Rock Gods & Messy Monsters: Vol 1 The Mind Monsters

First Runner Up, Eric Hoffer Award, Science Fiction & Fantasy 2024 & Grand Prize Shortlist Finalist

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" meets "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
(...in a 1990s record company!)

Aliens have hatched a rockstar. Brain extractions, falling body parts, and blood-vessel explosions are the norm. Alex’s dream job has turned into a nightmare.

What should she do?

It's the 1990s. Alex arrives at Acht Records, her improbable blonde hair streaked stress magenta and anger black. Her first duty is to wipe blood off her boss's walls. It goes downhill from there.

Rock Gods & Messy Monsters is a humorous story about life inside a record company. Yet between the lines of satire and nods to science fiction, the book is a thought-provoking female narrative and social commentary on the corporate world.

Join Alex as she weaves through a comedic cast of characters and down crazed corridors of power, where her boss attempts to thwart her at every turn.

The 1990s New York City music scene never seemed so alien, yet so familiar.

Carol Anderson from the US Review of Books captures its essence perfectly: "The novel is so perverse it causes one to laugh out loud at the deranged storyline and detailed descriptions. This is truly satire at its best."

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"Satirical, zany, hilarious—a gut-punching commentary about the inner workings of the music industry, its power complexes, and power plays." –The BookLife Prize

Awards and Accolades

• #1 Amazon Kindle Hot New Release in Absurdist Fiction, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Music
• 1st Runner Up, Eric Hoffer Award, Science Fiction & Fantasy 2024
• Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize 2024 (Short List Finalist)
• Da Vinci Eye Award 2024 (Finalist)
• First Horizon Award 2024 (Finalist)
• BookBub New Releases for Less (Sept 2022)
• The Wishing Shelf Awards 2023 (Finalist)
• Indie BRAG Medallion (Winner)
• Foreward INDIES 2023 (Finalist)
• The International Review of Books 2023 (Starred Review)
• Independent Book Review Top 30 Impressive Books 2022 & Starred Review
• BookBub Most Frequently Wishlisted Book (Dec 2022)
• Finalist, 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award (Adult Fiction Humor)
• Recommended Review – The US Review of Books

Reader Review: "I tore through this book.... I am shocked at how good this was. Weird, wonderful, hilarious and poignant at the same time. It's obvious the author knows the music industry intimately and her novel, through superb storytelling, served as a biting commentary on industry elites and the people (usually women) they trample to get to the top."

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