From what began as a dialog between two adventurous writers curious about the shape-shifter called a prose poem comes a stunning collection that is a disruption of language—a provocation. Speculate is a hybrid of speculative poetry and flash fiction, thrumming in a pulse of jouissance and intensity that chases the impossible.

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TOUR SCHEDULE

1/18 – Myweereads – Book Review
1/18 – Qwillery – Excerpt
1/19 – LargeHeartedBoy – Playlist
1/19 – Sadie’s Spotlight – Excerpt
1/19 – Speculative Fiction Showcase – Excerpt
1/20 – Tomes and Tales – Interview
1/20 – Motherofzombiedragons – Book Review
1/21 – b for bookreview – Excerpt
1/22 – forthenovellovers – Book Review
1/25 – Earthy Soulful Things – Book Review
1/25 – Suganya Mohankumar – Book Review
1/26 – T. Kent Writes – Guest Post
1/26 – Big Indie Books – Guest Post
1/27 – All Things Jill-Elizabeth – Book Review
1/28 – Vol.1 Brooklyn – Interview
1/28 – The Next Best Book Club – Guest Post
1/29 – Writing Forums – Interview

Eugen Bacon’s work is deemed cheeky with a fierce intelligence in text that’s resplendent, delicious, dark and evocative. NPR called her novel Claiming T-Mo “a confounding mysterious tour de force.” The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories imbues the same lushness in a writerly language that is Bacon’s own. This peculiar hybrid of the untraditional, the extraordinary within, without and along the borders of normalcy will hypnotize and absorb the reader with tales that refuse to be labelled. The stories in this collection are dirges that cross genres in astounding ways. Over 20 provocative tales, with seven original to this collection, by an award-winning African-Australian author.

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Complex, earnest, and striking, Bacon’s impeccable work is sure to blow readers away. 

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Tour Schedule

11/30 – Forthenovellovers – Book Review
11/30 – Literary Gadd – Announcement
11/30 – Thistle & Verse – Book Review
12/1 – Have Coffee Need Books – Book Review
12/1 – Speculative Fiction Showcase – Excerpt
12/1 – Largehearted Boy – PlayList
12/1 – 100 Pages A Day – Book Review
12/2 – Pine Enshrined Reviews – Guest Post
12/2 – Vol.1 Brooklyn – Guest Post
12/2 – PaulSemel.com – Interview
12/3 – Myweereads – Guest Post
12/3 – NB Magazine UK – Book Review
12/4 – Tomes and Tales – Interview
12/7 – curiosityboughtthebook – Book Review
12/7 – The Next Best Book Club (TNBBC) – Guest Post
12/7 – Big Indie Books – Guest Post
12/8 – Bookworm for Kids – Book Review
12/8 – Jazzy Book Reviews – Excerpt
12/8 – Shomeret: Masked Reviewer – Book Review
12/9 – The Bookwyrm’s Guide to the Galaxy – Book Review
12/10 – Crystal’s Library – Book Review
12/10 – Literary Quicksand – Book Review
12/10 – A Paper Arrow – Announcement
12/11 – TKentWrites – Guest Post
12/11 – Jessica Belmont – Book Review
12/11 – Shae Riki Reads – Book Review

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Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and Locus Awards, finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and named one of io9.com’s “Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm.” With a new afterword by Maryse Meijer, author of Heartbreaker and Rag.

“Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive.” When a strange hole materializes in a storage room, would-be poet Nicholas and his feral lover Nakota allow their curiosity to lead them into the depths of terror. “Wouldn’t it be wild to go down there?” says Nakota. Nicholas says, “We’re not.” But no one is in control, and their experiments lead to obsession, violence, and a very final transformation for everyone who gets too close to the Funhole.

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Tour Schedule & Other Press

8/20 – Gingernuts of Horror – Book Review
9/14 – Kendall Reviews – Guest Post
9/14 – Largehearted Boy – Playlist
9/14 – curiosityboughtthebook – Book Review
9/15 – Spec Fic Showcase – Excerpt
9/15 – Momfluenster – Excerpt
9/15 – PaulSemel.com – Interview
9/16 – The Faerie Review – Book Review
9/18 – The Lineup – Interview
9/18 – b for bookreview – Interview
9/18 – Big Indie Books – Guest Post
9/21 – The Next Best Book Club – Guest Post
9/21 – Vol. 1 Brooklyn – Guest Post
9/22 – Literary Gadd – Book Review
9/22 – Writing Forums – Interview
9/22 – Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile – Book Review
9/23 – Immutable Chatter – Guest Post
9/23 – Cheryl’s Book Nook – Excerpt
9/23 – Crystal’s Library – Book Review
9/23 – Willow Writes And Reads – Excerpt
9/24 – Jessica Belmont – Book Review
9/24 – Jazzy Book Reviews – Excerpt
9/25 – Sascha Darlington’s Microcosm Explored – Book Review
9/25 – T. Kent Writes – Guest Post

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