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Acid Indigestion Eyes: Collected Essays and Musings on Generation X
By Wayne Lockwood
Former nationally-syndicated Generation X columnist Wayne Lockwood brings together some of his best columns, reflecting and sharing in the promise and challenges faced by those who came of age in the early 1990s. While the talking heads will harken back to St. Cobain for perspective on this misunderstood decade, it's works like this that provide a true view from the inside.

"Lockwood's writing remains remarkably fresh even in the face of all that has changed since the mid-1990s. While our technology has changed significantly, what people aspire to has not. Though it might be via text message and Facebook, 20-somethings still fall in and out of love, wish they had better jobs (or jobs at all) and wonder what the future holds.... Rather than standing as nostalgic totems, these columns are deeply personal historical documents - the record of one young man's hopes, dreams, yearnings, disappointments and triumphs during a particular time in history." - Scott B. Pruden, author of Immaculate Deception

BAD PEOPLE DOING BAD THINGS ... BADLY
Don't Be Cruel
By Mike Argento
Award-winning journalist and newspaper columnist Mike Argento turns his hyper-observant eye to the criminal underworld in this hilarious debut novel. With tips of his literary hat to Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, Argento sends up the seedy underbelly of southcentral Pennsylvania in gut-busting fashion.

"This is a deeply American tragicomedy, rooted in Argento's post-modern sensibility, insouciant nihilism and hillbilly smarminess. There's even a little sweetness stabbing around the contours of its narrative heart which beats as solidly as anything this side of St. Vonnegut. Don't Be Cruel races along like those early Elvis Costello records, pulling you by the throat into some pretty dark corners thanks to its irresistible rhythms." - Tony Norman, columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

JON TEMPLETON HAD THREE DAYS TO GET HIS WIFE BACK, SAVE THE UNIVERSE AND RETURN FROM THE DEAD.
 IT'S GOING TO BE A BUSY WEEKEND.
Immaculate Deception
By Scott B. Pruden
Pushcart Prize nominee Scott B. Pruden's debut novel carries readers into a wholly imaginable yet over-the-top future where a pseudo-Christian sex cult has become a national sensation, wing-joint waitresses wear little more than lettuce-leaf thongs and tomato pasties, and nature goes head-to-head with rampant development on a truly cosmic scale. With three days to get his wife back, save the universe and return from the dead, investigative reporter Jon Templeton is in for a busy weekend.

"A jolly romp involving supreme beings, conspiracies, a dosage of scifi and much action. It is probably the most enjoyable book I have reviewed in a long time. First of all I enjoy the intriguing concept of a supreme being that has to deal with something it cannot comprehend, sending a mere mortal (well, mere dead) on a mission that is indeed well suited for an investigative reporter. This brings me to the second reason that makes Immaculate Deception so enjoyable: a well constructed story." - The Future Fire Review