The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories is here! The collection contains 14 stories, 4 of which are brand new. An e-book version is on the way, but right this very minute you can get your hands on a paperback copy direct from the wonderful Lethe Press at the link above, or through Amazon or Barnes & Noble. What is this collection, you ask? Well, it’s a little bit of darkness, a little bit of the weird, some sexy bits, some happy bits, and some bits that are hard to define. You want underwater nuns? I’ve got ‘em? A queer zombie love story? Got that, too. Witches, aliens, outer space, and a steampunk circus? Got ‘em all!
Publishers Weekly was kind enough to give the collection a starred review.
Wise’s inventive sense of weirdness and wonder comes to the forefront in this intense, graceful collection of stories in which plot plays second fiddle to quietly immersive world-building, longing and obsession are the forces of beauty, and grimness leads not to depressive dystopia but to desperately hopeful and brave, if still unsettling, solutions.
ETA: Lambda Literary had some very kind things to say about it, too!
They liked it, so maybe you will, too. To celebrate, I’m giving away a copy of The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories and a copy of my first collection, The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again. So step right up, try your luck, and throw your name in the hat below (aka the comments). One lucky winner will get two books, and maybe even a bit of extra swag thrown in. Comment by midnight on November 15, 2016 (wherever in the world you happen to be) and that winner might just be you!
ETA: The Random Number Generator has chosen lucky #1. Congratulations, Zach, and thank you to everyone who entered!
