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"The dull yellow eye of the creature has opened! SWALLOWTUDE by Rob Plath, featuring exterior and visual appendix by Pablo Vision.

EPIC RITES PRESS began its long, strange journey with the publication of Plath's monster poetry collection A BELLYFUL OF ANARCHY, which was followed by other poetry collections like THERE'S A FIST DUNKED IN BLOOD BEATING IN MY CHEST, DEATH IS DEAD, and THE SKELETON SUTRAS. Along the way we released drama WE'RE NO BUTCHERS, a creative writing textbook AN AX FOR THE FROZEN SEA, and even an illustrated children's book HEARTS FOR BRAINS, featuring art by Janne Karlsson. And now ... SWALLOWTUDE, Plath's first novel.

Truly, with SWALLOWTUDE, we've created something unparalleled. This book moves like a hungry parasite through your brain, searching for that small part of you that wants to live."

"Harry is an angry, out-of-work writer who is sick to his stomach of existence. It's not that Harry's afraid of doing himself in-it's just that for now he prefers suicide to be a slow striptease of sex, booze, drugs, etc. Through all lower-case, straight razor-sharp prose, Plath's experimental novel SWALLOWTUDE slashes the Void into ribbons and carves JUST LIVE into our brains."

"All advanced orders for Rob Plath's newest book SWALLOWTUDE have shipped! I can't wait to hear feedback about Plath's novel. First, Misti Rainwater-Lites' novel BULLSHIT RODEO was blacklisted, then my SAVAGE LOVE was banned; with SWALLOWTUDE, however, I have a feeling Rob Plath, Pablo Vision, and myself may very well wind up behind bars. If, as Kafka says, a book should be "an ax for the frozen sea," then SWALLOWTUDE is a motherfucking chainsaw!

Thank you to everyone who placed an advanced order for SWALLOWTUDE. Your money has been placed in trust to bail us out of jail.

SWALLOWTUDE motherfuckers!" - Wolfgang Carstens

Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness

by Heather Fowler

Art and Appendices by Pablo Vision

Heather Fowler’s fourth collection of fiction speaks the language of need. Desperate, obsessive, even demented need—both emotional and erotic—is voiced by characters ill or ill-advised. From cyber to stalker, illicit, explicit, tender and tedious, the relationships in Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness translate love and lust into disorder. How we hear our own need and the way it sounds to others proves in these enthralling stories an imperfect but utterly captivating conversation, a destructive yet dynamic discourse between well-being and disease, images and words.

  PRAISE for Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness :

“The stories in Heather Fowler’s Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness span time and space, sanity and insanity, our dreams and our nightmares. From Renaissance Italy to the French Revolution to the modern dangers of Facebook stalkers, Fowler’s characters explore all of the pleasures and pains of love, that “monster…forged from both hope and desire.” Fowler takes risks; each story is a spellbinding journey. I can’t think of a short story collection I’m more excited to recommend this year.” —Shaindel Beers, author of A Brief History of Time and The Children’s War and Other Poems

  “Heather Fowler writes stories that need to be written. Unabashedly ripping open the emotional turmoil that continues to plague the lives of men and women, Fowler crafts fantastical tales that reveal the underbelly of our pains and desperation. She’s the heir of Angela Carter, caressing words like lovers, making the unreal real.” —Paula Bomer, author of Nine Months

  “The characters in Heather Fowler’s fiction are strange and magnificent, sad and strong, trapped and independent, adjusted and not. In other words, they are real. The sheer variety of stories in Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness is striking and the pure athletic grace with which each is told is testament to Fowler’s willingness to stretch and experiment. This is an author with a voluminous bag of tools. She is daring and audacious in all the right ways. There is a delight to her surprises, her wonderments. Savor her titles, which, emblematic of her range, are pithy, mordant, cerebral, playful and ingenious: ‘Giant Balloon Animal Tragedies,’ ‘Good Country. People’ (with its conscious echoes of Flannery O’Connor, an author to whom Fowler can be favorably compared), ‘Speak to Me with Tenderness, Howard Sun.’ Heather Fowler is adept at decoding the human predicament. One yarn begins, ‘Listen, I am telling you a story.’ So you lean closer and, when you do, you can feel the author’s warm breath on your cheek.” —Corey Mesler, author of Diddy-Wah-Diddy: A Beale Street Suite

  “In Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness, Heather Fowler draws us into characters buzzing with internal lives that feel eerily familiar, as though she is showing us a piece of ourselves. What is chilling—and addictive—about her writing is how often those internal lives are ones of disorder. Her renderings remind us of the sanity within insanity, and they do indeed reveal the elegance—and sexiness—of the seamy underbelly of what it means to be human, of the most private parts of our bodies and brains.” —Ming Holden, author of The Survival Girls

“The characters in Heather Fowler’s Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness are so vulnerable and full of yearning that I read the collection with my heart in my throat. Their lives of quiet desperation are rendered with such depth and grace that they seem to haunt the stories they inhabit even while they live and breathe inside them. Fowler is truly a master of her craft.” —Rebecca Kanner, author of Sinners and the Sea

ELEGANTLY NAKED IN MY SEXY MENTAL ILLNESS

I am extremely pleased to announce that Heather Fowler’s Elegantly Naked in My Sexy Mental Illness is to be published by Queen’s Ferry Press in May 2014.

Elegantly Naked in My Sexy Mental Illness is an absolutely stunning collection of literary modern and historical short fiction. I am tremendously proud to have contributed custom artwork to accompany each of the seventeen stories.

Heather Fowler

Queen’s Ferry Press

PARAPHILIA: TAGADA

PARAPHILIA: TAGADA AUGUST 19TH, 2012 FEATURING:

PABLO VISION, ROB SUSSMAN, SEAN MADDEN, ANDREW MABEN, MARIJKE KOGER-DUNHAM, HEATHER HARRIS, ELE-BETH LITTLE, TOBY HUSS, STEVE OVERBURY, LAURENCE THOMPSON, CHRISTOPHER NOSNIBOR, JIM COLEMAN, BETH B, F.X. TOBIN, MIKE HUDSON, RICHARD BLANDFORD, DOLOROSA DE LA CRUZ, ALEXANDER NATAS, ALEXANDER HACKE, MATTHIAS PENZEL, TONY RAUCH, MICHAEL DENT, LISA WORMSLEY, MICHAEL CANO, PATSY FARAGHER, MIKE WATT, LANA GENTRY, CRAIG WOODS, GREGG SUTTON, RICHARD REYNOLDS, ROBERT EARL REED, RICK GRIMES, HANK KIRTON, CHRIS MADOCH, dixe.flatlin3, DON BOLLES, CHRISTY LOU, CLAUDIA BELLOCQ, RICHARD A. MEADE, PATRICK WRIGHT, VICTORIA FIEREK, KATIEJANE GARSIDE, TOM GARRETSON, DAVID GIONFRIDDO, CLAUDIA MURARI, JOSHUA SERAPHIM, THOMAS EVANS, JOHN WISNIEWSKI, HENRY ROLLINS, KRIS DENTON, GAY ANNIVERSARY, SUSAN TE KAHURANGI KING, DAVID HOENIGMAN, MATASHICHI KUMAGAE, MATT LEYSHON, RON GARMON

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To find out more about Klaus “Kino” Koblitz – including recently restored footage of The Tulip Thief - visit Atticus Books and the Tulpendiebe blog