Andrez
New Member
I'm relatively new to this forum (a great find!) and I hope you guys don't mind me inserting my own 2 cents' before properly cutting my dues.
This month I had my first tome published - Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is a post-apocalyptic/noir novel put out through Another Sky Press in the 'States.
I'm actually an Aussie expat muso & journalist who's been based in Tokyo over the past 10 years, so the novel is as much an homage to my old home town (Melbourne) as it is a wink to Japan and an obsessive/compulsive take on classic 1940s and ‘50s cinema.
There're also surreal red herrings aplenty, hardboiled stuff, a healthy dose of subversive humour, and a hero cut from cloth nicked from Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade – but with the chemical and alcoholic tendencies of a refugee straight out of an Irvine Welsh romp.
Perhaps just as importantly, Vegemite and Burke & Wills put in appearances. Not that it matters that you even know who/what they are.
If you find this in any way vaguely curious, it's actually in-stock now at some indie book shops across the globe and on Amazon UK/USA.
Even better there's a free PDF digital version you can check out online @ Another Sky - another sky press » Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat / Andrez Bergen - just click on the "read before you buy" bit.
There's also a sweet review up at Australian magazine Farrago:
Farrago: Review: Tobacco-Stained Mountain*Goat
And any of your own feedback would be brilliant!
This month I had my first tome published - Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is a post-apocalyptic/noir novel put out through Another Sky Press in the 'States.
I'm actually an Aussie expat muso & journalist who's been based in Tokyo over the past 10 years, so the novel is as much an homage to my old home town (Melbourne) as it is a wink to Japan and an obsessive/compulsive take on classic 1940s and ‘50s cinema.
There're also surreal red herrings aplenty, hardboiled stuff, a healthy dose of subversive humour, and a hero cut from cloth nicked from Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade – but with the chemical and alcoholic tendencies of a refugee straight out of an Irvine Welsh romp.
Perhaps just as importantly, Vegemite and Burke & Wills put in appearances. Not that it matters that you even know who/what they are.
If you find this in any way vaguely curious, it's actually in-stock now at some indie book shops across the globe and on Amazon UK/USA.
Even better there's a free PDF digital version you can check out online @ Another Sky - another sky press » Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat / Andrez Bergen - just click on the "read before you buy" bit.
There's also a sweet review up at Australian magazine Farrago:
Farrago: Review: Tobacco-Stained Mountain*Goat
And any of your own feedback would be brilliant!