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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | July 1, 2024 · 5:00 am

Dead Squirrels Everywhere Blitz

Children’s Book, humor, concepts counting

Counting to ten has never been easier for children who love the macabre!
Dead Squirrels Everywhere is a fully illustrated children’s book with
a slightly morbid twist. This book is perfect for teaching kids of all ages
how to count to ten. Children will have so much fun; they won’t even
know they are learning!

No squirrels were harmed in the making of this book.

About the Author

Gabrielle Ferrara is an artist and entrepreneur who creates
Victorian-inspired art and jewelry with ethically sourced animal remains.
She has a master’s degree in Museum Studies and undergraduate degrees in
Anthropology and Art History. Gabrielle enjoys spending her free time with
family, venturing down the rabbit hole of obscurity, and talking about
dinosaurs.

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | June 12, 2024 · 5:00 am

Peculiar People and the Pets Who Love Them Virtual Book Tour

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Humor

Date Published: May 23, 2024

Publisher: ‎BookBaby

“Peculiar People and the Pets Who Love Them”…lovingly
written and illustrated by Justin Moroyan, is a darkly-whimsical and
addictively-humorous picture book that tells the stories of fantastically
weird people and their equally strange and adoring pets

These stories revolve around characters who are gloriously abnormal. They
embrace that attribute, and don’t shy away from being their unique,
spectacular selves. Like Madam Rosette and her poodle, Josette, who only
enjoy “bad” smells…or Samurai Megasaki, who is addicted to
water but also allergic to it. Each spread welcomes you into wondrous,
stunningly detailed, vibrant illustrations, and stories that are guaranteed
to capture your imagination and tickle your grey matter. Each time you
explore it, you’ll discover new secrets and symbolism that delve you deeper
into captivating worlds you will inexorably fall in love with.

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About the Author

I’m an illustrator and writer, and I’ve always loved expressing myself on
paper…the ability to work within a space where I can make anything happen
has always been a form of therapy for me. It’s one of the reasons I love the
Fantasy and Sci-Fi genres so much.

“That’s the wonderful thing about crayons. They can take you to more
places than a starship.” (Guinan, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

I share an affinity for dark humor with some of my atypical real-life
superheroes, like Tim Burton, Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, and Wes
Anderson. Of course, I can’t leave out the wondrously enchanting worlds
created by Dr. Seuss and Disney, which fertilized my drive to invent worlds
of my very own growing up, and still, to this day.

I tend to gravitate towards humorous stories about social ineptitude, mad
science, the supernatural, and wonderfully addictive, perfectly imperfect,
B-movie-like humor and exaggerated characters. I love diving down the rabbit
hole of my mind and exploring strange new worlds.

“All we can do, Scully, is pull the thread and see what it
unravels.” (Fox Mulder, The X-Files) –This text refers to the
paperback edition.

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | May 23, 2024 · 5:00 am

Peculiar People and the Pets Who Love Them Blitz

Humor

Date Published: May 23, 2024

Publisher: ‎BookBaby

About the Author

“That’s the wonderful thing about crayons. They can take you to more
places than a starship.” (Guinan, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

“All we can do, Scully, is pull the thread and see what it
unravels.” (Fox Mulder, The X-Files) –This text refers to the
paperback edition.

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | March 17, 2022 · 5:00 am

Boulong’s Cheese Blitz

Humor, Comedy, Satire

Published: September 30, 2021

Publisher: Black Rose Writing

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The introduction of a successful vaccine against Covid has produced the
unintended side effect of rendering all gunpowder in the world inert. Every
weapon from a six-shooter to an atom bomb is now useless. However, on a
fifty-seven-acre island in the middle of the Doubs River that divides France
and Switzerland, a dairy farmer’s prized cheese spread has gone into short
supply and the world is about to go to war over its loss.

“Boulong’s Cheese” is spitfire humor, biting satire, and just
what the world needs now that the end of the pandemic is in sight. It pits
the Queen of England against the new, bald President of the United States,
and gives the Pope a way out of an embarrassing video. All the while,
Boulong, the producer of the world’s most desired dairy products,
tries to deal with his pregnant girlfriend and missing son.

About the Author

Ricky Ginsburg is one of those writers who sees a flock of birds heading
south for the winter and wonders what they talk about on their journey. His
portfolio consists of nearly 400 short stories, more than half of which have
found their way into various magazines, both paper and electronic, and seven
novels, half by Black Rose Writing and the other half self-published. While
much of his writing has elements of magical realism and humor, he also has a
serious side, but keeps it in a small plexiglass box under his desk.

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | February 12, 2022 · 5:00 am

Heart of Swine Blitz

Dystopian, Humor

Publisher: Obex Publishing

A Ridiculously Realistic, Deadly Serious Comedy – With a Superhero Pig

Think you’re living in an environmental dystopia?

Wait until we start thawing a frozen planet with pig farts.

That’s where the story begins and it doesn’t get any less wild. At once ridiculous and chilling, rising surrealist talent Freddy F. Fonseca explores the dark, porky underbelly beneath humanity’s seemingly ever-more-virtuous race toward sustainability – and the genius puppet-masters who watch our feeble bamboo-straw-buying attempts and smile, while flattening another rainforest.

Oh yeah, and there’s our hero. The last remaining pig on Earth just happened to be blessed with superpowers. Which he would use to avenge the extermination of his species, were he not to get tangled up in an all-too-human web of greed, lust, and indifference.

The anarchic and ambitious Heart of Swine has breath-taking scope and a wry, not totally resigned smile. It incautiously pulls away the covers to reveal how half-assed humanity’s efforts to clean up after itself have been. It’s funny and coarse, sure, but the writer is deadly serious. The epic failures we continue to see around the world on a personal and political level are taken to frightening lengths. And reading Heart of Swine is like a Rorschach test for one’s outlook on the future – although it’s hard to think, especially after finishing this book, that everything’s going to be just fine.

About the Author

Freddy F. Fonseca graduated with a First Class Honours in Creative Writing and English Literature from LMU and has a MSc in Environment, Politics and Society from UCL.

The writer strives to create stories that reflect the complexity of human nature and question the unhealthy entanglement with materiality.

What pushed Freddy to write Heart of Swine is the fact that too many don’t understand their accent.

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