Jersey Devil Press

Recently, I was interviewed by Timmy Waldron for Word Riot’s newest issue. There’s some trivia about Exponential Apocalypse, as well as a quick look at the future of Jersey Devil Press, including a little information about our as yet unannounced reading/workshop/shindig.

Read it all here.

Our friends over at Bananafish have put up their inaugural issue. You can find it here.

Bananafish is “an online venue for exceptional, short-form literature with a focus on wit, originality, and innovation,” founded by Daniel McDermott, author of “Three Dates in Orlando,” currently online in our very own Issue Four.

And if that wasn’t enough, Bananafish’s first issue also includes stories by previous JDP contributor and all-around exceptional writer Anne Wagener (“Time Machine,” Issue Three) and our very own editor Eirik Gumeny.

So go check them out. Not only is it a mini Jersey Devil Press love-in, but it’s an excellent, worthwhile literary journal in its own right.

Eirik Gumeny’s Exponential Apocalypse has been reviewed over at Fandomania! Jason Dorough gives it 4 out of 5 stars and calls it “one of the most brilliantly weird books I’ve read in a long, long time.”

Some other choice excerpts:

“You’ll be telling your friends about this crazy book with gods and cloned presidents and squirrels long after you’ve turned the last page.”

“This debut novel is utter insanity, and it definitely owes some inspiration to Douglas Adams, albeit with more ‘f-bombs’ and hookers than I recall seeing in the Hitchhiker’s Guide.”

“After reading Exponential Apocalypse, I’m convinced that Eirik Gumeny either is a genius or is absolutely as mad as his brain-addled version of Quetzalcoatl. I’m guessing it’s the former, and I’ll definitely be looking forward to his next work, if he doesn’t end the world once and for all first.”

Find the whole review here. We are literally giddy with giddiness.