Mandatory Marketing: "Oxic" by B.P. Kasik

I always post on here to announce a new book I wrote. So here you go, it's Oxic.

My most Charlottesville-centric story yet, a bit of a meditation on the past year. About pain, friendship, addiction, family, and ghosts. It's a ghost story by a person who kinda hates ghost story tropes. Deconstructionists gonna deconstruct.

Your normal author would care deeply about this one.

You pour your heart and soul into a book, compress a year's worth of pain and confusion and struggle and accumulated wisdom, rewrite & revise, over & over, fight through chronic pain & writer's block & personal turmoil, change it from a bizarro comedy to a straightforward drama to a low-key horror novel, get a great cover, and after months of work, finally release it...

And shrug.

It's not much fun. Some laughs, but just too personal and idiosyncratic. Not commercial. Not economically viable. I crank out enough of these that I can write off a book every now and then.

I might have just trunked it, but you never know. Might grab somebody. And I'm building an eccentric, diverse back catalog of work.

Next month, more reader-friendly books will resume. Coming soon: Dragon Mormon, Happy Chemtrails!, and Filmpass. Maybe the final Eric Roberts book somewhere in there.

See you then!


-B.P. Kasik/Phony McFakename

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I exist on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram. And my Phony books are on Amazon here and my "legitimate" books are on Amazon here. Probably some other places, too.

Favorite Quotes: April 2018

“There’s raw emotion right below your surface. Frack it!”

-The Simpsons

“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you left them.”

-The Office

“Instead of Sodom and Gomorrah 
She shoulda stayed at home and read the Torah 
Now she’s just a pillar of salt”

-Don Verdean

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

-David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest 

“Remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world.”

“It was a fair question, although the problem with fair questions is that they are asked about an unfair world.”

“Librarians are hideous creatures of unimaginable power. And even if you could imagine their power, it would be illegal. It is absolutely illegal to even try to picture what such a being would be like.”

“Sleep is confusing. Dreams are baffling. The concept of transitioning from one perceived reality to another is a tolerated madness.”

“It would be safe to assume that the house is an enclosed structure owned and built by people. It would be weird to assume that the house has a personality, a soul. Why would anyone assume that? It is true. It does. But that was weird to assume that. Never assume that kind of thing.”

“In other news, a recent report suggests that things may not be as they seem.”

-Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Sometimes I don't know when to be funny. Because I can be funny at the drop of a hat. Except sometimes you can't find the hat. Then you're f**ked."

-Garry Shandling

“Technically, you’re always wearing a leather jacket.”

-@markydoodoo

-B.P. Kasik/Phony McFakename

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I exist on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram. And my Phony books are on Amazon here and my "legitimate" books are on Amazon here. Probably some other places, too.

Becoming The Man

I'm on Google Books.

I don't know why. I didn't put myself there. And it's just that one book, Mystery Shopper Menace.

What does it mean to be on Google Books?

I think I'm finally part of the Establishment.

Whoops.

Hey, let's convert that to a haiku:

Me on Google Books?
Am I Establishment now?
Whoops, I think I am.


-B.P. Kasik/Phony McFakename

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I exist on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram. And my Phony books are on Amazon here and my "legitimate" books are on Amazon here. Probably some other places, too.