Rock Gods & Messy Monsters
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Publisher Description
Her dream job. Her worst nightmare. One woman refusing to lose her soul.
It's the 1990s. The recession is brutal, and landing a job at Acht Records is everything Alex Scott ever wanted, but not what she expected.
Her improbable blonde hair turns stress magenta and anger black. Her brain is trapped in a cerebrum urn. Her boss Langley explodes blood vessels that Alex must sew back together.
The head of the company holds titles including Deity and Ruling Dictator, and the aliens who bought the record company hatch a performer and force the staff to create a superstar.
What the company wants from her is the one thing she can't afford to lose. Her soul.
What follows is a surreal descent into corporate America, where Alex navigates crazed corridors of power, an unhinged cast of characters, and a music industry that's completely lost its mind. She gets what she wants and realizes none of it will save her. Only she can do that.
The 1990s New York music scene has never seemed so alien. Or so familiar.
Wickedly funny and quietly devastating, Rock Gods & Messy Monsters is an absurdist novel about power, identity, and what it costs to stay human inside an institution that was supposed to be her dream.
Part corporate satire, part self-discovery journey, the book is for readers who like their absurdist fiction and social commentary with emotional stakes and sharp teeth.
Rock Gods & Messy Monsters is book 1 in the Mind Monsters series.
Select Reviews
"The best kind of absurdism, the kind that wears a veneer of the surreal while having the grisly guts of reality right underneath." — Independent Book Review
"Satirical, zany, hilarious — a gut-punching commentary about the inner workings of the music industry, its power complexes, and power plays." — The BookLife Prize
"So perverse it causes one to laugh out loud... This is truly satire at its best." — US Review of Books
"A fast-paced, entertaining comic treat — a droll examination of the corporate-music world." — Kirkus Discoveries
Awards & Recognition
Eric Hoffer Award 2024 — First Runner Up & Grand Prize Shortlist Finalist
#1 Amazon Hot New Release in Absurdist Fiction & Pop Culture
Winner, Indie BRAG Medallion
Starred Reviews: Independent Book Review · The International Review of Books · US Review of Books
Finalists: Da Vinci Eye Award · First Horizon Award · Foreword INDIES · The Wishing Shelf
Continue the Adventure with the Mind Monsters series
Follow Alex across all four books as she battles the monsters around and within her, learning how to come home to herself.
Book 1, Rock Gods & Messy Monsters, Hatz's award-winning debut, introduces Alex in a surreal, alien-owned record company in 1990s New York City.
Book 2: Fallen Spirits
Book 3: The Light of Wounds
Book 4: The Journey Home
Customer Reviews
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, serves as a biting commentary on industry elites and the people (usually women) they trample to get to the top.