I've been a member of this board off and on for a few years. I have a terrible habit of going MIA for months at a time. This last time I have a good excuse. I was writing. I have a pair of novellas and a handful of stories to show for it.
The novella, JEDI SUMMER WITH THE MAGNETIC KID has recently been published by Post Mortem press. It's a Coming-Of-Age thing, heavily inspired by the works of Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and Robert McCammon.
Some kind things said about it:
--"Jedi Summer drops the floor right out from under you, leaves you standing in a childhood that's been roiling around inside your chest for too long. But you'd trade anything to stay there just one more day."- Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels and After The People Lights Have Gone Off.
--JEDI SUMMER rings with notes of both Bradbury and McCammon, but the voice is all John Boden’s own unmistakable blend of unaffected wry humor and melancholy. Boden’s portrayal of the narrator’s uneasy relationship with both his brother and the town in which they live is magically disquieting. He delivers honest self-reflection without ever venturing into saccharine sentimentality or maudlin self-pity, and his picture of the uncanny summer of 1983 is as clear as a never-played VHS tape right out of the box.--Bracken MacLeod, author of Mountain Home and Stranded.
--"Jedi Summer is exquisite. You won't just enjoy it as a book, but will appreciate it for what it so clearly means to the author. An absolute delight."- Ronald Malfi, author of December Park, Little Girls and The Night Parade.
--" Could not put it down. It moved me more than any novel in recent memory. Highly, highly, highly recommended, and I'm almost certain it will be one of the ten best books I'll read this year.Mark my words -- John Boden is a writer you're going to want to read so that five years from now, when everyone is raving about him, you can say, "Oh, I've been reading him for years."- Brian Keene, author of The Complex, Pressure and Ghoul.
The novella, JEDI SUMMER WITH THE MAGNETIC KID has recently been published by Post Mortem press. It's a Coming-Of-Age thing, heavily inspired by the works of Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and Robert McCammon.
Some kind things said about it:
--"Jedi Summer drops the floor right out from under you, leaves you standing in a childhood that's been roiling around inside your chest for too long. But you'd trade anything to stay there just one more day."- Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels and After The People Lights Have Gone Off.
--JEDI SUMMER rings with notes of both Bradbury and McCammon, but the voice is all John Boden’s own unmistakable blend of unaffected wry humor and melancholy. Boden’s portrayal of the narrator’s uneasy relationship with both his brother and the town in which they live is magically disquieting. He delivers honest self-reflection without ever venturing into saccharine sentimentality or maudlin self-pity, and his picture of the uncanny summer of 1983 is as clear as a never-played VHS tape right out of the box.--Bracken MacLeod, author of Mountain Home and Stranded.
--"Jedi Summer is exquisite. You won't just enjoy it as a book, but will appreciate it for what it so clearly means to the author. An absolute delight."- Ronald Malfi, author of December Park, Little Girls and The Night Parade.
--" Could not put it down. It moved me more than any novel in recent memory. Highly, highly, highly recommended, and I'm almost certain it will be one of the ten best books I'll read this year.Mark my words -- John Boden is a writer you're going to want to read so that five years from now, when everyone is raving about him, you can say, "Oh, I've been reading him for years."- Brian Keene, author of The Complex, Pressure and Ghoul.
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