My most recent novella is coming soon, releasing on Halloween.
I've been blessed with pretty good reviews and kind words on my previous books but I gotta tell ya, I'm extremely proud of this one. I even managed to get Bracken MacLeod to write the introductiony thing.
Spungunion: (pronounced: Spun-Gun-Yun) noun; 1.) a dish made from rotting road kill, usually a skunk or a opossum. The more fragrant or maggoty, the better. 2.) Something that's been on the road for a long and unfortunate time...
This is the story of Deke Larch, a widowed trucker who has lost everything and is struggling to find his place in a world and the person who took it from him. That journey puts him in touch with strange characters and bizarre places. Deke had always felt like he operated on the fringe of society, but he really had no idea...his journey will teach him that monsters are interpretive and sometimes what we think we want is not what we seek at all.
Spungunion is a story about grief and loss, about lonely roads and lost souls, about failure to let go and falling when you finally do. It's about livin' and dyin' and how sometimes the difference between is very slight.
“This trucker’s tale of bloody revenge and harrowing self-illumination takes place in the deepest, strangest veins of the Twilight Zone’s midnight highways. Boden rolls his supernatural mystery down the blacktop surface of the road to Hell, and you’re gonna love the journey into the fire.” – Philip Fracassi, author of Behold the Void, Fragile Dreams and Altar.
"John Boden is a writer to watch. His conversational prose is rich, insightful, emotional, and beautifully descriptive. The story he tells using these ample skills is equally impressive. Spungunion is stylish and lyrical, yet down and dirty. Boden sends readers on a journey through a bizarre landscape of terrifying sights and beings, creatures that may have once been human but are now wholly unnatural. It’s a mesmerizing trip from doublewides to truck stop diners, as a lost and angry man pursues vengeance all the way to the final stretch of highway: a path the downtrodden and the damned call the Soul Road. In short, Spungunion is an outstanding dark, rural fantasy, and you need to read it."--Lee Thomas, Bram Stoker Award and Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The German and Down on Your Knees.
I've been blessed with pretty good reviews and kind words on my previous books but I gotta tell ya, I'm extremely proud of this one. I even managed to get Bracken MacLeod to write the introductiony thing.
Spungunion: (pronounced: Spun-Gun-Yun) noun; 1.) a dish made from rotting road kill, usually a skunk or a opossum. The more fragrant or maggoty, the better. 2.) Something that's been on the road for a long and unfortunate time...
This is the story of Deke Larch, a widowed trucker who has lost everything and is struggling to find his place in a world and the person who took it from him. That journey puts him in touch with strange characters and bizarre places. Deke had always felt like he operated on the fringe of society, but he really had no idea...his journey will teach him that monsters are interpretive and sometimes what we think we want is not what we seek at all.
Spungunion is a story about grief and loss, about lonely roads and lost souls, about failure to let go and falling when you finally do. It's about livin' and dyin' and how sometimes the difference between is very slight.
“This trucker’s tale of bloody revenge and harrowing self-illumination takes place in the deepest, strangest veins of the Twilight Zone’s midnight highways. Boden rolls his supernatural mystery down the blacktop surface of the road to Hell, and you’re gonna love the journey into the fire.” – Philip Fracassi, author of Behold the Void, Fragile Dreams and Altar.
"John Boden is a writer to watch. His conversational prose is rich, insightful, emotional, and beautifully descriptive. The story he tells using these ample skills is equally impressive. Spungunion is stylish and lyrical, yet down and dirty. Boden sends readers on a journey through a bizarre landscape of terrifying sights and beings, creatures that may have once been human but are now wholly unnatural. It’s a mesmerizing trip from doublewides to truck stop diners, as a lost and angry man pursues vengeance all the way to the final stretch of highway: a path the downtrodden and the damned call the Soul Road. In short, Spungunion is an outstanding dark, rural fantasy, and you need to read it."--Lee Thomas, Bram Stoker Award and Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The German and Down on Your Knees.