Rock Gods & Messy Monsters
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Publisher Description
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" meets "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
(...in a 1990s record company!)
Aliens have hatched a rockstar. Brain extractions, falling body parts, and blood-vessel explosions are the norm. Alex’s dream job has turned into a nightmare.
What should she do?
It's the 1990s. Alex arrives at Acht Records, her improbable blonde hair streaked stress magenta and anger black. Her first duty is to wipe blood off her boss's walls. It goes downhill from there.
Rock Gods & Messy Monsters is a humorous story about life inside a record company. Yet between the lines of satire and nods to science fiction, the book is a thought-provoking female narrative and social commentary on the corporate world.
Join Alex as she weaves through a comedic cast of characters and down crazed corridors of power, where her boss attempts to thwart her at every turn.
The New York music scene of the 90s never seemed so alien, yet so familiar.
Carol Anderson from the US Review of Books captures its essence perfectly: "The novel is so perverse it causes one to laugh out loud at the deranged storyline and detailed descriptions. This is truly satire at its best."
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"Satirical, zany, hilarious—a gut-punching commentary about the inner workings of the music industry, its power complexes, and power plays." –The BookLife Prize
Select Reviews
"A fast paced, entertaining comic treat." -- Kirkus Discoveries
A sterling example of modern absurdist observation and writing. - Midwest Book Review
Sets out to prove that work sucks with the aplomb and grit of a gladiator. And oh hell does the novel prove it, in more ways and with more reasons than you would expect. - 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
"It's difficult to really pin down Rock Gods. You could take it at face value and chalk it down as pure abstract surrealism. You could also decode comma and quotation mark for deeply written philosophical wisdom. I think it's a little bit of both." - The Lit Refinery
"A compelling and highly satirical look at the music industry of the 1990s. A FINALIST and highly recommended!" - The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
Latest Accolades!
- #1 Amazon Kindle Hot New Release in Absurdist Fiction, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Music
1st Runner Up, Eric Hoffer Award, Science Fiction & Fantasy 2024
Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize 2024 (Short List Finalist)
Da Vinci Eye Award 2024 (Finalist)
First Horizon Award 2024 (Finalist)
- Finalist, 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award (Adult Fiction Humor)
- Recommended Review – The US Review of Books
- Finalist, The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
- IndieBRAG Medallion 2023 Honoree
- Top 30 Impressive Indie Books of 2022 from Independent Book Review
- Most frequently wish listed book on BookBub (Dec 2022)
- #1 Hot New Release Amazon Kindle in Absurdist Fiction, Pop Culture and Pop Culture Music (Sept 2022)
- Starred Review, Independent Book Review (Oct 2022)
(Originally published as Rock Gods of Acht)
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.