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Toby Chalmers Hits a New Low
Norville Blott, Immunoblot Books’ owner/editor/sole employee, thrives as a small press humbug. Paying his authors little to no royalties, tricking them into signing away their film, hardcover, and audiobook rights (though Immunoblot Books produces no such things), and even stiffing them on the free author copies specified by their contracts, he keeps his morbidly obese wife and himself fed and housed. He is as content as he can be, he believes, until a certain manuscript reaches his inbox.
Toby Chalmers, the author of books such as The Muff Whisperer and The Indelible Adventures of Sergeant Thundershorts, has typed up a new “masterpiece”: Marty McManus, the Scourge of the Morgue. A coming of age tale examining a gourmand of corpse flatulence, the novel triggers Norville in ways that Norville never knew he could be triggered. Deciding that its author must die for that transgression, he embarks on an interstate drive to pay him a surprise visit.
Little does Norville know, however, that Toby Chalmers has a knack for attracting home invaders. The P’thorkians (alleged extraterrestrials desperate for a creative communion) have attained a pair of Chalmers' manuscripts, and now plan to abduct him.
A reality bending tribulation awaits. Somebody’s bound to perish. Too bad a certain author never thought to purchase an alarm system.
Toby Chalmers, the author of books such as The Muff Whisperer and The Indelible Adventures of Sergeant Thundershorts, has typed up a new “masterpiece”: Marty McManus, the Scourge of the Morgue. A coming of age tale examining a gourmand of corpse flatulence, the novel triggers Norville in ways that Norville never knew he could be triggered. Deciding that its author must die for that transgression, he embarks on an interstate drive to pay him a surprise visit.
Little does Norville know, however, that Toby Chalmers has a knack for attracting home invaders. The P’thorkians (alleged extraterrestrials desperate for a creative communion) have attained a pair of Chalmers' manuscripts, and now plan to abduct him.
A reality bending tribulation awaits. Somebody’s bound to perish. Too bad a certain author never thought to purchase an alarm system.
60 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 17, 2020
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Jeremy Thompson
34 books62 followersJeremy Thompson is the indie horror fictionist whose mind and fingers united to birth The Phantom Cabinet, Let's Destroy Investutech, Victor Dickens and the Silent Minority, The Land of Broken Sky, Outréverse, and Vortex Era. His stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies such as Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 2 and 4, Into the Darkness Volume 1, DarkFuse, Journal of Experimental Fiction, This Book Ain’t Nuttin to Fuck With, and Brewtality, and been collected in Sweet Chuckling Morbidity, A Carcass of Genre, and Toby Chalmers Commits “Career” Suicide: The Complete Saga. A San Diego State University graduate, Jeremy resides in Oceanside, California.
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July 14, 2022
Norville Blott is the owner/editor of Immunoblot Books. One day he is sent a manuscript from author Toby Chalmers. Norville hates the manuscript and is disgusted that the main character in the book ‘sucks dead corpse farts’ one being his mother. Something switches in Norville’s head, and he decides to pay Toby Chalmers a visit...to kill him for writing something so vile.
What ensues, is hilarious, crazy and a lot of fun, involving extraterrestrial kidnappers, a motley bunch of authors, ferrets and tarantulas.
The only thing which I didn’t like about this, is that I’ll be reading and all of a sudden the sentence drops off, leaving me questioning WTF!! It happens quite a lot, and seems that parts of sentences/paragraphs are missing, which is confusing. I think, while editing, the author may have deleted these without knowledge, which is a shame because it spoils the book slightly, and which I give a 3.5 ⭐️
Aside from this, the story is hella fun and has some LOL moments 🤣🤣🤣
What ensues, is hilarious, crazy and a lot of fun, involving extraterrestrial kidnappers, a motley bunch of authors, ferrets and tarantulas.
The only thing which I didn’t like about this, is that I’ll be reading and all of a sudden the sentence drops off, leaving me questioning WTF!! It happens quite a lot, and seems that parts of sentences/paragraphs are missing, which is confusing. I think, while editing, the author may have deleted these without knowledge, which is a shame because it spoils the book slightly, and which I give a 3.5 ⭐️
Aside from this, the story is hella fun and has some LOL moments 🤣🤣🤣
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