Jersey Devil Press

The day has finally arrived: Perhaps. by Stephen Schwegler is now available!

You can buy a paperback or a signed copy, or, if you’re more digitally inclined, or simply a tree-hugger, you can also get a copy for your Kindle or other e-reader.

If for some reason blindly buying a book solely on the word of the publisher isn’t your thing, you can go ahead and read two of the stories from the collection before you give us your hard-earned — or stolen or found or won, we’re not picky — money: “Jesus Was Broke” is here and “Decisions” can be found here.

Read them and love them. Then own them. Then read them again. Then tell other people to read them. The world will be a better place for it.

While Jersey Devil Press is mainly a fiction site, I’d like to think that we’re more interested in the story that’s being told than the genre it conforms to. Because, honestly, sometimes the truth makes the best stories.

Case in point, this article from nj.com: Acrobatic thieves hit N.J. Best Buy.

The robbers pulled a Mission Impossible and went in from the ceiling, making off with twenty laptops.

While I — and JDP — certainly do not condone overly elaborate electronics heists, you’ve gotta admit that it’s kind of fucking awesome.

Good evening, ladies and gentle-fops. I come to you on the decline of this fine, fine Groundhog’s Day with startling, amazing, terrific news:

Perhaps., by Stephen Schwegler, is now available for pre-order.



Yes, you read that right, Perhaps. is now available for pre-order. In our store.
Perhaps. is due in all your usual retail establishments on March 15th, 2010, but we, being the wonderful people we are, have decided to open up pre-orders for it for the month of February.

You can order it as a classic paperback or in the extra fancy “author signed” edition. I can’t promise you that Steve’s handwriting will be legible, but I can promise that the ink will be free of blood. He was against that for some reason.

All pre-orders will be personally packaged with love and good intentions and will ship on March 15th.

You can find an excerpt from the collection, the short story “Jesus Was Broke,” here. Read it, love it, buy it. In whatever order you want.

And when you’re done, don’t forget to check out Issue Five! Free and online, just the way Mama used to make it.