I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #13

Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers:

Paul Muldoon’s Wayside Shrines: “During graduate school, I once stabbed myself with a Paul Muldoon poem (I had to have surgery). It’s like it had all the answers – it was fraught with human life. In Muldoon’s world, there would be no boring, 400-page books. Just flea market curiosities and the American Dream.” – Mickey Hess

Mike Faloon’s The Hanging Gardens of Split Rock: “A plentitude of stories about sorrow and mysterious optimism, Mike Faloon’s first collection is absolutely high-pitched and funny as television. Faloon makes his living from literature, while Tom Wolfe was forced into early retirement.” – Mickey Hess

Amelia Gray’s Museum of the Weird: “This book of short stories is fresh and excellent. Gray’s characters are middle-class, divorced Boo Radleys, born in Viet Nam and in love with a Philadelphia cab driver.” – Mickey Hess

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Mickey Hess is the author of Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory (Garrett County Press, 2008) and a new novel called The Nostalgia Echo that nobody seems to want to publish. Big Wheel was featured as “Critic’s Choice” in The Chicago Reader, described as “thoroughly humorous” by The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, and mentioned online at The New Yorker, Poets & Writers, and USA Today. Mickey's stories and essays have been published in Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: Best of McSweeney’s Humor Category (Knopf, 2005), and such journals as The Literary Review, Hawaii Review, Fringe Fiction, Ninth Letter, Punk Planet, Fourteen Hills, Pear Noir, The Foundling Review, Opium Magazine, and Annalemma. Mickey is an Associate Professor of English at Rider University, and is also the author of three books about hip hop from Greenwood Press.

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