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I’m thrilled to announce my debut novel, Found Audio, will be published on 7/11/2017 from Two Dollar Radio. 

"Amid the static of contemporary literature can be heard blips of fiction-future in N.J. Campbell’s defiantly bold Found Audio." —Steve Erickson “N.J. Campbell’s Found Audio is a wild, wonderful creature: part Borges, part VanderMeer, part forgotten '70s psychedelic action movie. Convincing, complex, and emotionally resonant—this is a book not to be missed.” —Christian Kiefer

Synopsis Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial details from audio recordings. One day, a mysterious man appears at her office in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, having traveled a great distance to bring her three Type IV audio cassettes that bear the stamp of a library in Buenos Aires that may or may not exist.

On the cassettes is the deposition of an adventure journalist and his obsessive pursuit of an amorphous, legendary, and puzzling "City of Dreams." Spanning decades, his quest leads him from a snake-hunter in the Louisiana bayou to the walled city of Kowloon on the eve of its destruction, from the Singing Dunes of Mongolia to a chess tournament in Istanbul. The deposition also begs the question: Who is making the recording, and why?

Despite being explicitly instructed not to, curiosity gets the better of Singh and she mails a transcription of the cassettes with her analysis to an acquaintance before vanishing. The man who bore the cassettes, too, has disappeared. The journalist was unnamed.

Here—for the first time—is the complete archival manuscript of the mysterious recordings accompanied by Singh's analysis.

If you’d like to pre-order a copy, you can do so here.

I’m pleased to announce the publication of my story, India, 1899, in New Rivers Press’ anthology American Fiction Vol. 15.

To be picked for inclusion in this anthology, I was selected as one of 21 finalists for New Rivers Press’ American Fiction Short Story Award in 2015. Steve Almond judged and he picked three fantastic stories, and although I wasn’t one of them, I did receive an honorable mention in his introduction to the collection. In it, he said he “deeply admired” the story and called it a “startling evocation of the imperial mindset as well as a tragedy of the first order”.

Hey Friends!

I’m so excited to have a new short story, “Fun,” on ZEROFLASH!

The whole page has a bunch of good stories. If you scroll through, you’ll see mine and many other good folks’.