A Peek In Gene-Michael Higney's Drawers
Hi! Thanks for finding your way here to where I keep news on the contents of my drawers. Uh, maybe I should rephrase that.
Maybe not.
I write horror stories, novels, and humor partly to entertain people, but mostly to support my landlord's unsightly addiction to rent. So, here's:
SIX REASONS TO BUY MY BOOKS
1) Because the more of my books you buy, the less cellulite you will have.
2) Because if you line up enough copies of my books on your bookshelf, they will muffle the sound of the heavy metal music (or heavy whatever) coming from next door.
3) Because every copy you buy brings you one step closer to dating a supermodel.
4) Because you will build up such good karma that you will win the Lottery. Twice.
5) Because if you read any of my books and keep the titles prominently displayed in public places like restaurants and rest rooms, you are guaranteed to meet Mr or Ms Right. (Or at least Mr or Ms Right Now.)
6) Because if you DON'T, then Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Dick Cheney will all come and live in your shorts.
Thanks. I knew you'd understand.
NEW FROM INSIDE MY DRAWERS!
My crazy collection of humor pieces and fake biographies which answers to the name of THE WACKS MUSEUM; Loonies And Bios And Fables, Oh, My! is out in a brand new PAPERBACK incarnation to pester an already irritated world, from Crystal Dreams Publishing. Order it at your local bookstores using the ISBN: 1-59146-000-X Or go see the cover art (WARNING: There IS a photo of ME to avoid!) and just click on the cover to order it at ORDER YOUR WACKS MUSEUM
But in the meantime, if you like to kick the tires of a car before you buy it, then read a REVIEW of THE WACKS MUSEUM by the charming (and very brave) Ms Cindy Penn at: Cindy Penn's Visit To The Wacks Museum
And for you REAL tire-kickers, HERE'S A FREE SAMPLE from THE WACKS MUSEUM! Just pick up your banjo and go to: FREE SAMPLE LOONEY. Read "I Was Born A Pole Climber's Daughter; The Story of Bedelia Wetfret, Porcine Queen Of Country"!
Issue #40 of CEMETERY DANCE MAGAZINE has a story I co-wrote with Jack Fisher called: Ghosts Through Her Eyes... it's creepy. Order it as a back issue at CEMETERY DANCE
Issue #14 of ROADWORKS MAGAZINE is now carrying my horror story about abuse, in which a young boy has awful reason to believe in Ogres. You can order it at ROADWORKS Or you can buy it direct from the editor by sending a check for $8 dollars to Merrie Olde England, specifically, to Trevor Denyer 7 Mountain View Church Lane West, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 3LN England.
My creepy (and messy) tale, FINDERS KEEPERS is looking for you in editor Jack Fisher's STRANGEWOOD TALES print anthology. You can see the eerie cover art of STRANGEWOOD TALES by going to: ERASERHEAD PRESS Order it there, or at AMAZON.COM, or your local bookstore: Its ISBN number is 0-9713572-0-X
See the cover art and buy the PAPERBACK anthology NEW TRADITIONS IN TERROR, edited by primo scary fella Bill Purcell, containing a bunch of great stories AND my own unusual vampire story: "Thus Do The Undead Soothe Their Dreams". To see the cover art and browse through the stories, just click on: NEW TRADITIONS IN TERROR
You can also order it at bookstores using the title and the ISBN: 0-595-20724-3
OR, if those ISBNs make you want to reach for a motion discomfort bag, you can also buy NEW TRADITIONS IN TERROR in the Books Section at AMAZON.COM
BELIEVE IT OR NOT:
My collection of Nobel Pizza Prize winning HUMOR pieces and oddities called A PEEK IN MY DRAWERS is NOW AVAILABLE as an ebook for you to giggle at. READ A FREE SAMPLE & the Introduction by putting on your protective goggles and going to A J Rose Publishing, at A PEEK IN MY DRAWERS
THE SAND DANCERS
My novel about runaway kids in New York City,
HERE'S WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE SAND DANCERS:
"Remarkable, a book worth reading." ~ Ken Mason
"THE SAND DANCERS doesn't shy away from the realities of street life but neither is it graphic in its portrayal of violence or the exploration of Rick's sexuality. Mr. Higney draws out your emotions with sometimes stark, sometimes poetic prose that keeps you turning the pages" ~ Jamie Engle
"THE SAND DANCERS is like a heart attack - unexpected, sharp. The story left me clenching my fists and weeping. An author who can do that is one who is gifted" ~ Leann "Buzzy" Arndt
FOR A CHILL:
If you're feeling brave enough, read FOR FREE my somewhat grisly short story "Whisper The Name Of The Slasher" by just clicking on: ANOTHEREALM.
Pick up a copy of Barb Lakey's FUTURES MAGAZINE with my story in it: "So Soon The Passage Into Night". If you can't find FUTURES in your local bookstore, just order a copy at the online bookstore at: PROJECT PULP and you can get it there.
My horror novella, about evil coming to a small town, "COMES THE NIGHT WIND, COLD AND HUNGRY" is now available in trade PAPERBACK: Volume Two of the anthology THE BEST OF CEMETERY DANCE, edited by Richard Chizmar. You can get it in your local bookstores. Tell them it's from PENGUIN PUBLISHING. If it's sold out there, just ask for it using the ISBN, which is #045 145 8133
My story about the "Witness From Hell" you're dying to meet is lurking in The Boneyard for you to READ FOR FREE at: GATHERING DARKNESS
Also, someone nasty is "Waiting For Him" in the NASTY SNIPS Anthology, edited by Christopher Teague; ISBN: 0-9536833-0-3
To see the book's cover art and to order it, just go to:
NASTY SNIPS HORROR ANTHOLOGY
Beware, because there is definitely "Someone In The Fog", my story in Issue #7 of Jack Fisher's award winning print magazine FLESH AND BLOOD which you can order at FLESH AND BLOOD Hurry though -- ONLY A FEW ISSUES LEFT!
FOR A THOUGHT OR TWO from the contents of my drawers:
Meet the rather unusual fellow named "Ellery Dane Dobson" in the MANX Story Library
Just go to the page, and then click on the title of the story and my name.
FOR A LAUGH OR TWO about the contents of my drawers:
Free: Read my piece about a certain Internal Revenue Service agent named "Flemface", though he claims his name is pronounced: "Flahm-fah-say". (Yeah, right.) Just drop by the ever-lovely and effervescent Paul Molyneux's crazy place known as WRY BRED
Take my quiz: "Are You A Closet Intellectual?" by thinking your way over to UXU ZINE
If you want to know the difference between a Pawn and a Prawn, or a Bishop and a Horsey, read "Confessions Of A Chess Chump" at TWELFTH PLANET (Where I'm from!)
For a good laugh, please read and then vote on my "Snow Blight And The Seven Dorks" (A Dysfunctional Fairy Tale) which is even now appalling people at: BITBOOKS COMEDY
And why not take a, uh, brief "Peek In My Drawers" at LAUGHTER LOAF Now, now, don't panic - it's just a humor piece.
Surely you didn't think I meant...... You DID?!
Hey, I'm not that kind of boy!
Wellll, not without dinner and a movie first!
Please read my short story called "Into The Molten Eye Of God" now up at Electron Magazine. Just go to http://www.electronpress.com and then click on the ELECTRON MAGAZINE button. Then click on ISSUE # 4 CURRENT ISSUE, and then you'll see the Table Of Contents. Click on the story's title, next to my name. And I'd love to hear your reactions to the story.
OUR FLAPJACKS... Uh.... FLAPBOOKS FOR CHILDREN:
The following kids' books are available in all good bookstores from the publishers: Dutton Children's Books, and Moon Mountain Publishing, and Scholastic. BUT BE ADVISED, the LUNCH, DINNER and TAILS books are SELLING OUT so don't wait too long to get your copies!
And if going to bookstores gives you diaper rash, you can order them online, for your kids, and your grandkids, and your neighbors' kids, and any other kids you want to keep out of your hair, just by clicking on the address for each one.
WHAT'S FOR LUNCH?" ISBN:0-525-46251-1
WHAT'S FOR DINNER?" ISBN: 0-525-46377-1
"TALES OF TAILS" ISBN: 0-525-46491-3
STARDUSTERS" ISBN: 0-9677929-4-0
(All the children's books are written with Ann Garrett. And when we run out of paper, written ON Ann Garrett.) (Don't worry, she's erasable!) And you can get Ann Garrett's terrific picture book for kids KEEPER OF THE SWAMP by dancing the Crocodile Rock on over to: AMAZON.COM
Having just learned how to spell our names correctly, Ann and I are doing a number of booksignings, so write me at my email address for info on when the next one will be if you want to drop by and take us out to dinner. (We are cheap dates.)
We also visit schools and do assembly programs where we:
a) read our books
b) do slide presentations
c) mud wrestle with live alligators
d) only two of the above. (Guess which two.)
Sorry. Tickets are all sold out for the live alligator act.
ESPECIALLY FOR THE YOUNG KIDNEYS!
The angels are back! "STARDUSTERS", our funny, beautifully illustrated children's book is OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK from SCHOLASTIC Inc. ISBN: # 0-439-43005-4. Get your copy from Scholastic's Book Club!
The HARDCOVER version of STARDUSTERS is still available from Moon Mountain Publishing, too. To see the cover art and read A REVIEW of STARDUSTERS, just go to STARDUSTERS
STARDUSTERS is for young 'uns of from around 4 years to 8 or 9, or maybe 60. It's about two mischievous angels and the havoc they create. (Sounds a little like its authors.) (Okay, except maybe for the "angels" part.)
You can also see the beautiful cover art, and -- if you're really brave --, actual photos of Ann Garrett and I. Just put on your protective goggles and go to MOON MOUNTAIN PUBLISHING
If STARDUSTERS is sold out at your local bookstore, you can order it from them with this ISBN number: 0-9677929-4-0
Or order it DIRECTLY from Moon Mountain's site at the above address.
Angels will deliver it shortly.
THE UPCOMING AND ALMOST READY TO ORDER "YA WANT FRIES WITH THAT?" DEPARTMENT:
Here is some of my upcoming stuff which I know you've been waiting for with bated breath. Or is that baited breath?!
Anyway, as the publication dates get closer I'll post them here.
FINS AND FLIPPERS, SCALES AND NIPPERS is NOT about some of my recent dates, but a new kids' book by Ann Garrett and I, coming soon from MONDO PUBLISHING.
ORDER YOUR ADVANCE COPY at
FINS AND FLIPPERS
Our next children's picture and flapbook, CLUCKS AND QUACKERS, illustrated by the um, illustrious David Carter, will be out in the Fall of 2003 from Cheshire Studios. (Pack a sleeping bag and get to the bookstores early.)
My action/horror/sorcery novel,WAR OF THE DARK GOD is coming out soon in PAPERBACK and e-formats from The Fiction Works.
My slightly twisted (well, okay, VERY twisted) satire novel, ROTTEN PEACHES will be tossed at you soon from a publisher who would rather remain incognito at this stage. (Personally, I don't blame them.)
Keep watching this page for further pulse-pounding news.
Come back and visit soon. If it gets too quiet around here I start to hear the voices from the microwave again.
Gene-Michael Higney
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