I love Todd’s UGLY LITTLE THINGS collection. In fact, I love it so much that I wrote the foreword. It’s a sad, intelligent, thoughtful collection with nuanced emotion, and it releases today. Come join the Facebook Release Party at 8 pm Eastern for a reading, interaction, and prizes! You can win a few of my books, as well. Hope to see you there!
This is something special, my friends. Todd Keisling’s Ugly Little Things is GOOD. Dark, emotional, equal parts hopeful and hopeless. This is the full cover reveal, and it’s beautiful. You can pre-order ULT here. If you devour short stories, this is the collection that will devour you back.
I’m a fan of Todd’s work, and this story is one of my very favorites.
“Everything you are now will never be again.”
Somewhere between the lonely highways of America’s heartland lies a place that shouldn’t exist. A place where the sky is tinged purple and strange flora sprouts from gray sands. A place welcoming the lost and promising opportunity.
For Gregory Simmons, that opportunity is paramount, but like all things in his short life, nothing comes easy—or free.
On the run from his abusive father, Gregory finds himself stranded in a Midwestern bus depot with a stranger who calls himself John Doe. “I’m a genuine Nobody,” he tells Gregory. “I help other Nobodies get from here to there.” John Doe has a proposition for Gregory, one that will send him on a midnight bus ride across reality and straight into the heart of the mysterious Other Lands.
Check your bags and climb aboard The Other Land Express, the latest entry in Todd Keisling’s bestselling Kindle series, Ugly Little Things.
The Other Land Express will be available on April 7th! Pick it up and support somebody who is pretty likely to murder you in your sleep if you don’t. 😛
I was lucky enough to snag Todd Keisling’s signed, limited edition hardcover copy of Ugly Little Things. It’s an absolutely stellar piece of work.
Those who ordered the limited edition copy were assured of certain perks, which we certainly received. But now the Kindle version of Ugly Little Things: Volume 1 will be coming out for others to enjoy.
While there are many bells and whistles exclusive to the hard cover, this collection has the entire Ugly Little Things series to this point, a novel excerpt of Nonentity, the final book of Todd’s MONOCHROME trilogy, and an introduction written by Anthony Rapino. It will be AWESOME.
Coming this February! Don’t miss it.
So I really like Todd Keisling’s work. It’s dark, solid, varied, and super creepy. I mean, suuuuuper creepy. I know I’ll never read his The Harbinger again. Twisted little dolls? Ahhhhhh!
ANYWAY! He has been releasing short stories digitally online as part of his Ugly Little Things series. Now he has come out with a hardcover edition of the series with tons of cool extras. Seriously, it’s awesome and worth checking out.
You can read about everything that is included here.
But there’s a catch. This is preorder only, and the preordering window closes on August 16th. If you haven’t ordered your copy by then, then you have lost your opportunity.
This is the preorder link. Have fun! And to get to know Todd a little more, here’s a video Q&A with Todd that I had the chance to moderate. So, uh, there may be a little goofing off. But just a bit. 😉
A Broken Laptop 