013
by
Aimee Bender,
Joe R. Lansdale,
Carlton Mellick III,
Bentley Little,
Alissa Nutting,
Amelia Gray,
Cameron Pierce
$5.95
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